121 Plus EBOOK Writing Lessons From SELF-PUBLISHING Ebook Ninja Joe Konrath, Who Has Sold Over 800,000 Ebooks On Amazon,Etc. Within 3 Years---The PatrickGannon1938 Blog---Monday,May 14,2012.

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121 plus EBOOK writing lessons from SELF-PUBLISHING ebook ninja Joe Konrath,

who has sold over 800,000 ebooks on Amazon,etc.

within 3 years:

---The PatrickGannon1938 Blog---Monday,May 14,2012.

( 137 pages !!!)

---The Complete Joe Konrath Biography,

Writing Timeline

( 1988 to 2012),

Ebook Self-Publishing History

( 2004 to 2012),

And

The 121 VERY BEST

MOST inspiring,useful,motivational,

helpful,profitable,encouraging and wise

EBOOK SELF-PUBLISHING articles

of the last 3 years

or from April 2009 to April 2012

of "The Newbie's Guide To Publishing" blog

Sincerely,karma-liciously and generously YOURS,

In Chocolate,Vancouver and Ebooks I Trust,

The PatrickGannon1938 Blog,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada,

Monday,May 14,2012.

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Sincerely,karma-liciously and generously YOURS,

In Chocolate,Vancouver and Ebooks I Trust,

The PatrickGannon1938 Blog,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada,

Monday,May 14,2012.

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The Grammar Thing

"The PatrickGannon1938 style of writing"

( a word to future blog readers

as well as professional & amateur

COPY/GRAMMAR editors) :

This blog,like myself,is a little unconventional.

Okay,highly unconventional !

You will find a MIXTURE of first person usage ( I,My,etc.)

and third person usage (he,etc.),

all within THE SAME PARAGRAPH.

Very shocking,eh ?!

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or to make this article MUCH MORE interesting,

enlightening and informative.

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NOR to make you GROAN !

Since this WHOLE article is

about self-publishing ebook ninja Joe Konrath,

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belong to Joe Konrath.

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or grammar-oriented person/reader,

this will drive you bonkers

or simply nuts !

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please !

Sorry but that is JUST MY WRITING STYLE.

I am NOT going to change it

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I tried to create a magnum opus or

the definitive/BEST work on

the life,times,trials and tribulations

of self-publishing ebook ninja Joe Konrath.

I STRONGLY feel i have succeeded with this.

However,above all,the purpose is

TO ENCOURAGE,ENLIGHTEN AND INSPIRE

current and future ebook authors from 13 to 90 years old !

May the EBOOK FORCE be with you.

Sincerely,Karma-liciously & Generously Yours,

PatrickGannon1938 Blog,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada,

Monday,May 14,2012,

In Chocolate,Vancouver And Ebooks I Trust.

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Dear Aspiring/Potential ebook authors :

This is A HUGELY life changing article

for ANY potential/aspiring EBOOK author in 2012

and beyond !!!

( SERIOUSLY !!! )

Whether you are a teenager (13 to 19 years old),

a 20 to 49 years old aspiring ebook author

a MUCH older author/writer,etc.

( 50 to 90 years old)

i hope this blog article gets you on

the right and fast track :

to becoming a better writer

and

a MORE successful ebook author

in 2012

and beyond !!

That is my

SINCERE hope, strategy and plan !!

May you "CRUSH IT"

"SUCCEED HIGHLY"

in the ebook writing/author world !!

Sincerely,karma-liciously and generously YOURS,

In Chocolate,Vancouver and Ebooks I Trust,

The PatrickGannon1938 Blog,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada,

Monday,May 14,2012

PS # 1 :

1) I believe a successful life

is one where people miss you when you die.

2) Making a living doing something YOU love

is the whole point of life !!!

3) You are the hero in the story of your life.

Act like it.

4) Ebooks are forever.

Which means that every day your ebook isn't live on

the Amazon Kindle ebookstore

is a day you aren't getting paid as an ebook author.

Ebooks ARE the future.

Get in on it (write a good to GREAT ebook !) as soon as you can !!!

5) Joe Konrath advice to

all aspiring/potential ebook authors----

I will refuse to get discouraged,

because I know J.A. or Joe Konrath wrote

9 novels,

received almost 500 rejections,

and penned over 1 million words

before he sold a thing

--and I'm a lot more talented than that guy !

(Har-har !!)

Now here are another

135 MORE important

LIFE lessons :

A) OCTOBER 25, 2011----106 Excuses That Prevent You

From Ever Becoming Great :

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/106/

B) July 12,2011----29 life lessons learned in travelling the world

for 8 years straight :

http://www.fluentin3months.com/life-lessons/

Coolness,

eh ?!!

PS # 2 :

The 10,000 Hour Rule

To ACHIEVING Amazing Excellence

( a VERY HIGH level of financial and/or critical success)

At Almost Anything

You LOVE To Do :

( OR even having/creating

a VERY innovative/unique idea

in a given area,expertise

or research field)

Excellence at a COMPLEX/difficult skill,task,sport,etc.

requires a minimum level of practice,

and most experts have settled on 10,000 hours

as the magic number for true expertise.

This is true even of people we think of as prodigies,

such as Bill Gates,Mozart,The Beatles,etc.

In study after study, of composers, basketball players,

fiction writers, ice skaters,

concert pianists, chess players, and even master criminals,etc.,

this number comes up again and again.

Ten thousand hours is equivalent to

roughly three hours a day,

20 hours a week,

of (writing,etc.) practice,

over 10 years.

No one has yet found a case

in which true world-class expertise

was accomplished in less time.

It seems that it takes the brain this long

to assimilate all that it needs to know

to achieve true mastery.

The key to MASSIVE success in any field is due,

to a large extent,

to practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours.

1) Joe Konrath says---I found it interesting to apply this to my career.

It took me twelve years to become published.

While holding down a fulltime job,

I still managed to write over a million words during that time

--roughly 15 to 20 hours a week.

Guess what ?

That's (over) 10,000 hours.

( 20 hours WEEKLY

= 1,040 hours YEARLY

= 10,400 hours in a DECADE

or in 10 years !!)

2) Joe Konrath says----If you want to have extraordinary EBOOK sales,
it means devoting an extraordinary amount of time to it.

That means sacrificing other aspects of your life,

like leisure, sleep, and family.

( PatrickGannon1938 says :

I would rather sacrifice in WORK,leisure and sleep hours

than in FAMILY hours/time,

though !!!)

The 5 BIG Rules Of Writing Success

In 2012

And Beyond :

Rule 1---You must write.

Rule 2----Finish what you start.

Rule 3-----Refrain from rewriting ad infinitum

Rule 4----You must put your story on the market.

Rule 5-----Keep it on the market UNTIL it has sold.

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Copyright May 2012 by Patrick Gannon

and PatrickGannon1938 of Vancouver,B.C.,Canada..

No written,digital,etc. reproduction in whole or in part.

All charts/pictures/photos/images/cartoons/graphs/etc.

are due to respective individuals.

All blog content from Joe Konrath belongs to Joe Konrath.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT

----No financial or stock market advice is intended,implied or recommended !!!

Consult your own financial professional

BEFORE investing in (or short-selling) Amazon,Apple,

Barnes & Noble or any other stock.

Not responsible for ANY investment losses.

Thanks.

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DON'T be greedy

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It is simply

Just Good Karma,

baby !!).

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scholarship,and research.

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might otherwise be infringing.

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in favor of fair use.

Thank you.

Permission To Quote Up To 300 words (Fair Use)

-----Up to May 31,2012

or for the next month or so,

any blogger,writer or author may quote anything

within this LONG blog article

ebook writing lessons research

UP TO a MAXIMUM of 300 words

and for one use

IN one blog article ONLY,

AND

for NON-PROFIT USE,

without seeking my permission in writing

via email,

as long as they SIMPLY mention :

"From The PatrickGannon1938 Blog

---May 2012".

Thanks.

Wise Blogging Or Writing 101

( Some personal stuff) :

If you REALLY don't understand it (the topic,business or company shares/stock) FULLY,THEN don't (!!) write or blog about it,lest you appear a FOOL !!

If in doubt,DON'T write about it !!!

Understanding the business,stock,company,etc. ONLY partially or semi-understand it does NOT cut it OR justify blogging about it !

Lesson learned---bitterly !!

IF it takes you 15 to 20 hours (or up to 50 hours) to understand the implications and nuances of your/the business,company,stock,subjrct/topic,etc. and you are NOT willing to INVEST THAT TIME,then FORGET about writing about it !

Case closed.Thank you !!!

Special Affiliation Note----I have ZERO affiliation

with ANY of the websites,companies

or organizations mentioned within.

Now,let us begin with my blog article

121 plus ebook writing lessons

research !

Sincerely And Generously Yours,

In Ebooks I Trust,

PatrickGannon1938,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada,

Monday,May 14,2012

PS # 1 :

What have YOU done in your life

to help your fellow man/woman

and

make society A MUCH BETTER place

to live and work in ???

( for ebook authors,etc.)

PS # 2 :

Making a living

doing something YOU love

is the whole point of life !!!

( I love _________???

I love writing,etc.)

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Mission Statement

of The PatrickGannon1938 Blog:

To inspire and encourage

ASPIRING/potential and EXPERIENCED ebook authors

to self-publish

on the Amazon or Kindle ebookstore,etc.

as well as

to offer motivational,USEFUL,profitable,HELPFUL and WISE

ebook self-publishing advice

so you can

successfully self-publish YOUR FIRST EBOOK

and

make $500 to $3,000 monthly from it

or much better

in 2012

and beyond !!!

I wish you MUCH financial,critical,etc.success

in the following years !

Sincerely,KARMA-liciously and generously yours,

The PatrickGannon1938 Blog,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada,

Monday,May 14,2012

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Research And Writing

Time,Energy & Effort :

Anything worth doing takes time !!!

( Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap

but by the seeds that you plant.

In other words,

Think BIG PICTURE

for the medium to long-term !!

That usually means 18 months or longer !!

That is how the greatest HARVEST

or best results are gained !

Short-term

5 months or less

thinking,attitudes,etc.

CAN lead to greed

and

often results in much PERSONAL stupidity,pain,problems,stress,etc.

in YOUR life !!!)

( Talent is cheaper than TABLE SALT---WShat separates the TALENTED indicidual from THE SUCCESSFUL ONE is a LOT of HARD work----Stephen King,mega bestselling author)

( Note on writing times :

I originally expected to finish this article/research

by April 8,2012

by 5pm

at the latest !

Why April 8 ??

To celebrate Joe Konrath's

3 year anniversary

of his ebook self-publishing start on Amazon

on April 8,2009.

This article completion date just did NOT happen,

though i was 100% sure

i could complete it by then !

i was EXTREMELY shocked and upset

that this took me so long

to do/complete !!

However,it looks like

i SEVERELY underestimated HOW LONG

it would take !

Yikes !!

Anyways,my pain,frustration and hard/smart work,

is hopefully your gain/profit/wisdom

in 2012 and beyond !!! )

Special Note----I spent over 20 hours of research & writing on this article

that was

NOT listed

in the TIME SPENT below !!

A) Total Days Spent On This

-----23 days.

(between April 6 and May 13,2012 !!!)

B) Total Hours Spent On This

----118 hours & 31 minutes.

C) Total pages printed out

-----137 PLUS pages !!

D) My WEEKLY Writing Hours

(What are YOURS ???) :

a) Week 1 writing hours---From April 6 to 12,2012----23 hours & 45 minutes.

b) Week 2 writing hours----From April 13 to 19,2012----9 hours & 12 minutes.

c) Week 3 writing hours----From April 20 to 26,2012-----15 hours & 3 minutes.

d) Week 4 writing hours---From April 27 to May 3,2012----34 hours & 2 minutes.

e) Week 5 writing hours----From May 4 to 10,2012-----29 hours & 16 minutes.

f) Week 6 writing hours----From May 11 to May 13,2012----5 hours & 46 minutes.

g) Total hours spent over 5 weeks-----118 hours & 31 minutes.

My Writing Days (History)

for this research or LONG article :

1) Sunday,May 13,2012----8:28am to 10:38am---2 hours & 10 minutes.

12:06pm/Pacific Time to 1:20pm----1 hour & 14 minutes.

4:04pm to 4:54pm----50 minutes.

Total hours----4 hours & 14 minutes.

2) Saturday,May 12,2012----7:56am to 9:28am----1 hour & 32 minutes.

3) Thursday,May 10,2012----2:11am to 5:18am----3 hours & 7 minutes.

4) Wednesday,May 9,2012-----4:05am/Pacific Time to 7:11am

----3 hours & 6 minutes.

8:38am to 10:17am----1 hour & 49 minutes.

Total hours----4 hours & 53 minutes.

5) Tuesday,May 8,2012-----8:36am/Pacific Time to 9:41am----1 hour & 5 minutes.

6) Monday,May 7,2012-----9:30am/Pacific Time to 1:50pm----4 hours & 20 minutes.

7) Sunday,May 6,2012-----6:28am/Pacific Time to 10:31am----4 hours & 3 minutes.

11:34am to 1:37pm----2 hours & 3 minutes.

5:24pm/Pacific Time to 7:27pm----2 hours & 3 minutes.

7:37pm to 8:09pm---1 hour & 32 minutes.

Total hours----9 hours & 39 minutes.

8) Saturday,May 5,2012-----9:40am/Pacific Time to 11:12am

---1 hour & 32 minutes.

12:28pm/Pacific Time to 2:00pm---1 hour & 42 minutes.

11:28pm/Pacific Time to 2:08am----2 hours & 50 minutes.

Total hours----6 hours & 12 minutes.

9) Tuesday,May 1,2012-----10:20pm/Pacific Time to 2:38am---4 hours & 18 minutes.

10) Monday,April 30,2012-----1:08am/Pacific Time to 1:51am----43 minutes.

10:57am/Pacific Time to 12:55pm----1 hour & 58 minutes.

1:09pm to 3:30pm----2 hours & 21 minutes.

4:09pm to 5:18pm----1 hour & 9 minutes.

7:02pm to 7:36pm----34 minutes.

9:34pm to 1:49am-----4 hours & 15 minutes.

Total hours----10 hours & 26 minutes.

11) Sunday,April 29,2012-----12:03am/Pacific Time to 1:55am---1 hour & 52 minutes.

5:33am/Pacific Time to 8:18am-----2 hours & 45 minutes.

11:18am/Pacific Time to 2:36pm----3 hours & 8 minutes.

4:45pm/Pacific Time to 7:42pm-----2 hours & 57 minutes.

7:49pm/Pacific Time to 11:15pm----3 hours & 26 minutes.

Total hours----14 hours & 8 minutes.

12) Saturday,April 28,2012----10:57am/Pacific Time to 12:19pm-----1 hour & 22 minutes.

13) Friday,April 27,2012----11:16pm/Pacific Time to 3:04am----3 hours & 48 minutes.

14) Wednesday,April 25,2010-----2:33am/Pacific Time to 3:19am-----46 minutes.

8:38am/Pacific Time to 10:01am----1 hour & 23 minutes.

9:36pm/Pacific Time to 1:46am---4 hours & 10 minutes.

Total hours----6 hours & 19 minutes.

15) Monday,April 23,2012----9:50am/Pacific Time to 12:14pm----2 hours & 24 minutes.

16) Sunday,April 22,2012----12:28pm/Pacific Time to 12:59pm---31 minutes.

4:18pm/Pacific Time to 5:57pm---1 hour & 39 minutes.

6:30pm to 7:39pm----1 hour & 19 minutes

9:36pm/Pacific Time to 12:32am-----2 hours & 56 minutes.

Total hours----6 hours & 25 minutes.

17) Sunday,April 15,2012-----12:27am/Pacific Time to 1:18am---51 minutes.

9:19am to 9:49am----30 minutes.

4:46pm/Pacific Time to 5:37pm---51 minutes.

Total hours----2 hours & 12 minutes.

18) Saturday,April 14,2012---12:42am/Pacific Time to 1:50am---1 hour & 8 minutes.

7:55am/Pacific Time to 11:45am---3 hours & 50 minutes.

2:36pm/Pacific Time to 4:38pm---2 hours & 2 minutes.

Total hours----7 hours.

19) Tuesday,April 10,2012----2:38am/Pacific Time to 4:31am---1 hour & 53 minutes.

20) Monday,April 9,2012----9:01am/Pacific Time to 12:12pm---3 hours & 11 minutes.

( I am EXHAUSTED !)

21) Sunday,April 8,2012----2:48pm to 5:31pm----2 hours & 43 minutes.

10:46pm/Pacific Time to 1:10am----2 hours & 24 minutes.

Total hours----5 hours & 7 minutes.

22) Saturday,April 7,2012----11:46am/Pacific Time to 1:26pm----1 hour & 40 minutes

3:31pm/Pacific Time to 7:30pm----3 hours & 59 minutes.

7:52pm to 8:05pm----13 minutes.

9:51pm/Pacific Time to 1:12am----3 hours & 21 minutes.

Total hours----9 hours & 13 minutes.

23) Friday,April 6,2012---9:46pm/Pacific Time to 2:07am---4 hours & 21 minutes.

( To give anything LESS than your best is to SACRIFICE the gift---Steve Prefontaine,former world class runner)

1) April 29, 2012---14 Lessons From Benjamin Franklin

About Getting What You Want In Life :

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-29/strategy/31460752_1_movers-and-shakers-action-benjamin-franklin

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-29/strategy/31460752_1_movers-and-shakers-action-benjamin-franklin/2

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Monday,May 14,2012

Dear Fellow,Experienced and Aspiring/Potential

Self-Published Ebook Authors
Worldwide

( from Canada,USA,Europe,Australia,Africa,Asia,etc.)

Hello.

Welcome to the

ebook revolution !!

WHY is it important ??

Ebooks ARE the future of book publishing !!!

( NOT print or paper !!!)

The DIGITAL ebook revolution is helping authors

to become

financially more successful,

FINALLY !!!

( A GREAT starting GOAL for most

for 90% plus of aspiring/potential ebook authors

"the average writer/author"

would be :

to be able to supplement your job's/career's income from

$500 to $3,000 monthly USA funds

and/or

eventually quit your part to full-time,

DREADFUL,drudge,respect-less,mindless,

BORING,micro-managing,heartless

day/night or corporate job

with your 1 to 3 self-published ebooks

on Amazon's Kindle Ebookstore,etc.!!).

The 3 stages of ebook selling on Amazon or KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing),etc. for ebook authors :

Stage 1 (hobby)---Under $500 monthly

Stage 2 (career or sunshine & happiness---earning enough to make it worth my time !!!)---$500 to $2,999 monthly

Stage 3 (serious career---Making or earning a living as an author/writer and/or able to quit your day job.Paying bills AND taking care of family !!!)

---$3,000 monthly or more.

Until ebooks gained SERIOUS traction (9% or greater)

or "USA market percentage"

and took off in 2010

with the rise of the Kindle ebook reader's popularity,

self-publishing a paper/print/legacy book

(not an ebook !!)

in 2009 or earlier

was CLEARLY A DUMB IDEA,delusionary and almost always a financial mistake,

for most (95% plus !!!) authors,

as the negatives of doing so

FAR OUTWEIGHED

all the possible positives !!

( Joe Konrath started self-publishing ebooks on April 8,2009

and made over $600 profit in his FIRST month.

Wow !!!

In December 2009,he made $1,650 in self-pubbing.

On June 30,2010, ebook AUTHOR royalties on Amazon

or KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) went up to 70%

for ebooks from $2.99 to $9.99.

In December 2010, Joe Konrath made over $24,000 self-publishing ebooks.

In January 2011 or ONLY one month later,it was over $40,000 earned from self-pubbing.

Remember,these are MONTHLY figures !!

By January 2012,Joe Konrath was making

OVER $50,000 PER MONTH

with ebooks.

Yes---you read right

---EACH month !!!)

If you want to know more about the ebook revolution,

you WILL find this

VERY informative,interesting,factual,useful

and TOTALLY enlightening

( especially if

YOUR family & friends are

DEEPLY UNSURE & insanely skeptical

about this

ebook self-publishing pursuit and author GOAL

of yours !!!) :

1) The Ebook Revolution Officially And Truly Began On November 19,2007,

And Is The Best & Most Profitable Thing

That EVER Happened To

Quality-Oriented Aspiring And Experienced Ebook Authors

( February 29,2012---The PatrickGannon1938 Blog) !!! :

http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/512100-patrickgannon1938/360951-the-ebook-revolution-officially-and-truly-began-on-november-19-2007-and-is-the-best-most-profitable-thing-that-ever-happened-to-quality-oriented-aspiring-and-experienced-ebook-authors-february-29-2012-the-patrickgannon1938-blog

Joe Konrath is the genuine,reliable,very successful VOICE

of the EBOOK SELF-PUBLISHING movement for authors

because he makes SERIOUS money,

shares or is VERY TRANSPARENT about his ebook sales numbers/income,

and figures it all out in his blog called "A Newbie's Guide To Publishing"

(a public,free forum),with practical "how to" type information.

( Joe Konrath says----Go back to April 2009 and read my blog entries that pertain to ebooks.

It details everything I've done and learned,

and will give you ample info on how to get started e-publishing.

Much success to you.

Read up so you can repeat my successes and avoid my failures.)

HOWEVER (Joe Konrath,April 2009)----You can't please everyone.

Get used to it.

Some people won't like you, your books, or the fact that you're a successful author

and they hate their jobs.

Unhappy people are their own hell, and I feel no need to add to their misery.

Anne Lamott says it nicely here----Don't be afraid of your material or your past.

Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look

and how people see you.

Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and C.E.O. of Amazon.com Inc,

says sales of the Kindle and ebooks

have reached a 'tipping point' (July 2010).

The tipping point---"the moment of critical mass,

the threshold,

the boiling point".

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October 15,2010----Ebooks Rapidly Gaining Market Share Within Total Trade books :

Ebooks NOW are 9% of all ebooks sold in the USA !!---Figures from the conservative Association Of American Publishers and J.P.Morgan's superstar,well known,web anlyst Imran Khan !

( Feb 3, 2011---Credit Suisse Hires JP Morgan's Khan as

Head of Internet Investment Banking :

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-03/credit-suisse-hires-jpmorgan-s-khan-as-head-of-internet-banking.html

AND :

FEBRUARY 2, 2011---As Web IPOs Heat Up,

Prominent Internet Analyst Khan

Jumps From J.P. Morgan

to Banking at Credit Suisse :

http://allthingsd.com/20110202/as-web-ipos-heat-up-prominent-internet-analyst-khan-jumps-from-jp-morgan-to-banking-at-csfb/ )

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( Ebook Sales Versus Titles Available----Note BREAK UP in quantity of books available in 2010.

There was a LARGE jump from about 600,000 ebooks available on the Kindle ebook reader in early 2010 to over 800,000 ebook title by June 21,2010.This is SIMPLY stunning !)

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( Monthly ebook sales from January to December 2010----From $25 million to $50 million in sales range)

According to the VERY,VERY,VERY CONSERVATIVE "Association of American Publishers (AAP)" ebook sales represented 8.32% of the trade book market in 2010 versus 3.20% in 2009.

Quite a BIG LEAP in one year,eh ??!!!

( http://www.publishers.org/about/ )

The AAP figures ALWAYS UNDERSTATE the actual,real world figures as they EXCLUDE all self-published ebooks on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore,the Nook ebookstore,etc.

In other words,the AAP data on eBooks ONLY comes from 16 (or less) publishing houses !!!!!!!!!!!!

( 16 publishing houses in the USA ?

Are you kidding me ?

No !!

Take a look at the April 14,2011 press release from the AAP !!! :

http://www.publishers.org/press/30/ )

( Graph----Actual Reported Sales of Ebooks From 2002 to 2010

----ebook % of Total Trade Books !

TOTAL Ebook sales percentages from 2002 to 2010 in the U.S.A. )

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2010 was THE TURNING OR TIPPING POINT

of the ebook revolution !!

Can i NAME 2 or more things or events

----and PROVIDE DATES

to back up this opinion,statement,etc.,

please ????

Proof !!!

Specifically,the January 20,2010 announcement by Amazon,

followed by the June 30, 2010 implementation !

( When ebook royalties INCREASED from 35%

to 70%

for ebook authors with $2.99 to $9.99 ebooks !!!

Then it

REALLY became WORTH IT to self-publish

on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore

and see what happens financially

or the possible results !!!)

1) A) January 20,2010----Amazon

Announces

New 70 Percent Royalty Option

for Kindle Digital Text Platform,

Enabling Authors and Publishers to Earn More Royalties

from Every Kindle Books Sold :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1376977

B) June 30,2010---70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform

Now Available

---Starting today, authors and publishers can earn MORE royalties

from every Kindle book sold :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1443030

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/30/amazon-introduces-70-royalty-option-for-kindle-digital-text-platform/

http://www.publetariat.com/publish/right-schedule-amazon-changes-arithmetic-publishing-launching-70-percent-royalty-option-kind

Specifically,July 2010 !!

2) A) July 19,2010---Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle EBooks

Than Hardcover Books :

This is astonishing when you consider that we've been selling

hardcover books for 15 years,

and

Kindle ebooks for 33 months.

This is across Amazon.com's entire U.S. book business

and includes sales of hardcover books where there is no Kindle edition.

Free Kindle books are excluded.

Amazon sold more than 3 times as many Kindle books

in the first half of 2010

as in

the first half of 2009.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1449176

http://gizmodo.com/5591083/amazon-paper-books-are-dead-or-something

3) In the USA,ACTUAL ebook reader device

(Kindle,Nook,Ipad # 1,etc.) sales

were 12.8 million units in 2010

versus

ONLY 2.92 million units sold in 2009 !

An explosion of EBOOK reading DEVICE usage !!!

Wow !!

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U.S. ebook reader revenue will exceed $2.5 BILLION by 2013---Estimated total ebook reader device sales in millions from 2009 to 2013

(Yankee Group research----September 2010)

(In other words----Actual ebook reader device sales in 2010

GREATLY EXCEED projections !)

http://www.yankeegroup.com/research/
AND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Group

( Founded in 1970,Yankee Group was the first independent technology research and consulting firm--ever.

As the first independent technology research and consulting firm,

Yankee Group is the most respected source of deep insight and counsel on the impact of the global connectivity revolution

on enterprises and consumers.)

Like the Ipod,Ipad,Netflix,Itunes,etc.,

ebooks and the Kindle ebook reader are

DEFINITIVELY "a DISRUPTIVE technology" !!!

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation )

Friday,July 30,2010---Book publishing: Scary reading

-----Three-quarters of a century after Allen Lane

launched its cheap paperbacks,

publishing faces

another "disruptive technology" :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/31/editorial-publishing-industry-ebooks

As Joe Konrath,

a self-publishing trailblazer and now (2012) over 800,000 ebooks sold author ,

said in December 2010 :

If they were no Kindle or Amazon,

self-pubbing would still be a mistake,

and traditional (print/paper/legacy) publishing would still be the only way to go.

But, happily,

the Kindle and Amazon have made self publishing viable.

My,how times do POSITIVELY change,eh ??!!

( no sarcasm or snarkiness intended,of course !!!)

The ebook publishing life evolves and authors should also !!

(The ebook game has changed and so must you !!)

With the Kindle,etc. ebookstore,the ebook author has a LOT of control,

MUCH MORE than if you signed over your RIGHTS

to a print/legacy/paper book publisher !!

THUS,if your ebook sales are simply mediocre/lousy,you CAN change things

because you are in control !!!

Change what ?????

Change the ebook's cover art

AND/OR

the ebook's title

AND/OR

the ebook's description.

You might even have to do minor tweaks to your ebook

or perhaps just rewrite large portions of it !!

Perhaps you just need to change the ebook genre

and/or write more ebooks ??!!!

( Practice makes perfect

----BUT ONLY if

you study & learn from the best/most experienced/most successful

ebook authors).

The six big publishing houses or "the gatekeepers" control the majority of what people read in mainstream bookstores
such as Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million,etc.

Sadly and APPALLINGLY,

only 6% of PRINT/paper/legacy book authors make a living solely from their writing,

which is NOT surprising considering

the AWFUL book royalties (under 15%) on print/paper books for authors

& the DISGUSTING twice yearly royalty payments,etc. !

