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04-06-2012, 09:53 AM | #1 |
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Self-Publishing Success Stories (authors with more than 50,000 ebooks sold to date)
Update: 36 with more than 200,000 sold (found so far)
177 with more than 50,000 sold (found so far) http://selfpublishingsuccessstories.blogspot.com/ The "200,000+ self-published ebooks sold" club: Barbara Freethy - over 2 million ebooks sold (April 2012) Amanda Hocking - 1,500,000 ebooks sold (December 2011) John Locke- more than 1,100,000 eBooks sold in five months Gemma Halliday - over 1 million self-published ebooks sold (March 2012) Michael Prescott - more than 800,000 self-published ebooks sold (Dec 2011) J.A. Konrath - more than 800,000 ebooks sold (April 2012) Bella Andre - more than 700,000 books sold (May 2012) Darcie Chan - 641,000 ebooks sold (May 2012) Chris Culver - over 550,000 (Dec 2011) Heather Killough-Walden - over 500,000 books sold (Dec 2011) Selena Kitt - "With half a million ebooks sold in 2011 alone" Stephen Leather - close to 500,000 books sold (Nov 2011) CJ Lyons - almost 500,000 ebooks sold (Dec 2011) J.R. Rain - more than 400,000 books sold (Sept 2011) Bob Mayer - 347 sold in Jan to over 400,000 total sold by year's end (Dec 2011) Rick Murcer - over 400,000 ebooks in one year (May 2012) Tracey Garvis-Graves - sold more than 360,000 copies of her first novel Tina Folsom - over 300,000 books sold (October 2011) J Carson Black - more than 300,000 books sold (November 2011) Terri Reid - 300,000 sold (May 2012) Marie Force - 300,000+ sold (June 2012) Liliana Hart - "my total sales for one year have now exceed 300,000 books (June 2012) T.R. Ragan - 293,202 books sold (May 2012) B.V. Larson - over 250,000 books sold (Dec 2011) Kerry Wilkinson - more than 250,000 books sold (Feb 2012) M. R. Mathias - "I'm up to nearly 250k (in just two years) (June 2012) H.P. Mallory - more than 200,000 ebooks sold (July 2011) Scott Nicholson - Just guessing, I'd put my worldwide sales total between 200k-250k David Dalglish - more than 200,000 (May 2012) Antoinette Stockenberg - total sales stand at 216,686 (June 2012) - private email Cheryl Bolen - 200,000 sold (June 2012) Jennifer Ashley/Ashley Gardner - 200,000 sold mark in early June 2012 - private email Nick Spalding - "I'm lucky enough to be in the 200,000 + total sales club now (June 2012)" Catherine Bybee - nearly 200,000 of the novel Wife By Wednesda (Jan 2012) Jamie McGuire - hundreds of thousands of copies sold of Beautiful Disaster Hugh Howey- crossed the 200,000 sold mark in June 2012 Last edited by Top100EbooksRank; 07-12-2012 at 06:27 AM. |
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Can anyone tell me how many of those had enjoyed little or no publisher-backed book success before trying self-publishing?
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Of the 108 authors listed so far, maybe around 20-25% have been traditionally published. The rest, self-publishing is their first time in publishing. |
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I know Amanda Hocking and John Locke were entirely self-published. |
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From The Atlantic:
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Do you have a list showing the best-selling genres? I see Epic fantasy is best-ranked by readers, but I wouldn't have expected it to make much of a dent in the sales charts.
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04-11-2012, 10:51 AM | #8 |
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Great. Now I'm depressed.
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04-13-2012, 10:41 AM | #9 |
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Could those authors personally tell their success stories in here?
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04-13-2012, 12:31 PM | #10 |
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I notice that the science fiction Top 100 list doesn't actually have 100 books (not even 60, in fact), which begs the question: How does an author get his books checked out by this site, to see if they can possibly fill out a few of those empty spaces?
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04-13-2012, 12:40 PM | #11 |
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By golly, what an excellent question!
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04-13-2012, 03:58 PM | #12 |
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Just curious, where did you get the numbers from? And is there anywhere I can read the rest of the list?
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04-14-2012, 07:42 PM | #13 |
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Overtime, I will have more than 100 books for each category. Amazon CEO on his annual letter to shareholders: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012...olders-letter/ Quote:
It was at 108 authors. It now has 125 authors who sold more than 50,000. I will add more in the coming days. Last edited by Top100EbooksRank; 04-16-2012 at 06:36 AM. |
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04-16-2012, 01:08 PM | #15 |
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Ah, so you're documenting Amazon's sales figures. Never mind, then.
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