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Indies on Best Seller Lists
So here's the common sign of the times for the literary world we live in.... I was reading USAToday at lunch today and came across their Best Seller List.
I skimmed through it and found, with no surprise, three 99-cent indies in the top 50. Yes, the TOP FIFTY....
Last Breath by Michael Prescott is at 25, The Abbey by Chris Culver is at 29, and The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan is at 30. Good books all, and right there among Big Pub books that cost five, ten, twenty-five or thirty TIMES as much.
People sometimes see that as a tension between traditional print publishers and newer ebook publishing (most notably ebooks that are self-published). And it certainly is that - the pricing alone hints at the underlying issues still at work here.
But it's exciting, too, and it is a sign of the times - these authors wrote full time or part time, for a livelihood or hobby, in offices or at dining room tables or wherever the mood struck them, and they did that just like authors always have. But then they created and published the ebooks themselves, and there they sit - in the Top 50.
You can find the list in PDF form right here.
I skimmed through it and found, with no surprise, three 99-cent indies in the top 50. Yes, the TOP FIFTY....
Last Breath by Michael Prescott is at 25, The Abbey by Chris Culver is at 29, and The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan is at 30. Good books all, and right there among Big Pub books that cost five, ten, twenty-five or thirty TIMES as much.
People sometimes see that as a tension between traditional print publishers and newer ebook publishing (most notably ebooks that are self-published). And it certainly is that - the pricing alone hints at the underlying issues still at work here.
But it's exciting, too, and it is a sign of the times - these authors wrote full time or part time, for a livelihood or hobby, in offices or at dining room tables or wherever the mood struck them, and they did that just like authors always have. But then they created and published the ebooks themselves, and there they sit - in the Top 50.
You can find the list in PDF form right here.
