{"id":791,"date":"2020-04-27T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2020-04-27T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:42:03","slug":"smashwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Are Self-Published Authors Still Indie Authors?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Mark Coker<\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/\">Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Amazon is replacing traditional publishers and agents as a publishing gatekeeper&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article in <a href=\"https:\/\/booklife.com\/authors\/04\/15\/2020\/are-self-published-authors-still-indie-authors.html\">booklife<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sw-ebooks-650.jpg\" alt=\"Smashwords ebooks by Cal Sharp\" class=\"wp-image-794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sw-ebooks-650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sw-ebooks-650-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/calsharp\">My ebooks at Smashwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Coker at Smashwords &#8220;Amazon is replacing traditional publishers and agents as a publishing gatekeeper&#8230;&#8221; Article in booklife My ebooks at Smashwords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caligraphicsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}