Smashwords seems to have taken a slightly different path to actually help authors,
instead of jumping into the Amazon versus Barnes & Noble Battle 🙂
Good MORNING Authors and friends! I received this exciting news in my email this morning, and I think it will be a great boost to authors who currently, or are in the future going to publish with Smashwords. Mark Coker seems to be doing everything he can to help authors not only BOOST sales, but join the ranks of the more traditionally published authors who, through advance sales (and pre-purchases) are able to hit the ‘Best Seller’ lists: . . . so read, enjoy, and learn. (Copied and pasted from my email):
Smashwords authors and publishers now have an exciting and powerful new merchandising tool: Preorders at Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Today we launched a public beta of our new preorder feature, available immediately to over 70,000 Smashwords authors and publishers around the world.
With preorders, Smashwords distributes a book to Apple, Barnes & Noble and…
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Thanks for this! I didn’t know about it! I’ll definitely keep preordering on Smashwords in mind when I publish my next book!
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