The announcement follows a number of high - profile success stories in recent years: EL James's best -
selling erotic novel 50 Shades of Grey began life as a self - published ebook, while thriller writer Rachel Abbott's first six self - published Kindle novels have together sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.
Released just a year ago, Fifty Shades of Grey was based on the best -
selling erotic novel by E.L. James.
Not exact matches
The
erotic novel was released in the UK yesterday and it's projected that it will be the best
selling book of 2012.
The biggest
selling ebook on the Kindle this year is the
erotic novel by EL James, «Fifty Shades Of Grey», which
sold more than 2 million copies in just four months.
So too, do success stories like that of Day, who originally self - published her
erotic novel Bared to You, or the author Hugh Howey, who
sold hundreds of thousands of copies of his dystopian
novel Wool himself on Amazon before landing a publisher.