Publishing at Smashwords

From a list of rankings of ebook publishers for adult content (https://medium.com/) I found the publisher Smashwords.

The signing-up and publishing went very easy. They serve several retailers, also Kobo - so I have to see what I will do with my already existing book there.

The site works very professionally: it creates several versions of ebook formats: PDF, Kindle (.mobi), Plain txt, Palm Doc, epub, Sony reader LRF, and online html. All other previous publishers only created epub - which is probably the most useful format anyway.

Interesting that Smashwords needs the file in .doc, not in .docx. So I had to do one additional conversion step myself.

Interesting is also that they ask for some specific information about erotica content - they do not state that they will reject it, but they will apparently take care of this with several of their retailers.

One issue was flagged by the Autovetter: I do have an auto-generated  table-of-content (TOC) in my manuscript: one of the generated epub from the previous publishers did not have an auto-generated TOC, so I used Google Docs to auto-create the TOC. Seemed to be OK for Lulu, for Kobo, and for Amazon Kindle. But Smashword tagged this as a "potential issue".

I decided not to fix this issue.

The standard Epubcheck by Smashwords was passed.

The book is now here on Smashword:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1150533

Before it can go into the premium catalog, I need to make changes: remove the TOC.

--- did remove the TOC, saved it. 

New problem: the file is larger than 15 MB. Limit of a re-uploaded doc is 15MB. Annoying! This is of course because I do have many pictures in the file...

Did not have that problem when uploading it for the first time - there was no size limit!

- after uploading an older version of 1st edition (I am not sure what the difference is... looked the same, 139 pics) I got  below the 15MB size limit.

Now this is all done also in the premium section of Smashwords. 

I did leave my other Kobo instance. It has a different eISBN anyway. So there will just be two different publishers then on all the KOBO controlled retailers..