Book royalties for print/paper book authors ???

Simply AWFUL !!!

The average FIRST-TIME author gets a book royalty of

10% of the HARDCOVER book price

AND

6% of the PAPERBACK book price.

As Joe Konrath says (2012)--A decade ago, authors were being screwed. They're still being screwed. But now they have a choice, and no longer have to be screwed if they want to write for a living.

( the NEW or 2012 choice or option is SELF-PUBLISHING your ebook on Amazon's KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing,etc.)

Only 6% of all paper,print or legacy book writers/authors can make a living writing paper/print/physical books.

These authors constitute bestselling authors

AND

mid-list ( established but not bestselling) authors.

Believe it or not,94% of all books sold are sold by 6% of authors

(excluding the Bible and the Boy Scout Manual).

Thus,you can ALSO state that 94% of all authors account

FOR ONLY 6% of all books sold

----Yikes !!!

Hey, i want to be in that "CREAM OF THE CROP 6% Of Authors"

( "We are the 6%" ???!!!!).

Only 20% of all paper/print books makes money for the book publisher (while 40% break even and another 40% lose money).

Most PAPER/PRINT/LEGACY writers/authors (94% of them) don't make enough money to quit their day jobs and become full-time writers or live on solely from their writing.

Self-publishing ebooks (through KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing,etc.)

are changing this AWFUL income situation for MOST authors,

with current royalties (May 2012) of 35% to 70% for ebook authors

and MONTHLY author ebook payments,among other great ebook selling benefits !

The ebook author can also set the list price for his ebook,

choose the ebook cover,

choose the TITLE,etc.

To be a successful author,an ebook author

NO LONGER NEEDS the approval of the big 6 publishing houses or "the gatekeepers".

Thankfully,in 2012,the power and control to publish, promote, and sell

are in the ebook author's hands

and not the big 6 gatekeeper's !!

The times, they are a changin',eh ??

Avoid all print,legacy or paper publishers.

The ebook author can do everything they can AND do it MUCH faster,

and you don't have to give away the majority of your royalties/income !

1) Tuesday,April 24,2012----Why trailblazing Amazon should take on the publishing establishment

---Scaremongers who warn of a potential Amazon monopoly

conveniently forget that one already exists

in shape of legacy publishers :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/24/amazon-publishing-establishment-monopoly

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/24/amazon-publishing-establishment-monopoly#start-of-comments

"The Big Six" are,without a doubt, a "Big Waste of Time".

In other words, most ebook authors will meet MUCH less disappointment

and make MORE money

self-publishing their ebooks

than they would endlessly pursuing a big 6 publishing deal or contract !

( However,a BADLY,shoddily or lazily edited & formatted ebook

with a mediocre cover

and poor/weak writing

in a weak,lousy or UNPOPULAR GENRE/topic/area/category

WILL NOT sell !! )

As an SELF-PUBLISHED ebook author,the best price range for an ebook

is between 99 cents and $2.99 for FIRST-EBOOK fiction,

and

$2.99 to $4.99 for FIRST-EBOOK non-fiction !!!

To make $24,000 yearly as an ebook author requires you to sell 1,000 copies per month

OR 33 copies per day

of your ebook priced at $2.99

(keeping approximately 70% for yourself,the ebook author !)

through Amazon's KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing.

To make $30,000 yearly as an ebook author

requires you to sell 1,500 copies per month

OR 50 copies per day

of your ebook priced at $2.99

(keeping approximately 70% for yourself,the ebook author !)

through Amazon's KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing.

1) A) MAY 11, 2012---MAY 11, 2012---Sunshine Coast author Lars Guignard

has published three books on Amazon,

and says

he is making a good living

on ebooks alone. :

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Sunshine+Coast+author+Lars+Guignard+makes+good+money+ebooks/6608222/story.html

aaa) It's possible to make a decent living.

If you write in a popular genre, that people want to read,

I think it's completely reasonable

to make $50,000 or $60,000 a year per title.

And I'm not talking about a big hit,

I'm talking about a book that people want to read.

I'm well on track to making that much.

B) May 11,2012---Amazon has provided the tools that make it possible

for the average writer to make a normal living,

say as much money as a plumber or a bus driver,

without

taking a second job doing the plumbing and driving

as they would have had to in the past.

http://www.larsguignard.com/?p=312

Of course this paradigm shift means that a lot of the people

who

were making money off of the writers efforts,

i.e. traditional publishers,

are seeing their revenue models change

- and that, in a nutshell,

is what

all the screaming and moaning in the publishing business

is really all about

- resisting change :

Let us face it,PRINT/PAPER book stores

ARE DYING,

due to the ebook reader device ,ebooks, AND the ebook revolution.

( The "paper/print book"

model or business

is broken

AND over !!!!!

Technology is killing it

---that is,ebooks and ebook readers !!!)

Print/paper books are DYING

and

so are BOOKSTORES.

Books are going digital !!

Don't believe me ?

Want proof ?

The Ebook Market Share for 4 of the largest book publishers in the USA :

Ebooks are,as of 2011, 12% to 21% of their revenues/sales !

The "Big Six" PAPER/PRINT book publishers are

HarperCollins,Hachette,Macmillan, Penguin,Random House

and Simon & Schuster !!!

(Look at what's happening with the Big 6 book publishers,

who provide MUCH of the PHYSICAL/Paper BOOK content

to the BRICKS AND MORTAR RETAIL STORES

of Barnes & Noble,etc. !!! )

Note---The bell curve (for anything,including ebooks,technology advances,etc.)

usually take off SIGNIFICANTLY/SERIOUSLY at the 35% mark!

At the 35% of revenues (for the Big 6 book publishers) mark,

the INEVITABILITY of ebooks

to the public,bloggers,financial/stock market wizards,etc.

will become CLEARER

and finally accepted !!

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May 2012----The Bell Curve For Ebooks !! :

The stronger ebooks PERFORM over the next few years,

the WORSE print or paper books will perform !!

BOTH cannot (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) succeed together !

Ebooks will cannibalize and REPLACE paper/print bookstores and books !

Ebooks ARE the future----DEFINITELY NOT print or paper books !

Print/paper or "bricks & mortar" bookstore chains

do NOT have much of a future,

ESPECIALLY when ebooks eventually capture at least 35% of the book market !

( PatrickGannon1938---May 2012)

aaa) November 8th, 2011---Ebook Sales now 21% of Hachette Revenue :

(over 20% for Hachette ??

------WOW !!!)

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/11/08/ebook-sales-now-21-of-hachette-revenue/

bbb) November 4th, 2011----Ebook Sales Up at Simon & Schuster

- Now 17% of Revenue :

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/11/04/ebook-sales-up-at-simon-schuster-now-17-of-revenue/

ccc) August 11th, 2011---Ebooks now 12% of sales at HarperCollins :

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/08/11/ebooks-now-12-of-harpercollins/

ddd) July 29th, 2011---Ebooks now 14% of revenues at Penguin :

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/07/29/ebooks-now-14-of-revenues-at-penguin/

eee) Dec. 9, 2011---How Publishers' Digital Revenues Stack Up

---For the first half of 2011,

Random House has over 20% digital or ebook revenue

as a percentage of total book sales :

http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/09/how-publishers-digital-revenues-stack-up/

fff) January 16,2012-----Why e-books will be much bigger
than you can imagine :

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/16/ratcliff-e-books/

ggg) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 2010---

Feedback loops in eBook success :

My contention is that ebooks rise far above 20%,
becoming the dominant book format,
because the logic of ebook success has built-in feedback loops.
You can call it "success breeds success" or "vicious cycles" as you like.
Same idea. :

http://www.librarything.com/blogs/thingology/2010/11/feedback-loops-in-ebook-success/

Of course,the 5 MAJOR keys to ebook author success on Amazon,etc. are

---good to great

writing, editing,ebook covers,ebook descriptions,

and ebook formatting !

How to find a SELF-PUBLISHED ebook on Amazon.com's

"Kindle Store" :

Go to the name of the ebook or ebook's page in the Kindle Store and scroll down the web page to "Product Details".

If there is no area/category called "Publisher", and the area/category "Sold by" displays "Amazon Digital Services", you know that this ebook was self-published by the ebook author via KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing !

Other self-published ebook author clues are :

A) The ebook is under $8.00 in price !

Especially if under $5.00 !

B) The Publisher area shows the name of a company which is run by the author

or it shows a LLC (limited liability company) company.

For example,John Locke's "Telemachus Press LLC"

http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Rachel-Donovan-Creed-ebook/dp/B003CIOQ3Y .

C) There is a name of the ebook author in the "Publisher" area

D) There is no Publisher field in the "product details" area of the ebook.

By the way,

here is an ARCHIVE OF PAST EBOOK BESTSELLERS

in the Amazon Kindle

ebookstore :

( Worth looking at and ANALYZING for ebook success CLUES !!!)

a) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2012-for-kindle-ebooks

b) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2011-for-kindle-ebooks

c) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2010-for-kindle-ebooks

d) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2009-for-kindle-ebooks

e) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2008-for-kindle-ebooks

f) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2007-for-kindle-ebooks

IF you want to SELF-PUBLISH your FIRST ebook

on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore,

here is EXACTLY how to DO it :

A) How to publish on Kindle---Video tutorial

----an overview on publishing a digital book to the Amazon Kindle Store :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2M7MM0UP7PHK0

AND :

B) January 29,2012----How to Publish on Kindle :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flUDeOUvlJ4

( 6 minutes & 35 seconds----16,067 views to Feb.25,2012

49,907 views to May 6,2012)

( This video is unlisted.

Only those with the DIRECT link can see it !)

For the average author

( you ??),

in order to be a VERY SUCCESSFUL

SELF-PUBLISHED ebook author

make a living ($2,500 monthly plus) from it,

you MUST,

as a DRIVEN/AMBITIOUS (non-ordinary !!!) potential/aspiring author,

do the following :

(You must do the following,

apart from your

regular day/night job,parenting time and other life responsibilities !!) :

Special note----Above all,as an ebook author,you should 100% FOCUS

on writing well

AND

learning from other successful/popular/noteworthy

ebook writing/publishing/editing blogs !!!

You MUST have the

"Noble 19"

( What is mandatory for Kindle,etc. ebookstore

or financial success in 2012 and beyond !!)

OR :

1) Write DAILY

or at least 4 to 5 days per week

(at least 15 to 20 hours weekly).

As Louis L'Amour says---Start writing, no matter what.

The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

a) Have a writing schedule---when YOU put it on your calendar, it happens.

It works EXCELLENT !!

If you don't schedule it as part of your day,

you will ALWAYS fill your possible writing time with something else (non-writing !)

or procrastinate.

2) Create a BODY OF WORK---have at least 3 ebooks self-published

on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore !

Just keep writing,

to achieve that.

3) Rule One:Write a good book !

(What is good writing or a good ebook ??).

It must be VERY enjoyable,interesting,entertaining, informative,enlightening,

as well as being USEFUL & HELPFUL (if non-fiction),

among many other things,

including having the proper spelling,correct

grammar (putting the right words in the right order),etc.

As Joe Konrath says----at the end of the day,

the one thing that truly matters is writing a good story.

Because without that,there is nothing to sell.

A good fiction or non-fiction ebook author is a good storyteller !

Great writing COUNTS !

Write well or be NON-boring.

Thou Shall Not Be Boring---The # 1 ebook author WRITING commandment !

(PatrickGannon1938----Sunday,April 29,2012).

4) Write at least 1 to 2 ebooks per year.

( If you are NOT a particularly fast writer/author)

I can easily write four books per year

(Joe Konrath---October 2009).

Joe Konrath writes at 750 words per hour !

a) By the way,if you are curious,

here are the 5 stages of TYPING/Word Processing SPEED

on your computer,notebook,laptop

or iPad :

A) You are a VERY FAST ebook author or writer----50 to 80 words per minute.

B) You are a DECENTLY FAST ebook author or writer----40 to 49 words per minute.

C) You are a MODERATELY FAST ebook author or writer-----30 to 39 words per minute.

This should be your MINIMUM goal of typing proficiency if you want to be a full-time ebook author

who writes 1 to 3 bestsellers in his/her career or over a 10 year writing period !!

D) You are a SLOW ebook author or writer----23 to 29 words per minute

E) You are a VERY SLOW ebook author or writer-----22 words or less per minute.

5) Write at least 15 to 20 hours weekly,

at 750 to 1,500 words per hour.

( Stephen King writes at

a 340 to 430 words per hour rate !!!)

A) You are an EXTREMELY/Insanely/Ferrari FAST (!!!) ebook author or writer if you can write/complete 800 to 935 words per hour.

Don't expect that level of writing speed performance

unless you do these 8 things below :

# 1) you have at LEAST a couple years (or at least 2,000 hours) of writing experience ,

# 2) are highly focused,

# 3) know your subject/topic VERY WELL (or have lots of experience in that topic/subject ),

# 4) eat well/protein before writing (protein shake or smoothie BEFORE writing is ideal)

# 5) use great writing software (the right TOOLS).

# 6) have read at least 3 ebooks on

how to write well !

# 7) have outlined your ebook (know WHAT you want to cover BEFORE you write the very first word !!).

Ideal is creating a chapter title AND a chapter sub-title for each chapter of your upcoming or FIRST ebook

on Amazon,etc.

# 8) Have mind-mapped each chapter as well !

Mind maps can be used for PLANNING the writing of your first ebook

and

to enhance your ebook writing creativity.

Basically,mind-mapping can tell,show or guide you 5 to 15 things that you want EACH chapter of your ebook to cover !!

You will never be stuck for ebook content ideas again !

Mind-mapping helps you manage ideas effectively !

6) USE PROFESSIONAL ebook formatters,editors and covers.

( As of 2012,

you can EASILY get all 3 done for under $1,000 USA funds

per one ebook !!!!!).

Do NOT do it yourself---no matter HOW AWESOME

your computer & graphic skills.

Why add MAJOR STRESS to your WRITING LIFE

by doing

your OWN editing,formatting and covers

for your ONE or first ebook ???!!!

Leave the TIME-WASTING,BORING,tedious,difficult or onerous work

of editing,covers and formatting

to EXPERIENCED ebook professionals

you will get easily discouraged AND highly stressed

by the EBOOK SELF-PUBLISHING process !!

Why SELF-SABOTAGE yourself ???

7) Publish through KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing.

Amazon is where you may reach your largest audience of potential readers,

so you should first focus on publishing on Kindle Direct Publishing !

( https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin ).

Choose the RIGHT or MOST POPULAR ebook selling platform or ebookstore (Amazon,etc.) to sell your ebook

----instead of on your blog,website

or other MINOR ebookstore retailers !

For new,aspiring & experienced ebook authors

----Why Amazon's KDP or the Kindle ebookstore ??

Many OUTSTANDING & logical reasons !! :

( 8 SOLID reasons below !!!)

# 1---MEGA loved by the Google search engine

# 2---Real-time author sales for YOUR particular ebook !

# 3---VERY quick author payments ( once monthly),

# 4---Amazing Amazon sales algorithms,

# 5---EASY & 100% free self-publishing,

# 6---High ebook AUTHOR royalties/profits

(35% on ebooks from 99 cents to $2.98

and

70% on ebooks from $2.99 to $9.99)

# 7---"If you can make it there (on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore) you can make it anywhere"

( not that you want to OR need to !).

# 8---Largest ebook reader audience !

If you want as an ebook author to catch FISH (readers),

go where (Amazon Kindle ebookstore)

they are biting !

I think most ebook authors should focus ONLY on the bigger ebookstores

and NOT waste their PRECIOUS/VALUABLE time

on INEFFECTIVELY selling

their ebook

through other UNPOPULAR or low traffic sales channels,

including their own blog,website,minor ebook retailers,etc.!!

However,to EACH THEIR OWN !!

In other words,a potential BESTSELLING EBOOK AUTHOR

(You ??!!!!!!!)

should try to-----FOCUS your efforts & time

WHERE the greatest RESULTS & REWARDS are !!

No one is getting YOUNGER,

including myself (and yourself,etc.) !!

( you have a LIMITED time on Earth,

so you should MAXIMIZE your time,resources,energy,results/money & efforts )!

8) Have an interesting,appealing,enjoyable,clever or good

"author biography"

on Amazon Author Central.

( https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/landing?ie=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0 )

Here are 16 examples of

MAJOR bestselling ebook authors :

( All these ebook authors make $2,000

to $50,000 MONTHLY from their ebooks !!!)

a) http://www.amazon.com/J.A.-Konrath/e/B000BCH4EM

b) http://www.amazon.com/Blake-Crouch/e/B001H6U8X0

c) http://www.amazon.com/Barry-Eisler/e/B001IQXSUE

d) http://www.amazon.com/Vincent-Zandri/e/B001KDTLE2

e) http://www.amazon.com/Lindsay-Buroker/e/B004FSRHUE

f) http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Wesley-Smith/e/B000APCDJ6

g) http://www.amazon.com/Zoe-Winters/e/B002BOD2JE

h) http://www.amazon.com/David-Gaughran/e/B004YWUS6Q

i) http://www.amazon.com/Karen-McQuestion/e/B003F6K1M8

J) http://www.amazon.com/Lexi-Revellian/e/B0042FM89U

k) http://www.amazon.com/L.-J.-Sellers/e/B002BODCX0

L) http://www.amazon.com/Imogen-Rose/e/B0035Z3ZPO

m) http://www.amazon.com/Michael-J.-Sullivan/e/B002BOJ41O

n) http://www.amazon.com/Darcie-Chan/e/B005418JT4

o) http://www.amazon.com/Kristine-Kathryn-Rusch/e/B000AP60YK

p) http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-Hocking/e/B003H4L762

9) Have a GREAT sample chapter.

To read ONE sample or free chapter from any Kindle ebook

from the Kindle ebookstore,

you must FIRST download a Kindle app,

like from here :

a) http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311

b) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000425503

c) http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_mac_ln_ar?docId=1000464931

d) http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

10) Have a KILLER ebook description.

A great ebook (story) description

( WHY i should buy your fiction or non-fiction ebook ??!)

a) Read the "product description" and "book description" for the ebook "The List" by J.A.Konrath,for example :

http://www.amazon.com/The-List-ebook/dp/B00267T89E

b) Read the "product description" and "book description" for the ebook "Origin" by J.A.Konrath,for example :

http://www.amazon.com/Origin-ebook/dp/B00264FT0Y

c) Read the "product description" ("book description") for the ebook "Trapped" by J.A.Konrath (or Jack Kilborn),for example :

LOVE this book description---simply terrifying !

http://www.amazon.com/Trapped-ebook/dp/B003TFESNS

11) Learn about EBOOK marketing,ebook promotion,

and social media (Twitter,Facebook,Youtube)

for authors/bloggers.

( like from these EBOOK self-publishing EDUCATORS/bloggers/authors,

such as

"A Newbie's Guide To Publishing"/Joe Konrath,

Barry Eisler,

Lindsay Buroker,

Dean Wesley Smith,

David Gaughran,

Kristine Kathryn Rusch,

The Passive Voice (The Passive Guy),

Zoe Winters,

An American Editor,

Nathan Bransford,

Steven Lewis,

L.J.Sellers,

Catherine Ryan Howard,

J.F. or Joanna Penn,

Debbi Mack,

Guido Henkel,

Derek Canyon,

Michael A. Stackpole,

Kevin O. McLaughlin,

Michael R.Hicks,

Nate Hoffelder and The Digital Reader,

Vincent Zandri,

etc. !!)

Have some knowledge and use of social media (Twitter & Facebook).

Start a ONCE WEEKLY blog on ebook publishing,writing,etc.

Connect with ebook review blogs,etc.

12) Have or set a good INITIAL price for your FIRST ebook

----99 cents to $3.99 for fiction ebooks

and

99 cents to $7.99 for non-fiction ebooks.

( Non-fiction ebooks over $5.00

should be AT LEAST 150 pages long

and of VERY high quality,

with ONLY PROFESSIONALLY DONE

ebook covers,formatting AND editing !!!).

Above all,experiment with EBOOK pricing,

to MAXIMIZE monthly ebook income/royalties !

13) READ DAILY !!!

As Stephen King says----Can I be blunt on this subject ?

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life.

Learn from other successful/popular/the best/noteworthy

ebook writing and publishing blogs :

LOVE reading (!!!) these bloggers and/or ebook authors :

a) "A Newbie's Guide To Publishing"/Joe Konrath,

b) Barry Eisler,

c) Lindsay Buroker,

d) Dean Wesley Smith,

e) David Gaughran,

f) Kristine Kathryn Rusch,

g) The Passive Voice (The Passive Guy),

h) Zoe Winters,

i) An American Editor,

J) Nathan Bransford,

k) Steven Lewis,

L) L.J.Sellers,

m) Catherine Ryan Howard,

n) J.F. or Joanna Penn,

o) Debbi Mack,

p) Guido Henkel,

q) Derek Canyon,

r) Michael A. Stackpole,

s) Kevin O. McLaughlin,

t) Michael R.Hicks,

u) Nate Hoffelder and The Digital Reader,

v) Vincent Zandri

etc. !!

14) Don't get discouraged !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

---it takes TIME,ENERGY & EFFORT

to become a GREAT or best-selling ebook author.

How about this for

INSPIRATION DAILY :

What ebook author beginners (and experienced writers too !!)

should KNOW

from day one of their ebook writing :

( Ira Glass/Karen McQuestion)

15) Choose the RIGHT or MOST POPULAR genres,topics or subjects to write about !

If you choose an UNPOPULAR,disgusting,gross and/or

stupid ebook topic,

then you DON'T BE SURPRISED that your ebook

is ONLY selling 50 or less copies PER MONTH !!

Unpopular topics will sell A LOT LESS

than popular topics/genres !

16) LEARN HOW TO-----Write well !!

How ??

From the MASTERS at it !!!

As Stephen King says----Can I be blunt on this subject?

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life.

A) April 30,2012----The PatrickGannon1938 Guide to the 11 best ebooks (and books)

on HOW TO WRITE WELL !!! :

( Hey,its Christmas in April !!!)

Above all,write a good book !! :

Your writing MUST BE very enjoyable or quite interesting,entertaining,

enlightening,useful and/or helpful,

if you want to make decent to GREAT money from your ebook or ebooks !!

To BECOME a MUCH better writer

you MUST read books and ebooks

on how to write well !!

( most writers would be better off learning the WRITING craft

and mastering it than doing other things)

How about reading these 11 ebooks

(and paper,old-fashioned books) ???

( PLEASE read them if FINANCIAL SUCCESS

is important to you in 2012

and beyond !!!

Writing ebooks is

certainly NOT

a hobby for me !!!) :

Note----Customer reviews count for each ebook/book

are as of early April 2012 !!!

# 1) a) Ebook---The Anatomy of Story:

22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

[Kindle Edition] :

($9.99 USA funds---468 pages )

(51 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Anatomy-Story-Storyteller-ebook/dp/B0052Z3M8A

b) John Truby :

http://www.amazon.com/John-Truby/e/B001JSAFDY

# 2) a) Ebook---On Writing

[Kindle Edition] :

( $12.99 USA funds---320 pages )

(1,080 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/On-Writing-ebook/dp/B000FC0SIM

b) Stephen King :

http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-King/e/B000AQ0842

# 3) a) Ebook---The War of Art

[Kindle Edition] :

( Notice THE title---it DOESN"T say "The Art of War" !!)

( $9.99 USA funds----192 pages)

(324 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-War-of-Art-ebook/dp/B007A4SDCG

b) Steven Pressfield :

http://www.amazon.com/Steven-Pressfield/e/B000AQ8R8Q

# 4) a) Ebook---Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

(Shambhala Library)

[Kindle Edition] :

( $8.52 USA funds---260 pages )

(210 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Down-Bones-Shambhala-ebook/dp/B003ZSISIU

b) Natalie Goldberg :

http://www.amazon.com/Natalie-Goldberg/e/B000AP7I9G

# 5) a) Paper/Print Book---Stein On Writing:

A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers

of Our Century

Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

[Paperback] :

( $10.69 USA funds---320 pages)

(83 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Stein-Writing-Successful-Techniques-Strategies/dp/0312254210

b) Sol Stein :

http://www.amazon.com/Sol-Stein/e/B000AQ27H8

# 6) a) Paper/Print Book---The Courage to Write:

How Writers Transcend Fear

[Paperback] :

( $9.85 USA funds---224 pages )

(44 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Courage-Write-Writers-Transcend/dp/0805074678

b) Ralph Keyes :

http://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Keyes/e/B001IOF5ES

# 7) a) Ebook---Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

[Kindle Edition] :

( $11.99 USA funds---274 pages )

(428 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-ebook/dp/B000SEGI8Q

b) Anne Lamott :

http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Lamott/e/B000APMU80

# 8) a) Paper/Print Book---Zen in the Art of Writing:

Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

[Mass Market Paperback] :

( $3.51 to $25.90 USA funds---158 pages)

(60 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Writing-Releasing-Creative/dp/0553296345

b) Ray Bradbury :

http://www.amazon.com/Ray-Bradbury/e/B000AQ1HW4

# 9) a) Paper/Print Book---The Writers Journey:

Mythic Structure for Writers,

3rd Edition

[Paperback] :

( $17.79 USA funds---300 pages )

(218 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Journey-Structure-Edition/dp/193290736X

b) Christopher E. Vogler :

http://www.amazon.com/Christopher-E.-Vogler/e/B000ARC2YU

# 10) a) Ebook---The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

[Kindle Edition] :

( $12.99 USA funds---258 pages )

( 79 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Right-Write-Invitation-ebook/dp/B002JF1N2S

b) Julia Cameron :

http://www.amazon.com/Julia-Cameron/e/B000AQ2R2S

# 11) a) Ebook----The Newbie's Guide to Publishing

(Everything A Writer Needs To Know)

[Kindle Edition] :

( $2.99 USA funds------1,420 pages estimated )

(31 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Newbies-Publishing-Everything-Writer-ebook/dp/B003I6496Y

b) J. A. Konrath :

http://www.amazon.com/J.A.-Konrath/e/B000BCH4EM

# 12) Free Kindle EBOOK Apps---Read Ebooks On Your Phone,

Tablet Computer

Or Desktop/Laptop/Notebook Computer :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

The Last Word :

What a GREAT selection of 11 ebooks/books

on how to write a bestselling ebook in 2012

and beyond,eh ???

17) Use great writing software (the right TOOLS).

May 2012----The PatrickGannon1938 guide to

the 3 best free versions

of writing software

to write your FIRST ebook,

that are comparable to or better than Microsoft Word 2003,

would be:

ZenWriter ,

EverNote ,

and

yWriter5, for Windows PC's or personal computers.

18) Have outlined your ebook (know WHAT you want to cover

BEFORE you write the very first word !!).

Ideal is creating a chapter title AND a chapter sub-title for each chapter of your upcoming or FIRST ebook

on Amazon,etc.

19) You use MIND-Mapping for all the 10 to 20 chapters of your FIRST ebook.

Have mind-mapped each chapter as well !

Mind maps can be used for PLANNING the writing of your first ebook

and

to enhance your ebook writing creativity.

Basically,mind-mapping can tell,show or guide you 5 to 15 things that you want EACH chapter of your ebook to cover !!

You will never be stuck for ebook content ideas again !

Mind-mapping helps you manage ideas effectively !

A) May 05, 2010---Bulletproof of Mind Mapping----Overview, Benefits, Tips and Tools :

http://aext.net/2010/05/mind-mapping-overview-benefits-tips-and-tools/

B) Aug 6th, 2008---10 reasons why mind mapping software should be

the foundation of your personal productivity system :

http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/10-reasons-productivity/

C) August 7,2007---What is Mind Mapping? (and How to Get Started Immediately) :

http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/

D) The Power of Mind Mapping

---How to Use Mind Maps to Boost Your Creativity,Achieve Faster Success, Greater Results,

and Develop Winning Ideas at the Speed of Thought :

http://www.mapyourmind.com/ebook.pdf

( 27 pages !!!)

