Smashwords Lets Users Offer Preorders without Final Ebook Files

In a move it calls its “most ambitious feature ever, the popular self-publishing platform Smashwords allows authors to begin selling preorders of their titles up to one year before uploading the final assets—a finished manuscript and cover image—to its system. Smashwords has offered preordering capabilities for over two years, but so far only for titles whose files are ready and finalized. “Ebook preorders are the single most important tool for indie authors,” a Smashwords […]