Then Hugh Howey and the mysterious “Data Guy” started their Author Earnings reports, which scraped hard data out of Kindle sales rankings. But that small sample size couldn’t tell the whole story. So everyone wanted to know who was making what via self-publishing. There were even a few, like Bella Andre, who scorched into eight figures. Some traditionally-published midlist writers, like Joe Konrath and Brett Battles, hopped in and hit it big. Some previously unpublished writers, like Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey, did strike gold. That was a myth, of course, but like all myths it had a toe-hold in the truth. Because at one time (back in the “gold rush” days of self-publishing, roughly 2009-2012) the vibe was that virtually anybody could make six figures if they wrote fast enough and in the right genre. Amazon is famously tight with their data, so it was interesting to find this little ditty:Īs Amazon’s recent shareholder letter noted, there are more than 1,000 authors who earn more than $100,000 a year from their work with us. What caught my eye, however, was a line at the end of the letter. Nothing earth-shattering in all this, just a switch of platforms. All print-on-demand services are now under the KDP umbrella. Recently, Amazon’s paperback publishing unit, CreateSpace, sent out an email confirming that CSP was merging with Kindle Direct Publishing.
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