Yeah me neither, what's it's purpose?

It's a publishing site. People can upload their books and other people can either read them on the site (because there's a reading app on there) or download copies in various formats to other devices. There's hundreds of thousands of books on there, in all genres, fiction and non-fiction. Some you buy, others are available for free.

From my point of view, it's where I publish my finished stories. Smashwords formats them for distribution to multiple resellers. I used to publish directly on Amazon but Smashwords is easier, I think. I use another site to upload stories that are unfinished, posting them a chapter at a time. But Smashwords is where I get a lot of my reading material too - there are many brilliant authors on there. Some of my favourite authors use the site. I'm always downloading books from there.

Thanks for this Jay,

My partner will be interested in this, if she isn't already aware of it, she loves writing....

Cheers,

Eve