Digitaltrends has an encouraging story for authors and readers that should send publishing industry executives (and agents) scrambling back to the drawing board. Contrary to what they’ve been trying to get us to believe, the eBook Revolution has changed things and the old business model cannot be grafted or forced onto digital publishing.
Apparently, Indie novelist Amanda Hocking is making millions of dollars by publishing her eBooks directly to Amazon’s Kindle Store for .99 to $2.99 each.
According to the traditional publishers, this can’t be happening. An eBook’s success depends entirely on signing with a medium or large, well-connected publishing firm. Right? Well, not right, according to Amanda Hocking.
It just goes to show you that the democratization of publishing via the eBook Revolution is ongoing, and readers can be trusted to pick a winner if given the chance.
