I nearly forgot to post this because it happened so quietly a few weeks ago. Admittedly I’ve also been very busy on a couple of projects including the new indie author guide. Amazon, known for their veil of secrecy over sales figures, let slip in November a couple of key figures relating to their...
Amazon has announced that David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer have joined the Kindle Million Club, selling over 1 million paid copies of their books in the Amazon.com Kindle Store. Amanda Hocking is now the second indie author to reach this milestone via Kindle Direct Publishing. “I’m thrilled to be a member of the...
Amazon announced in September that George R.R. Martin has become the latest author to join the Kindle Million Club. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally ever since. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer and returned to prose in the mid ’90s. There are now five...
Some writers know what they will write about next but others are still trying to come up with an idea for their next non-fiction ebook. If you want your next ebook to be successful you should start by choosing the topic carefully. First, you need to write something for which there is strong demand....
It is a term that we are hearing more and more… the “Kindle Million Club”. Can anyone join? And how? Well, unlike some clubs this is not any old club that you just turn up and waltz into. You certainly can’t mail a check to join… in fact it’s the other way around, entirely....
Amazon have announced that Charlaine Harris has become the fourth author to sell over 1 million Kindle books, becoming the latest member of the “Kindle Million Club.” The first author to reach this milestone was Stieg Larsson, followed by James Patterson and Nora Roberts. Charlaine Harris is the bestselling author of the Harper Connelly...
Publishing your own ebooks is a great way to launch a career as an author, as one writer in her twenties has proven. Amanda Hocking has already sold more than a million copies and now has a seven-figure book deal. Her remarkable story illustrates how authors are circumventing traditional publishers in order to launch...
Since December one ebook author has been reaping the rewards of his particularly strong position in the Kindle bestseller list. He is Stephen Leather. He sold 44,334 Kindle books in December, 45,303 in January, and as of early March three of his ebooks are still in Amazon UK’s Top 10 Kindle Store Bestsellers. I...
Just how much revenue do you think a best-selling ebook can generate in a year? Twenty thousand dollars? A hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand? How about twenty-one million dollars?
