How To Become a Kindle Best Selling Author

John Locke is a Kindle author who sold over one million Kindle books in the space of about five months.

His Kindle book “How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months!” tells you how he did that using mainly Twitter.

Until the time he developed his strategy, he sold only a few books. Then this is what he did:

John used Twitter search to find people who were tweeting about the same topic he had blogged about in his personal Blog. Then he sent an individual private message via Twitter to every person tweeting on the topic and invited them to read his latest blog post which, of course, included information about his Kindle book and a link to Amazon.

The majority of hese people were not following him at the time (though some did become followers), but he reckoned they were people who might be interested in him because they’re tweeting about a subject he was blogging on.

He was right. And the rest is history! And, I might add, ongoing history.

It’s a most interesting book. Here’s a link if you want to add it to your library.

How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months! by John Lock

Learn The Amazing Profit Making Kindle Strategies That Will Set Your Kindle Books Apart.

This amazing eBook puts you on the fast track to selling and marketing your Kindle books with Amazon. Learn why Kindle publishing offers so much more, what tools you need to make your book stand out, marketing techniques and advice you will wish you had known about long ago.

Kindle publishing is definitely the Way To Go!  The traffic and interest is astounding.

My personal goal is to sell one million Kindle books and I am already .08% on my way.  Laugh if you will .. but how far are you?!!

Click HERE for more information about this little treasure.

To your Kindle Success!

Val

P.S. I LOVE my Kindle! Wouldn’t be without it.

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Press Releases

David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer Join the Kindle Million Club
Hocking is the second author to use Kindle Direct Publishing to reach this milestone

SEATTLE, Nov 09, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –

(NASDAQ:AMZN)–Amazon.com, Inc., today announced that David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer are the latest authors to join the Kindle Million Club, selling over 1 million paid copies of their books in the Amazon.com Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). They join 11 other authors in the Kindle Million Club: Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins, Michael Connelly, John Locke, Kathryn Stockett, Janet Evanovich and George R.R. Martin.

As with John Locke before her, Amanda Hocking sold the majority of her 1 million Kindle books independently using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Since its launch in 2007, KDP has provided a fast, free and easy way for authors and publishers around the world to make their books available in the Kindle Store. In addition to the more than 2 million books sold by John Locke and Amanda Hocking, 12 KDP authors have sold more than 200,000 books and 30 KDP authors have sold more than 100,000 books.

“Our customers love reading all kinds of books on their Kindle, and it’s thanks to them that the Kindle Million Club keeps growing so quickly,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “It’s exciting to see both long-time Amazon best-selling authors from the traditional publishing world and independently published authors join the club.”

“I’m thrilled to be a member of the Kindle Million Club,” said David Baldacci. “EBooks are leading the way in more people reading and it’s great to be part of this revolution.” David Baldacci is the internationally best-selling author of more than 20 novels that have been translated into over 45 languages and sold in more than 80 countries. His most recent books include the best seller “The Sixth Man” and the Kindle Single “No Time Left.” His newest novel, “Zero Day,” was published on October 31.

“I’m so grateful to everyone who has bought one of my books, and to Amazon, for giving me a place to share my books,” said Amanda Hocking. “None of this would have been possible without you. Thank you!” Amanda Hocking got her start independently publishing her books and is now the best-selling author of 10 books, including the My Blood Approves series and the Trylle Trilogy, which has been optioned for films. Hocking has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post and Forbes.

“I know for a fact that this is the most awesome club I’ve ever been allowed into,” said Stephenie Meyer. “Of course I owe it all to the readers – thanks for continually making me cooler than I actually am. And thanks Kindle, for making it so much easier to bring 25 books with me on vacation.” Stephenie Meyer is the author of six novels, including the best-selling Twilight Saga series. “Twilight” was named an Amazon.com Best Book of the Decade So Far, and the series has become a global phenomenon that has been published in 50 languages around the world with over 116 million copies sold worldwide. The movie version of the final book in the Twilight Saga, “Breaking Dawn – Part 1,” hits theaters November 18.

