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Kindle Direct Publishing vs Smashwords
June 09, 2025
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Publish your books independently with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) on the Amazon Kindle Store. Make changes to your book at any time. Publish once and reach readers worldwide. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes. Your book appears on Amazon within 24 hours. Make your book available on Kindle devices and on free Kindle apps.
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Smashwords is the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks. We make it fast, free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute ebooks to the major retailers. We provide free tools for marketing, distribution, metadata management and sales reporting. At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works.
Kindle Direct Publishing vs Smashwords in our news:
2015. Kindle Scout Publishing platform expands internationally
Amazon has announced that it is broadening Kindle Scout, its reader-driven publishing platform, to include more authors and readers globally. Now, in addition to the U.S., writers in regions such as Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, India and more can submit unpublished, novel-length English-language manuscripts to be considered for publication within 45 days or less under Amazon’s digital publishing imprint, Kindle Press. Readers worldwide can also preview excerpts from unpublished books, nominate the stories they wish to see published and receive a free early copy of every book they nominate that is released by Kindle Press.
