Mark Coker: How Self-Publishing has Changed Books and What You're Reading -- a Sac State GEW event

Publishing luminary Mark Coker will address publishing trends, including Amazon's campaign to control what, where, and how we read. Mark, CEO of Smashwords, a leading ebook company, is one of the most candid and accessible visionaries of the current publishing landscape. In 2010, The Wall Street Journal named him one of the Eight Stars of Self-Publishing. In 2013 and 2014, Forbes named his company as one of America's Top 100 Most Promising Companies. 

Mark is a long-time advisor to technology and media startups. In 1999 he launched BestCalls.com, later owned and operated by the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. Mark also founded Dovetail Public Relations, an award-winning Silicon Valley PR firm that specialized in technology startups. Mark is a graduate of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a contributing columnist for the Huffington Post.

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