Conference presentation from Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, titled, "The Rise of Ebooks." Presented Nov. 7 2009 at Self Publishing Book Expo in New York. Examines the past, present and future of ebooks, and provides authors advice on how to publish, promote and distribute an ebook.

3. Will ebooks replace print books?

5. The Past and Present of Ebooks

7. Wholesale ebook revenues 2002-2009 Data: AAP http://www.publishers.org/documents/S12008Final.pdf plus recent sales data. 2009 is an estimate based on YTD percentage growth rate Jan-Aug 2009, multiplied by 2008 sales

8. Year over year monthly sales growth, ebooks vs. all books, 19 months Data: AAP http://www.publishers.org/

9. Ebooks as a percentage of overall book sales

13. The ebook opportunity for authors

15. The virtuous cycle of ebook economics Larger available market Low Cost More sales & profit

16. Ebook Production

22. Most popular ebook formats Learn more: http://blog.smashwords.com/2009/03/why-multi-format-ebooks-matter.html

24. Multi-format conversion options For Brave Souls - Google: Conversion Tools which leads to first result: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion Smashwords – One to many

25. Ebook publishing, distribution, marketing and selling

26. The print book supply chain compared to ebook supply chain printer Print Publisher Shipper/w/d customer bookseller customer ebookseller customer ebookseller E-distributor customer E-publisher E-publisher E-publisher remainder pass along Used bookstores PRINT BOOKS EBOOKS

28. How Smashwords publishes and distributes ebooks More logos coming!! author

33. Thank you for listening! Q&A Where to find Mark Coker: Web: www.smashwords.com Blog: blog.smashwords.com HuffPo: huffingtonpost.com/mark-coker Twitter: @ markcoker Email: first initial second initial @ smashwords.com