E) April 5,2012---What are the benefits of mindmapping ? :

http://workplaceprosperity.com/2012/04/05/what-are-the-benefits-of-mindmapping/

F) April 11,2012--- How to make a mindmap? (Part 1 of 3) :

http://workplaceprosperity.com/2012/04/11/how-to-make-a-mindmap-part-1-of-3/

G) April 11, 2012---How to make a mindmap? (Part 2 of 3) :

http://workplaceprosperity.com/2012/04/11/how-to-make-a-mindmap-part-2-of-3/

H) April 11, 2012---How to make a mindmap? (Part 3 of 3) :

http://workplaceprosperity.com/2012/04/11/how-to-make-a-mindmap-part-3-of-3/

I) March 1,2012---Which is the best mindmapping software ? :

The right type for 10 different kinds of mindmap users :

http://www.informationtamers.com/WikIT/index.php?title=Which_is_the_best_mindmapping_software%3F

J) February 5,2012---The Best Mind Mapping Software

---Mindjet MindManager plus iMindMap,MindMaple,and XMind.

During the past 10 years, I had the opportunity to

test out just about every mind mapping software available on the market.

Below you will find my 4 favorite picks. :

http://fluentbrain.com/blog/the-best-mind-mapping-software/

K) Great 100% free digital or mind-mapping software :

iMindMap 5 Features List---The Basic or free option and its features :

iMindMap Basic is our FREE Mind Mapping software which will get you Mind Mapping quickly and easily.

A simple tool to help you start thinking in a clear and creative way,

iMindMap Basic uses a process that has been enhancing the way people think for decades.

iMindMap Basic is completely free for life

and is a great starter package for those who want to start exploring the uses of Mind Mapping for free.

Get started for FREE today.

http://www.thinkbuzan.com/se/products/imindmap/basic

http://www.thinkbuzan.com/se/products/imindmap/features

L) Great 100% free digital or mind-mapping software :

XMind 3.2----Free

---The world's coolest brainstorming and mind mapping software and the best way to share ideas :

http://www.xmind.net/

http://download.cnet.com/XMIND/3000-2076_4-10838873.html

M) Great 100% free digital or mind-mapping software :

Edraw MindMap Free Version 6.3 (freeware) :

Free Mind Mapping Software :

http://www.edrawsoft.com/freemind.php

http://www.edrawsoft.com/download.php

http://download.cnet.com/Edraw-Mind-Map/3000-18509_4-197599.html

N) Great 100% free digital or mind-mapping software

---For your iPad,iPhone or iPod Touch :

SimpleMind--Free and paid version !!!

A Mind mapping tool,app or software that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch

into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/simplemind+-mind-mapping/id305727658?mt=8

O) July 22,2010----How I use a mind map to build stories :

http://writeforyourlife.net/mind-maps-stories

P) How to mind-map your first EBOOK novel

---2 great examples :

Use Characters,Events,Plot,Settings,Themes and Timeline as your major

headings or BUBBLE topics for your first ebook :

Mindmap # 1 :

(click to enlarge)

( Courtesy of I.Broome)

Mindmap # 2 :

(click to enlarge)

In Ebooks I Trust,

PatrickGannon1938,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada.

Long live the ebook revolution !

Why self-publish your ebook on Amazon ??

Amazon offers ebook author royalties of 35% for ebooks from 99 cents to $2.98

and

70% from $2.99 to $9.99.

Many reasons,including that,

as of January 2012,

Amazon has AT LEAST 60% of the ebook market share in the USA

while

Barnes & Noble has a 27% market share in the USA.

( January 29,2012----The Bookstore's Last Stand :

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/business/barnes-noble-taking-on-amazon-in-the-fight-of-its-life.html?pagewanted=all )

April 11,2012 (Jana Partners,a New York City,New York,USA based hedge fund manager) :

----"The Nook eReader is the hidden asset of Barnes & Noble (BKS).

Nook is the #2 player in the eBook market with 25% market share

behind

Amazon at 65% market share.

(iPad, Kobo, and others share the remaining 10%)."

( http://www.marketfolly.com/2012/05/janas-investment-thesis-on-barnes-noble.html )

If you don't really understand it,

just know that the ebook revolution is

DEVICE DRIVEN

(with ebook readers,like the Kindle,Nook,Kobo Touch,Ipad3,etc.).

These reading devices have greatly helped

JUMPSTARTED and accelerated the popularity of ebooks !!

(click to enlarge)

( The ebook is replacing

the 500 year technology of PRINT/PAPER books ! )

( What a Kindle ebook reader

looks like !!)

The physical book is

becoming the DIGITAL book or ebook !!

(Jeff Bezos in November 2007---Books aren't dead,

they are just going DIGITAL !!!)

( Jeff Bezos----Chief Executive Officer/CEO of Amazon.com Inc. )

( Magazine cover of Newsweek Magazine on

---Monday,November 19,2007 !!!)

Want to read the ENTIRE article

behind this cover ??

Oh my,HOW MUCH has changed EBOOK-WISE
since those 4 years & 5 months ago !

1) November 17, 2007---The Future of Reading
----Amazon's Jeff Bezos already built a better bookstore.
Now he believes he can improve upon one of humankind's
most divine creations:
the book itself. :

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/11/17/the-future-of-reading.print.html

( If you wish to know MORE about Jeff Bezos,

Just look here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos )

(Here lies the PHYSICAL ebook---Rest in peace in 2015 ?)

( Photo courtesy of Closed Stacks blog)

Jeff Bezos profile :

http://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/

As of March 2012,Jeff Bezos was 48 years old

and was a self-made billionaire,

with a net worth of $18.4 billion.

He lives in Seattle,Washington,USA

and has 4 children.

( In October 2006,

he was worth ONLY $4.3 billion.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/RYMV.html

Since he only QUADRUPLED his net worth over the

last 6 years,

you can OBVIOUSLY tell

he is NOT a visionary

NOR

is he a VERY SMART man,

eh ???

Har-har !!!)

https://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=660463&startdate=Mar+1%2C+2012&enddate=Mar+31%2C+2012

( Net worth dates for Jeff Bezos

and stock price then :

Amazon.com, Inc. stock prices from March 1 to 31,2012

were from a low of $178.04 to a high of $207.00 per share !)

(Fortune Magazine---2009---Jeff Bezos and Amazon's NEXT (ebook) revolution !)

( The magazine covers THE EBOOK REVOLUTION !!!)

a) May 26,2009

( Remember,this is ONLY 18 months AFTER the introduction

of the REVOLUTIONARY ebook reader device

called the Kindle on November 19,2007 !!!)

----Amazon's next revolution

---CEO Jeff Bezos used the web to shake up book retailing.

Now he's using the Internet

to sell electronic books on his Kindle e-reader.

A look at Amazon's latest effort to transform the book business,

with digital.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/26/technology/obrien_kindle.fortune/

http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/26/technology/obrien_kindle.fortune/index2.htm

The Kindle Keyboard ebook reader :

( Steve Jobs and the VERY revolutionary iPad # 1 !!!)

(click to enlarge)

( http://www.isuppli.com/About/Pages/Default.aspx )

Don't think the Ipad # 1 was and is REVOLUTIONARY ?

How about some NUMBERS or facts & figures ??!!!

1) February 14, 2012----Tablet Sales Will Blow Past PC (personal computer) Sales

To Nearly 500 Million Units A Year By 2015 :

a) http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-14/tech/31057828_1_tablet-sales-post-pc-era-lower-prices

b) Global Internet Device Sales--The STUNNING/SHOCKING growth of tablet computers versus smartphones and personal computers from 2000 to 2011 :

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4eea73c9ecad04011a000002-400/global-internet-device-sales.jpg

2) March 8, 2012---The e-reader market is dominated by only three brands:

Apple's iPad,

Barnes & Noble's Nook

and Amazon's Kindle. :

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/e-book-readership-grows-but-will-e-reader-device-sales-grow-too/71165

3) Simply SHOCKING and almost unbelievable fact

(little known to MOST people in May 2012 ) !!! :

Since the launch of the iPad in April 2010,

Apple has sold at least 55 million iPad's

to date (December 31,2011).

Apple Inc expects that total to break 100 million Ipads sold by 2012 year end !!

4) a) Simply SHOCKING and almost unbelievable fact

(little known to MOST people in May 2012 ) !!! :

March 3,2012---Apple expected to sell 100 millionth iPad

this year :

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-03/apple-ipad-sales/53344970/1

b) MARCH 16, 2012---Apple's New iPad Costs at Least $316 to Build, IHS iSuppli Teardown Shows :

http://allthingsd.com/20120316/apples-new-ipad-costs-at-least-316-to-build-ihs-isuppli-teardown-shows/

5) February 16,2012----For the entire year of 2011, Apple shipped 40.5 million iPads and iPad 2's or up 168% from 2010.

For the entire year of 2010, Apple shipped 15.1 million iPads.

As of December 31,2011,globally(units-wise),Apple had a 62% market share in "media tablets" or tablet computers.

http://www.isuppli.com/Display-Materials-and-Systems/News/Pages/Apples-Toughest-Competition-in-the-Fourth-Quarter-Tablet-Market-Was-Apple.aspx

(Amazon's "Kindle Fire" color tablet computer is third worldwide as of 2011 year-end with a 6% market share GLOBALLY !

The Kindle Fire is only available in the USA,

while the iPad and other tablets are available globally !!!)

6) March 7,2012---Apple has sold more than 55 million iPads since its debut on April 3, 2010.

Here's the breakdown by quarter (3 month periods):

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57392622/number-of-ipads-sold-by-apple-by-quarter/

7) Wednesday, March 7th, 2012----Apple Sold More iPads In Q4

Than Any Single Manufacturer

Sold PC (personal computer) Devices :

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/07/apple-sold-more-ipads-in-q4-than-any-single-pc-manufacturer/

8) March 9,2012---Why the new iPad is Revolutionary and not Evolutionary :

http://www.runthereset.com/2012/03/why-new-ipad-is-revolutionary-and-not.html

9) April 10,2012---Apple iPad to dominate tablet market 'into 2016'

----Apple's iPad will dominate the tablet computing market for years to come,

according to the latest analysis from Gartner. :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9195625/Apple-iPad-to-dominate-tablet-market-into-2016.html

10) A) May 9,2012---Apple Inc has 68.58% institutional ownership :

There are 1,873 Institutional Holders,with 641 million or 641,310,505 Total Shares Held :

The 3 LARGEST holders of Apple stock are FMR LLC,VANGUARD GROUP INC and STATE STREET CORP,

with about 35 million to 50 million shares held each.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/institutional-holdings

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/institutional-holdings?page=2

B) May 9,2012---Amazon.com has 66.71% Institutional Ownership.

There are 896 Institutional Holders,with 300 million or 300,543,677 Total Shares Held.

The 3 largest shareholders are CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS,

PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ (of Maryland,USA)

and FMR LLC,with approximately 15 to 21 million shares held each.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/institutional-holdings

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/institutional-holdings?page=2

( FISHER ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC is the 27th largest shareholder of Amazon,by the way.

Billionaire Ken Fisher profile---- http://www.forbes.com/profile/ken-fisher/)

11) A) January 27, 2010---Apple Launches iPad---Magical & Revolutionary Device at an Unbelievable Price :

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27Apple-Launches-iPad.html

B) April 5, 2010---Apple Sells Over 300,000 iPads First Day :

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/05Apple-Sells-Over-300-000-iPads-First-Day.html

12) The Top 5 tablet computers worldwide :

( as of December 31,2011)

A) Notice that the

top 3 tablet computers are larger,

at 10 inches approximately,

and the other 2 tablets

are in the 7 inches range !!!

B) The Apple tablet (Ipad 3) is 9.50 inches TALL

by 7.31 inches WIDE.

( http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ ).

C) Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is 6.9 inches tall

by 10.1 inches wide.

D) Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime (32GB, gray) is 7.1 inches TALL

by 10.3 inches WIDE.

E) Amazon and Barnes & Noble have 11%

of the worldwide 2011 year-end market share

for tablet computers

and they are SMALLER tablets,

at 7 inches approximate :

(this is too big a market to ignore by Apple Inc.

and it will LIKELY grow in percentage

over the next few years.

Thus,is an Ipad-mini or 7 inch iPad in the future

or down the road ???

Yes.)

F) Amazon Kindle Fire is 7.5 inches TALL

and 4.7 inches wide.

G) Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet (16GB) is 8.1 inches TALL

by 5 inches WIDE.

13) March 16, 2012---When will the iPad replace desktops ?
---While an iPad can't replace a desktop system today,

it will be able to - for the vast majority of users - in 5 years.

Not only possible, but inevitable.

Here's how. :

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/when-will-the-ipad-replace-desktops/1631

14) A) March 14,2012---iPad 2 vs. 'iPad 3': Should You Keep Your Old iPad Or Buy A New One ? :
5 great "If you..." reasons to upgrade :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/ipad-2-vs-ipad-3-decision-to-buy_n_1339483.html

B) March 7,2012---IPad Features----11 Things You Need To Know About Apple's New Tablet :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/ipad-features-specs_n_1327530.html

C) March 27,2012---iPad 3---Five Things Your New iPad Won't Tell You :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/ipad-3-cost-e-book-glass-screen_n_1380626.html

D) March 26,2012----Can an iPad Replace a Laptop? (2012 Edition)---

For the first time, I would say yes... at least for most people

---If the iPad has come this far in just two years,

where will be after another two (years) ?

Maybe by then the laptop conundrum will be null and void,

and the only question will be whether you need anything other than a tablet. :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-shanklin/ipad-vs-laptop_b_1374458.html

15) a) JANUARY 14, 2012---Tapping in to our intuitive side

---While tablets such as Apple's iPad are far from ubiquitous and haven't yet posed a threat to laptops,

they are increasingly having an impact on the way we live, learn, play and do business :

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Tapping+intuitive+side/5996652/story.html

b) October 13, 2011---1-year-old thinks a magazine is a broken iPad

---In a YouTube video, a child tries to push the non-existent buttons on a magazine

as if it was touch-screen enabled. :

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20120086-71/1-year-old-thinks-a-magazine-is-a-broken-ipad/

c) October 6,2011----A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work :

For my 1 year old daughter,a magazine is an iPad that does NOT work.

---It will remain so FOR HER WHOLE LIFE.

---Steve Jobs (of Apple Inc) has coded a part of her OS (operating system),

apparently :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk

( 1 minute & 26 seconds---3,690,786 views to May 14,2012)

16) A) May 3, 2012---Ebook Consumers Say Yes to Tablets, Says BISG Study

---Ebook consumers' preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly

as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity,

according to the Book Industry Study Group's (BISG)

closely watched

"Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading" survey. :

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/Ebook-Consumers-Say-Yes-to-Tablets-Says-BISG-Study-82396.asp

aaa) Only over the course of just 6 months,

consumers' "first choice" preference for dedicated e-readers, such as those from Amazon and Barnes & Noble,

declined from 72% to 58%.

Tablet devices are now the most preferred reading device for more than 24% of ebook buyers,

up from less than 13% in August 2011.

Further, the increase in tablet preference was not primarily for Apple's iPad (which rose by more than 1%),

but for non-Apple tablets-overwhelmingly from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

These non-Apple devices increased from 5% to 14% over the same period.

B) Monday,April 30,2012----E-Book Consumers Say "Yes" to Tablets, says BISG Study

---Dedicated e-readers are losing their hold,

PAVING the way for publishers to introduce richer e-book content

on multi-function devices :

http://www.bisg.org/news-5-752-press-releasee-book-consumers-say-yes-to-tablets-says-bisg-study.php

17) A) May 4,2012---Number of KINDLE FIRE tablets

sold to date ?? :

According to NPD's Consumer Tracking Service,

the Kindle Fire actually sold

(there is that word again, this time properly used)

1.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012.

Looking back in Q4 2011,

NPD's Consumer Tracking Service counted 3.8 million Kindle Fire's sold during the holiday period.

http://www.npdgroupblog.com/2012/05/shipments-are-not-sales/

B) http://www.npdgroupblog.com/about-us/

The NPD Group, founded in 1967,

is the leading global provider of consumer and retail market research information for a wide range of industries.)

C) The Kindle Fire was released on November 15,2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle_Fire

D) Kindle Fire "small TABLET" (7 inches) sales of 5.6 million units

from November 15,2011 to March 31,2012

in 4 1/2 months !!

Simply ASTOUNDING !!

E) Amazon's business strategy is to make money on the selling of digital content (ebooks,etc.) on the Kindle Fire, rather than through the device itself !

ANY analysis (!!!) that might indicate the Fire is losing ground in the TABLET WARS/competition/market

is fundamentally flawed, especially since

the Kindle Fire is only through two quarters (or only 4 1/2 months !!!)

of its product life.

( a NEW product !)

18) A) Apple Inc stock price over the last 10 years :

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/stock-chart?intraday=off&timeframe=10y

B) Apple Inc stock performance,

within the last 5 years

or
from May 1,2007 to May 1,2012 :

( http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/stock-chart?intraday=off&timeframe=5y )

a) First time Apple Inc stock hit $200 per share

---December 14,2007

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Dec+1%2C+2007&enddate=Dec+31%2C+2007

b) Apple Inc stock DROPS DRAMATICALLY during the recession of December 2007

to June 2009.

How much ???

During the recession of 2007 to 2009 Apple Inc stock drops $124.76 per share

or only 61% from its pre-recession high.

Apple stock drops from $202.96 on December 27,2007

to $78.20 per share

by January 20,2009

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Jan+1%2C+2009&enddate=Jan+31%2C+2009

c) Last recession dates in the USA :

http://www.nber.org/cycles/dec2008.pdf

and :

http://www.nber.org/cycles/sept2010.html

OR :

http://www.nber.org/cycles.html

d) First time Apple Inc stock hit $100 per share

(after its recession low price !!)

---March 19,2009

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Mar+1%2C+2009&enddate=Mar+31%2C+2009

e) First time Apple Inc stock hit $200 per share

(after its recession low price !!)

---October 20,2009

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Oct+1%2C+2009&enddate=Oct+31%2C+2009

f) March 5,2010---Why Apple Inc. Is Going To $300 Plus In 2010

and $400 Plus In 2011

---Quick Primer On This Stock and 2010 Market Conditions

-----The PatrickGannon1938 Stock Market Blog.

http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/512100-patrickgannon1938/57429-why-apple-inc-is-going-to-300-plus-in-2010-and-400-plus-in-2011-quick-primer-on-this-stock-and-2010-market-conditions-the-patrickgannon1938-stock-market-blog

g) First time Apple Inc stock hit $300 per share

---October 13,2010

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Oct+1%2C+2010&enddate=Oct+31%2C+2010

h) First time Apple Inc stock hit $400 per share

---July 25,2011

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Jul+1%2C+2011&enddate=Jul+31%2C+2011

i) Steve Jobs dies on October 5,2011.

Steve Jobs was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer

of Apple Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

J) Tim Cook was named the CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011,

succeeding Steve Jobs,

who died on October 5, 2011, from pancreatic cancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook

k) Apple stock performance since Tim Cook

took over Apple Inc

as its CEO

on August 24,2011 :

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=AAPL&p=D&st=2011-08-01&en=(today)&id=p11392670704

L) First time Apple Inc stock hit $500 per share

---February 13,2012

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Feb+1%2C+2012&enddate=Feb+29%2C+2012

m) First time Apple Inc stock hit $600 per share

---March 19,2012

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Mar+1%2C+2012&enddate=Mar+31%2C+2012

n) 2012 Year High for Apple Stock

up to Sunday,Mother's Day,May 13,2012

---$644 per share on April 10,2012.

o) 2012 drop from 2012 year high of $644 on April 10,2012

(as of Sunday,May 13,2012)

----$555 per share on April 24,2012.

A 14% drop from the CURRENT year high of 2012 !!!

Will that 2012 low of $555 HOLD

will Apple stock go lower ??

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=22144&startdate=Mar+19%2C+2012&enddate

( Apple Inc stock from its first time

it broke $600 per share

to its present stock price )

p) First time Apple Inc stock hit $700 per share---

___________???

Q) First time Apple Inc stock hit $800 per share----

_________???

r) First time Apple Inc stock hit $900 per share---

_________???

s) First time Apple Inc stock hit $1,000 per share---

_________???

Okay,now let us talk about

KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) :

Amazon's DTP (Digital Text Publishing) was introduced also

at the same time the Kindle ebook reader

that came out on November 19,2007.

On January 21,2011 DTP changed its name to KDP

or Kindle Direct Publishing !!

( http://blog.taleist.com/2011/01/21/amazons-dtp-is-now-its-kdp/ )

The introduction of K.D.P. or Kindle Direct Publishing,

was one of the VERY BEST things that ever happened to

potential/aspiring SELF-PUBLISHED ebook authors !!

Let's face it,anything

(Kindle,Kobo,etc.ebook readers and Kindle Direct Publishing,etc. )

and

anyone (Amazon,etc.)

that challenges the Big 6 or the 6 gatekeepers

of the ebook/book publishing industry

is a good and healthy thing for new,potential/aspiring and experienced EBOOK authors !!!

( The Big 6 publishers are- Hachette,

Harper-Collins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House,

and Simon & Schuster)

As of early 2012,ebook authors need print,paper,legacy

or the Big 6 publishers

to make money

like fish need blow dryers to survive !!!

( Hint---blow dryers are UNNECESSARY,etc. !!!)

Seriously !!!

Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon's self-publishing service

for ebook authors !!

As of Friday,April 13,2012

( from Jeff Bezos,CEO of Amazon,and billionaire) :

Kindle Direct Publishing has quickly taken on astonishing scale---

more than a 1,000 KDP authors

now each sell

more than 1,000 copies a month,

some have already reached hundreds of thousands of sales,

and 2 ( John Locke and Amanda Hocking) have already joined the Kindle Million Club.

( The Kindle Million Club recognizes authors

whose books have sold over 1 million paid copies

in the Kindle EbookStore or www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=200726950

As of November 9,2011,

below is a list of authors who have been inducted into the Kindle Million Club. :

1) Stieg Larsson:

Inducted on July 26, 2010.

2) James Patterson:

Inducted on October 26, 2010.

3) Nora Roberts:

(books written under her suspense-oriented pseudonym J.D.Robb also included)

Inducted on January 12, 2011.

4) Charlaine Harris:

Inducted on May 11, 2011.

Sales of "Dead Reckoning" pushed her past the 1-million mark.

5) Lee Child:

Joined the club on June 01, 2011.

6) Suzanne Collins:

Joined the club on June 01, 2011.

7) Michael Connelly:

Entry announced on June 09, 2011.

8) John Locke:

Amazon announced his entry into the list on June 20, 2011.

He is the first independently published author to join the list .

John Locke's first FOUR self-published ebooks on the Amazon Kindle ebookstore

were on March 5,2010

( 3 ebooks---Lethal Experiment as well as Saving Rachel

and Lethal People)

AND

on April 22,2010

( 1 ebook---Now & Then).

a) March 5,2012---John Locke, 'Donovan Creed' Author, On Selling A Million eBooks :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/john-locke-donovan-creed-_n_1317237.html

b) June 20,2011----John Locke Becomes the First Independently Published Author

to Join the "Kindle Million Club" :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1576066

c) September 24,2011---How you can make a million writing your own e-book

---Got a book in you ?

Forget rejection letters or 'vanity' operations
- in today's golden age of e-readers,

you can just e-publish :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2040044/Kindle-How-make-million-writing-e-book.html

d) June 21,2011---Self publishing writer becomes million seller

---An entrepreneur has turned the writing world upside down

by becoming the first author to sell more than a million electronic books

without a publishing deal :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8589963/Self-publishing-writer-becomes-million-seller.html

e) Tuesday, March 08, 2011---Guest Post by John Locke :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/guest-post-by-john-locke.html

9) Kathryn Stockett:

Inducted on August 16.

10) Janet Evanovich:

Inducted on August 16.

11) George R.R. Martin:

Joined the club on September 19.

12) David Baldacci:

Inducted on November 9.

13) Amanda Hocking:

Inducted on November 9.

Many of her 1 million Kindle books were sold independently using KDP.

Amanda Hocking's first THREE self-published ebooks on the Amazon Kindle ebookstore

were on March 17,2010 (My Blood Approves) ;

April 25,2010 (Fate);

and on May 25,2010 (Flutter)

a) January 12,2012----Amanda Hocking,

the writer who made millions by self-publishing online

---A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so,

in desperation,

made her unpublished novel available on the Kindle.

She has since sold over 1.5m books and, in the process, changed publishing forever :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/12/amanda-hocking-self-publishing

b) November 9,2011----Amanda Hocking is the second author to use Kindle Direct Publishing

to reach the Kindle Million Club :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1628395

c) January 5,2011---Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine

Amanda Hocking :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestselling-ind_b_804685.html

d) Wednesday, December 08, 2010---The Bestseller Shift

---Who is Amanda Hocking?

She's a self-published paranormal romance author.

In just a week (7 days !!!), Amanda Hocking has sold over 10,000 ebooks. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/bestseller-shift.html

e) Friday, August 27, 2010----An epic tale of how it all happened :

By Amanda Hocking :

http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2010/08/epic-tale-of-how-it-all-happened.html

f) February 2010

(Amanda Hocking EXACT quote) :

I found J. A. Konrath's blog.

g) Wednesday, December 29, 2010

(EXACT QUOTE from Amanda Hocking) :

But I strongly believe that everything you need to know

about publishing on Kindle

is available for free on the internet,

and most of it at

Joe Konrath's blog.

14) Stephenie Meyer:

Inducted on November 9.

PatrickGannon1938

( wisely says ???)

on April 25,2012 :

So,why hasn't this Kindle Million Club list been updated

over the last 6 months

or since November 9,2011 ????

Hmmm !!

The people at Amazon SOMEHOW forgot to do it ??

Maybe but not likely.

These are VERY SMART people !!

Not any huge ebook sellers since then ??

Yeah,right !!!

Now,let us PUT ON OUR THINKING CAP

for a couple of minutes,

shall we ?? :

Notice the rate of acceleration between May 11

and November 9,2011 ???????

In 6 months there were 11 ( yes 11 !!!!!!!!!!) ebook authors

that joined the Kindle Million Club !!

Are you telling me in the 5 plus months from November 9,2011

to late April 2012 that the EBOOK REVOLUTION

is petering out

OR even decelerating

or "an ebook bubble" ??

THAT is just too laughable

for words and reason/logic !!

Want a MORE LIKELY

but still speculative,untold,etc. reason ??

Personally,i think Amazon doesn't want to tip their hand

AT HOW FAST

the ebook revolution is occurring,

for the same reason

they don't disclose actual Kindle ebook reader sales

in their news releases,annual reports or OTHER corporate info/documents !!

THINK about this

----logically,reasonably, and STRATEGICALLY !!

Do you REALLY want your competitors

(other ebookstores,other ebook readers,etc.)

to know you are onto

an incredibly good and

eventually HIGHLY profitable thing/product ??

Nope !

( Pure speculation/guesstimate

as of April 29,2012 :

I would NOT be surprised to see

AT LEAST 10 more ebook authors

join the Kindle Million Club

since November 9,2011 !!

I personally think the Kindle Million Club

now has AT LEAST 25 total members,

as of late April 2012 !!

Only TIME will tell,eh ??

Perhaps Amazon will release UPDATED

Kindle Million Club numbers

later in 2012 ??

Hope so !! )

Friday,April 13,2012 ( from Amazon) ----KDP is a big win for authors.

Authors who use KDP get to keep their copyrights,

keep their derivative rights,

get to publish on their schedule -

a typical delay in traditional publishing can be a year or more from the time the book is finished

----and ... saving the best for last ... KDP authors can get paid royalties of 70%.

( There is simply NO WAY that "The Big 6" can/will/wants to compete with Amazon

on author royalties of 35% for ebooks from 99 cents to $2.98

and

70% from $2.99 to $9.99.)

The largest traditional publishers pay royalties of only 17.5% on ebooks

(they pay 25% of 70% of the selling price which works out to be 17.5% of the selling price).

The KDP royalty structure is completely transformative for authors.

A typical selling price for a KDP book is a reader-friendly $2.99 - authors get approximately $2 of that!

With the legacy royalty of 17.5%,

the selling price would have to be $11.43

to yield the same $2 per unit royalty.

I assure you that authors sell many, many more copies at $2.99 than they would at $11.43.

