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Self-Published Author Sells a Million E-Books on Amazon
Jun 20th
Since the Kindle’s launch, Amazon has heralded each new arrival into what it calls the “Kindle Million Club,” the group of authors who have sold over 1 million Kindle e-books. There have been seven authors in this club up ’til now – some of the big names in publishing: Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts for example.
But the admission today of the eighth member of this club is really quite extraordinary. Not because John Locke is a 60 year old former insurance salesman from Kentucky with no writing or publishing background. But because John Locke has accomplished the feat of selling one million e-books as a completely self-published author.
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Rather than being published by major publishing house – and all the perks that have long been associated with that (marketing, book tours, prime shelf space in retail stores) – Locke has sold 1,010,370 Kindle books (as of yesterday) having used Kindle Direct Publishing to get his e-books into the Amazon store. No major publisher. No major marketing.
Locke writes primarily crime and adventure stories, including Vegas Moon, Wish List, and the New York Times E-Book Bestseller, Saving Rachel. Most of the e-books sell for $.99, and he says he makes 35 cents on every sale. That sort of per book profit is something that authors would never get from a traditional book deal.
Locke is also the author of now bound-to-be classic How I Sold 1 Million E-Books in 5 Months. Of course, rags-to-riches, unpublished-to-bestselling author isn’t a particularly new phenomenon. But to have this occur outside a major publishing house certainly is. One million e-books in just 5 months is a testament to the incredible popularity of e-books – particularly at this low price point. And it is yet another reminder of the shifting publishing – not just reading – landscape.
Pointing to the success of another self-published author Amanda Hocking, GigaOm’s Mathew Ingram suggests that the successes of Locke and Hocking are “another sign of the ongoing disruption of the traditional publishing industry.” Indeed, self-publishing was once viewed as the last resort for frustrated authors. In the future, should such successes be repeated, it may be the publishing industry that gets more rejection notices.
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Will Author Markup Help Google’s Scraper Problem?
Jun 9th
Hot off the heels of their rich snippets announcement for schema.org, starting today, Google will allow webmasters to use markup for content authors.
Using HTML5 and XFN markup like the rel=”author” and rel=”me” code, respectively, publishers ca…
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Steven Levy, Author Of In The Plex, Interviewed By Google’s Matt Cutts
May 25th
Steven Levy, the author of In The Plex, was interviewed in one of the recent “Google Talks” by Matt Cutts. Steven Levy wrote one of, if not the most, revealing books on how Google works as a company in his book. So I found it incredibly interesting to watch a Googler interview the…
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Best-selling SEO author coordinates SEO competition with big prizes – PRLog.Org (press release)
Feb 20th
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Best-selling SEO author coordinates SEO competition with big prizes
PRLog.Org (press release) PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 20, 2011 – Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is crucial for anything you want to do online these days. It is also, usually, one of the most expensive elements for most business. Getting expert SEO advice and learning about … |
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Hitch: Git Author Attribution Helper for Pair Programmers
Feb 5th
Hitch is a tool that enables pair programmers to attribute code to multiple authors in Git commits.
“Just like Maverick and Goose, one dev flies, and one is pretty much the Radar Intercept Officer, having a more dedicated view of threats including syntax errors and stray whitespace,” writes Wynn Netherland at The Changelog. “But just like there are two names on those Top Gun plaques, there are two devs in a pair, so there shouldn’t there be two names on the Git commit?”
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How does it work? Here’s Netherland’s example:
$ hitch pengwynn adamstacI don't know who pengwynn is.
Do you want to add pengwynn to ~/.hitch_pairs?
$ yWhat is pengwynn's full name?
$ Wynn Netherland
I don't know who adamstac is.$ y
What is adamstac's full name?$ Adam Stacoviak
What is the group email? e.g. dev@hashrocket.com will become dev+therubymug+leshill@hashrocket.com$ ping@thechangelog.com
Adam Stacoviak and Wynn Netherland
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Online Marketing Experts & Author Team Up To Launch New Integrated Marketing Firm – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Jan 5th
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Online Marketing Experts & Author Team Up To Launch New Integrated Marketing Firm
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) LiBeck Integrated Marketing focuses on creating strategies that allow channels like email, pay per click (PPC) marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) … Liana Evans of LiBeck Integrated Marketing to speak at Reykjavik Internet … |
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Matt Cutts, Social Signals, Author Authority, Ranking Factors & Google Realtime
Dec 22nd
Matt Cutts, has confirmed Danny Sullivan’s report that Google and Bing use social signals as a ranking factor. In a video on Google Webmaster Schedule, Matt Cutts said:
“I filmed a video back in May 2010 where I said that we didn’t use that as a signal, and at the time, we did not use that as a signal, but now, we’re taping this in December 2010, and we are using that as a signal.”
A change has been suspected for awhile as earlier this year, Richard Zwicky, writing for SearchEngineWatch, also identified a patent that suggested that Google was investigating author authority as a ranking factor.
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Jeff Hayzlett, Celebrity CMO and Best-Selling Author, Says ‘Buzz is not sales!’
Oct 6th
In his book The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing?, Jeff Hayzlett takes marketing “by the horns” and spells out how companies need to re-examine their traditional marketing methods.
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Cleveland SEO Firm President, Wendy Suto, Becomes Featured Author on Site Pro News – PR.com (press release)
Sep 20th
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Cleveland SEO Firm President, Wendy Suto, Becomes Featured Author on Site Pro News
PR.com (press release) Wendy Suto, CEO and President of Search Circus, Inc., a Cleveland SEO and social media firm, was recently made a featured author on SiteProNews.com. … |
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