The Internet is abuzz about Amazon’s recent letter to its shareholders. I won’t offer any opinion about Amazon vs. Big Publishing and Apple, because I am a computer technician and a fantasy writer, not a lawyer or a publishing expert.
But this line from Amazon’s filing caught my attention:
Kindle Direct Publishing has quickly taken on astonishing scale – more than a thousand KDP authors now each sell more than a thousand copies a month, some have already reached hundreds of thousands of sales, and two have already joined the Kindle Million Club.
Only a thousand writers sell more than a thousand copies per month on the Kindle Store? Wow. I am astonished that I am one of them.*
Thank you, everyone – obviously I could not sell more than a thousand copies a month if all of you were not buying them.
-JM
*Though I wonder if that’s a thousand copies of an individual title per month, rather than all titles combined. If that’s the case, I haven’t done that yet. But I have high hopes.
Congrats Jon, and fingers crossed that you do make it there some day!
It’s Amazon where you sell most of your books right?
Thanks!
About sixty percent of my books sell through Amazon – the rest is through B&N, iTunes, and Sony.