Friday,April 13,2012 (from Amazon)----Kindle Direct Publishing is good for readers because they get lower prices,

but perhaps just as important,

readers also get access to more diversity

since authors that might have been rejected by establishment publishing channels

now get their chance in the marketplace.

You can get a pretty good window into this.

Take a look at the Kindle best-seller list,

and compare it to the New York Times best-seller list

- which is more diverse?

The Kindle list is chock-full of books from small presses and self-published authors,

while the New York Times list

is dominated by successful and established authors.

1) Amazon Ebook Bestseller List Of 2012 (So Far)

---Most popular ebooks of the year,

updated DAILY !! :

a) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2012-for-kindle-ebooks

b) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2012-for-kindle-ebooks#2

c) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2012-for-kindle-ebooks#3

d) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2012-for-kindle-ebooks#4

e) http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-of-2012-for-kindle-ebooks#5

2) Today's top 100 PAID Amazon/Kindle Ebook Best Sellers List

( Updated HOURLY !!!

Wow !!) :

a) http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/154606011

b) http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/154606011#2

c) http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/154606011#3

d) http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/154606011#4

e) http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-eBooks/zgbs/digital-text/154606011#5

3) The New York Times Bestsellers in 5 categories :

Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers;

Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers;

Trade Paperback Fiction Bestsellers;

Paperback Nonfiction Bestsellers;

Hardcover Advice, How-To, Miscellaneous Bestsellers :

a) http://www.amazon.com/Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=549028

NOTE----If you go to the New York Times website,

you can find 20 different categories of MOSTLY paper/print/legacy book

(and ebook) bestsellers.

To save you HOURS of research,stress and hassle,

i have provided them below for you !!!

(Why,THANK YOU so much,

my dear PatrickGannon1938 Blog !!)

4) WEEKLY New York Times book AND ebook (combined !!!) bestsellers

in FICTION and NON-FICTION categories :

a) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/combined-print-and-e-book-fiction/list.html

b) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/list.html

5) WEEKLY New York Times ebook ( ONLY !!!) bestsellers

in FICTION and NON-FICTION categories :

a) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/e-book-fiction/list.html

b) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/e-book-nonfiction/list.html

6) OTHER NOTABLE,

WEEKLY New York Times book bestsellers

in FICTION and NON-FICTION categories :

a) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/picture-books/list.html

( CHILDREN'S Picture Books)

b) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/chapter-books/list.html

( CHILDREN'S Chapter Books)

c) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/paperback-books/list.html

( CHILDREN'S Paperback Books)

d) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/series-books/list.html

( CHILDREN'S Series Books)

e) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/combined-print-fiction/list.html

( COMBINED HARDCOVER & PAPERBACK FICTION )

f) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/combined-print-nonfiction/list.html

( COMBINED HARDCOVER & PAPERBACK NONFICTION )

g) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/hardcover-graphic-books/list.html

( HARDCOVER GRAPHIC BOOKS )

h) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/paperback-graphic-books/list.html

( Paperback Graphic Books)

i) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/manga/list.html

( Manga books)

J) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/hardcover-advice/list.html

( HARDCOVER ADVICE & MISCELLANEOUS )

k) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/paperback-advice/list.html

( Paperback ADVICE & MISCELLANEOUS )

L) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/hardcover-fiction/list.html

( Hardcover fiction)

m) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html

( Hardcover non-fiction)

n) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/trade-fiction-paperback/list.html

( PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION )

o) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/mass-market-paperback/list.html

( PAPERBACK MASS-MARKET FICTION )

p) http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/paperback-nonfiction/list.html

( PAPERBACK NONFICTION )

End of---The New York Times Book Bestseller List

in 20 different

categories !!

________________________________

What is KDP or Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing ???

It is the fast,100% free AND easy way to self-publish your books

for sale in the Kindle Store

on/through here :

1) KDP or Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin

2) Promote your books for free with Author Central :

https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/landing

3) Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing

[Kindle Edition] :

http://www.amazon.com/Publish-Amazon-Kindle-Publishing-ebook/dp/B004LX069M

4) Free Kindle EBOOK Apps-

--Read Ebooks On Your Phone,Tablet Computer Or Desktop/Laptop/Notebook Computer :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

5) How to use KDP Select and what it is----A guide for ebook authors

on Amazon :

( It is a VERY effective sales promotional tool for ebooks--As of May 2012 !!!

The greatness of this promotional tool is,of course,subject to change if Amazon changes their ebook sales algorithms !!!)

a) Introducing KDP Select---How to enroll in KDP Select :

May 2012---The 4 benefits of KDP Select are :

1) Reach a new audience

2) Earn a whole new source of royalties

3) Promote your book for free to readers worldwide

4) Instant feedback.

KDP Select---Featuring a $600,000 fund dedicated to KDP authors

and publishers in March 2012,

and at least $6 million in 2012.

http://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/KDPSelect

b) KDP Select FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

and KDP Select Overview :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A6KILDRNSCOBA

6) Preparing your ebook

---Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)

---Types of Ebook Formats

--The 7 formats you can use to upload your SELF-PUBLISHED ebook

onto Amazon's Kindle ebookstore :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2GF0UFHIYG9VQ

7) Sample Chapters

( OR the importance of a good beginning !!!)

KDP takes the first 10% of your content

and creates a sample that customers can view

before purchasing the Kindle Edition of your EBOOK title.

The 10% is 'rounded up' - this means that if your content consists of five images,

for instance, the sample would consist of one image

(it wouldn't cut off half the image).

Similarly, KDP doesn't cut a paragraph or a sentence in half.

The logical structure of an element of your content is allowed to finish

(such as going to the end of the paragraph). :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A25WS075EUM6NF

8) February 9, 2012---Kindle Direct Publishing

Terms and Conditions :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=APILE934L348N

9) December 30, 2011---Ebook Pricing Page and royalties

for self-published ebook authors :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A29FL26OKE7R7B

10) Ebook List Price Requirements

---In 3 currencies or the USD (USA dollar),GBP (Great Britain Pound) and the EUR (the Euro) :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A301WJ6XCJ8KW0

11) DAILY sales reports for your ebooks :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A3VJZKPUQXAU57

12) Promote your books for free with Author Central

---Reach More Readers,Track Your Sales AND Get Author Help ! :

At Author Central, you can share the most up-to-date information about yourself

and your works with millions of readers.
Add your biography, photos, blog, video, and tour events to the Author Page,

your homepage on Amazon.com.

https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/landing

13) Look Inside The/Your Ebook :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A1MX1IQPDRWC5C

14) Modify Converted Content

---Once you've uploaded your book,

you may want to make changes to the file. :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2KRM4C8E91086

15) Sales and Royalties FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions ) :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A30F3VI2TH1FR8

16) How does the Kindle Store handle customer returns ?

Am I affected ? :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A30F3VI2TH1FR8#1-8_returns_handled

17) How to Enter Self-Published Ebook

Pricing Information :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2MLJ06E7JKXLN

18) Non-USA Payees of Royalties (Frequently Asked Questions) :

4 things you MUST know now ! :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=AO23R3MMGTEGD

19) Withholding Taxes On The Kindle Ebookstore

Or On Amazon.com

Made Simple in 2012 and beyond :

What Every Canadian (or Australian,United Kingdom,European,etc.)

Or Non-USA Ebook Author

MUST,MUST,MUST (!!!) Know

About

The Mandatory 30% Withholding Tax

CHARGED BY AMAZON

if you are a foreign-based (Canada,Europe,Australia,etc.) Ebook Author

And

You DON'T (!!!) Have The RIGHT TAX FORMS FILLED

( an EIN and an W-8BEN !!)

BEFORE you start selling YOUR ONE EBOOK

or your MULTIPLE ebooks

on Amazon.com

or ANY OTHER USA-based ebookstore :

( Knowledge is power,wealth

and HEADACHE-preventing !!!)

Taxes on ebooks MADE SIMPLE for Canadian

or non-USA,etc.

ebook authors :

( MEGA-life changing TAXES & MONEY-wise

for Canadians,Europeans,Australians,etc. !!!)

Step 1---Get an EIN

Step 2---Get an W-8BEN

Or how to AVOID getting an I.T.I.N.

( Individual Taxpayer Identification Number )

and

THUS saving you MONTHS of time,stress,hassle,etc. !!!

A) Tax Information for Non-USA Publishers

---The standard tax-withholding rate applied to royalty payments

made to residents outside of the United States

is 30%.

If you are a non-U.S. publisher and your country of residence

has an existing income tax treaty with the U.S.,

provided you furnish us with a valid IRS Form W8-BEN

(and/or other required documentation),

you may be eligible for a reduced rate of

U.S. tax withholding on the royalty payments

you receive. :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A1VDYJ32T5D3U4

B) Feb.24,2012----Non-US Self-Publisher?

Tax Issues Don't Need to be Taxing :

in the last few weeks, people started telling me

that I didn't need an ITIN ( Individual Taxpayer Identification Number ) at all

-an Employee Identification Number (EIN) would've done the job,

and

an EIN was much easier to get.

a) http://catherineryanhoward.com/2012/02/24/non-us-self-publisher-tax-issues-dont-need-to-be-taxing/

b) http://catherineryanhoward.com/2012/02/24/non-us-self-publisher-tax-issues-dont-need-to-be-taxing/#comment-8101

( 42 responses to March 31,2012)

c) The World Clock - Time Zones

---Current local times around the world (Extended list)

---An A to Z guide ! :

( A MUST and very,very useful

when PHONING the IRS

in the USA !!!) :

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html

d) Budget 20 to 25 minutes for the PHONE CALL to

-----the IRS phone number

to get your EIN over the phone !!!

Some people/ebook authors say

45 minutes,

AT THE MOST !!!

e) Strong note/caution about phone calls to the IRS

( Internal Revenue Service---tax agency of the USA) :

Use headphones if you use Skype

----You are 100% NOT ALLOWED

to talk to an IRS agent/man/woman

on SPEAKERPHONE !!

NOT even for a few seconds !!!

They will warn you & then hang up on you !!

Now you know !!!

C) Feb.20,2012---US Tax Withholdings and Alphabet Soup :

my advice would be to get your EIN or ITIN

before (!!!)

you're due a single royalty cheque (from Amazon/KIndle Direct Publishing,etc.),

if possible

---How to get an EIN-in minutes !!! :

http://catherineryanhoward.com/2012/02/20/us-tax-withholdings-and-alphabet-soup/

D) The E.I.N. and United Kingdom ebook authors :

Hi.

Some useful stuff here.

I applied for and was given over the phone by the IRS

an EIN number

for tax exemption purposes.

I told them I was a UK based author

and they said the EIN was fine,

I was effectively the sole proprietor of my own (ebook !!!) business

- I didn't need to go to the U.S.A. embassy.

http://fessingauthor.blogspot.com/2011/02/conf-660-ebook-uk-royalties-amazon.html?showComment=1326025739645#c8583265325134282856

20) May 13,2011---Tip to Get an Extra 20% Royalties

for Australian Authors

Publishing Through Amazon or CreateSpace

---If you are an Australian,

but do have a US tax ID,

you only have to pay 10%

... so you end up with a whopping 20% more money

from your EBOOK royalties.---

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/380613-tip-get-extra-20-royalties-australian-authors-publishing-through-amazon-createspace.html

21) a) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012----Jumping Through Hoops:

The EASIER Way International Self Publishers can get PAID. :

( their ebook royalties from Amazon !)

http://sarahbillington.blogspot.com/2012/02/jumping-through-hoops-or-easier-way.html

b) http://sarahbillington.blogspot.com/2012/02/jumping-through-hoops-or-easier-way.html?showComment=1328629002530#c5377320073345007124

22) After the E.I.N. (Employee Identification Number)

or how non-USA citizens can EASILY get their SECOND USA tax ID

how to get an W-8BEN

without MONTHS of

stress,hassle & extreme irritation,frustration,agony,annoyance,etc.:

( The non-I.T.I.N. or international tax identification number way

to stopping or preventing

withholding taxes on Amazon.com !!)

( Yes---you can thank me now !!

Har-har !!!)

a) W-8BEN----Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner

for United States Tax Withholding :

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/opt/general/test/W8BEN._V182333671_.pdf

b) W-8BEN----Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner

for United States Tax Withholding :

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8ben.pdf

c) Instructions for Form W-8BEN (Rev. February 2006)

-----Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding :

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/iw8ben.pdf

d) United States Income Tax Treaties - A to Z :

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/international/article/0,,id=96739,00.html

e) Canada - Tax Treaty Documents :

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/international/article/0,,id=169503,00.html

f) Australia - Tax Treaty Documents :

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/international/article/0,,id=169499,00.html

g) United Kingdom (UK) - Tax Treaty Documents :

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/international/article/0,,id=169552,00.html

h) Withholding Of Tax On NONresident And Foreign Entities---For Use In 2012 :

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p515.pdf

23) Kindle Indie Bookstore

----Frequently Asked Questions :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A1XXS18SA6O6GX

24) Amazon News 101---I think that EVERY POTENTIAL

BEST-SELLING EBOOK AUTHOR

should learn as much about their EBOOK PLATFORM (Amazon !!!) as possible,

in order to make you MORE aware

of financial possibilities/avenues/routes as an ebook author !!!

What is the EASIEST and SMARTEST way

of doing this ???

Get the info STRAIGHT FROM THE SOURCE

or from Amazon !!

So,on THAT note,

here is THE LATEST NEWS FROM AMAZON

that every ebook author should read

AT LEAST ONCE (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) WEEKLY :

Note----The 3 links below that have emoticon

should be read ONCE weekly

at least,

by EVERY aspiring ebook author

and ebook blogger IN 2012

AND BEYOND !!!

Is that CLEAR ???!!!

A) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-news

( read ONCE weekly at least !!! )

B) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsKindle

( read ONCE weekly at least !!! )

C) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsSearchResult&t=Search&nyo=0

( 2012 Press Releases )

( read ONCE weekly at least !!! )

Here are the 11 MOST IMPORTANT web-links

to keep EVERY ebook author

up-to-date

on what is happening with

Amazon & their ebook platform :

a) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-news

( Amazon.com Press Releases from----October 4,1995 to present )

( Great web-link for

----- research purposes and blog articles written by you !!!)

b) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-mediaHome

c) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-mediaKindle

d) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-news

( read ONCE weekly at least !!! )

e) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsKindle

( read ONCE weekly at least !!! )

f) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsSearchResult&t=Search&nyo=5

( 2007 Press Releases )

g) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsSearchResult&t=Search&nyo=4

( 2008 Press Releases )

h) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsSearchResult&t=Search&nyo=3

( 2009 Press Releases )

i) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsSearchResult&t=Search&nyo=2

( 2010 Press Releases )

J) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsSearchResult&t=Search&nyo=1

( 2011 Press Releases )

k) http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsSearchResult&t=Search&nyo=0

( 2012 Press Releases )

( read ONCE weekly at least !!! )

25) VERY interesting RECENT and HISTORICAL news from Amazon

that EVERY

potential or aspiring EBOOK AUTHOR should read,

in order to UNDERSTAND Amazon

and how they do business,

well as for ebook writing ideas,etc. :

a) Nov. 19, 2007----Introducing Amazon Kindle

----"We've been working on Kindle for more than three years.

Our top design objective was for Kindle to disappear in your hands

-- to get out of the way

-- so you can enjoy your reading," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO.

"We also wanted to go beyond the physical book.

Kindle is wireless, so whether you're lying in bed or riding a train,

you can think of a book, and have it in less than 60 seconds.

No computer is needed -- you do your shopping directly from the device.

We're excited to make Kindle available today."

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1079388&highlight=

b) Apr. 4, 2012---16 of the Top 100 Best-Selling Paid Kindle Books in March 2012

Are Exclusive to the Kindle Store

and Available for Prime Members with a Kindle to Borrow for Free :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1680062&highlight=

c) Mar. 27, 2012---Harry Potter Books Now Available to Read

on All Kindle Devices and Kindle Apps :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1677073&highlight=

d) Mar. 27, 2012---Amazon Kindle Touch 3G Now for Sale to Customers

in over 175 Countries :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1677390&highlight=

e) Feb. 29, 2012---Kindle Owners' Lending Library Now Offers Readers

Over 100,000 Books to Borrow For Free

- As Frequently As Once a Month,

With No Due Dates :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1667284&highlight=

f) Jan. 12, 2012---Customers Love Kindle Owners' Lending Library

- KDP Authors and Publishers Benefit :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1647593&highlight=

26) The 2011 Letter to Shareholders from Amazon :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-reportsAnnual

OR :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MTM0NDcxfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1

27) Amazon Investors Relations :

( Corporate mission----

We seek to be Earth's most customer-centric company for four primary customer sets:

consumers, sellers, enterprises, and content creators.)

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-irhome&c=97664

28) Kindle Owners' Lending Library

---How it works

AND

How to borrow from your Kindle :

a) http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000739811

b) http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=koll_help?nodeId=200757120

29) Kindle Million Club---

The Kindle Million Club recognizes authors

whose books have sold over 1 million

paid copies

in the Kindle Store

(www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

Below is a list of authors who have been inducted

into the Kindle Million Club. :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=200726950

30) (Video)----IF you want to SELF-PUBLISH your FIRST ebook

on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore,

here is

EXACTLY how to DO it :

A) How to publish on Kindle---Video tutorial

----an overview on publishing a digital book to the Amazon Kindle Store :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2M7MM0UP7PHK0

AND :

B) January 29,2012----How to Publish on Kindle :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flUDeOUvlJ4

( 6 minutes & 35 seconds----16,067 views to Feb.25,2012

49,907 views to May 6,2012)

( This video is unlisted.

Only those with the DIRECT link

can see it

or FIND it !)

By uploading your ebook through K.D.P. (Kindle Direct Publishing),

your ebook gains exposure and sales

through here :

1) The Kindle Store :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=133141011

2) Amazon Best Sellers In The Kindle Store

(Our most popular products based on sales

and

updated hourly !!!) :

(The Kindle Ebookstore)

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store/zgbs/digital-text

3) Kindle Indie Books From Kindle Direct Publishing :

( This storefront

showcases indie books and indie authors

those publishing on the Kindle platform

without a traditional/legacy/Big 6 book publisher !!!!!!!!!)

http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=3059252011

The Ebook Revolution
----Phony

Or Real ??? :

Now,is this ebook revolution genuine

or is it a self-publishing bubble,hype or GARBAGE ??

It is 100% genuine and The Real Thing !!!

You want proof,with independent facts,figures and numbers

from respected,experienced,well-known & famous

research firms,authors and bloggers ??

Read on !!

1) "The Ebook Revolution Officially And Truly Began On November 19,2007,

And Is The Best & Most Profitable Thing That EVER Happened

To Quality-Oriented AspiringAnd Experienced Ebook Authors"

(February 29,2012)

( MUST read---financially life-changing for potential ebook authors !)

Yes---it is a VERY long piece of research/writing
but it IS EXTREMELY "interesting,informative,etc."
AND
i wanted to prove :

that
the ebook revolution is

100% REAL,
GROWING strongly,
SOLID,
and

HERE TO STAY !!

There are over 80 ( 82 ??) charts,graphs,

cartoons,photos and images ,
to PROVE the validity of the ebook revoution

that started in November 2007
AS WELL AS,

ABOVE ALL (!!!),

"to INSPIRE the first-time ebook author
to join the
incredibly life-changing,profitable and exciting EBOOK revolution in 2012
or right now" !

( Yes,i spent over 60 hours writing
that EBOOK REVOLUTION

blog article,
ALL in the hopes of ENCOURAGING you
to join the ebook author revolution !)

Enjoy
AND SHARE !!

Of course,in life,you can choose the SMART

the NOT SO SMART way

of self-publishing your ebook !!

Here is the weak,not so smart ,

completely lame way !! :

Note---Hope you don't bust out

too loud LAUGHING

at this 100% wonderful video :

1) November 24,2010---So You Want to Write a Novel

(---4 minutes & 38 seconds

----240,184 views to April 5,2012)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fc-crEFDw

( The whole point of this video is that

writing something worthwhile

takes time and practice

years of honing your writing craft

before

you will be ready

to complete/produce

a PUBLISHABLE/readable/good,decent selling book !!).

Want to see some MORE cool videos

on EXACTLY WHY you should self-publish

YOUR ebook on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore

(through KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing) ??

Here are 8 cool videos

(ALL 4 minutes or less !!!) :

Total length of ALL 8 videos----17 minutes & 42 seconds.

YES,very much

WORTH your time to see,learn AND LAUGH from !!

VERY FUNNY videos !!!

1) July 12,2010----Zoe Who ? Episode 1 :

Zoe decides to self-publish and is met with skepticism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5OodRBcuHE

( 2 minutes & 37 seconds----4,155 views to April 28,2012)

2) July 16,2010---Zoe Who ? Episode 2 :

Publishing is serious bizness. Zoe and Brad talk some more :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AynikcOXpSE

( 2 minutes & 40 seconds----1,176 views to April 28,2012)

3) July 26,2010-----Zoe Who ? Episode 3 :

Brad takes drastic measures to try to help Zoe see the error of her self-publishing ways. :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDquJyGuqoY

( 2 minutes & 2 seconds----577 views to April 28,2012)

4) August 9,2010----Zoe Who ? Episode 4 :

Brad and Zoe are at the convention having a brief conversation

before Zoe meets the much heralded Agent Broccoli :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1EmBqFq64

( 1 minute & 27 seconds----503 views to April 28,2012)

5) August 16,2010----Zoe Who ? Episode 5 :

The much awaited meeting between Zoe and Agent Broccoli.

Dun dun DUN !

Note: Agent Broccoli is a product of my imagination

and is not representative of any existing agent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_y63_YbtxE

( 2 minutes & 32 seconds---473 views to April 28,2012)

6) August 23,2010----Zoe Who ? Episode 6 :

Zoe needs help with her Internet and goes to Captain Technical Support :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGiXgRwksk0

( 1 minute & 34 seconds---555 views to April 28,2012)

7) Zoe Who ? Episode 7 :

Brad talks about the importance of suffering :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfHYK9j_s9I

( 2 minutes & 7 seconds----491 views to April 28,2012)

8) Zoe Who ? Episode 8 : Shut up Slave ! :

Zoe is in for a rude awakening

when she discovers just how little some readers respect the work done by writers :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWBPmLoyEU

( 2 minutes & 33 seconds----1,138 views to April 28,2012)

VERY Funny set of 8 videos about

EBOOK SELF-PUBLISHING,

eh ??

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain

-- and most fools do."

( Dale Carnegie-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie )

__________________________

Okay,now that i got that out of the way,

are there ANY ebook self-publishing pioneers,visionaries,gurus,prophets messiahs,heroes,

rocket scientists,psychics,trailblazers,

outliers,revolutionaries,gods,ninjas,

or SIMPLY GREAT GUYS/Authors

you should read & learn from ??

Sure----How about Joe Konrath ??

Let's face it,Joe Konrath is a

MAJOR CFC (catalyst for change)

in the self-publishing ebook author world

---through his blog !

Joe Konrath

---The NINJA of the ebook AUTHOR

self-publishing revolution !!

(and the LITTLE GUYS/GALS voice of the self-publishing movement !!!)

As of May 2012,Joe Konrath has ,

without a doubt,

the best blog (A Newbie's Guide To Publishing) on

ebook writing and publishing

on the internet or in the entire world.

Joe Konrath has published 697 blog articles from March 20,2005 (day one)

to April 30,2012.

On Saturday,May 11,2012,

he hit the 700 blog articles published mark !!!

Without further ado,

here is THE JOE KONRATH ebook success story !!

If you want to BE THE BEST EBOOK AUTHOR,

and earn a good to GREAT living as an ebook self-published author,

learn from

the best ,most successful and mega-experienced

ebook authors !!

Joe Konrath is VERY CLEARLY that !!!

( Don't argue with massive ebook success.

Why ??

Only because it comes off sounding very much

like whining,sore loser-ness,

sour grapes,hating,envy,etc. from you !!!)

What Joe Konrath says is relevant to ANY EBOOK author at ANY stage in the game !!!

The Kindle Ebook Evolution Of NOVELIST Joe Konrath

(or J.A.Konrath)

From 2009 To Present
OR from April 2009 to April 2012 :

The complete biography :

J.A. (Joseph Andrew) or Joe Konrath is a 42 year old writer,

born on March 29, 1970.

As Joe Konrath says---I believe the average writer can do better self-pubbing than searching for a print deal.

He is a fiction writer working in the mystery, thriller, and horror genres.
He lives in Schaumburg, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago,

( a small city with a population of 76,000 people)
with his wife Maria,3 kids and 3 dogs.

Most of his ebooks are uniquely named after DRINKS/COCKTAILS

(appropriate for an author

who used to be a restaurant server,eh ???)

Joe Konrath sent a SIMPLY INSANE 7,000 letters to libraries,

signed at 600 bookstores in one summer,

toured 100 blogs in a month,

and got over 450 rejections

before he sold his first book in 2003.

( which was PRINTED in 2004 !!!)

The MOST SUPPORTIVE person in Joe Konrath's life :

Maria Konrath.

(click to enlarge)

( Maria Lynn Konrath)

( The patient ,lovely and

EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE DURING rough times

Maria Konrath,

the wife of Kindle bestselling ebook pioneer Joe Konrath)

Joe Konrath also writes under the pseudonyms or pen names of

Jack Kilborn & Joe Kimball.

a) http://www.amazon.com/J.-A.-Konrath/e/B000BCH4EM

b) http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Kilborn/e/B004IK1V0G

c) http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Kimball/e/B005JSOZLS

Yes--he likes beer---a lot !
Too much ???
Har-har !!

What Joe Konrath believes (2012)----in the (self-publishing) ebook business,

authors and readers are necessary

but book publishers

(and the Big 6 publishing companies,bookstores,etc.)

are not required.

Writers/AUTHORS are notoriously tight-lipped

about how much they earn,

and

how many books they sell.

NOT Joe Konrath !

God bless him for his incredible & honest

FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY !!!

There is NO OTHER AUTHOR who has sold 500,000 PLUS ebooks

and yet been so brutally honest and open about his sales,INCOME,etc. !!!

This BEAUTIFUL/wonderful openness has been

VERY EDUCATIONAL/inspiring/ENCOURAGING

for many aspiring/potential ebook authors

in 2009 and beyond !!

( Joe Konrath---"I began this blog as a way to share what I've learned.

I'll continue to share.")

Joe Konrath has 47 ebooks in total as of Sunday,April 8,2012

( his 3 year anniversary of SELF-PUBLISHING

in the Amazon Kindle ebookstore !!!).

Let's face it,a lot of ebook authors are using Joe Konrath

as a STRONG motivation to

self-publish ebooks on Amazon,etc.

Want a VERY COOL example ??

How about ebook millionaire Amanda Hocking ??

Amanda Hocking was

DEFINITELY educated

AND inspired

by Joe Konrath's ebook advice blog,

as noted by her

9 BLOG comments

between June 22,2010 to January 3,2011

on Joe Konrath's blog,

"The Newbie's Guide To Publishing" :

( Mind-blowing look at Amanda Hocking's ebook selling beginnings

and mindset,

eh ???!!!!)

( JUST too cool and awesome,

eh ?????!!!!!!)

A) Tuesday, June 22, 2010---Wow.

It's so fantastic to see how well this is going for you !

Congratulations !

I'm doing fairly well

(not nearly as well as you, of course),

and it does feel really liberating.

And it's exciting, to be part of an entirely new landscape.

It's definitely a great time to be an author.

B) Saturday, July 03, 2010---I think new authors obsess over price too much. I know I did.

I raised 2 of my books to $2.99 and fretted days over it.

And the truth is that every week my books sell better,

MUCH better,

than they did the week before,

even with the price raise.

In June (2010), I earned over three times as much as I make at my full-time day job

(note: I don't make that much.).

Also, all of my books have been pirated.

I've found copies of the first book on three different sites, but all three of them have been.

And as far as I can tell, the piracy hasn't hurt my sales yet.

Authors also make the claim that readers won't pay more

for unknown authors.

The fact is that I've paid $5.99, $6.99, even $12.99 for books by authors I'd never heard of.

Why?

Because they had good covers, good descriptions,

and they had the right shelf space in a bookstore.

But thanks to Amazon, indie authors have the same really good shelf space.

