Writer’s Digest editor Jane Friedman reports:
…We also closed the issue before the partnership announcement between Stanza and Smashwords. You’re probably thinking, Why do I care about the partnership of two companies I’ve never heard of?
True, it wasn’t until I had an iPhone that I became really aware of these two companies and understood what was happening.
Here are the basics:
- The iPhone is a mobile device that’s used by nearly 20 million people.
- Stanza is a popular e-book reader you can use on your iPhone (you download it for free directly from your phone).
- Smashwords is a self-publishing company that publishes e-books only. You can use their service without any upfront cost, plus you can make your book available for as little or as much as you want (even for free).
- Smashwords + Stanza means your self-published work can be available to millions of people, or at least the 1 million people who have downloaded the Stanza application onto their iPhones, as of January 2009.