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The Literary Agent's Indie Ebook Roadmap
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This presentation by Mark Coker of ebook distributor Smashwords provides literary agents a detailed roadmap to help them create an indie ebook services strategy that opens up exciting new opportunities for their author clients.
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The Literary Agent's Indie Ebook Roadmap
- 2. Literary Agents Will Write the Next Chapter of the Ebook Revolution
- 3. SEVEN MACRO TRENDS FACING PUBLISHING (and what they mean for agents, publishers, authors and books)
- 4. TREND 1 Brick and Mortar in Decline
- 6. TREND 2 Content Explosion
- 8. TREND 3 Reading Moving to Screens
- 10. TREND 4 Ebooks to Surpass Print Books
- 12. TREND 5 Publishers Losing Primacy
- 17. TREND 6 The Rise of Indie Ebooks
- 19. TREND 7 Agents Writing the Next Chapter of the Ebook Revolution
- 21. Understanding the Indie Ebook Opportunity for Agents and their Clients
- 31. Smashwords + Agents Let’s Work Together! [many agents have already partnered with Smashwords]
- 32. Smashwords Makes it Fast , Free , and Easy to Publish and Distribute Ebooks
- 34. Indie ebooks published at Smashwords 140 6,000 28,500 90,000 (est)
- 36. Smashwords Distribution to Major Retailers, Mobile App Platforms
- 40. Let’s work together Connect with Mark Coker: Web: www.smashwords.com Blog: blog.smashwords.com HuffPo: huffingtonpost.com/mark-coker Facebook: facebook.com/markcoker Twitter: @markcoker Email: first initial second initial @ smashwords.com