Smashwords Reaches Three Billion Words Published

The self-pub platform Smashwords has reached a new milestone today. In what is probably a first for (the non-Amazon) self-publishing, Smashwords now has over 70 thousand books in its catalog from more than 28 thousand authors. The eBook that set the milestone was written by Pilar Lopas, and the title is A Grandmother’s Guide to Stealing Sheep.

And it has also set a new record of over 3 billion words. To put that in perspective, it’s been just under 4 months since Smashwords

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