So from point of view, paying $2.99 for an unknown author isn't a big deal.

C) Monday, July 12, 2010---Between my four books currently,

I should sell almost 5000 books this month

(projected based on the average daily sales for the past 12 days).

I have about 8 other books written that I'm going to upload and epublish,

as well as any new titles I write.

I wonder how long it will take me to get a million...

D) Monday, July 12, 2010---Why is everyone so angry ?

Why are people trying to make Joe seem like a liar?

Even if we assume he is lying, why does it make you all so angry?

Here's what I know, for a fact:

Joe is making money doing what he's doing, and it makes him happy.

Because of his success,

I tried to do the same thing.

And you know what?

I'm making money, and I'm happy doing what I'm doing.

How is any part of that angering anyone?

E) Friday,August 6,2010----Here's a fun story

---I've considering different options to take with my writing career

and what I would do if I was offered a publishing deal.

As I was thinking about it, I got scared

when I began to realize that the only for me to accept a publishing deal

would mean that I had to lose money.

It was at the point that I realized

I did not have to be published traditionally.

It was pretty much

the most liberating moment

of my life.

F) Tuesday, October 05, 2010---Prior to six months ago, I had never sold a single book anywhere. Then I published on thru Amazon.I've now sold nearly 25K books, without a following or any help from publishers.

What Joe says is relevant to ANY author at ANY stage in the game.

G) Wednesday, December 08, 2010---Hi. Thanks, Joe,

for the shout out.

It's neat, surprising, and weird all at the same time.

Because where I started eight months ago, reading your blog,

thinking, "Hey, maybe I can do something.

Not as good Joe, of course, but I bet I can sell a few copies."

So, in a weird way, this is like being an aspiring actress

and having Meryl Streep say something nice about me.

Anyway - as to people who speculated about my sales,

I posted a blog with screen shots.

I know I don't need to, but I don't want internet rumors saying I'm making stuff up.

So you can check out my blog if you want some proof, but that's all the proof I've got.

Other than my rankings.

As to other things people said - I write YA,

but

most of my readers are women between the ages of 25-40

(based on fan mail and comments I get).

The teenagers that do read my books tend to be from other countries

and/or read them on their phones.

I do not have a lot of visitors at my blog.

Not sure why.

My Facebook fan page does alright, my Twitter's okay,

and I get lots of emails.

I think writing in a popular genre does help, but that's true no matter how publish.

But like Karen McQuestion - who is more literary - is still doing quite well for herself.

And something else - the only reason people know

how well I'm doing is because

I said how well I'm doing.

That means that there are authors out there doing as well as me or much better,

but they aren't saying it.

So that's all.

Thank you to everybody for the congratulations and support. :)

H) Tuesday, December 28, 2010---Prepare for a minirant:

I am sick of people saying that Joe did this

because he had already been published

and already had a following.

Yes, that may have helped Joe,

but I think even if he hadn't been previously published,

he would still be selling well now because he understand

how to write and sell books.

Prior to April 15th (2010), I'd never sold a book in my life.

Not one. Not to anybody.

Then I self-pubbed, and I haven't sold less than 2,000 books a month since May.

I'm not saying that every author will be successful with self-publishing.

But I am saying that it evens the playing the field.

We all get the same shelf space and we all get a chance.

I) Monday, January 03, 2011---

(Amanda Hocking recently turned down a lucrative offer from a house

to continue self-publishing.

Amanda sold a staggering 100,000 ebooks in December 2010 alone. )

One clarification - it was a publishing offer,

but it wasn't from a Big 6.

It wasn't an unknown, but it wasn't a Big 6.

It was an offer I would've been thrilled to take even six months ago, though.

And that's about all I feel comfortable saying about that.

But yes, great post.

(This was THE LAST blog comment by Amanda Hocking

on Joe Konrath's blog !!!!!! )

J) Amanda Hocking---As of Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 9 PM,

I've sold over 185,000 books since April 15, 2010.

(or in 8 1/2 months !!!)

( 98% of these are from ebooks)

(ebooks sales

EXPLODED in mid to late November 2010 !!!)

K) Amanda Hocking is an EXTREMELY FAST writer/author

(March 2012)----

If I write less than 5,000 words, I'm disappointed.

Normally, it's between 5,000 to 8,000 words a day that I'll write on average.

( http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a11476.asp )

Note---For an ebook author,writing 2,000 words per day is not a particularly difficult thing to accomplish,

IF they are not working at another career/job.

However,the minimum 5,000 words per day of Amanda Hocking

qualifies her for WONDER WOMAN status !!

L) In March 2010, Amanda Hocking began self-publishing ebooks on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore.

Her first five ebooks were :

( Her name FIRST went VIRAL on the internet

in March 2011 !!)

aa) My Blood Approves

---March 17,2010

bb) Fate (My Blood Approves, Book 2)

----April 25, 2010

cc) Flutter (My Blood Approves, Book 3)

---May 25, 2010

dd) Hollowland (The Hollows, #1)

---October 5, 2010

ee) Letters to Elise:

A Peter Townsend Novella (My Blood Approves)

---December 19, 2010

M) The PatrickGannon1938 timeline

to WHEN Amanda Hocking went VIRAL

on the internet

( or When did Amanda Hocking go viral on Google

on the internet ??) :

aa) Dec 1, 2010-Dec 31, 2010---8,920 results.

bb) Jan 1, 2011-Jan 31, 2011---12,700 results.

cc) Mar 1, 2011-Mar 31, 2011----17,400 results.

( Amanda Hocking goes VIRAL for the first time

in March 2011 !!!)

dd) Apr 1, 2011-Apr 30, 2011----18,700 results.

ee) May 1, 2011-May 31, 2011---17,900 results.

ff) Jun 1, 2011-Jun 30, 2011----9,120 results.

gg) Jul 1, 2011-Jul 31, 2011---17,800 results.

( Amanda Hocking goes VIRAL for the SECOND time

in July 2011 !!!)

hh) Aug 1, 2011-Aug 31, 2011---17,500 results.

ii) Sep 1, 2011-Sep 30, 2011----8,780 results.

JJ) Oct 1, 2011-Oct 31, 2011---19,600 results.

kk) Nov 1, 2011-Nov 30, 2011---23,400 results

LL) Dec 1, 2011-Dec 31, 2011---33,400 results.

mm) Jan 1, 2012-Jan 31, 2012---20,800 results.

nn) Feb 1, 2012-Feb 29, 2012---41,300 results.

( Amanda Hocking no longer needs,wants or has to go viral,

she is NOW mainstream

and a self-publishing ebook---and Kindle ebookstore---legend

"ebook heroine",

as of February 2012 !!!)

oo) Mar 1, 2012-Mar 31, 2012---18,900 results.

Here are 3 BRILLIANT articles by Joe Konrath

on ebook self-publishing,

which EVERY potential/aspiring ebook author

in 2012 and beyond

COULD LEARN A LOT FROM :

1) Saturday, March 19, 2011---Ebooks and Self-Publishing

- A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/ebooks-and-self-publishing-dialog.html

( 79 pages long !!!!)

2) Sunday, April 03, 2011---Ebooks and Self-Publishing Part 2 -

Another Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath

----Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath Continue to Discuss Ebooks and Self-Publishing

(with some help from Dean Wesley Smith) :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/04/ebooks-and-self-publishing-part-2_03.html

( 87 pages long !!!)

3) Wednesday, June 01, 2011----Ebooks and Self-Publishing Part 3

- Yet Another Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/06/ebooks-and-self-publishing-part-3-yet.html

( Again 79 pages long !!!)

How to succeed as an EBOOK author ??

The BEST advice for new or potential ebook writers/authors

who want to
self-publish on Amazon ?

Read all the blog posts

FROM April 2009 to present (April 2012),

of the self-publishing ebook blog

"A Newbie's Guide To Publishing",
and

you WILL rapidly learn ALL you need,want AND must know

about good to MASSIVE ebook success
and epublishing smarts !

( IN OTHER WORDS----Learn from THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
Ebook Authors

and forget the rest
of the wanna-be's,HATERS,trolls/bashers,jokers,

Amazon flops/failures,cynical critics, and try-hard's

of the ebook self-publishing,blogging,etc.world !

SERIOUSLY !!
Not joking !)

Joe Konrath has sold

( NOT given away for free !!!)

over 800,000 ebooks (April 2012 !!!).

( Thus,he is A DOER

----not just a talker !!!).

He WALKS the TALK !!!

Joe Konrath is a STRONG BELIEVER in the Amazon Kindle ereader

and ebooks.

As of February 29, 2012,

Joe Konrath had become one of the

top 30 INDIE or KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing)

bestselling authors on Amazon's Kindle Ebookstore.

( Top 30 ebook indie or KDP author ??
Proof ??
Look below !!!)

1) November 9,2011---In the Kindle ebookstore,there are 14 authors
who have sold 1 million or more ebooks
----12 authors who have sold more than 200,000 ebooks
----and 30 authors who have sold more than 100,000 ebooks !!

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1628395

2) Below is a list of authors who have been inducted into the
Kindle Million Club. :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=200726950

( As of November 9,2011

there were 14 Kindle millionaires !!!

This list has NOT been updated since November 2011 !!!)

Joe Konrath---After my sixth novel failed to sell,

I knew it was time to get serious.

( Then I made my living waiting tables.

The flexible schedule allowed me plenty of time to write.

My wife worked in the same restaurant,

and I would often trade shifts with her

if the muse was in overdrive.

She'd always been supportive, even when we were dating

and I had my BAD AGENT EXPERIENCE.)

She had 100% faith that I'd someday be published.

"You aren't allowed to give up,"

my girlfriend (now my wife) told me.

"You're a writer, whether you get paid for it or not."

( I went back to my Rejection Book to review my previous queries,

and was surprised to see how poor they were.

The letters fell into two distinct categories;

egocentric and desperate.

I was shocked to see

typos and poor grammar,

not only in the queries,

but in the sample chapters I'd submitted. )

( Usually, an agent response

took between three and ten weeks.)

After ten books, twelve years, and four hundred and sixty (460) rejections,

my dream had finally come true.

On December 5,2002,Hyperion made an 6 figure plus offer (more than $100,000)

for a three book publishing deal,

Whiskey Sour,

and the next two books.

( My wife, who has stood by side for nine shelved novels

and over four hundred rejections,

begins to cry )

My wife and I celebrate with $150 champagne

(in 2002 !!!).

He signs an 18 page contract

and is told his FIRST book will be released in June 2004

(18 months later !!!---It seems a long time away).

After writing nine UNPUBLISHED novels,

he finally got his tenth novel (Whiskey Sour)

legacy,traditionally or PAPER published in 2004,

at age 34.

( I'm 34 years old.

I wrote my first book when I was 22.

I've waited twelve years for this day,

twelve years of hard work, rejection, and zero reward.)

Joe Konrath garnered more than 460 rejections

and and penned over 1 million words

before getting FIRST paper/print published.

(he subsequently gathered another

40 plus rejections).

I never really thought about it before,

but the hundreds of rejections I've gotten really thickened my skin.

When I signed a three book deal with Hyperion,

they had no idea

how long I'd been struggling to get published.

As far as they new, Whiskey Sour, the first in the Jack Daniels thriller series,

was the first thing I'd ever written.

In reality,

I'd written over a million words

without selling a thing,

earning my living as a waiter.

Joe Konrath Author Timeline :

A VERY,VERY quick trip from 1988 to 2012 :

Part 1 of Joe Konrath's author career

----No financial/critical success from 1988 to 2002

or for 15 years !!

The STRUGGLING years !!

Part 2 of Joe Konrath's author career

---Moderate financial/critical success from February 10,2003

to April 7,2009

or for 6 years.

Finally,

SOME success years !!

Part 3 of Joe Konrath's author career----High to amazing financial

and critical success

from April 8,2009 to present

or the last 3 years.

He earns $600,000 in 2011 as an self-published ebook author on Amazon.com

through K.D.P. or Kindle Direct Publishing !!

He rocks it !!

The GRAVY YEARS or big-time success years !!

Now,let us take a trip down Memory Lane,

shall we ???!!

A Trip Back To "The Old,BAD Days"

(brutal,poor,struggling,major hard-working,etc.)

of Joe Konrath

to "The GRAVY Days" of 2009 to present

( THANK YOU ebooks !!):

1988---I also get my first rejection letter, from Playboy, for a

Harry McGlade Story.

Joe Konrath was 17 years old then.

Joe Konrath got his first rejection letter in 1988.

1991---Now have four book-length collections of short stories,

which I print and bind at Kinko's

(print shop chain) and charge my friends $15 each for.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinko%E2%80%99s )

1992---Finish my first novel in 3 months,

called "Dead On My Feet"

(about a guy dying of cancer.

His name is Phineas Troutt.

His walking death sentence leads him to a life of crime.

Cameos by Harry McGlade, and a Chicago cop named Jack Daniels).

I wrote my first book

when I was 22 !!!

1993---Write another novel, with Jack Daniels as the hero,

called "THE GINGERBREAD MAN".

1995---Write a third thriller called "THREE WAY".

Get a hundred rejections.

1996---Write a fourth thriller called "THE LADYKILLER".

Get a hundred rejections.

1997---Write a fifth thriller called "EVERYBODY DIES".

Get a hundred rejections.

1998----Write a sixth thriller called "SHOT OF TEQUILA".

I'm now up to over 450 rejections.

1999---Write a technothriller called ORIGIN.

Land an agent (who CANNOT sell it).

2001---Finish my thriller "THE LIST"

(again,agent CANNOT sell it !).

I now have had more than 500 rejections.

2002---Finish my thriller "DISTURB"

(Agent hates it, won't rep it !!!).

2002---Start writing under the unisex name of "J.A. Konrath."

(not Joe Konrath)

December 9,2002---the very first time Joe Konrath's name

has been IN PRINT (on paper) !

Feb.6,2003---I attend my first writing convention, Love is Murder,

and speak on my first panel.

Feb.10,2003---My 6 figure check arrives and I buy a computer

-my other books were all written on an archaic word processor.

I also see an accountant about incorporating

and becoming a sole-proprietorship.

2003---"WHISKEY SOUR" sells in a three book deal worth $110,000.

( about $36,700 per ONE print book !!!).

It's enough for me to write full time.

Feb.11,2003---I quit my job.

I've been a server for twelve years

(since 1991).

Waiting tables allowed me a flexible schedule, so I always had time to write.

Now my full time profession is writing,

which is something I've dreamed about forever.

( October 17,2003---When I waited tables, I'd work thirty hours,

then spend another twenty writing.

Since I began writing full time, I average sixty hours a week.

Some days I'm on my computer for fifteen hours straight. )

March 30,2003---I get a part-time job at the College of Dupage,

teaching fiction writing and marketing.

( http://www.jakonrath.com/class.html )

About College of DuPage :

http://www.cod.edu/about/index.aspx

April 13,2003-----WWW.JoeKonrath.com is finally up and running,

and I've got a good working knowledge of how to keep it updated.

I submit the URL to search engines,

making sure the site description and metatags are perfect.

To make the site 'sticky' (keep people there),

I offer writing tips, a fiction contest, a newsletter,

giveaways, an appearance schedule, free stories and excerpts,

downloads, a message board,

and a massive links page----anyone who links to me, gets a link back.

July 1,2003---The Marketing Department asks me

if they can use my first two initials on the front cover.

I'll be J.A. rather than Joe.

I understand their reasoning-women are the primary book buyers,

and a unisex first name might find a bigger initial audience.

I ask my agent her opinion.

Jane Dystel (of Jane Dystel Literary Management) says,

"Always defer to Marketing."

July 1,2003---I change my website to WWW.JAKONRATH.COM

and resubmit to all the search engines.

October 17,2003---When I waited tables, I'd work thirty hours,

then spend another twenty writing.

Since I began writing full time, I average sixty hours a week.

Some days I'm on my computer for fifteen hours straight.

(While holding down a full-time job,I still managed to write over a million words during that time--roughly 15 to 20 hours a week.)

2004---His 10th novel became his FIRST published book !

"WHISKEY SOUR" comes out.

I buy my first (good) computer,and begin to learn all I can about the publishing industryto figure out how I can succeed.

( However,bought my FIRST computer on February 10,2003 !!!)

Begin to experiment with self promotion on the Internet, and in person.
I start selling short stories in earnest,

making my first big sale to "Ellery Queen" magazine.

(Ellery Queen is the world's leading MYSTERY WRITING magazine !!!).

This magazine had 3 purposes

or Mission Statements :

"raise the sights of mystery writers generally to a genuine literary form,"

to "encourage good writing among our colleagues by offering a practical market not otherwise available,"

and

to "develop new writers seeking expression in the genre."

http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/

http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/about/history.aspx

April 6,2004---The anthology The Many Faces of Van Helsing comes out,

featuring my story "The Screaming."

This is the very first time I've been

on a bookstore shelf.

The Screaming is the FIRST story in this 9 author anthology and is 24 pages long.

The Many Faces of Van Helsing is a 400 page PAPERBACK and retails for $25 (May 2012):

a) http://www.amazon.com/The-Many-Faces-Van-Helsing/dp/0441011705

b) The "table of contents" for this book---notice that "The Screaming" is the FIRST short story listed ??!!!!!! :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0441011705/ref=sib_dp_pop_toc/183-7202041-3931838?ie=UTF8&p=S00B#reader-link

May 5,2004---This is officially the greatest day of my writing career.

FedEx drops off the hardcover copies of Whiskey Sour.

Holding it my hands for the first time, I begin to cry

-but not like a baby.

I cry manly, macho tears,

like Rocky when he beat Apollo.

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky )

( January 28,2009-

---1979 Rocky Balboa VS Apollo Creed - HD 720p

---3 minutes & 51 seconds

---263,826 views to April 22,2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X43Ie_BQBEE )

May 13,2004---My website is taking up more and more of my time.

JAKonrath.com began as a simple author homepage

with a few free stories and a few writing tips.

Now it's blossomed to more than sixty pages of content.

I spent about five hours a week updating the site,

which cuts into my writing time,

but is necessary

if I want people to make return visits.

May 20,2004---Hard to believe it's been eighteen months

since signing my contract,

but Whiskey Sour is finally on the shelves!

The pub date isn't until June 2nd,2004,

but apparently 'shelf date' and 'pub date' are two different things.

It's still not for sale on Amazon,

but all of my local stores have copies.

June 1,2004---So after a lifetime of dressing for comfort,

I now have a 'look.'

The 'look' is:

a pudgy Clark Kent with a beard and a nice suit.

I can live with it.

March 20,2005---Start a blog called

"A Newbie's Guide to Publishing",

to share what I've learned

about the book publishing industry.

2005---I use a rental car,

and do drop-in signings at more than 120 stores.

I write "RUSTY NAIL".

Begin to teach writing and marketing at a local community college.

2005---I sign a SECOND three book deal with Hyperion,

for $125,000.

( That averages $41,700 per PRINTED/PAPER book)

2006---To promote "RUSTY NAIL", I visit 612 bookstores in 29 states.

I also write "DIRTY MARTINI".

2006---I begin giving away EBOOKS of my early, unsold (!!!) novels

on my website.

2007----Write "FUZZY NAVEL".

My publisher decides NOT to tour me.

I continue to self-promote as much as I can afford.

2008---Write CHERRY BOMB, and a horror novel called "AFRAID".

Hyperion Books decides to drop their mystery line,

me included,

even though my first three novels have

earned out their advance.

2008---My agent (after 6 months !!) finally sells "Afraid"

but only for a 2 book deal for ONLY $20,000 per book.

( His family has grown in quantity since then !!

3 kids !!!)

( Only $10,000 per book !!)

2008---My agent shops around a proposal for a

seventh "Jack Daniels" novel.

No takers.

I'm worried about my career,

even though my blog and website reach more than 1 million hits.

2009---Do a blog tour to promote "AFRAID",

appearing on a hundred blogs in a month.

Then I do a regular tour, signing at 200 bookstores.

April 8,2009---- Kindle owners ask me

to put my free ebook downloads on Amazon.com,

since they can't convert PDF's.

Amazon.com won't let me put them up for free,

so I charge $1.99.

( They start selling like crazy.

By the end of 2009,

my 4 REJECTED (!!!) novels

"ORIGIN",

"THE LIST",

"SHOT OF TEQUILA",

"DISTURB",

and my previously published short stories

have sold 27,000 copies,

and

are paying my rent)

2009---"AFRAID" earns out its advance on its first PAPER BOOK royalty statement.

I write "TRAPPED", the sequel.

My paper/print editors don't like it.

I rewrite it from the ground up, and they still don't like it.

I write a sci-fi novel called TIMECASTER

and sell it

and a sequel to Ace

for an "embarrassingly small amount of money"

because I'm

"so worried about my (financial) future".

June 1 to 30,2009 :

I made a grand total of $2,979.37 in royalties on the Kindle ebookstore.

http://www.jakonrath.com/Joe%27s%20Numbers.jpg

( Click to enlarge,

of course !!!)

(click to enlarge)

2010 (only up to my birthday or March 29,2010)

----Write another Jack Kilborn novel, called ENDURANCE.

My editors want changes.

I refuse to make them.

We're now deciding how to proceed.

I also sign a three book deal with a bestselling author

to co-write three thrillers.

The deal will earn me more than $1 million dollars.

Can't reveal the details yet.

The seventh Jack Daniels novel,

SHAKEN, is now in the contract phase with a terrific publisher.

Can't reveal the details yet.

But things are certainly looking up.

From April 8,2009 to late March 2010

---Have sold over 35,000 ebooks

in just a year !!!

As of March 2010, i am making $4,000 a month on the Kindle ebookstore.

March 2010---I still have goals.

Still have dreams.

But I'm in a very good position right now.

I finally have enough money

to ease up on

all the non-stop self promotion !!!!!!!

June 1 to 30,2010---In June, I earned $12,000 on ebooks that

I self-published on Kindle.

I'm currently selling about 8,000 ebooks per month.

Just on (Amazon's !!) Kindle !!!

July 12,2010----I've sold 60,000 ebooks.

July 12,2010----Dude, I'm making $600 a day.

How many authors are doing that,

either traditionally pubbed

or self-pubbed?

Tuesday, February 08, 2011---I never thought things would get so big so quickly.

For example, I surmised I'd be making $40k a year.

I made $40k last month (January 2011).

December 2011-----I currently earn enough money

via ebook self-publishing

to be in the top 1% tax bracket of the USA.

Compare that to the eight years

I spent in the legacy publishing world,

making $40,000 a year

and spending half of that on self-promotion.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012----

(OVER !!!) One hundred grand ($100,000).

That's how much I've made on Amazon in the last three weeks.

This is just for my self-pubbed Kindle titles.

It doesn't include any of my legacy sales, print or ebook.

It doesn't include audiobook sales.

It doesn't include sales from other platforms.

This is from my self-pubbed books.

The ones the Big 6 rejected.

Summary---What a long author road from 1988 to early 2010,eh ??

(By March 2010 he was making $4,000 monthly from ebooks !!).

CERTAINLY an "overnight success"

(ONLY 22 years !!!!!!!).

Yeah,right ! :>) :>) :>)

How HARD Joe Konrath REALLY worked

as a PRINT/PAPER (non-ebook !) author :

( Notice the VERY,very STRONG WORK ETHIC of Joe Konrath !)

What Joe Konrath did to PROMOTE/SELL

his (paper/print) books

(NOT his ebooks,

which are a DIFFERENT selling game !!!) :

( Joe Konrath says---I knew I'd sell more books by trying

than by doing nothing,

and the more I try,

the more I do sell.)

# 1---one of the first successful author blog tours,

visiting 100 blogs in a month.

# 2----writing emailed newsletters

# 3---doing LIVE online chats,

# 4---massive mailing campaigns,

# 5---networked like crazy,

# 6---SCHEDULED book signings,

# 7---11 day book tours,etc.

( Joe Konrath's VERY LAST book author,self-promotion tour

was from April 17 to May 10,2009

or 23 days long and was EXPENSIVE,

costing HIM/the print/paper book author over $50 per day,

with a total tour cost of $1,192.51.

Of course,this is considered a LOW BUDGET tour !!

Or "The Drop-In Book Tour on a Budget".

The goal is to meet as many booksellers

and sign as many books as possible,

using the least amount of time and money.

Because this is a driving tour where I'm stopping in bookstores to sign stock, I have no clear idea when I'll visit a certain bookstores, or even if I'll be able to visit all the ones on my list. The tour doesn't have any scheduled stops.

These won't be official signings. These will be drop-ins, where I sign stock, meet the booksellers, and get on my way.

There were 5,789 miles driven and 206 bookstores visited

in 13 states of the USA.

( With EBOOKS,this exhausting touring is now/finally/thankfully 100% unnecessary !!!)

a) If you ever want to do a print author book tour like this,

here are some 7 things to think about :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/05/kilborn-200-tour-wrap-up.html

# 8---visited (and signed at !!!)

1,200 bookstores in his writing/author career

(in 39 states of the USA !)

# 9---mailed out 7,000 promotional letters to libraries

( I did a mass mailing to 7,000 libraries)

# 10---Joe Konrath also did UN-OFFICIAL book author drop-in signing

at numerous bookstores

( Barnes and Noble,B.Dalton,Brentano's,Waldenbooks,Borders,etc.),

selling as much as 62 to 79 HARDCOVER books (at $20 retail plus)

over an 8 hour period.

( Emotionally and physically,

I never guessed how hard this was going to be)

( Be good to yourself.

I ate when hungry, drank plenty of water,

and made sure I had some sleep the night before.

I couldn't imagine doing this without enough sleep or nourishment

---or even worse, hungover.

A healthy tour is a productive tour.)

# 11---Got over 500 rejection letters,from 1988 to 2004.

# 12----Signed tens of thousands of autographs

# 13---Met countless librarians,fans and booksellers.

# 14---Began blogging on March 20, 2005.

( A Newbie's Guide To Publishing blog )

# 15---I was one of the first authors to use MySpace, Facebook,

and Twitter to promote my work.

I went heavy into MySpace a few years ago,

getting more than 12,000 friends.

Then MySpace started to suck,

so I spend my effort on Facebook and Twitter.

# 16---I amassed a newsletter list of 10,000 names.

# 17----He spoke at over a hundred libraries.

# 18-----He spoke at schools and universities.

# 19----I've gone to scores/dozens of conventions, conferences,

book fairs and literary festivals.

("But he STILL wasn't successful"---in his own words !

Huh,do NOT understand this ??!!!!

Well,he NEVER earned more than

$50,000 per year

as a PRINT/PAPER book author,

and,of course,spent much of that on his self-financed

book promotion and sales tours).

His blog, A Newbie's Guide to Publishing ( jakonrath.blogspot.com/),

gets several million hits or visits a year
and was started way back

on March 20,2005.

( FIRST blog post of Joe Konrath----

Sunday, March 20, 2005

---Who am I and why should you care ?

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2005/03/who-am-i-and-why-should-you-care.html ).

As of Valentine's Day (February 14) 2012,

Joe Konrath has written 686 blog articles

since March 20,2005 !

Yep---he likes to write AND blog !
Bless his generosity of ebook advice & wisdom !

( Joe Konrath has been blogging about the PUBLISHING BUSINESS
since Sunday,March 20,2005 !!!)

The purpose of this or Joe Konrath's blog
---To raise author awareness of what needs to be done
in order to become a sucessful/profitable author.

Here are some WRITING TIPS from Joe Konrath :

These 10 tips are for writers, in any stage of their careers,

who want to improve their writing and market themselves better.

They are tips and tricks I've learned

through rejection, failure, success, and advice from industry pros. :

SPECIAL Note :These 10 tips were written

BEFORE

Joe Konrath FIRST self-published (and VERY successfully too !!!) his EBOOKS

on Amazon on

April 8,2009 !!!

