Boing Boing has a mini round up of the self publishing phenomenon and indie writers. They mention Amanda Hocking, who is, apparently, the most successful of the lot. I am truly impressed by the figures mentioned. She sold 450,000 ebooks in January alone. Someone in the comments made a quick calculation (the median earning between her titles and the different price ranges) and they claim she made in the vicinity of 900k, again, just in January.
Sure, she is an outlier (not representative of indie writers as a whole), but I am seriously impressed nonetheless. I also wonder how this is going to affect not only fiction, but niche topics as a whole (political essays, technical books, etc.).
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