Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Breaking News: Self-Published Author Amanda Hocking Surpasses One Million Units Sold

According to one of Amanda Hocking's recent tweets, she has "officially sold 1,030,758 books (not counting the books sold through Smashwords in the last month or so that haven't reported yet." Congrats, Amanda! Haven't heard of Amanda Hocking? Read this article for a quick summary. Authors should note that the explosion of sales occurred when Amanda started sending her work to bloggers for review.
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6 comments:

  1. C. JoyBell C.6:22 AM

    Which bloggers did she send her books to?? Is she sharing her list?? :)

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  2. Jennifer Hampton9:54 AM

    Try these out C. JoyBell

    http://www.stepbystepselfpublishing.net/book-reviewer-list.html
    http://fyreflybooks.wordpress.com/about/book-blogs-search/

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  3. J.J. Hebert12:57 PM

    Thanks for sharing those resources, Jennifer. C. JoyBell, I think you'll find many matches in those lists... Good luck!

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  4. Pad.A3:28 PM

    Fantastic news JJ - have blogged this on mine http://bit.ly/fGL2Yw

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  5. J.J. Hebert2:36 PM

    Awesome, Pad.A, hope to see you around here more often. Thanks for reading. :)

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  6. C. JoyBell C.12:23 AM

    Oh I just saw these replies today! Thank you, Jennifer Hampton, for the recommendations. :)

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