I saw her name (Amanda Hocking) on your Facebook post and thought 'that sounds familiar', and now I remember why: She keeps showing up at the top of my recommendations on the Nook store. And man, has she written a ton of books. (should we still call them that?)
I just skimmed the first chapter & a half of a sample and it's not bad. I'm sure if one were of a mind to, one could take it apart, but I have seen much, much worse in print. So, this million-dollar payday that the article talks about: Of course she's got first-mover advantage, and of course she's gotten lucky, and I could make a host of other criticisms, but the core point still stands: The old publishing model had too much overhead, and if you can cut them out of the loop you can potentially make a lot more money. But you'll have to work for it. Just to be clear on one thing that might not be in the article: She is not using Amazon as her publisher, she is doing this herself: You can buy her books on Amazon, the Nook store or from Fictionwise, so she hasn't locked herself into a platform or substituted one middleman for another, she's largely disintermediated the whole stack. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > And apparently making a boatload of money: > > http://www.businessinsider.com/amanda-hocking-2011-2 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- -- eric scoles | [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