Kindle books are “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” – on Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Fire, on the web with Kindle Cloud Reader, and free Kindle reading apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PCs, Mac, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerry and Windows phones.

Publishing Perils in the Digital Age

By DAVID STREITFELD

These are uncertain times for many established writers, as the case of the Hawaiian novelist Kiana Davenport shows. Until recently she had a deal with Riverhead Books, a literary line that is a division of Penguin, for a Civil War novel, “The Chinese Soldier’s Daughter.” Ms. Davenport received an initial $20,000 advance for the tale, which was scheduled for publication next summer. That wasn’t enough money to survive on, so the writer cast about for another source of income, and self-published a book of old stories on Amazon. The result: Her novel has been canceled, the publisher wants its money back, and her publishing career is in jeopardy.

I gave a brief account of what happened in an article published Monday, but some of the reaction was frankly disbelieving. Would a publisher really cancel a novel and demand its money back under these circumstances? Many writers seem to be successfully bridging the gap between mainstream publishers and self-publishers; perhaps there are additional elements at play here. Ms. Davenport and Penguin officials declined to be interviewed. But the correspondence between lawyers backs up the writer’s tale as outlined in her blog.

Publishing contracts have not evolved as fast as the self-publishing opportunities for writers, making this case somewhat murky. But much of the commentary I’ve seen comes down harshly on Ms. Davenport for supposedly violating her contract – as if these agreements were always ironclad and any deviation was punished by cancellation. There was little sympathy for a mid-list writer adrift on the digital seas, and no mention of what a publisher’s responsibility is to a writer during the years it takes to produce a new book.

Here’s the back story: Ms. Davenport took some award-winning old stories off the shelf and published them as an e-book, something many professional writers are doing with material they cannot get in print any other way. “Cannibal Nights,” which appeared in July, was her second e-book of short fiction. Downloads were modest.

Penguin learned of the new work and got upset. In a brief letter
that Penguin’s general counsel, Karen Mayer, sent to the writer, it said the publication of “ ‘Cannibal Nights’ by Amazon violates the ‘next-work’ representation, the no-compete provision and the option clause.” Penguin also said Ms. Davenport had thereby demonstrated her “unwillingness to work in good faith with us” toward publication of the novel. The letter ended by saying the writer had 10 days to repay her advance “to avoid legal action.”

Penguin stated in mid-September that this was “a straightforward matter involving the publisher’s right to publish the author’s next work. It is being handled by the lawyers.”

Jan Constantine, a lawyer for the Authors Guild, wrote a letter to Penguin on behalf of Ms. Davenport. She said that the stories had been offered to Penguin 15 years ago and turned down, that Riverhead had already seen the novelist’s next novel and said it was not interested at this time and that a self-published e-book was hardly competition to the novel but might even promote it.

“In fact,” Ms. Constantine wrote, “the marketplace experience has shown unequivocally that eBooks by Ms. Davenport which are available on Kindle and elsewhere would most likely lift sales of her books since she is building a fan-base by her online presence. Any expert in the publishing world would support that conclusion.”

Penguin was unpersuaded. It had no further comment Monday. Neither did Ms. Davenport’s lawyer, Donald David.

Oct. 18, 2011.

Amazon.fr Kindle Store (www.amazon.fr/kindle)is happy to announce to publishers and authors the ability to make their books available worldwide with the use of Kindle Direct Publishing (http://kdp.amazon.fr). This free and fast way will not only put the manuscripts on Kindle but also on Kindle Cloud Reader and on free Kindle reading apps on Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows Phone, PC and Mac.

Although the “fr” is used because of Kindle Direct Publishing’s launch into France, these books will be read in the US, the UK, Germany, and more than 100 other countries. Payments will be made in US dollars, Euros, or British pounds. Authors will continue to own the rights to their books, which is an important factor to them.

John Locke, for one, jumped on the bandwagon early and has sold more than one million Kindle books through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). He and many others should give encouragement to authors and publishers everywhere to consider this amazing opportunity.

Also launched on October 7th was the Amazon.fr.Kindle Store to service France, Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg and Switzerland with a selection of more than 35,000 French-language Kindle books.

Source: Technology