1) PAIN-FREE REWRITING,TIPS FOR THE FIRST CHAPTER,

SELF-CRITIQUING,CONFLICT IS THE KEY,PLOT VS. CHARACTER,

AVOIDING PLODDING PLOTTING,CREATING SERIES CHARACTERS,

and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips.html

2) QUERY LETTERS,SIX THING TO AVOID IN A QUERY,

PLACES TO FIND MARKETS,PITCHING TO AGENTS,TIPS (in person),

NEVER GIVE AN AGENT MONEY and WRITING SCAMS :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips2.html

3) OVERCOMING REJECTION,A WRITER'S MANTRA,SEVEN TIPS FOR GETTING INTO PRINT,

FIVE WAYS TO LOOK LIKE A PRO,STAYING ON TRACK,DON'T LOSE IT,

THINGS I'VE LEARNED BEING A FULLTIME WRITER,

THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE PUBLISHING BIZ,

QUITTING,

NEWBIE WRITER RESOLUTIONS,

and PRO WRITER RESOLUTIONS :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips3.html

4) RIGHTS & CONTRACTS, THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLISHERS,

THINGS YOUR PUBLISHER WILL (PROBABLY) DO FOR YOU,

THINGS YOUR PUBLISHER MIGHT DO FOR YOU,

THINGS YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T DO FOR YOU

and THINGS YOU SHOULD DO FOR YOUR PUBLISHER :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips4.html

5) June 2004----How To Find An Agent And Sell Your Writing :

How to Find an Agent and $ell Your Writing relates the steps I took to become a full time writer.

It's the sum total of my publishing knowledge so far,

and it contains many hints and tricks that you won't find in the regular how-to books.

I've come across these nuggets of info the hard way (trial and error), and now I'm passing them on to you the easy way (free).

Yeah, the booklet is free.100%, no strings attached.Why am I giving this away rather than selling it ?

The reason is simple:

I want to help new authors.

http://www.jakonrath.com/AgentBooklet.pdf

( 28 pages)

6) a) THE PANELIST'S MANIFESTO,

THE "ARE YOU A HACK?" QUIZ (18 questions)

and THE FASTPRINT CHRONICLES :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips5.html

b) April 22,2004----Do You Really Want To Publish through

Print on Demand (POD) ? :

http://www.jakonrath.com/FastPrint.pdf

( 8 pages)

7) SELF PROMOTION FOR WRITERS PART 1,

CREATE A WEBSITE,CONVENTIONS,BLURBS 101,

How to do Drive By Signings,How to Make a Disastrous Booksigning Event a Success,

Six Keys to a Successful Bookstore Pitch,Signing Survival Kit,

How to Survive a Book Tour,

and BOOKSIGNING QUICK CHECKLIST :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips6.html

8) SELF PROMOTION FOR WRITERS PART 2,

LEARN TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC,PROMO ITEMS,CHAPBOOKS,

SHOW ME THE MONEY,AMAZON SALES,

ON BEYOND GOOGLE, and WORKING WITH A PUBLICIST :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips7.html

9) I didn't get an agent and a publisher overnight. It took a looooong time.

When I'm doing a lecture, or a speech, I often talk about the struggles I had early on.

I usually condense or paraphrase, depending on the audience and the time allotted.

This is the whole full unabridged uncut 100% complete story.

THE AGENT/PUBLISHER EPIC :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips8.html

10) AFTER THE BIG SALE,AFTER THE BOOK COMES OUT,

BOOK TOUR 2005

and Tour Tip # 1 to #19 :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips9.html

11) VIDEO :

http://www.jakonrath.com/tips10.html

_____________________

18 Important Milestones And Facts

About Joe Konrath's Evolution
As An Ebook Publishing Ninja,Guru,Revolutionary & Prophet :

( Here is the EBOOK evolution
of a MAJOR Kindle ebook success

SELF-PUBLISHING story !!!)

# 1-----I uploaded "my first self-published ebook for
Amazon Kindle"
back on April 8, 2009.

In April 2009, I made $607 USA funds self-pubbing.

( his FIRST month on the Kindle)

By next April or In April 2010, I made $4,041 USA funds self-pubbing.

GREAT ebook start AND THEN it just SNOWBALLED from there !

Truly,mega wow !!

I've been self-publishing ebooks on Kindle since April 2009,

and every month since I've earned enough

to make my monthly house payment

( low mortgage).

With self-publishing on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore or through KDP/Kindle Direct Publishing,

I get paid MONTHLY !!

( Wow,what a cool concept for authors !!!)

# 2 a) -----Tuesday, December 28, 2010----You Should Self-Publish
(Why self-publish your FIRST ebook) !

December 7,2011

(Barry Eisler,VERY good buddy/friend of Joe Konrath !!!)

----A self-published EBOOK author, working alone,

has exactly the same distribution reach in digital

as a multi-million-dollar,BIG 6, New York publishing conglomerate.

So,why give up HUGE ROYALTIES to them or over 50%

when you,the ebook author,

could earn 70% ebook royalties

FOR YOURSELF (and YOUR FAMILY !) !!!

b) The "Big Six" Book (Paper/Print) Publishers of North America

or the USA & Canada

(what EVERY book author should know

---seriously !!!) =

HarperCollins (dates back to 1817),

Hachette Book Group USA (dates back to 1837),

Macmillan (dates back to 1885),

Penguin Group (dates back to 1838),

Random House ( dates back to 1927 )

and

Simon & Schuster ( dates back to 1924 ).

# 3----Friday, April 29, 2011---Incredibly, I now have
forty ebooks available.

Thirty-two are self-pubbed,

eight are with publishers.

# 4----Joe Konrath's blog posting history :

a) During 2011,Joe Konrath wrote 124 blog articles.

b) During 2010,Joe Konrath wrote 99 blog articles.

c) During 2009,Joe Konrath wrote 99 blog articles.

Pretty incredible WRITING OUTPUT,
eh ???
Over the last 3 years (2009 to 2011),he has written 322 blog articles !

# 5---As of today, Sept 21, 2010, I've sold 103,864 ebooks.

( Joe Konrath)

# 6--- A) I write 750 words an hour.

( Joe Konrath)

Note :

Stephen King writes daily---he sits down and writes from 8:15am to 11:45am every morning

or nearly 4 hours ,

trying to get 1,200 to 1,500 words written

or 5 to 6 pages done.

This equals 340 to 430 words per minute.

B) What writing software does Joe Konrath use

to write his ebooks ? :

Microsoft Word

( 2003 ?)

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word )

C) Do NOT download these versions of Microsoft Word

(heartbreak hotel !!!)---Microsoft Office Word 2010 !!!

Same applies to Microsoft Word 2007 [Old Version] ,

Microsoft Word 2002 [OLD VERSION],

Microsoft Word 2000 [Old Version],

and Microsoft Word 1997 !!!

( Corel WordPerfect would/MUST be included too

---there are better PAID software

options for writing your first ebook !

For ebook writing,the following software writing programs

are considerably

more efficient and effective

than WordPerfect !!! )

Noteworthy----If you REALLY,really want to buy Microsoft Word

to write,

then at least choose Microsoft Word 2003 [OLD VERSION].

priced at $172.99

as of May 2012 !!

D) Any MAC or Apple-oriented WRITING SOFTWARE ?

Free or non-free ! :

Scrivener for Apple or Mac OS/X users :

( Scrivener 2.2 for Mac OS-X : $45 USA funds)

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php?platform=mac

E) Any PAID outstanding ALTERNATIVE writing software

to Microsoft Word

(and/or Corel WordPerfect )?? :

( Why ???

Well,because I like to actually

produce/write an ebook

AND

not spend my time dealing with

nightmarish,frustrating & annoying software problems !

I also do NOT want to spend more TIME

trying to move things around so they fit nicely on the page

than

actually writing and creating my ebook !)

aaa) Liquid Story Binder XE (Version 4.93)---$45.95 USA funds

( MUCH cheaper than Microsoft Word,

eh ??!!!)

---is a uniquely designed word processor for professional and aspiring

authors, poets, and novelists.

Writing software for those who require the editing ability

of a commercial text editor

as well as a document tracking system.

It is for those who want the freedom to create, outline and revise

but are tired of losing track of their work :

http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com/

http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com/download.html

http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com/purchase.html

bbb) Scrivener for Microsoft Windows----$40 USA Funds :

( MUCH cheaper

than Microsoft Word 2003,eh ?!)

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

AND :

http://scrivener.s3.amazonaws.com/Scrivener-installer.exe

F) Sunday,May 6,2012---The PatrickGannon1938 Guide to

the best 100% FREE writing software

to write your first ebook

are :

Are there any 100% free versions of writing software that

are comparable to

better than (the best !!!)

Microsoft Word,

as of NOW or May 2012 ?? :

Note----DEFINITELY do NOT use LibreOffice

AND OpenOffice.org Writer !!

Please !!!

aaa) ZenWriter :

http://www.beenokle.com/zenwriter.html

( Free,Windows operating system AND only 60 Megabytes or small !)

bbb) EverNote :

http://evernote.com/evernote/index.php

http://evernote.s3.amazonaws.com/win4/public/Evernote_4.5.5.6827.exe

and :

http://evernote.com/

ccc) yWriter5, for Windows PC's or personal computers :

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_Download.html

AND :

July 19,2009----yWriter Software Tutorial :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5HNVVIV1w

( 8 minutes & 56 seconds----59,129 views to May 6,2012)

# 7---Joe Konrath's ebooks and author biography

can be found here :

a) http://www.amazon.com/J.-A.-Konrath/e/B000BCH4EM

b) http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Kilborn/e/B004IK1V0G

# 8----This is what Joe Konrath looks like

( numerous photos here !!) :

a) http://www.jakonrath.com/pictures.html

b) http://www.jakonrath.com/pictures2.html

c) http://www.jakonrath.com/pictures3.html

d) http://www.jakonrath.com/pictures4.html

# 9----Joe Konrath's blog,website

and numerous SOCIAL MEDIA channels

are here :

a) His Blog----A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

---Is it possible to make a living

as a genre fiction writer ?

Yes it is. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/

b) His Official Author Website :

J.A.Konrath/Jack Kilborn

---Official Author Site--Welcome ! :

http://www.jakonrath.com/

c) His Facebook page :

http://www.facebook.com/people/JA-Konrath/679343992

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Konrath/108618652503679

d) His Google Plus page :

https://plus.google.com/116545910411481156433/posts

https://plus.google.com/116545910411481156433/photos

https://plus.google.com/116545910411481156433/about

https://plus.google.com/116545910411481156433/videos

e) His Twitter page :

JA Konrath---I write thrillers.

( 1,737 tweets AND 8,761 followers

---As of April 7,2012 !)

https://twitter.com/#!/jakonrath

http://twitter.com/#!/jakonrath

https://twitter.com/#!/jakonrath/followers

( all 8,000 plus individuals & blogs !!)

https://twitter.com/#!/jakonrath/favorites

https://twitter.com/#!/jakonrath/lists

f) His Youtube page :

About Haknort

---Videos by or involving JA (Joe) Konrath,

a thriller and horror writer

who resides at www.JAKonrath.com :

http://www.youtube.com/user/haknort

# 10---I made a ridiculous amount of money

---about $600,000--in 2011.

I currently earn enough money via ebook self-publishing

to be in the top 1% tax bracket of the USA.

Compare that to the eight years

I spent in the legacy publishing world,

making $40,000 a year and spending half of that on self-promotion.

# 11----"THE LIST" was my first ebook to sell 20,000 copies.

# 12----Ebooks have both an infinite shelf space,

and an eternal shelf life.

Unlike print, which has six months or less to find an audience before it gets returned,

an ebook is forever.

Forever is a long time to find readers.

# 13---January 2012---I have been following the ebook revolution for three years,

and I never could have predicted

this would get so big

so fast.

I have consistently been surprised by numbers and sales,

and have lost count of the times I've said,

"This is unreal."

(Joe Konrath)

# 14----a) As of Saturday,April 7,2012 "Joe Konrath"

has "About 1,260,000 Results" on Google search.

b) On Google,his blog "A Newbie's Guide to Publishing"

has "About 127,000 results".

c) On Google,"Joe Konrath blog"

has "About 140,000 results".

d) On Google, "Joe Konrath Amazon"

has "About 120,000 results".

Now,let us compare Google SEARCH results

with

Yahoo SEARCH results

( Kind of reminds me of comparing Amazon.com Inc

with

Barnes & Noble Inc,

eh ???!!!) :

Date of Yahoo results search was----April 7,2012 !!

( Just like Google's !!)

a) On the Yahoo search engine,the term "Joe Konrath"

reveals "50,500 results"

( versus 1,260,000 Results on Google)

b) On Yahoo,the term "a newbie's guide to publishing"

reveals 5,960,000 results.

( versus 127,000 results on Google)

c) On Yahoo,the term "Joe Konrath blog"

reveals 119,000 results

( versus 140,000 results on Google)

d) On Yahoo,the term "Joe Konrath Amazon"

yields 86,700 results.

( versus 120,000 results on Google)

Yahoo and Google Search Summary :

On 3 out of 4 search terms

or 75% of search terms,

Google easily provided MUCH MORE search results

on various Joe Konrath search terms.

Furthermore,

Google has BETTER quality and quantity of results

than Yahoo does.

Hey Joe Konrath,

you ARE famous !!

:>) :>) :>)

# 15---Blogging doesn't pay the bills.

( Joe Konrath-----January 2012 !!!!!)

# 16----Wednesday, January 26, 2011---In the last 68 days,

Trapped ( just ONE ebook !!!)

has earned me over $20,000.

It's currently selling over 160 copies a day.

# 17----In 2011, the game has changed

( "the ebook revolution" has ARRIVED !!!),

and (thus) so have the rules.

(How so ???)

a) These days, I no longer do signings.

( Doesn't FINANCIALLY NEED to

because of ebooks and their popularity

PLUS the amazing Amazon EBOOK SALES algorithms !!!)

b) I don't speak at libraries, or visit conventions.

( Doesn't FINANCIALLY NEED to

because of ebooks and their popularity

PLUS the amazing Amazon EBOOK SALES algorithms !!!)

c) For years, I talked about having

a one-on-one interaction with fans, and now I don't answer my email.

( Doesn't FINANCIALLY NEED to

because of ebooks and their popularity

PLUS the amazing Amazon EBOOK SALES algorithms !!!)

d) I used to scramble to get interviews, now I turn them down.

( Doesn't FINANCIALLY NEED to

because of ebooks and their popularity

PLUS the amazing Amazon EBOOK SALES algorithms !!!)

Bottom-line ??? :

Obviously,his EBOOK SUCCESS has allowed him

to SPEND MORE TIME with friends & family !!

That is a good thing !!

# 18) a) Wednesday, January 18, 2012

----I've sold almost 700,000 ebooks.

b) Wednesday, April 04, 2012---J.A. (Joe) Konrath

(also known as Jack Kilborn AND Joe Kimball,pen names)

has sold over 800,000 ebooks.

c) It appears that Joe Konrath sold 100,000 ebooks

in the 77 days from January 18 to April 4,2012.

That means 1,298 ebooks SOLD DAILY !!!

Serious WOW !!

d) Extrapolating from this,

he should reach 900,000 ebooks

sold on or about June 20,2012.

e) Further extrapolation would result

in Joe Konrath reaching

the Kindle Million ebooks sold mark on or near

September 5,2012.

Perhaps by LABOR DAY 2012 ??

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day ).

Oh,the IRONY of breaking the 1 million ebooks sold mark

WITHIN one week of Labor Day 2012 (Sept.3,2012),

eh ???!!

Wow, reaching this MILLION EBOOKS SOLD MILESTONE

is happening to Joe Konrath

MUCH sooner than i thought !!

( I previously thought sometime in 2013,

based on previous research on Joe Konrath,

and certainly not in 2012 !!

Yes---i WAS wrong !!)

The BEST reasoned,educated,researched guess

or guesstimate is :

-----Joe Konrath reaches

ONE MILLION EBOOKS sold

in or near September 2012 ??!!!

Not too shabby,eh ??

Or as Joe Konrath

likes to say :

I am a guy who had his butt kicked by the industry for 20 years,
and now
I'm showing other authors what they can do
so they don't have to go through the same thing,
he says.

Traditional book publishers are just serving drinks on the Titanic.

They are doing so much to protect their paper industry
that they are disregarding the needs of customers
and
are treating authors poorly.

Authors TREATED poorly ???

Any examples ???
There are MANY

but here are a FEW :

( You WILL CRY when you read these 100% truths !!

Don't be so GULLIBLE,dumb and NAIVE,
you FIRST-TIME

or long-time,etc.authors !!!)

Amazon,Ebooks,Apple And Legacy (Print/Paper)

Or "The Big 6" Publishers :

What every potential/aspiring and experienced

EBOOK AUTHOR should know

in 2012 and beyond !!! :

( The "Big 6" are

---Hachette,HarperCollins,Macmillan,Penguin Group,Random House,

and Simon & Schuster !!! )

1) A) Monday, February 20, 2012---
Do Legacy (print/paper book)
Publishers
Treat Authors Badly ?
---22 TOP reasons why they do !! :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html

B) February 23,2012---22 years of publishing with
New York City publishers

---12 MORE reasons why legacy publishers
are BAD for authors :

a) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html?showComment=1329804689481#c2750279094802128548

b) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html?showComment=1329804778803#c7263361138573102925

c) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html?showComment=1329804808961#c4812808040700429934

C) April 20,2011----Royalty Statements Update

----I was seeing an industry-wide problem that no one was talking about.

So far as I can tell, my blog post was the first mention of this problem in public. :

aa) http://kriswrites.com/2011/04/20/the-business-rusch-royalty-statements-update/

bb) http://kriswrites.com/2011/04/20/the-business-rusch-royalty-statements-update/#comments

( 98 comments----up to April 24,2012)

D) aaa) May 4th, 2012----Royalty Statement Update 2012 :

( Kristine Kathryn Rusch---wife of VERY PROLIFIC Dean Wesley Smith)

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/05/04/the-business-rusch-royalty-statement-update-2012/

http://www.thepassivevoice.com/05/2012/kriss-post-spread-the-word/

AND

http://www.thepassivevoice.com/05/2012/kriss-post-spread-the-word/#comment-31807

( 45 comments---up to May 10,2012 !!!)

bbb) http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=6829

( May 3,2012---Kris's site was hacked)

ccc) http://melissadouthit.com/2012/05/04/kris-rusch-website-hijacked/

( May 4,2012---Kris Rusch' Website Hijacked )

( BRILLIANT summary !!!)

E) May 7,2012---Ciao Publishers.

Ciao Agents.

Ciao slavery. :

( Classic letter from 70-year-old author Suzanne White )

http://www.thepassivevoice.com/05/2012/ciao-publishers-ciao-agents-ciao-slavery/

F) Tuesday, May 08, 2012----Harlequin Fail

---The royalty rates of the Big 6 are lousy.

Yours are repulsive.

Change them. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/05/harlequin-fail.html

G) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012---What is Wrong With You?

(Or Why I am Self-Publishing) :

http://thenephitewholovedme.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-is-wrong-with-you-or-why-i-am-self.html

2) a) Saturday, April 7, 2012---Hate Amazon ?

Well Read About What Random House Did to Me

and My Family... :

http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/2012/04/hate-amazon-well-read-about-what-random.html#.T4DKPZl8Crk

b) Vincent Zandri :

http://www.amazon.com/Vincent-Zandri/e/B001KDTLE2

3) Amazon AND book/ebook READERS !! :

a) February 16,2012-----As a reader, I love Amazon

----here are 6 GREAT reasons WHY ! :

http://blog.authorsguild.org/2012/02/16/amazon-innovation-and-the-rewards-of-the-free-market/#comment-441540874

4) Amazon AND AUTHORS !!! :

a) February 29,2012---- Can We Stop Calling Amazon a Bully ?

---I find it difficult to be critical of a company that has done

these 5 great things

for authors :

( People say that Amazon is a "bully" by trying to take over the

book publishing world)

http://crimefictioncollective.blogspot.com/2012/02/can-we-stop-calling-amazon-bully.html?showComment=1330553792068#c6790954605649223589

b) Andrew E. Kaufman :

http://www.amazon.com/Andrew-E.-Kaufman/e/B003RR3MQW

c) May 8,2012----Whenever I hear the "but whatever will Amazon do to us in the future???"

I have to say that it doesn't much concern me.

Mainly because Amazon doesn't own me.

They don't own my books.

They don't have a non-compete clause.

They don't "license" (which in most cases actually means retain forever) my copyright.

In short, Amazon is allowing me to do whatever I want (as an ebook author !!!),

and if they fall short in any respect, I have the complete freedom to go somewhere else. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/05/harlequin-fail.html?showComment=1336497281936#c1516576990795455341

d) Sariah S. Wilson ebook author biography :

http://www.amazon.com/Sariah-S.-Wilson/e/B001JP9SK8

5) a) April 12,2010---Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides

( Barry Eisler put forth a terrific argument about

the inevitability of digital dominance of ebooks)

---What's happening is this :

Amazon is doing everything it can to speed the transition to eBooks

because, in a digital world, Amazon's costs of shipping and storage essentially disappear.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks

because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

That's it. One side wants to improve its profits through lower costs;

the other, through higher margins.

Everything else is commentary, much of it misleading.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-eisler/paper-earthworks-and-digi_b_534458.html

b) Barry Eisler :

http://www.amazon.com/Barry-Eisler/e/B001IQXSUE

6) A) April 11, 2012---U.S. Alleges E-Book Scheme

---Lawsuit Says Apple, Publishers Colluded to Raise Prices;

Three Will Settle---

(Apple and two publishers,Macmillan and Penguin Group USA,didn't settle.)

( OUTSTANDING ARTICLE

by "The Wall Street Journal"

---to be read by EVERY aspiring/potential

and experienced ebook author AND EBOOK BLOGGER

in 2012 and beyond !!!)

The U.S. accused Apple Inc.

and five of the nation's largest BOOK publishers

of conspiring to raise e-book prices,

in a case that could radically reorder the fast-growing business.

The five publishers and Apple hatched an arrangement

that lifted the price of many best-selling e-books

to $12.99 or $14.99, according to the suit.

The publishers then banded together to impose that model on Amazon,

the government alleged.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304444604577337573054615152.html

a) Three of the publishers settled with the Justice Department,

agreeing to let Amazon and other retailers resume discounting of e-books.

Amazon called the settlement a victory for consumers and users of its Kindle e-reading device.

It promised to renew EBOOK discounting.

b) In 2009, before the new ebook BIG 6 pricing,

Amazon was estimated to have around 90% of the e-book market.

c) Its (Amazon's) share has now (April 2012) slipped to around 60%,

according to Mike Shatzkin,chief executive of the Idea Logical Co.,

a New York-based publishing consultancy.

He estimated that Barnes & Noble has between 25% and 30%,

and Apple has much of the remainder.

B) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304444604577337573054615152.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Dcomments

( 347 comments---up to April 14,2012 !!)

C) FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012---The DOJ's Ebook Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Apple

and the "Agency Five":

An Overview :

http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2012/04/dojs-ebook-price-fixing-lawsuit-against.html

7) Dan Agin---My first published literary effort, an article about New York City,

appeared in 1945 in a magazine called Gotham, the house organ of the New Yorker Hotel.

Since this is 2012, I claim

67 years as both a participant and observer of American publishing :

a) April 15,2012----EBooks: Windbagging the Price Issue

---Here are some 5 (awesome !!!) truths about the current brouhaha

concerning the Department of Justice (DOJ)

and the Big Six publishers and Apple controversy:

( 100% nailed it !!!---Wow !!!!)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-agin/ebooks-windbagging-the-pr_b_1425549.html

( SUPERB thinking !!!)

b) April 16,2012---A word concerning "predatory pricing" (from Amazon)

---The losers call it "predatory practice"

and the winners call it "aggressive marketing" :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hp_blogger_Dan%20Agin/ebooks-windbagging-the-pr_b_1425549_148592232.html

c) April 25,2012---Amazon ebook pricing ( legal or not) ??? :

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act)

USA federal antitrust law does makes it illegal for book publishers,etc. "to collude to set prices".

( http://www.stolaf.edu/people/becker/antitrust/statutes/sherman.html )

However,this same federal law does not make it illegal for Amazon,etc. to sell an ebook,product,etc.

at less than their cost.

Federal antitrust law does not state that Amazon or any other company

has to make profits or be intelligent.

Whether Amazon's competitors

(Apple,Barnes & Noble,The Big 6 book publishers,etc.)

like it or HATE it,

Amazon.com Inc. can go on for many years making minimal,no or some profit on ebook sales

by the Big 6 book publishers

in order to gain market share and greater acceptance of the Kindle ebook reader

(and Amazon's shareholders have been strongly inclined to let them do that

BECAUSE of Amazon's WISE,wealth-building,

long-term vision,strategy and values !!).

Of course,it helps that Amazom stock has

GONE UP SUBSTANTIALLY (over 150% !!!)

over the last 3 years (2009 to 2012).

Amazon's favorite saying

---"It's All About the Long Term." !!!

( from CEO Jeff Bezos---since 1997 !!!).

Looks like a good core value,eh ???

( LONG-TERM vision,strategy and values !!).

"1997 ---"It's ALL about the long term with Amazon" :

We believe that a fundamental measure of our success will be the shareholder value we create over the long term.

This value will be a direct result of our ability to extend and solidify our current market leadership position.

The stronger our market leadership, the more powerful our economic model.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability,greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital."

Amazon stock profit

(or "Net Income Applicable To Common Shares",in stock market language !!!)

over the last 3 years :

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN+Income+Statement&annual

( $631 million in 2011---$1.152 billion in 2010----$902 million in 2009 !!!)

( For comparison purposes,the Nook ebook reader,by Barnes & Noble,

is Amazon's main competitor

in the ereader market with a 27% USA market share.

How are Barnes & Noble's profit doing over the last 3 years ??

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=BKS&annual

( Barnes & Noble Inc.---$73.9 million LOSS in fiscal year 2011

----$36.6 million profit in fical year 2010

---$2.6 million LOSS in fiscal year 2009)

Barnes & Noble incurred more than a $73 million LOSS in its latest fiscal year.

In contrast, its rival Amazon.com made a $631 million profit during its latest fiscal year !)

Amazon stock price chart----Last 3 years

---Updated DAILY (Monday to Friday) !!!!!! :

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=AMZN&p=D&yr=3&mn=0&dy=0&id=p50939157380

OR :

( Click to enlarge !!!)

(click to enlarge)

( Amazon stock price chart----Last 3 years)

( From $73.10 in May 2009 to $226.85 on Friday,April 27,2012

or up $153.75 per share

or up 210 % in 3 years time !!

Wow returns,eh ??).

Happy shareholders mean that

Amazon can KEEP PURSUING its loss leader strategy

on SOME ebooks

in order to gain greater acceptance of its ebook reader,the Kindle,

and its ebookstore,etc. !!!

As of April 30,2012 ,for reference sake,

Amazon stock trades at about 190 times earnings and has 1% profit margins.
Pretty scary OR NOT ???!!!!

Short-sellers are among some of the SMARTEST money in the stock market

or on Wall Street.

Let's see what short-sellers think of Amazon,Apple AND

Barnes & Noble stock,eh ?? :

Amazon,Apple AND

Barnes & Noble stock----As of April 30,2012 :

Short-selling opinions of stock market investors !!

A) Amazon stock had 10.32 million shares sold short

only 2.85% of the public share float.

http://quotes.wsj.com/Amzn

Strong Note (May 2012)---This tells me that the

VERY HIGH PE ratio

and

the VERY LOW profit margins

are

100% USELESS INDICATORS

as to whether Amazon should be

shorted

or not !!

Amazon has a PE Ratio of 188.17

times earnings as of Friday,May 11,2012.

http://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/pe_ratio

Amazon has a 1% profit margin

as of May 2012 :

http://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/key_stats

As of 2012,WHERE does Amazon spend

its money/profits on ???

Amazon spent money/profits

in three

main areas: :

a) warehouses for online retail;

b) digital content, or e-books, games and videos;

c) network infrastructure for its cloud computing service.

( http://www.forbes.com/sites/susankalla/2012/04/26/amazon-crushes-estimates-shares-soar/ )

B) Apple Inc stock has 11.38 million shares sold short

or only 1.22% of the public float

http://quotes.wsj.com/AAPL

C) Barnes & Noble Inc stock has 19.77 million shares sold short

or a HUGE 75.37% of the public float !!!

http://quotes.wsj.com/BKS

A HIGH short selling interest is considered a short float above 20% !!!

So,75% is totally INSANE !!!

