{"id":9280,"date":"2011-08-23T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9280"},"modified":"2011-08-23T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:24:59","slug":"simon-schuster-offers-indie-author-john-locke-a-sales-and-distribution-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9280","title":{"rendered":"Simon &#038; Schuster offers Indie author John Locke a sales and distribution deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a matter of time before this happened. <a title=\"Locke signs deal with Simon &amp; Shuster\" href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2011\/08\/john-locke-self-published-author-signs-distribution-deal-with-simon-schuster\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><strong>New York Observer<\/strong><\/em><\/a> says that publisher <strong>Simon &amp; Shuster<\/strong> has signed a sales and distribution agreement with Indie author John Locke after his titles&#8217; stellar performance at <strong>Amazon&#8217;s Kindle<\/strong> store. It&#8217;s kind of a no brainer, since he&#8217;s sold over a million copies, but I&#8217;m certain we&#8217;ll see more of these deals struck with other authors in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The real story will be when traditional publishers begin to cut deals with authors of good books that are selling in the tens of thousands. I mean, anyone can pick a best seller that&#8217;s a best seller!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a matter of time before this happened. New York Observer says that publisher Simon &amp; Shuster has signed a sales and distribution agreement with Indie author John Locke after his titles&#8217; stellar performance at Amazon&#8217;s Kindle store. It&#8217;s kind of a no brainer, since he&#8217;s sold over a million copies, but I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9280\">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":[3,4,5,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280"}],"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=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}