A list of successful self publishers with over 50,000 sales
This week, to my great delight, my total sales passed the 50,000 mark. Last night my ebook sales stood at 51,914, plus some paperbacks (the numbers are harder to keep track of, even though they are a lot smaller). There is a thread on Kindleboards, Authors who have sold more than 50,000 self-published ebooks to date , and I've reproduced the list below. Many have sold a LOT more - Chris Culver, for instance, sold 550,000 copies of The Abbey on his own. An asterisk indicates an author who was formerly traditionally published.
In circles hostile to indie authors, one often reads the assertion that although self-publishing has worked for people like Amanda Hocking and John Locke, the vast majority of us are lucky to sell 100 books. This necessarily incomplete list gives them the lie. And there are many more writers who, even though they haven't made this list yet, are earning respectable money from their writing and reaching readers.
INDIE AUTHORS WHO HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 50,000 EBOOKS
Susan Alison
Dani Amore
Bella Andre
J Carson Black
Catherine Bybee
Ruth Cardello
Darcie Chan
Mel Comley
Blake Crouch
Chris Culver
David Dalglish
Saffina Desforges
Mainak Dhar
Mark Edwards & Louis Voss
Ellen Fisher
Penelope Fletcher
Tina Folsom
Barbara Freethy
Debora Geary
Lee Goldberg
Michael Hicks
Amanda Hocking
Hugh Howey
Nancy C. Johnson
Ty Johnston
Selena Kitt
* J.A. Konrath
Eve Langlais
* Stephen Leather
Victorine Lieske
John Locke
Terri Giuliano Long
CJ Lyons
H.P. Mallory
KC May
Bob Mayer
Stephanie McAfee
Courtney Milan
Rick Murcer
Scott Nicholson
Anne Marie Novark
Shayne Parkinson
T.R. Ragan
Terri Reid
Adam Rendon
Lexi Revellian
Nick Russell
L.J. Sellers
Michael J Sullivan
Heather Killough-Walden
MichaelWallace
Kerry Wilkinson
Rachel Yu
Published on February 23, 2012 04:17
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