SELF-PUBLISHING EBOOK SUCCESS STORIES

When Boyd Morrison’s thriller The Ark received 25 rejections of the heartbreaking type known as the ‘rave rejection’, he decided to publish as an ebook. He tells the Huffington Post what happened next.

After hearing about thriller writer J A Konrath’s ongoing ebook success story, comes the news that Karen McQuestion’s novel A Scattered Life has become the first self-published ebook to be optioned for a Hollywood film.  To date, Karen has sold 36,000 ebooks on Amazon Kindle.

Whilst we wait for the UK online stores to catch up, UK authors can sell their ebooks for $$ on Amazon Digital. We can confirm the system works very well – this morning blackbirdebooks received its first cheque for digital sales, sorry, check, from the Wells Fargo Bank, Seattle! However, sadly the new 70% royalty is only for US authors, the rest of the world has to make do with 35%. The UK self-publishing site Lulu now does ebooks and pays 80%, so worth  getting onto as well. Both platforms are free.