8) a) On April 11, 2012, the United States filed a civil antitrust Complaint

alleging that Apple,Inc. ("Apple")

and 5 of the 6 largest publishers in the United States("Publisher Defendants")

restrained competition in the sale of electronic books ("e-books"),

in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act :

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f282100/282143.pdf

( printed/typed out )

http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/uploadedFiles/Reuters_Content/2012/04_-_April/e-books_complaint.pdf

( photocopy of ACTUAL court document !!)

b) Cool fact about this lawsuit :

Amazon is noted approximately 90 times in this ebook lawsuit

by the Department of Justice against Apple Inc.

and five of the 6 largest book publishers in the USA !!

Wow,eh ???

( Yes---Amazon AND THE KINDLE EBOOK READER

are their biggest competition,

of course !!!)

As of April 15,2012 (according to The Seattle Times newspaper),

Amazon has 55% to 60% of the USA ebook (digital book) market

while their second largest competitor ( Barnes & Noble Inc) has 25% to 30%

and the third largest competitor (Apple Inc) has 10% to 15% !!

Interesting,eh ???

c) April 23, 2012---Critics of E-Books Lawsuit Miss the Mark,

Experts Say :

Companies under pressure from a more successful rival

can't band together to protect themselves,

whatever their size.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577359741232993860.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577359741232993860.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments

9) A) Minutes after the initial report

( ebook lawsuit against Apple & 5 book publishers) hit,

Bloomberg is reporting that Simon & Schuster,

Lagardère SCA's Hachette Book Group

and HarperCollins just settled with the DoJ over unspecified terms :

( 7:15am PACIFIC TIME,on April 11,2012 !!!

Bright & early

legal teams,eh ???!!!!!!)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-11/u-s-said-to-reach-accord-with-3-publishers-on-ebooks.html

B) Wednesday, April 11, 2012---Justice Department Reaches Settlement

with Three of the Largest Book Publishers

and Continues to Litigate Against Apple Inc. and Two Other Publishers

to Restore Price Competition

and Reduce E-book Prices :

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/April/12-at-457.html

C) Are these lawsuits a good thing ?? :

"For the growing number of Americans

who want to take advantage of this new technology,

the Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that

e-books are as affordable as possible,"

Attorney General Eric Holder declared.

So,how do the big 3 ebook retailers (Amazon,Apple & Barnes and Noble)

IMMEDIATELY REACT (same day !!!!!)

to this ebook lawsuit and settlement by 3 of the book publishers ??

Read below !!

( http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/justice-files-suit-against-apple-and-publishers-over-e-book-pricing/# )

D) Amazon says----"This is a big win for Kindle owners,

and we look forward to being allowed to lower prices on more Kindle books,"

Andrew Herdener, a spokesman for Amazon, said in a statement.

E) Apple says-----An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

F) Barnes & Noble says----

A spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble said the retailer had no comment.

10) A) Wednesday, April 11, 2012---Proposed Final Judgmentas to Defendants

Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster

---For two years, Settling Defendants shall not restrict, limit, or impede

an E-book Retailer's ability to set, alter, or reduce the Retail Price of any E-book

or to offer price discounts

or any other form of promotions to encourage consumers

to Purchase one or more E-books,

such two-year period to run separately for each E-book Retailer,

at the option of the Settling Defendant,

etc. :

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f282100/282141.pdf

B) April 11,2012---DOJ Announces Terms of Settlement With 3 Publishers

in E-Book Lawsuit ---This doesn't kill the agency model outright,

but does modify it well beyond what's widely recognized today :

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/doj-terms-settlement-ebook/

( The DOJ's proposed terms expressly permit publishers to set a soft floor on discounts,

but not a hard floor.

Publishers can enter into one-year agency agreements

that stipulate that the retailer can sell individual titles at a loss,

but must show a profit overall for all the books it sells from that publisher's catalogue.)

11) Average Price For Kindle Top 100 Ebooks

From March 23,2012 to April 10,2012 :

Average Kindle Ebook Price Chart

( Data provided by eBook Market View and Digital Book World.

eBook Market View is a firm that tracks such information.)

12) April 11, 2012----Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon

Is Set to Shake Rivals :

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/business/media/amazon-to-cut-e-book-prices-shaking-rivals.html?pagewanted=print

13) A) January 24, 2012----Why Rakuten's Kobo Is Amazon's

Only (real) Global Competition

(for ebook sales) :

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/kobo-amazons-only-global-competition/

B) January 6, 2012---Barnes & Noble Seeks Next Chapter

---Barnes & Noble Inc. is the latest old-school company to discover

how costly it can be to try to reinvent itself

for a digital future.

----The nation's largest bookstore chain

warned Thursday

it would lose twice as much money this fiscal year

as it previously expected,

and said it is

weighing splitting off its growing Nook digital-book business

from its aging bookstores. :

aaa) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142481239801336.html

bbb) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142481239801336.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments

( 114 comments----up to April 30,2012)

C) April 30,2012----Barnes & Noble, Microsoft Partnership:

Desperate Meets Hopeless :

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/barnes-noble-microsoft-partnership-desperate-meets-hopeless-151340097.html

( Good video !!!)

D) April 30,2012---Wall Street Journal---

Barnes & Noble's

Nook business

is on track to

lose about $260 million

on $1.1 billion in revenue this year,

after

losing about $200 million last year,

says analyst Brett Harriss of Gabelli & Co.

So,WHO IS this guy

and

WHY should i take the above fact

as worthwhile or worth listening to

regarding Barnes & Noble ebook device/reader business ???

http://www.gabelli.com/research/team.html

Brett Harriss joined Gabelli & Company as a research analyst in 2008

covering Media and Entertainment.

Previously, he worked as a financial analyst at Jetblue

and as an Investment Banker at JPMorgan.

Brett received his B.A. at Columbia University in Economics in 2003

and his M.B.A from Columbia Business School in 2008 in Finance and Economics.

E) April 30, 2012---Microsoft's E-Book Deal With Barnes & Noble

Has Familiar Plot

---On Monday, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) announced plans

to form a new entity designed to give both companies additional muscle

in the fast-growing digital reader market dominated

by Amazon.com Inc.(AMZN) and Apple Inc. (AAPL).

Microsoft would invest $300 million,

while Barnes & Noble would contribute assets of its Nook e-reader

and its digital- and college-book business

valued at $1.4 billion.

htt p://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120430-718195.html

( For its investment, Microsoft will acquire 18% of NewCo,

which includes all of the Nook hardware, trademarks and intellectual property.

The venture also will have ownership

of the digital relationships with publishers,

all Nook customer lists

and

the digital lockers where users access content.)

F) April 30,2012---Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Form Strategic Partnership

to Advance World-Class Digital Reading Experiences for Consumers

---Newly Formed Subsidiary to Include

NOOK® Digital and College Businesses :

http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/4_30_12_bn_microsoft_strategic_partnership.html

G) April 30,2012---The new partnership is called "Newco," for the time being

(Barnes & Noble says they haven't settled on the name).

It sees Microsoft investing $300 million for a 17.6 percent equity stake.

The remaining 82.4 percent will be owned by Barnes & Noble,

and the company itself will be worth $1.7 billion in total.

H) What investors should know about the company

or Barnes & Noble :

aaa) http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/for_investors/for_investors.html

(number of physical stores)

bbb) http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=BKS+Key+Statistics

( Shares Short and 52 Week High)

ccc) http://finance.yahoo.com/q/co?s=BKS+Competitors

( Top 3 competitors)

I) There were 19.7 million shares SHORTED as of April 30,2012,

the latest reporting period for short sales

in Barnes & Noble Inc. stock !!!

This is an INCREDIBLE 75.37% of the PUBLIC trading SHARE FLOAT

or an equally stunning 32.84% of the TOTAL shares outstanding

( including mutual funds and institutional owners !)

aaa) http://quotes.wsj.com/BKS

bbb) http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/bks/short-interest

14) A) April 30, 2012---Why the Nook is now doomed :

http://wallstreetallstars.com/why-the-nook-is-now-doomed/

B) February 6,2012----The Quiet Death of Barnes & Noble :

http://blog.ryanlowery.com/?p=515

C) Apr. 30, 2012---A brief history of Microsoft's e-reader efforts :

http://gigaom.com/mobile/a-brief-history-of-microsofts-e-reader-efforts/

D) MAY 1, 2012---Should Barnes & Noble sell its stores? :

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/05/should-barnes-noble-sell-its-stores

E) April 30,2012---At $1.7 billion, Nook is worth more than Barnes & Noble itself :

http://gigaom.com/2012/04/30/at-1-7-billion-nook-is-worth-more-than-barnes-noble-itself/

F) aaa) May 3,2012---Barnes & Noble Out-Innovates Microsoft: How Could This Happen ? :

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2012/05/03/barnes-noble-out-innovates-microsoft-how-could-this-happen/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2012/05/03/barnes-noble-out-innovates-microsoft-how-could-this-happen/2/

bbb) May 1,2012---Barnes & Noble Deal Shows Microsoft's Patent Power

---Bookseller could have continued expensive court battle with Microsoft over Android-based Nook,

or cut Redmond a sweetheart deal.

It chose the latter. :

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/232901214

G) April 30, 2012---Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Team Up to Take on Amazon, Apple :

(and the winner of THE ebook reading device & ebook revolution will be ???)

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/microsoft-and-barnes-noble-team-up-to-take-on-amazon-apple/

H) May 2, 2012---Microsoft Hooks Onto Nook

---Software Maker's $300 Million Deal Gives It a 17.6% Stake in Barnes & Noble Subsidiary :

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577375502392129654.html

a) Except for the Xbox, Steve Ballmer and his team seem unable to move beyond the fading cash cows of Windows and Office.

b) Despite those efforts and years of acquisitions,

Microsoft continues to generate more than

85% of its annual operating income

from the Windows software and services, and its Office software suite.

c) As part of its investment, Microsoft is taking a 17.6% stake in a new subsidiary that will

include the e-book division

and Barnes & Noble's college bookstores unit,

which operates 641 stores.

d) Microsoft's commitment also includes $180 million over three years

in guaranteed revenue-sharing payments for e-book sales,

and pledges of $125 million over five years to help fund international expansion.

I) aaa) Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) Stock Chart---Last 5 years :

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/bks/stock-chart?intraday=off&timeframe=5y

( Kinda sad-----The 2007 year high was $43.80 per share on May 24,2007

and now,5 years later,it is $18.44 per share,

as of Friday, May 11,2012)

bbb) Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) Stock Chart---Last 10 years :

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/bks/stock-chart?intraday=off&timeframe=10y

15) A) April 26,2010---PUBLISH OR PERISH

---Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business ?

---Asked about publishers' efforts to raise prices,

a skeptical literary agent said,

"You can try to put on wings and defy gravity, but eventually you will be pulled down." :

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_auletta

B) Special CRAZY/UNUSUAL Note----Believe it or not,this particular article

was the one that STARTED

the ebook price fixing lawsuit of April 11,2012 (2 years later !!)

between the DOJ (Department of Justice) in the USA

and Apple Inc and 5 MAJOR book publishers in the USA !!

The article was long,detailed and VERY blunt !!

You want PROOF of this connection and/or statement ???!!

Here it is :

aaa) http://www.thepassivevoice.com/04/2012/publish-or-perish-can-the-ipad-topple-the-kindle-and-save-the-book-business/

bbb) http://www.ctlawtribune.com/getarticle.aspx?ID=41899

16) April 12,2012---Apple's Antitrust Lawsuit Might Be A Big Deal For You

-- But Not For Apple

---the reason why Apple stock isn't off is because

e-books is still a relatively small business for Apple,

it's emerging, and probably more importantly, this issue is actually fixable :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/apple-antitrust-lawsuit_n_1418764.html

Apple is NOT likely to be a BIG LOSER in this ebook legal fight !!!

Why not ??

Most people do NOT realize it but ebooks are a VERY SMALL part of Apple's total yearly revenue.

Really ?

Ebooks are a FAR less than 1% part of Apple's TOTAL yearly revenue

from worldwide operations !

a)Apple doesn't really make much of a profit on e-books,

serving mainly as a conduit between readers and publishers.

b) Apple's annual revenue from e-book sales totaled around $50 million,

or a fraction of the more than $100 billion in revenue

the Cupertino company raked in 2011.

c) Apple Inc's last 3 years of profit

(OR Net Income Applicable To Common Shares )

were :

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL&annual

( $25.9 BILLION in 2011----$14.01 BILLION in 2010----$8.2 BILLION in 2009)

( FREAKY awesome numbers,eh ???)

17) You MUST read these 5 articles,

if you are an ebook author

an aspiring/potential ebook author :

A) April 22,2012----Antitrust Primer for the Publishing Price Fixing Lawsuit :

http://dearauthor.com/ebooks/antitrust-primer-for-the-publishing-price-fixing-lawsuit/

( A comprehensive summary of the law behind the Department of Justice e-book price-fixing lawsuit

against Apple, Penguin and Macmillan

from Jane Litte,

a lawyer,blogger and editor )

B) April 11,2012----Here's The Blow-By-Blow Account Of How Apple

Decided To Screw Over Amazon And Consumers Over E-Books :

it makes for a surprisingly compelling story.

(Here are 12 SCREENSHOTS of the ebook lawsuit

that will make your mouth drop !!!)

http://www.businessinsider.com/doj-lawsuit-against-apple-over-e-books-2012-4?op=1

C) April 11,2012----Writers and The DOJ Lawsuit :

aa) http://kriswrites.com/2012/04/11/the-business-rusch-writers-and-the-doj-lawsuit/

bb) http://kriswrites.com/2012/04/11/the-business-rusch-writers-and-the-doj-lawsuit/#comments

( 56 comments up to April 24,2012)

D) April 11,2012---What's Next for eBooks After the DoJ Settlement ? :

http://www.geardiary.com/2012/04/11/whats-next-for-ebooks-after-the-doj-settlement/

E) April 16,2012---What the DOJ e-book lawsuit means for readers now :

http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/16/what-does-the-doj-e-book-pricing-lawsuit-mean-for-readers-now/

18) December 6, 2011----Competing with Amazon

is not an easy thing to do :

http://www.idealog.com/blog/competing-with-amazon-is-not-an-easy-thing-to-do

19) December 17,2011---"Hating Amazon Is Not a Strategy"

- The World Reacts As Amazon Opens a New Front
in the Pricing Wars :

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/12/17/hating-amazon-is-not-a-strategy-the-world-reacts-as-amazon-opens-a-new-front-in-the-pricing-wars/

20) February 20,2012---More on Why Amazon Is Winning the

Book Wars :

a) http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/02/20/more-on-why-amazon-is-winning-the-book-wars/

b) http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/02/20/more-on-why-amazon-is-winning-the-book-wars/#comments

( 17 comments---up to February 23,2012 )

21) December 13, 2011---Amazon:

Evil Demonic Corporation or Convenient Scapegoat ? :

http://jonfmerz.net/2011/12/13/amazon-evil-demonic-corporation-or-convenient-scapegoat/

22) February 17, 2012---Amazon Is Creating Competition,
Not Killing It :

http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/1786/

23) PatrickGannon1938 says (April 23,2012) :

Let's face it,all Amazon is doing is making the EBOOK/BOOK world

"much more efficient".

How ?

By eliminating MOST,not all, of the numerous middlemen

(agents,paper/print publishers,book manufacturers,book wholesalers,and retailers/physical bookstores)

between the product creator (author)

and

the product buyer (reader),

while taking a 30% (to 65%) cut for ebooks priced

from 99 cents to $9.99.

In this way, ebook authors are MUCH better off financially

and readers pay A LOT LESS for ebooks !

Sounds great for everyone BUT the unfortunate middlemen !

Progress/new technology CAN be VERY painful !

In the end,what matters most is EBOOK AUTHORS earning MORE money

and

ebook readers paying LESS for ebooks !

(Win-win !).

WHOEVER does that should be encouraged,

eh ?

What Joe Konrath believes (2012)----in the self-publishing ebook business,

authors and readers are necessary

but book publishers (and the Big 6 publishing companies,bookstores,etc.) are not required.

# 1 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----The List:

$2.99

# 2 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Shot Of Tequila

$2.99

# 3 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Origin

$2.99

# 4 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Trapped

$3.99

# 5 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Draculas

$2.99

# 6 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Endurance

$2.99

# 7 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Truck Stop

99 cents.

# 8 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Disturb

$2.99

# 9 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Horror Stories

$2.99

# 10 Bestselling ebook of Joe Konrath

(mid-January 2012)

----Jack Daniels Stories

$2.99

___________________________

The Ebook Publishing HISTORY Of Joe Konrath
---In Alphabetical order !!! :
47 ebooks in TOTAL !!!

( God bless you for DOING this,

PatrickGannon1938 !!

You are most welcome,

my dear friend/aspiring ebook author !!!)

Strong NOTE for you,

my blog reader :

ALL info below

as of February 29,2012.

(Subject to SUBSEQUENTLY change !!)

( Joe Konrath can change ebook prices

within 2 days !!

There is quick/Massive price flexibility

for SELF-PUBLISHED ebook authors

on Amazon's Kindle ebookstore !)

1) Afraid---April 1, 2009

---$6.99----388 pages.

2) Bloody Mary (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)---
July 6, 2005

---$4.80---368 pages.

3) Blood Lite---April 2, 2009

---$7.99---402 pages.

4) Banana Hammock

- A Harry McGlade Mystery (A "Write Your Own Dann Story" Adventure)

---September 11, 2010

---$2.99---297 pages.

5) Be the Monkey

- Ebooks and Self-Publishing:

A Dialog Between Authors

Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath

----March 18, 2011

---99 cents---100 pages.

6) Babe on Board - A Harry McGlade/Jack Daniels Mystery

---March 26, 2011

----99 cents----39 pages.

7) BIRDS OF PREY - A Psycho Thriller----April 20, 2011

---$2.99----147 pages.

8) Burners - A Jack Daniels/Alex Chapa Mystery---
January 22, 2012

---$2.99---??? pages (109 pages !!).

9) Cherry Bomb (Jacqueline)---June 23, 2009

---$7.19----316 pages.

10) Crime Stories---March 1, 2010

----99 cents----110 pages.

11) Dirty Martini (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)

---June 27, 2007

----$7.19----316 pages.

12) Disturb---April 11, 2009

---$2.99---225 pages.

13) Dumb Jokes & Vulgar Poems---April 13, 2009
---99 cents---?? pages (214 pages).

14) DRACULAS (A Novel of Terror)---September 7, 2010

---$2.99---326 pages.

15) Endurance (A Novel of Terror)---June 16, 2010

---$2.99---338 pages.

16) Exposed - A Thriller (Chandler Series)---September 30, 2011

----$3.49----107 pages.

17) FUZZY NAVEL (Jacqueline)---July 8, 2008

---$7.19---300 pages.

18) Floaters - A Jack Daniels/Alex Chapa Mystery

---May 26, 2009

----99 cents---??? pages (82 pages !!!).

19) Flee - A Thriller (Chandler Series #1)---March 22, 2011

---$2.99---256 pages.

20) Horror Stories---March 1, 2010

----$2.99---296 pages.

21) Jack Daniels Stories---February 28,2010

---$2.99---316 pages.

22) KILLERS - A Psycho Thriller----February 19, 2011

----$2.99---73 pages.

23) KILLERS UNCUT (Extended Edition)----April 20, 2011

---$2.99----280 pages.

24) Origin---April 8, 2009

---$2.99---306 pages.

25) Planter's Punch---April 8, 2009

---99 cents---?? pages (40 pages !!!).

26) Rusty Nail (Jack Daniels Mysteries)---September 15, 2006

---$4.80---304 pages.

27) Suckers (Andrew Mayhem/Harry Mcglade)---April 11, 2009

----$2.99---246 pages.

28) 65 Proof - Jack Daniels and Other Thriller Stories

----April 9, 2009

---$3.99---622 pages.

29) SERIAL UNCUT (Extended Edition)---March 14, 2010

---$2.99---170 pages.

30) SERIAL----October 2, 2010

----99 cents----52 pages.

31) Shot of Tequila: A Jack Daniels Thriller (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels)---April 12, 2009
---$3.99----270 pages.

32) Shapeshifters Anonymous---February 22, 2011

----99 cents----44 pages.

33) SYMBIOS---February 22, 2011

---99 cents---26 pages.

34) SERIAL KILLERS UNCUT - The Complete Psycho Thriller
(The Complete Epic)---April 27, 2011
---$3.99--432 pages.

35) Street Music - A Phineas Troutt Short Mystery Story

---July 26, 2011

---99 cents----14 pages.

36) Stirred (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels/Luther Kite Thriller)

--November 22, 2011

----$3.99---505 pages.

37) Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night---June 1, 2007

---$7.16---672 pages.

38) The Screaming---February 22, 2011

---99 cents---??? pages (44 pages !!!).

39) The List---April 12, 2009

---$3.99---306 pages.

In April of 2009, I self-published The List.

As of this writing, December 26, 2011,

The List has earned me over $100,000.

40) The Jack Daniels Six Pack---August 11, 2010

( new addition to previous list !!!)

---$28.80

---??? pages (unknown !!)

41) Truck Stop - A Psycho Thriller---July 4, 2009

----99 cents----76 pages.

42) Trapped---June 20, 2010

---$3.99---332 pages.

Trapped---I published it myself in June of 2010.

Since then (to December 2011),

it has earned me more than $100,000.

43) The Newbie's Guide to Publishing
(Everything A Writer Needs To Know)---April 18, 2010
----$2.99---1,088 pages.

(now 1,420 pages !!!)

44) Whiskey Sour (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)

---June 2, 2004

---$4.61---312 pages.

45) Wild Night Is Calling---February 23, 2011

---99 cents----26 pages.

46) With A Twist - A Lt. Jack Daniels

Locked Room

Mystery Short Story----July 26, 2011

---99 cents----19 pages.

47) Wolfsbane and Mistletoe---September 17, 2008

---$12.99----353 pages.

( Joe Konrath photo )

Joe Konrath ebooks by year :
( As of February 29,2012----47 ebooks TOTAL !!!)

2004---1 ebook

2005---1 ebook

2006----1 ebook

On November 19,2007,the first ebook reader by Amazon was

introduced and was called the "Kindle" !!!

THAT started the ebook revolution !!!:

( KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing

ALSO was introduced then !!!!

It was originally called DTP or Digital Text Platform !!!)

2007----2 ebooks

2008---2 ebooks

2009-----13 ebooks

( April 8,2009 was THE DAY that started Joe Konrath

on to massive ebook success !!!)

2010----11 ebooks

2011-----15 ebooks

2012-----1 ebook.

The Ebook Publishing HISTORY Of Joe Konrath
---From Day 1 to present ( February 29,2012) :
Joe Konrath's ebooks from 2004 to 2008 :

( Total of 7 ebooks !!)

1) Whiskey Sour (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)---
June 2, 2004

( CURRENTLY/accidentally listed as having a e-publishing date on Amazon

of January 1, 1900

---Please,please fix !!!)

---$4.61---312 pages.

2) Bloody Mary (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)---
July 6, 2005

---$4.80---368 pages.

3) Rusty Nail (Jack Daniels Mysteries)---September 15, 2006

---$4.80---304 pages.

4) Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night---June 1, 2007

---$7.16---672 pages.

5) It appears there are 2 versions uploaded

of the same ebook

on Amazon :

( What is the reason ???

What gives ?)

a) Dirty Martini---June 27, 2007

---$7.99---269 pages

b) Dirty Martini (Jack Daniels Mysteries)---June 27,2007

---$7.59---316 pages

( This is the MOST reviewed/popular version,

and it is 40 cents cheaper

and 47 MORE pages

than the other one !!!)

( Ebook price was---previously $7.19 in late February 2012 !!)

( Previously uploaded as---

Dirty Martini (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Mystery)

6) FUZZY NAVEL (Jacqueline)---July 8, 2008

---$7.19---300 pages.

7) Wolfsbane and Mistletoe---September 17, 2008

---$12.99----353 pages.

Joe Konrath's ebooks of 2009 :

( 13 ebooks !!!)

1) Afraid---April 1, 2009

---$6.99----388 pages.

2) Blood Lite---April 2, 2009

---$7.99---402 pages.

The Beginning of Joe Konrath's EXPERIMENT

with ebook self-publishing on Amazon

began

on April 8,2009 !! :

( Between April 8 and 13,2009,

Joe Konrath

uploaded 8 ebooks

from his back-list of books

to Amazon.com !!

Busy week,eh ??

Financially LIFE-CHANGING week too !!)

3) Origin---April 8, 2009

---$2.99---306 pages.

ORIGIN is approximately 76,000 words long.

4) Planter's Punch---April 8, 2009

---99 cents
---?? pages (40 pages !!)

5) 65 Proof - Jack Daniels and Other Thriller Stories

----April 9, 2009

---$3.99---622 pages.

6) Suckers---April 11, 2009

---$2.99---246 pages.

7) Disturb---April 11, 2009

---$2.99---225 pages.

8) Shot of Tequila---April 12, 2009

---$3.99---270 pages.

SHOT OF TEQUILA is approximately 75,000 words.

9) The List---April 12, 2009

---$3.99---306 pages.

THE LIST is approximately 82,000 words long.

10) Dumb Jokes & Vulgar Poems---April 13, 2009
---99 cents

---?? pages (214 pages !!)

11) Floaters - A Jack Daniels/Alex Chapa Mystery

---May 26, 2009

----99 cents

---??? pages ( 82 pages !!!).

12) Cherry Bomb (Jacqueline)---June 23, 2009

---$7.19----316 pages.

13) Truck Stop - A Psycho Thriller---July 4, 2009

----99 cents----76 pages.

TRUCK STOP is a 15,000 word thriller novella.

Joe Konrath's ebooks of 2010 :

( Total of 11 ebooks !)

1) Jack Daniels Stories---February 28,2010

---$2.99---316 pages.

2) Horror Stories---March 1, 2010

----$2.99---296 pages.

3) Crime Stories---March 1, 2010

----99 cents----110 pages.

4) SERIAL UNCUT (Extended Edition)---March 14, 2010

---$2.99---170 pages.

5) The Newbie's Guide to Publishing
(Everything A Writer Needs To Know)---April 18, 2010
----$2.99

---1,088 pages (now 1,420 pages).

6) Endurance (A Novel of Terror)---June 16, 2010

---$2.99
---338 pages.

7) Trapped---June 20, 2010

---$3.99---332 pages.

8) The Jack Daniels Six Pack---August 11, 2010

( new addition to previous list !!!)

---$28.80

---??? pages (unknown !)

9) DRACULAS (A Novel of Terror)---September 7, 2010
---$2.99---326 pages.

10) Banana Hammock - A Harry McGlade Mystery
(A "Write Your Own Dann Story" Adventure)

---September 11, 2010

---$2.99---297 pages.

11) SERIAL----October 2, 2010

----99 cents----52 pages.

(click to enlarge)

Joe Konrath's ebooks of 2011 :

( Total of 15 ebooks !)

1) KILLERS - A Psycho Thriller----February 19, 2011

----$2.99---73 pages.

2) The Screaming---February 22, 2011

---99 cents
---??? pages (44 pages !!!).

3) Shapeshifters Anonymous---February 22, 2011

----99 cents----44 pages.

4) SYMBIOS---February 22, 2011

---99 cents---26 pages.

5) Wild Night Is Calling---February 23, 2011

---99 cents----26 pages.

6) Be the Monkey
- Ebooks and Self-Publishing: A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath
----March 18, 2011

---99 cents---100 pages.

7) Flee - A Thriller (Chandler Series #1)---March 22, 2011
---$2.99---256 pages.

.8) Babe on Board - A Harry McGlade/Jack Daniels Mystery---

March 26, 2011

----99 cents----39 pages.

9) BIRDS OF PREY - A Psycho Thriller----April 20, 2011---

$2.99----147 pages.

10) KILLERS UNCUT (Extended Edition)----April 20, 2011

---$2.99----280 pages.

11) SERIAL KILLERS UNCUT - The Complete Psycho Thriller
(The Complete Epic)---April 27, 2011
---$3.99--432 pages.

12) With A Twist - A Lt. Jack Daniels Locked Room Mystery Short Story----July 26, 2011
---99 cents----19 pages.

