Sentences with phrase «hocking sold»

Self - publishing phenom Amanda Hocking sold over a million copies of her YA paranormal series before partnering with St. Martin's.

As with John Locke before her, Amanda Hocking sold the majority of her 1 million Kindle books independently using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).

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Saving methane from leaking should also result in a financial benefit to the industry, since it should end up with more product to sell, Hock noted.

The Internship feels every bit like it's made by the same slackers that the two stars represent themselves as being within the story itself, and like their occupation of guys who hock merchandise for a living, this entire film could be said to be a nearly two - hour commercial venture meant to sell Google and a few other companies (University of Phoenix and Match.com are mentioned prominently by name) on the minds of nearly everyone in the audience.

While some readers criticized her for «selling out» to a traditional publisher, Hocking said she had good reasons for doing it.

Those guys are selling in a weekend what I've sold in a year, and if you've been within spitting distance of the internet in the last week you'll already know that Hocking has just signed a deal a two million dollar deal with St. Martin's Press.

Amanda Hocking just did a blog post announcing that she's sold nearly half a million copies of her books since she started, which was when?

(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Amazon.com, Inc., today announced that David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer are the latest authors to join the Kindle Million Club, selling over 1 million paid copies of their books in the Amazon.com Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

Amanda Hocking, a 29 - year - old from Minnesota, first experienced success when she self - published her YA paranormal books on Amazon and Smashwords in 2010; the rights to her Watersong series were sold for $ 2 million a year later.

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

Brittany Turner, a representative at CreateSpace, cites Amanda Hocking (Trylle Trilogy), John Locke (Saving Rachel), and Barbara Freethy (When Wishes Collide) as three authors who've sold over a million Kindle books.

Ms. Hocking is on track to sell 6 million books this year, maybe more.

A few days after the Eisler news, another best - selling author, Amanda Hocking, who had self - published a popular vampire romance series, signed a $ 2 million book deal with St. Martin's Press for four young adult paranormal novels.

Other self - published phenoms have eventually sold their books to traditonal publishers, but authors like Amanda Hocking, the first self - published million - copy Kindle seller, sold both print and digital (in her case, to St. Martin's Press).

But we all succeed at different rates... i.e. see Amanda Hocking blowing out of the gate and selling hugely in 6 months, where it's taken me 2 years and I'm «still» not at that level yet.

After hearing about authors like Hocking and Locke breaking the bank and selling tons in this new paradigm, I decided to jump in.

In America, Amanda Hocking has gone from selling more than a million self - published vampire and zombie ebooks to signing a $ 2 million deal with a leading publisher.

Recently, young adult paranormal author Amanda Hocking made headlines throughout the publishing industry after her nine digitally and self - published YA titles sold over one million copies, which resulted in a four - book print deal with St. Martin's Press.

In her piece, Katherine references (but does not link to in order to avoid helping the blogger with traffic to her site, as Good e-Reader likewise will not) an article that circulated almost virally last weekend, a piece that named thirty prominent, best - selling self - published authors; while specifically targeting author Melissa Foster, who is now pursuing legal action against the blogger, the post by someone who claims to have spent two years «working undercover» at Fiverr names authors Hugh Howey, Blake Crouch, Amanda Hocking, and several others as those who purchased bulk book reviews.

Some were surprised by her decision to sell her book rights, but Hocking has explained that in order to be a billion - dollar author, she needs people to buy her books at Wal - Mart.

Amanda Hocking, as I'm sure you know, is a best - selling e-author on Amazon.com.

How Amanda Hocking REALLY Did It - An Inspiration for All Authors Amanda Hocking, as I'm sure you know, is a best - selling e-author on Amazon.com.

* Even Amanda Hocking had to write eight or nine books before they (in total) sold a million copies.

Hocking started selling books, first a few a day, then as she uploaded more of her work, she managed to sell 26 books in one day in May.

