Smashwords and Amazon

[madfilkentist]

For a while now, Smashwords has been saying on its Channel Manager page: "Smashwords and Amazon are working to complete technical integration." This has delayed the appearance of my book on Amazon. Today I got an email from a moderately well-known writer with strong social media connections, who said she'd like to buy my book and possibly recommend it, but its not being on Amazon is an obstacle. I explained how she can get the book for Kindle from Smashwords, but I'm sure a lot of her readers would rather deal with a direct Amazon purchase. It isn't necessarily better, but it's familiar.

Does anyone know anything more about this situation and when it's likely to be resolved?

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[madfilkentist]

Update: It appears from this that the situation has been lingering since at least the middle of last year with no sign of progress.

I've registered with Kindle Direct Publishing. Amazon already holds the intimate details of my financial existence because of my Kickstarter campaign, so it isn't much of a further plunge.