While it was self published and sold modestly, she received endorsements and reviews from top bridge players, professional associations and even pop culture mavens.
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The author is Rachel Van Dyken, the Idaho-based writer of some 20 published and self-published titles.
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So while an algorithm might be able to sort out a collection of quality content like feature films, or music released by a label, or books distributed by a publisher, the shear volume of self-published books, or self-recorded music, makes the algorithmic approach less and less successful.
Given there are thousands of self-published authors on the Kindle, this does emphasise that self-publishing is just as much of a power law venture as any other, with the majority of the earnings going to a minority of authors.
Getting self-published books into bricks and mortar bookshops is always going to be tricky for self-publishers as they generally work outside of the structures that facilitate distribution.
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In 2004, he compiled the accounts into a 160-page illustrated, self-published book The Anonymous Battle.
Self-published titles made up 25% of the top-selling books on Amazon in 2012.
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In the weeks since, there have already been two more No. 1 best-selling self-published ebooks.
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As digital sales surge, publishers are casting a worried eye towards the previously scorned self-published market.
Brownfield self-published a softcover book showcasing some of the works and gained some media attention.
One of the largest repositories for digitally self-published works for sale is Amazon's Digital Text Platform.
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In our product roadmap, in our future plans we would like to deal with self-published works.
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There is a great opportunity for agents to provide business services to self-published authors.
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Bowker estimates that over 235, 000 books and ebooks were self-published in 2012 alone.
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It had been thought that inexpensive e-books, many self-published, were starting to control the best-seller lists.
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And if he needs an example, he can look to other successful self-published authors like Tim Chou.
But when he self-published his novel as an ebook, it topped the bestsellers lists, with almost 350, 000 downloads.
Its Encore program has begun to publish books by self-published authors whose work attracts good reviews on Amazon.com.
Does it look like I gave up, like I thought it had no value, because I self-published it?
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His self-published 2005 novel, a turgid English-language romance spiced with commentary on Thailand, sold fewer than ten copies.
As a self-published author, I would be limited to selling my book on Amazon and other indie sites.
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McGuire removed the self-published version of the ebook from sale six months ago.
Mitchell himself just self-published a productivity guide called The 2, 000 Percent Squared Solution.
Even so, she has sold just two-thirds of the 3, 000 books she self-published.
Self-published, she was unable to obtain distribution or shelf space in book stores.
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Regardless of how you measure it, self-published books have had a huge impact on the publishing world in 2012.
Whether Togather will be a boon for self-published authors remains to be seen.
Last week, I sent an email to Amazon asking why the self-published version of my book is still experiencing returns.
Hocking seems to have a clear grasp of this, as she writes on her website about another self-published author, J.
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