Self-Published Author Sells a Million E-Books on Amazon
From ReadWriteWeb: Since the Kindle's launch, Amazon has heralded each new arrival into what it calls the "Kindle Million Club," the group of authors who have sold over 1 million Kindle e-books. There have been seven authors in this club up 'til now - some of the big names in publishing: Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts for example. But the admission today of the eighth member of this club is really quite extraordinary. Not because John Locke is a 60 year old former insurance salesman from Kentucky with no writing or publishing background. But because John Locke has accomplished the feat of selling one million e-books as a completely self-published author. Rather than being published by major publishing house - and all the perks that have long been…