diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/smashwords_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/smashwords_plugin.py
index 6afad19265..3b28142e7f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/smashwords_plugin.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/smashwords_plugin.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import, print_function)
-store_version = 2 # Needed for dynamic plugin loading
+store_version = 3  # Needed for dynamic plugin loading
 
 __license__ = 'GPL 3'
 __copyright__ = '2011, John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>'
@@ -23,6 +23,54 @@ from calibre.gui2.store.basic_config import BasicStoreConfig
 from calibre.gui2.store.search_result import SearchResult
 from calibre.gui2.store.web_store_dialog import WebStoreDialog
 
+def search(query, max_results=10, timeout=60):
+    url = 'http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=' + urllib2.quote(query)
+
+    br = browser()
+
+    counter = max_results
+    with closing(br.open(url, timeout=timeout)) as f:
+        doc = html.fromstring(f.read())
+        for data in doc.xpath('//div[@id="pageContent"]//div[@class="library-book"]'):
+            if counter <= 0:
+                break
+            data = html.fromstring(html.tostring(data))
+
+            id = None
+            id_a = ''.join(data.xpath('//a[contains(@class, "library-title")]/@href'))
+            if id_a:
+                id = id_a.split('/')[-1]
+            if not id:
+                continue
+
+            cover_url = ''.join(data.xpath('//img[contains(@class, "book-list-image")]/@src'))
+
+            title = ''.join(data.xpath('.//a[contains(@class, "library-title")]/text()'))
+            author = ''.join(data.xpath('.//a[@itemprop="author"]//text()'))
+
+            price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="subnote"]//text()'))
+            if 'Price:' in price:
+                try:
+                    price = price.partition('Price:')[2]
+                    price = re.sub('\s', ' ', price).strip()
+                    price = price.split(' ')[0].strip()
+                except Exception:
+                    price = 'Unknown'
+            if price == 'Free!':
+                price = '$0.00'
+
+            counter -= 1
+
+            s = SearchResult()
+            s.cover_url = cover_url
+            s.title = title.strip()
+            s.author = author.strip()
+            s.price = price
+            s.detail_item = '/books/view/' + id.strip()
+            s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNLOCKED
+
+            yield s
+
 class SmashwordsStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
 
     def open(self, parent=None, detail_item=None, external=False):
@@ -47,51 +95,8 @@ class SmashwordsStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
             d.exec_()
 
     def search(self, query, max_results=10, timeout=60):
-        url = 'http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=' + urllib2.quote(query)
-
-        br = browser()
-
-        counter = max_results
-        with closing(br.open(url, timeout=timeout)) as f:
-            doc = html.fromstring(f.read())
-            for data in doc.xpath('//div[@id="pageCenterContent"]//div[@class="library-book"]'):
-                if counter <= 0:
-                    break
-                data = html.fromstring(html.tostring(data))
-
-                id = None
-                id_a = ''.join(data.xpath('//a[contains(@class, "library-title")]/@href'))
-                if id_a:
-                    id = id_a.split('/')[-1]
-                if not id:
-                    continue
-
-                cover_url = ''.join(data.xpath('//img[contains(@class, "book-list-image")]/@src'))
-
-                title = ''.join(data.xpath('.//a[contains(@class, "library-title")]/text()'))
-                author = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="subnote"]//a[1]//text()'))
-
-                price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="subnote"]//text()'))
-                if 'Price:' in price:
-                    try:
-                        price = price.partition('Price:')[2]
-                        price = re.sub('\s', ' ', price).strip()
-                        price = price.split(' ')[0]
-                        price = price.strip()
-                    except:
-                        price = 'Unknown'
-
-                counter -= 1
-
-                s = SearchResult()
-                s.cover_url = cover_url
-                s.title = title.strip()
-                s.author = author.strip()
-                s.price = price.strip()
-                s.detail_item = '/books/view/' + id.strip()
-                s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNLOCKED
-
-                yield s
+        for a in search(query, max_results=max_results, timeout=timeout):
+            yield a
 
     def get_details(self, search_result, timeout):
         url = 'http://www.smashwords.com/'
@@ -101,3 +106,8 @@ class SmashwordsStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
             idata = html.fromstring(nf.read())
             search_result.formats = ', '.join(list(set(idata.xpath('//p//abbr//text()'))))
         return True
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import sys
+    for r in search(sys.argv[-1]):
+        print(r)