Interesting. Out of interest I put up my second book Epiphany on Smashwords as an experiment. The first version was rejected for 'premium' on formatting grounds. I then pointed out the formatting followed Smashwords' own format template exactly - which they acknowledged.

It now is premium but I can't see it on Barnes and Noble (and I assume Kindle) as was supposed to happen. I spent an awful lot of time faffing around putting up that one book. It sold around 80K copies in paperback when it first appeared in the UK in 1997 and got a lot of rave reviews. Though it was never published in the US it got some there too and it was one on Amazon that prompted me to do this.

It's sold four copies so far on Smashwords - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/8007 - for $4.95.

Waste of time for me anyway - and frankly I don't have that time to waste. Useful as an experiment - nothing else.