Based on our record, Google Play Books seems to be a lot more popular than SmashWords. While we know about 107 links to Google Play Books, we've tracked only 8 mentions of SmashWords. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Would check out this small book series written from the woman from smashwords.com which is more like her own personal memoir of what she went through in life with religion as well called "Disguised as a Man: Malachi Martin & Me" with a picture she took from his archives of him while they were together, with him younger on the front of the ebook series. She goes into minute detail of how they met in New York and... Source: 8 months ago
I also know that there is ebooks.com and smashwords.com, but I've never really used them and the prices always come up in dollars to me. Source: about 1 year ago
Really nasty? Go to smashwords.com and search for what you're looking for, and when you find it, buy it, read it, then write a story like that, only better. Source: over 2 years ago
eBooks.com and smashwords.com for DRM-free eBooks, the latter self-published works. Source: over 2 years ago
This question makes me think really hard, lol. You may not get much hand holding from most self-publishing platform companies. They'll have forums and/or Q/A's for you to refer to. I had to do a lot of research, reading other self-published authors journey's and Googling to answer my questions. Most self-publishing is trial and error, if you don't have a mentor/coach who has already taken that path and could walk... Source: over 2 years ago
> The fact is that I think that there is not much written word, to actually train a sensible model on. A lot of books don't have OCRed scans, or a digital version. https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago
Searching for "google books" in google leads to https://books.google.com/ which no longer allows you to read any of your books. https://play.google.com/books is the site to read your purchased books now. Google search does not show https://play.google.com/books in its results at all. Thought it was some weird personalization quirk, but seems others have had the same issue:... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Please use google https://google.com , https://groups.google.com , news.google.com/newspapers, books.google.com, scholar.google.com , https://archive.org https://yandex.com (the only image reverse search which actually works, google's got broken). Source: 6 months ago
I have no idea why, but ever since this new update, Chrome has become completely unusable. Every single search I make only retrieves books.google.com links. Nothing near relevant to what I want. I am not sure how to fix this issue. All help is greatly appreciated! Source: 7 months ago
Like these guys? https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
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