And one thing I noticed was that I bought into the Amanda Hocking fantasy that all you have to do to sell a book on Kindle is throw it up there with a decent cover and watch the money roll in.

Social media definitely works in the indie writer space, as evidenced by indie writers like Joe Konrath and Amanda Hocking and many of the other self - pubbed writers selling more than 1000 books a month who flock to the Kindle boards.

Hocking joins author John Locke as a fellow indie author whose works have sold more than one million copies in the Kindle store.

In addition to the more than 2 million books sold by John Locke and Amanda Hocking, 12 KDP authors have sold more than 200,000 books and 30 KDP authors have sold more than 100,000 books.

But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.

SEATTLE — November 9, 2011 --(NASDAQ: AMZN) —Amazon.com, Inc., today announced that David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer are the latest authors to join the Kindle Million Club, selling over 1 million paid copies of their books in the Amazon.com Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

Paranormal romance writer Amanda Hocking, who has now signed a deal reported to be worth more than $ 2m with St Martin's, sold her ebooks herself for between $ 0.99 and $ 2.99.

Fed up with attempts to find a traditional publisher for her young - adult paranormal novels, Hocking self - published last March and began selling her novels on online bookstores like Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com.

Multiply that by a million — last November Hocking entered the hallowed halls of the Kindle Million Club, with more than 1m copies sold — and you are talking megabucks.

For a writer to make any kind of decent money at indie - publishing, the author either has to have a lot of products selling at low levels, but regularly, or the author needs to hit it big like Amanda Hocking.

And so now what they see is people like you, or Amanda Hocking, who are selling way more books than them, who are way more famous and way more popular, and they're not getting chosen by the New York literary elite; they, more importantly, actual people are buying their books because they actually enjoy them.

Now, this isn't a non-fiction example, but best - selling independent fiction author Amanda Hocking is very active on Twitter and Facebook interacting with readers and promoting her books.

But Hocking's success story — selling a million e-books on the Kindle, getting a major publisher — remains a rarity, cautions a story over at MediaShift.

I certainly haven't sold as many books as John Locke or Amanda Hocking.

I can not see how it would be worthwhile for Hocking to do this deal without getting more than 25 %: Amanda Hocking, the 26 - year - old author who shot to fame by selling...

Hocking explained her decision to sell her work to a traditional publisher on her blog (which itself has received 1,724,535 page views).

Price to sell, but don't go cheap, no matter what Locke or Hocking did years ago.

After all, Amanda Hocking needed Amazon's, B&N's, and Smashwords» distribution to get her books to readers — she didn't sell through her own website.

Right now, authors like Joe Konrath, Amanda Hocking, Zoe Winters and many others like them are selling hundreds — and thousands — of e-books every month.

These authors join a cast of other «outliers» who've sold massive numbers of e-books in the last couple of years: Amanda Hocking, John Locke, and Bob Mayer all come to mind.

And I think it's fair to assume that the majority (probably the vast majority) of these high - selling titles were sold at 99 cents — I know almost all of John Lock's titles were sold at $ 0.99 and most of Hocking's were as well.

This week, Amazon announced that Hocking joined Locke (along with 12 traditionally - published authors) in the «Kindle Million Club,» by selling over a million copies of their books in the Amazon Kindle Store.

2010 will also be remembered as the year of the rise of self - published authors, with a couple I know of in particular (Joe Konrath and Amanda Hocking) selling over 100,000 e-books and earning a very nice living — without traditional publishers.

I know of only one Indie author who sells more than me in the US and that's paranormal romance writer Amanda Hocking — and she sells more than twice as many as me.

I know when Amanda Hocking took her traditional publishing deal it caused quite an uproar in indie circles because many had dubbed her a champion of indie publishing and felt she'd sold out.

Yesterday I read this article about an author named Amanda Hocking, who has no publisher but sells 100,000 copies of her book a month on the Kindle for between 99cents and three dollars.