Comments on: Man Meets Kindle–And Rocks

By: Tom Corson-Knowles

Tom Corson-Knowles — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:57:31 +0000

Hey,

This article is awesome! Thanks JR and thanks NINC for sharing this.

I just wanted to congratulate on on your success as an author JR and let you know that your story has inspired me and I’ve shared part of it in my new book Kindle Success Stories.

Thanks for sharing your experience and advice with other indie authors!
Tom

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:08:05 +0000

I would be happy to re-read all of your books and take notes of the typos and send a list to you, if you like. I love your books (especially knighthorse!), specifically your humor. I read all of your available books in the Knighthorse and Vampire for Hire series this past weekend. I did notice an awful lot of typos but it’s not like they were a big deal. Anyway, if you’re interested please contact me at pederslp01@mail.buffalostate.edu .

By: Leslie Jenkins

Leslie Jenkins — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:14:12 +0000

I even got my own smashwords book purchased online. Its good to see the overview of another source. AT least I have an idea what’s inside.

By: Allan Krummenacker

Allan Krummenacker — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:39:35 +0000

Congratulations on your success. I’ve only recently heard bits and pieces about Kindle and had no idea what it was about. I find this whole entry fascinating. So far I’m trying to go the traditional route. Beta-readers have praised my efforts and I’ve gotten encouragement from a couple of agents and former agents. If all else fails, it’s nice to know I have another option.

With your permission, I’d like to set up a link to your blog and specifically this entry. There are a lot of writers out there who need to hear from someone who’s taken this route to see what other paths to being published are out there.

Best wishes for your continued success,

Allan Krummenacker

By: Eve Paludan

Eve Paludan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:04:32 +0000

This is great inspiration, J.R. I love reading your books and screenplays and will always be on the alert for your next release. Best wishes, Eve

By: A.W.Meyle

A.W.Meyle — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:19:08 +0000

J.R., what can I say man, as a man that has known you for a very long time, I am glad to see you are having so much success.
I look forward to catching up on reading some of your recent works.
Keep up the good work and good fortune will follow.

By: J.R. Rain

J.R. Rain — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:52:32 +0000

Thank you, Zoe!

@Melinda: I would suggest just categorizing your Teen books in whatever genre they fit best (say romance or supernatural). Once done, the Kindle tagging system will probably then place your book in the correct teen category. Case in point: there’s no “vampire” category to choose from on Kindle (during the publishing process), and yet my book found its way to the vampire list based on reader “tags”.

Sounds like many of you have some great projects ready to roll on Kindle. Yes, get ‘em up as soon as you can!

Happy publishing!

By: Lisa Wanttaja

Lisa Wanttaja — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:09:09 +0000

Very interesting. I had a little bit of an epiphany about Kindle (and self-pubbed ebooks in general). All these years, decades really, publishers have been the gatekeepers and filters for what gets out there. I’m guessing thousands, maybe tens of thousands or more, of viable, well-written, possibly fantastic books never got published because a publisher didn’t like the concept, didn’t know how to market it, felt it was too similar to something they already did, or “just didn’t love it enough.” That’s not necessarily a dig at publishers–they simply have a limited number of books they can produce in any given year and they’re always behind the curve because they’re buying now based on what sold last year.

Now that filter has been removed, and while there’s the potential for a lot of badly written and worse edited garbage to come out as ebooks, kind of in the Wild West mode that YouTube is at present for videos, all the good stuff that some publisher wouldn’t buy for whatever reason is out there too. Eventually the cream will rise to the top based on reviews, reader comments, and word of mouth. There’s probably even more opportunity for building a name as a writer because when a reader reads something good on Kindle/Nook/etc., they might choose to buy from that author again rather than take the chance of getting something crummy.

I don’t think print books will go away, but the balance of power is definitely shifting toward the authors, and, especially with Kindle sales now outpacing paperbacks at Amazon, it won’t be long before the vast majority of books are sold like music is now at iTunes. That’s probably going to result in a lot of print pubs either folding or moving to a place where they have to pay enough to compete with ebook sales. Otherwise, why would an author bother with them?

By: Mmmmelinda Haynes

Mmmmelinda Haynes — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:29:54 +0000

I love this blog! What an inspiring post, JR. Great follow up questions, Vonna.

Question to JR–for your early YA novels, how are you going to categorize them on Amazon? Is there a YA category I didn’t see?

By: Vivi Anna

Vivi Anna — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:38:32 +0000

It’s great to hear from another author doing well on Kindle. I’ve been following Joe Konrath’s success and it make me excited for the future.

I am currently finishing an original UF that I haven’t ever shopped to put up on the kindle. And I have probably 3 or 4 more books that I coudl finish and publish myself.

I write for Harlequin, and will continue to do so, but its fantastic to know that I have a place I could go to get my other work out there on my own.