If you're not familiar with Smashwords, it's a site that allows authors to publish and sell their ebooks globally. Authors can opt to also push their books out to iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and a bunch of other more well known book vendors, but those sites are not where the sale is happening. Smashwords itself sells directly to readers, allowing a choice of non-DRM'd books in a wide variety of formats, and that's where the sale is.
To promote ereading, Smashwords makes it easy for authors to put their books on sale, as they offer the use f coupon codes at checkout, and I've taken advantage of that. If you use the promotional coupon, you can buy any of my books this week only for half price (except for The Sixth Discipline, which is always free, and my fantasy novella Where Magic Rules, which is free this week only). .
Once you buy a book from Smashwords, you can download it, and read it on pretty much any device. If you have a Kindle, be sure to select that format (Mobi/Kindle), and download the file to a location on your PC where you can find it again. I have directions for putting Mobi files onto your Kindle here and here.
You can browse the sale page by genre to see what all they've got. Some books will be free and others really cheap.
Remember, all mine are either free or only $1.50, but you have to use the coupon code RAE50 for the non-free titles..
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