{"id":8109,"date":"2011-03-01T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2011-03-01T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:58:59","slug":"indie-author-makes-millions-in-the-kindle-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8109","title":{"rendered":"Indie Author Makes Millions in the Kindle Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Indie Author Goes For Gold\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/gadgets\/self-published-novelist-amanda-hocking-makes-millions-from-amazon-kindle-sales\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Digitaltrends<\/strong><\/a> 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&#8217;ve been trying to get us to believe, the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> <em>has <\/em>changed things and the old business model cannot be grafted or forced onto digital publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Indie novelist <a title=\"Amanda Hocking - Check out her Kindle Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amanda-Hocking\/e\/B003H4L762\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Amanda Hocking<\/strong><\/a> is making millions of dollars by publishing her eBooks directly to <strong>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle Store<\/strong> for <strong>.99<\/strong> to <strong>$2.99 each<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the traditional publishers, this can&#8217;t be happening. An eBook&#8217;s success depends entirely on signing with a medium or large, well-connected publishing firm. <em>Right? <\/em>Well, not right, according to <strong>Amanda Hocking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show you that the democratization of publishing via the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong> is ongoing, and readers can be trusted to pick a winner if given the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8109\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8121,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}