13) Street Music - A Phineas Troutt Short Mystery Story

---July 26, 2011

---99 cents----14 pages.

14) Exposed - A Thriller (Chandler Series)---September 30, 2011
----$3.49----107 pages.

15) Stirred (Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels/Luther Kite Thriller)

---November 22, 2011

----$3.99---505 pages.

(click to enlarge)

Joe Konrath's ebooks of 2012 :

( Total of 1 ebook !)

1) Burners - A Jack Daniels/Alex Chapa Mystery---
January 22, 2012

---$2.99---??? pages (109 pages !!).

( Joe Konrath photo)

So,Joe Konrath is quite a successful ebook author.

How successful has he been RECENTLY
or
"what have you done LATELY" ??

Here,look at this FUN,

little Ebook SALES figures :

( From January 1,2012
to EARLY morning of January 11,2012
or for ONLY 10 days !!!) :

( Click to ENLARGE,

please !!!)

(click to enlarge)

The PatrickGannon1938 review of

Joe Konrath's ebook sales
in the first 10 days of 2012 :

( Commentary as of Feb.29,2012 !!!!)

As of late February 2012,

Joe Konrath prices his ebooks from 99 cents to $3.99 per ONE ebook.

( a $3.00 price range)

Of his 21 ebooks listed here,
in his SALES graph,
there are 8 ebooks priced at 99 cents
WHILE

there are 13 ebooks priced at $2.99 to $3.99.

( Joe Konrath has a TOTAL of 47 ebooks,
as an AUTHOR or CO-AUTHOR,
on Amazon's Kindle Ebookstore !!!)

Based on his success,it appears that
FICTION WRITERS or NOVELISTS
would do well to price their ebook(s) at 99 cents to $3.99 per ebook,

don't you think ????!!!

Of the top 10 best-selling EBOOKS of Joe Konrath,
90% of them

are priced between
$2.99 and $3.99

per one ebook.

These 9 ebooks had page lengths

varying from as little as 225 pages
(for the "Disturb" ebook)
to 338 pages
( for the "Endurance" ebook)
but averaged 300 pages per one novel ebook !!

Only 1 ebook or 10% of them are priced at 99 cents per ONE ebook.
Joe Konrath's cheapest ebook at 99 cents had 76 pages.

Joe Konrath ebook sales

in early January 2012 ?

Well,in the first 10 days of January 2012,

Joe Konrath has sold a TOTAL of 20,149 ebooks
from the 21 ebooks that HE (as a self-publisher) priced at from 99 cents to $3.99 per ebook.

( The author CHOOSES the ebook selling price with

KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing !!!

What a DIFFERENT concept from the legacy/print/paper book publishers,eh ???)

Of these 21 ebooks,

Joe Konrath's lowest selling ebook

( Banana Hammock ) is averaging 225 ebooks sold monthly

or 7 1/2 (7.5) ebooks

a little over

7 ebooks sold daily at $2.99
for an approximate $2.09 per ebook profit
or $14.63 DAILY in profit or passive income.

That equals a $438.90 monthly profit or passive income
from this ONE ebook.

Good enough for a nice car or truck monthly payment,

eh ??

Joe Konrath's highest or top selling ebook (The List) is averaging

31,902 ebooks sold MONTHLY

OR 1,063 ebooks sold DAILY,

which at $3.99

would be an approximate $2.79 per ebook profit

or $2,859 DAILY in profit or passive income daily.

Yes, nearly $2,900 DAILY passive income

from JUST ONE ebook !

That equals an $85,770 MONTHLY ( not yearly !!!!!) profit

or passive income
from this ONE ebook.

( This $80,000 plus monthly income from ONE ebook

is possible

ONLY if he/the ebook author

maintains the same or approximately the same

sales ratio of the first 10 days of January 2012

for his TOP SELLING EBOOK,

The List,

until the end of January 2012 and beyond !!

Too hard to compute/comprehend,eh ??

This INSANE monthly ebook income for EARLY January 2012

is suggesting ONE THING----

It SEEMS that

Joe Konrath's ebook sales are ACCELERATING STRONGLY

from his 2011 year-end ebook sales reports.)

As of January 18,2012,

Joe or J.A. Konrath has sold almost 700,000 ebooks.

( February 2012

----He/Joe Konrath started selling SELF-PUBLISHED ebooks on April 8,2009
or

a little over 3 years ago !!!).

So,WHEN will Joe Konrath join the "Kindle Million (ebooks sold) Club" ???
The PatrickGannon1938 Blog says--

Based on his current pace of ebook sales,

it appears that
SOMETIME IN 2012,
Joe Konrath WILL DEFINITELY (100% !!!)
join the "Kindle Million Ebooks Sold Club" !!

There is ZERO doubt about this !

That is a HUGE achievement,honor,etc.

( The question is

NOT :

will Joe Konrath

be #15, # 16 OR #17

on the Kindle Million Club ??

Why ???

Well,for one thing,club membership has NOT been updated since November 2011

by Amazon !!!

As the list has been averaging 2 new ebook authors PER MONTH

since May 2011,

the #15 & #16 spots could have been filled by December 2011.

Based on Joe Konrath's recent rate of ebook selling

(his 700,000 and 800,000 ebooks SOLD milestones)

it appears that Joe Konrath could conceivably

reach the MILLION EBOOKS SOLD milestone

by EARLY September 2012.

If that occurred,it is likely that Joe Konrath would

be # 35 or thereabouts as a Kindle Million Club

ebook inductee !!

Only time (and Amazon !!!) will tell,eh ??

Who knows !!????? )

Kindle Million Club---The Kindle Million Club recognizes authors

whose books have sold over
1 million paid copies
in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

So,within the next 3 to 9 months,
Joe Konrath will be
a Kindle one million ebooks sold inductee !!

Thus,
in advance,
congratulations Joe Konrath
----you certainly deserve it,

ESPECIALLY with or because of your :

public charity/teaching work
on ebooks self-publishing education

for authors
and

potential authors
through your blog,
"A Newbie's Guide To Publishing" !!

Want to know more about "The Kindle Million Club" ??

The Kindle Million Club recognizes authors

whose books have sold over 1 million paid copies

in the Kindle Store

( http://www.amazon.com/KindleStore

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=133141011 )

This will help you LEARN MORE :

1) November 16,2011---3 More Authors Bring "Kindle Million Club" Membership
to 14 :

http://klerosier.com/2011/11/16/3-more-authors-bring-kindle-million-club-membership-to-14/

2) November 9,2011---David Baldacci, Amanda Hocking and Stephenie Meyer

Join the Kindle Million Club

---Hocking is the second author to use Kindle Direct Publishing
to reach this milestone :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1628394

The EBOOK publishing TIMELINE for Joe Konrath's FIRST 6 ebooks :

( VERY,VERY important info for ALL aspiring/potential ebook authors !

Why ??

Always good to SEE HOW SOMEONE or an author STARTED

on the Amazon/Kindle ebookstore !!!)

1) Origin---April 8, 2009

2) Planter's Punch---April 8, 2009

3) 65 Proof - Jack Daniels and Other Thriller Stories----April 9, 2009

4) Suckers---April 11, 2009

5) Disturb---April 11, 2009

6) Shot of Tequila---April 12, 2009

7) The List---April 12, 2009

______________________________________________

What EVERY author or potential author needs to know about

Amazon & KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing):

Lessons in FINANCIAL SUCCESS from the "Joe Konrath" blog
----A Newbie's Guide To Publishing :

You MUST read the last 3 years of blog entries,postings or articles
to

ATTAIN maximum ebook wisdom !

Lessons And Wisdom from the EBOOK success
of Joe Konrath !

( Reading all these articles on ebook writing and publishing by Joe Konrath

will not only familiarize you with his writing

but you will CLEARLY UNDERSTAND

how this Kindle/ebook publishing business REALLY WORKS

and see how one VERY SUCCESSFUL ebook author looks at it !

So,yes, it's worth it to

read these 121 timeless articles !!

Or as Joe Konrath would say----

The better informed you are,

the likelier your decisions will be correct.

Listen. Ask questions. Follow examples. Experiment.

Take chances. Stay alert. )

The top 121 articles of Joe Konrath from

April 2009 to April 2012 are here :

( Become an independent or INDIE ebook author

by avoiding the print/paper/legacy publishing houses

and use the KDP or Kindle Direct Publishing program of Amazon.com !!)

Joe Konrath is a long-time blog writer of the blog

"A Newbie's Guide to Publishing" !

Let the EBOOK SUCCESS EDUCATION begin
for YOU,
right NOW !! :

The VERY Best Articles & Advice Of Joe Konrath Over The Last 3 Years

From April 2009 To April 2012 :

( Let my 100% free research/blog article

help you

become a successful ebook author

in 2012 and beyond !!)

_________________________________________________

My reward from

YOU

( for this 100 pages plus of free info on how to become a

more successful ebook author )

????!!!

Choose one of the three :

1) Tweet or promote this article via social media :

(Twitter,Youtube,Facebook,Google Plus,

StumbleUpon,Reddit,Digg,etc.)

OR :

2) Name your cat or dog

after me :

"Come here,

PatrickGannon1938,

dinner's ready !"

(NOT Fido,Rover,Lassie,etc.)

OR :

3) Just make sure you have a YEARLY WRITING SCHOLARSHIP

of $1,000 yearly:

in my name (PatrickGannon1938)

at your LOCAL college/university

when you break $50,000 plus annually in ebook sales

in 2012 or beyond,

won't you ??

a) How about a scholarship name of :

The PatrickGannon1938 $1,000 Yearly Scholarship

For Writers And Authors

OR ???

______________________________________________________

Okay,

on with the ebook writing lessons

show !!! :

The VERY BEST or cream of the crop articles of Joe Konrath

---April 2009 to April 2012 :

Learn how the ebook publishing industry or Amazon really works,etc. !!

( Total----121 blog articles !!!)

A) Number of 2012 blog articles BELOW----7 articles !!

( one from May 2012 because it was such a great article !!!)

B) Number of 2011 blog articles BELOW----31 articles !!

C) Number of 2010 blog articles BELOW----56 articles !!

D) Number of 2009 blog articles BELOW----25 articles !!

E) Number of Pre-2009 blog articles------2 articles

(one from 2008 and one from 2005) !

( March 18,2008 and March 20,2005 !!!!!)

Joe Konrath wrote 304 blog articles

from April 1,2009 to May 8,2012.

( From March 20,2005 to May 11,2012,

Joe Konrath has written 700 blog posts !)

After a LOT of reading

(whew,am i tired !!!),

here are his

121 VERY BEST or "cream of the crop"

(= most useful & helpful blog articles for aspiring/experienced ebook authors !)

ebook-oriented articles !!!

Ebooks ARE the future !

1) Thursday, September 01, 2011---How To Succeed :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-succeed.html

2) Monday, May 16, 2011---Why You Won't Succeed :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-you-wont-succeed.html

( 10 reasons)

3) Monday, March 05, 2012---Writing Matters :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/03/writing-matters.html

4) Wednesday, September 07, 2011----Digital Me :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/09/digital-me.html

5) Saturday, September 03, 2011---Not Caring :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/09/not-caring.html

6) Thursday, August 04, 2011---Same Tired Arguments :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/08/same-tired-arguments.html

7) Tuesday, July 26, 2011---Thinking Global :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/07/thinking-global.html

8) Monday, July 18, 2011---Be Deliberate

---Don't write crap. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/07/be-deliberate.html

9) Tuesday, July 05, 2011---The Tsunami of Crap :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/07/tsunami-of-crap.html

10) Friday, July 22, 2011---Are You Writing ? :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/07/are-you-writing.html

11) Monday, June 27, 2011----Estributors Redux :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/06/estributors-redux.html

12) Wednesday, June 08, 2011---Guest Post by Raymond Benson

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/06/guest-post-by-raymond-benson.html

( Let me reiterate some 11 tips that I've successfully used to sell ebooks )

13) Tuesday, March 01, 2011---Guest Post by Jon F. Merz :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/guest-post-by-jon-f-merz.html

( In a nutshell, for those who haven't heard me spout it before,

here are my 7 plans for ebook success )

14) Friday, January 28, 2011---Guest Post by Sam Torode :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/01/guest-post-by-sam-torode.html

( here is yet another example

of an unknown author who sells a ton of ebooks

without a platform, an agent, or any sort of marketing.

It just caught on with readers who liked it.

This is the ultimate in "word-of-mouth.")

15) Saturday, May 07, 2011---What Works: Promo for Ebooks :

5 truisms that i have discovered

---7 new rules on how to sell ebooks

without

wasting your time

---here are some 3 things

( ebook selling rookies/bloggers,

please,

oh please read !!!)

that I don't believe work

when it comes to selling ebooks.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-works-promo-for-ebooks.html

( This article was written

Before

the STUNNING,financially life-altering

invention/introduction

of KDP Select for Amazon ebook authors

on December 8,2011 !!!)

a) December 8,2011----Introducing "KDP Select"

- A $6 Million Fund for Kindle Direct Publishing Authors and Publishers

---KDP Select is a new option that gives

independent authors and publishers access

to a whole new source of royalties and readers :

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1637803

b) Introducing KDP Select :

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A3IHSOU6BCPMEK

16) Sunday, April 24, 2011---276,112 Ebooks Sold So Far :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/04/276112.html

17) Wednesday, January 11, 2012---$100,000

---That's how much I've made on Amazon

in the last three weeks. :

So far in January I'm averaging well over $3,500 a day.

I'm having a very hard time wrapping my head around these numbers.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/01/100000.html

18) Wednesday, January 18, 2012---The Value of Publicity :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/01/value-of-publicity.html

19) A) Thursday, January 19, 2012---The Myth of the Bestseller

---We all want to have a bestselling book. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/01/myth-of-bestseller.html

B) Tuesday, February 08, 2011----The End of the Bestseller

---The Big 6 can't publish ebooks priced low enough to compete with me.

They have fancy NY offices, lots of employees with benefits and expense accounts,

and a whole industry to support.

( we haven't even reached the 35% saturation point,

when the bell curve really takes off !!! )

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/02/end-of-bestseller.html?showComment=1297167621966#c2629311808717587990

20) Friday, March 25, 2011---Depression and Writers :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/depression-and-writers.html

21) A) Monday, February 20, 2012---Do Legacy (print/paper book) Publishers

Treat Authors Badly ?

---22 TOP reasons why they do !! :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html

B) February 23,2012---22 years of publishing with New York City publishers

---12 MORE reasons why legacy publishers

are BAD for authors :

a) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html?showComment=1329804689481#c2750279094802128548

b) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html?showComment=1329804778803#c7263361138573102925

c) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-legacy-publishers-treat-authors.html?showComment=1329804808961#c4812808040700429934

C) Tuesday, May 08, 2012----Harlequin Fail---Sorry, but that's just awful.

They were used and treated unfairly,

and their books caught on so they were able to make the leap to higher royalties.

But you really shouldn't thank the company that subjugated you :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/05/harlequin-fail.html

22) Tuesday, March 18, 2008---Dealing With Discouragement :

( PatrickGannon1938 says---Yeah,yeah i know i was supposed to

include ONLY articles from the last 3 years of Joe Konrath's blog

but i HAD to make an EXCEPTION

for this particular article !!

Sorry !

Will you EVER forgive me ??

Har-har !!!)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2008/03/dealing-with-discouragement.html

23) Friday, April 15, 2011---Are You Dense ?

---I'm talking to you.

The writers who are still THOUGHTLESSLY defending legacy publishing. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/04/are-you-dense.html

24) Monday, March 07, 2011----Ebooks Ain't A Bubble

---An ebook is forever.

Forever is a long time to find readers. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/ebooks-aint-bubble.html

25) Wednesday, February 23, 2011---Time Is Money

--But at least with self-pubbing you can start making money as soon as your book is finished.

---Instead of waiting around, crossing your fingers,

to ultimately get screwed,

self-pubbing is a much faster,

and more lucrative,

way to go. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/02/time-is-money.html

26) Friday, February 18, 2011---The Numbers Game

---My current best selling ebook is selling over 3,000 a month,

though on average, my novels sell about 1600 a month

---But now I'm convinced.

Signing with a traditional publisher, even being offered $200k per book,

is a VERY BAD IDEA.

And I believe these numbers back me up. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/02/numbers-game.html

27) Wednesday, January 26, 2011---Time Investment

---So far this month, I've sold over 18,000 ebooks on Kindle

--Self-publishing ebooks hasn't just made me money.

It has also given me my life back.

---I've since stopped self-promoting.

I don't do public speaking anymore,

even though people offer me big money to do so.

I turn down several interviews a week.

I don't do conferences :

a) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/01/time-investment.html

b) The old & bad way of

selling/promoting books yourself :

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7vnsVHXWu7g/TT_mlFPg-NI/AAAAAAAAAao/3CL31XDnfgk/s400/lettersjoe.jpg

28) Wednesday, February 02, 2011---Love is Murder

---I've given up speaking in public,

doing interviews,

responding to people who want my help in some way,

traveling around the country signing books,

and several other things I don't enjoy about my career.

I no longer require the approval of others,

no longer need to help everyone reach their goals,

and

no longer want to spend time self-promoting

to sell print books

in a dying industry.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/02/love-is-murder.html

I've always believed advertising is worthless,

and these days I see no need for extensive self-promotion.

After all, without doing any of the above-mention things,

I made over $40,000 in January 2011.

All through self-publishing.

So I've finally reached a point where I can do what I want to do,

maximizing my happiness,

minimizing discomfort,

without having to answer to anyone.

It's glorious. :

29) A) Tuesday, December 28, 2010---You Should Self-Publish

---One of the traits I value most about myself

is my ability to change my mind about something

as more data becomes available.

Well, the data is in.

And I'm reversing one of my long-held beliefs about writing.

---In the meantime, I'll be self-pubbing, making money. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/you-should-self-publish.html

I also don't doubt that digital will dominate print,

just as it has dominated music, TV, film, communications, etc.

B) Thursday, June 25, 2009---Should You Self-Publish ? :

It depends.

But first focus on making your writing the best it can be. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/06/should-you-self-publish.html

30) March 19,2011----Ebooks and Self-Publishing---

A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath :

http://www.jakonrath.com/eislerkonrath.pdf

( 29 pages long !!!)

31) Wednesday, September 22, 2010---Konrath Ebooks Sales Top 100k

----As of today, Sept 21, 2010, I've sold 103,864 ebooks.

---I spent 12 years trying to break into publishing,

and 8 years doing everything I could to succeed.

Now I'm finally able to write full time,

which is what I've wanted to do all along.

No more tours.

No more appearances. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/konrath-ebooks-sales-top-100k.html

32) Friday, September 24, 2010---Ebook Pricing

---why I believe $2.99 is the new ebook standard

---Set realistic goals, experiment, learn from mistakes, keep and open mind,

and most of all, write a lot of good books.

I believe 99.9% of writers have a better chance to make more money

in this new market

than they did in the old one. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/ebook-pricing.html

33) A) Monday, February 13, 2012---Amazon Will Destroy You :

Amazon is going to destroy the Big 6,

destroy bookstores,

destroy 95% of all agents,

destroy distributors (Ingram, Baker & Taylor),

and revolutionize the publishing industry by becoming the dominant force.

( Why ?

Amazon innovates by

thinking about THE BIG PICTURE or "the LONG term"

AND

by creating a GREAT ebook reader--the Kindle !!!)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/amazon-will-destroy-you.html

B) Friday, March 16, 2012---Presumed Inane

(why we or "ebook authors" should NOT fear Amazon now or later !!! ) :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/03/presumed-inane.html

34) Monday, January 03, 2011---A Response to Richard Curtis

--In an ebook-dominated world,

are publishers even needed ?

---In December 2010, I made over $24,000 self-publishing,

and I'm currently averaging $1,300 per day.

But I'm far from the only one doing well.

---Here's a partial list of authors selling more than 1,000 ebooks a month,

none of who had any

traditional publishing background (no deals, no agents.)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/01/response-to-richard-curtis.html

35) A) Friday, December 31, 2010----The Death Spiral

---If publishers stop printing books and focus on ebooks,

authors have to ask themselves what are the benefits of signing with a publisher ? :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/death-spiral.html

B) Wednesday, December 07, 2011----Eisler & Konrath Vs. Hachette :

( our thoughts on Hachette's "We are Still Relevant" PAPER/PRINT book publishing memo).

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/12/eisler-konrath-vs-hachette.html

( 73 pages printed out !!!)

C) Sunday, February 19, 2012---Guest Post by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

---AN OLDBIE'S GUIDE TO E-BOOK PUBLISHING :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2012/02/guest-post-by-lauren-baratz-logsted.html

36) Monday, December 27, 2010---A Bedtime Story

---Once upon a time, there was a writer named Joe (Konrath)

----Joe went to Amazon and uploaded the ebooks there.

Soon, Joe was making over $1,000 a month on Kindle.

----Joe was shocked by this.

He thought the only way to make a living as a writer was with the Gatekeeper

( The Big Six book publishers,etc.)

---As the year went on, Joe's ebooks, and ebooks all over,

began to sell in greater and greater numbers.

Joe went from making $1,000 a month, to $3,000,

then $6,000,

then $16,000 a month.

Joe realized he could make more money

without the Gatekeeper.

( The Big Six book publishers,etc.)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/bedtime-story.html

37) Monday, December 20, 2010----Resolutions for Writers 2011

---A lot of folks know how much money I'm making.

But how many know:

I've changed or tweaked cover art 45 times.

I've reformatted my books five times each.

I've changed product descriptions over 80 times.

I've changed prices on each book two or three times.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/resolutions-for-writers-2011.html

38) Friday, December 10, 2010---Ebooks Sales Slowing ?

Yes and No.

----This shows that ebook growth has slowed for

14 REPORTING PUBLISHERS.

That doesn't mean ebook growth is slowing for

Amazon, B&N, Smashwords,

or the tens of thousands of indie authors

who are self-publishing.

My numbers have been steadily climbing for 21 months,

and in the last six weeks I made $26,000. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/ebooks-sales-slowing-yes-and-no.html

39) Wednesday, December 08, 2010----The Bestseller Shift

---In the future, the bestseller lists won't be dominated by

name authors.

They'll be dominated by good books. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/bestseller-shift.html

40) Wednesday, December 01, 2010---Konrath Self-Pubbed Sales

---In the past six weeks, my twenty self-pubbed titles on Amazon Kindle

have earned over $26,000.

In November, I sold over 9000 ebooks on Kindle.

That averages out to 300 a day.

You're really making $620 a day ?

That's just on Kindle !!! :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/konrath-self-pubbed-sales.html

41) Monday, November 22, 2010---Monetize It

---The Kindle accounts for the overwhelming majority of my current income,

and I'm selling over 350 ebooks per day. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/11/monetize-it.html

42) Thursday, October 28, 2010----Observations at # 8

---Currently, SHAKEN is # 8 on the Top 100 Kindle Bestseller List

---Whiskey Sour is now ranked # 115.

If I had my rights back, I'd price it at $2.99,

earn $2.04 per copy sold,

and guaranteed it would be in the top 100 by now.

So how much money

am I not earning

because I signed with a traditional publisher !

It hurts me to think about.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/10/observations-at-8.html

43) Wednesday, October 27, 2010---It's Your Universe

---After debuting my self-pubbed ebooks on Kindle

in April of 2009,

I've sold over 100,000 of them.

One of the reasons I've sold so many is

because I currently have 29 Ebooks on Amazon.

Writing good books, with good covers, good product descriptions, and low prices,

will help you sell.

Writing a bunch of them will help you sell even more.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-your-universe.html

44) Monday, October 11, 2010---Blake Crouch on Ebooks

---Rights reversion is a beautiful thing

---Two things to consider when getting your rights back

---THE BOOK ITSELF and the cover art. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/10/blake-crouch-on-ebooks.html

45) Tuesday, October 05, 2010---Can Ebooks Outsell Print ?

---But if you're offered less than six figures ($1 million), think long and hard.

I believe you can sell more, and earn more, on your own. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/10/can-ebooks-outsell-print.html

46) Sunday, October 03, 2010---You Aren't J.A. Konrath

---I could spend the next two hours

counting more books on more bestseller lists to prove my point,

but I'm not going to.

You're more that welcome to do that on your own.

I encourage those jumping on the "You Aren't J.A. Konrath" bandwagon to do so.

You'll find, as I have, that indies

make up a good percentage of most bestseller lists.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/10/you-arent-ja-konrath.html

In fact, I urge all folks with opinions

to do a bit of research

before

spouting those opinions,

lest you look foolish.

No, you aren't J.A. Konrath.

But you don't have to be (to be a financially successful EBOOK author !!) :

47) Saturday, September 25, 2010---The Acquisitions Editor

( Remind me again,

why am I desperate to be signed to a print/paper or Big 6 publishing house ?)

(why you should NOT publish your ebook

with a traditional book/print/paper/legacy publisher) :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/acquisitions-editor.html

48) Monday, September 20, 2010---David Morrell on Ebooks

---Yes, I think ebooks are a gamechanger---

But the current PAPER/PRINT BOOK system is broken.

I am troubled by the inefficiency of book distribution.

I am troubled when I think of how the chain book stores

charge publishers a fee to display their books.

It bothers me that a new printed book has a six-week shelf life.

It bothers me that books go out of print rapidly

(to create warehouse space for new books,

which themselves will soon go out of print).

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/david-morrell-on-ebooks.html

49) Wednesday, September 15, 2010---Henry Perez on Ebooks

---So how did all of this happen?

Well, first, it speaks to the awesome power of Amazon.

There's never been anything quite like it in publishing.

The opportunities that it affords a writer or publisher

to connect directly with readers

is unlike anything in the history of publishing.

Second, there is now a definable e-book community.

It is large, enthusiastic, and growing exponentially.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/henry-perez-on-ebooks.html

Every author, regardless of their success level,

now has a powerful outlet for their work.

E-books are more than just a tool, though,

they represent an important and necessary market for every author.

Miss out on the e-book readers, and you're missing out on the future.

Amazon is smart, and they're doing a lot right.

Plus, authors are figuring this new frontier out faster than publishers are.

We've already seen some self-pubbed bestsellers.

50) Wednesday, September 01, 2010---Journey of the Late Adopter

--Day 1 - Ebooks? No way! Too expensive, and print will never be replaced.

---Day 94 - Konrath is paying his mortgage with ebook sales? Big deal. He's an exception.

---Day 432 - Konrath is making over 12k a month? Big deal. He's an exception. :

Hear that, all of you naysayers ?

All of you folks saying you hate ereaders and will never get one?

All of you who love the printed word and won't ever give up paper books?

By July 2013

you'll be eating those words.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/09/journey-of-late-adopter.html

Day 940 - A lot of bookstores seem to be closing.

Day 1687 - You don't have an ereader yet? Wake up and join the present day, you caveman.

51) Friday, August 27, 2010---On Beyond Ebooks

---Obviously, I enjoy the money I'm making

(close to $500 a day).

But it's more than that.

I'm able to do things I never could have done

in the traditional publishing world.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-beyond-ebooks.html

52) Wednesday, August 25, 2010---Doers and Waiters

---Don't they know that waiting around

doesn't make you successful ?

That the rich, the famous, the ones that society remembers and reveres

, are the doers ?

---The price of inaction is far greater

than the cost of making a mistake. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/08/doers-and-waiters.html

53) Wednesday, August 18, 2010---The Changing Face of Publishing

---Things seem to be happening quickly in the publishing world.

Quickly and, unfortunately, not optimistically.

---And writers,

brainwashed through years of Stockholm Syndrome,

( Stockholm Syndrome

---when victims express empathy and have positive feelings towards their victimizers !!!)

continue to have faith in a broken system that seems ill-equipped

to weather the oncoming tsunami.

Everyone may want things to stay the same.

But you can't always get what you want.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/08/changing-face-of-publishing.html

54) Wednesday, August 04, 2010---The High Cost of Self Promotion

---I don't feel the need to stay in print anymore.

In fact, I wish my books were out of print,

so I'd have the rights to them back.

( by my estimate, I'm losing around $100k per year

because publishers have

seven of my backlist titles

and are pricing them too high for the ebook market

and giving me a fraction of the royalties I could earn on my own.)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/08/high-cost-of-self-promotion.html

Since the rise of ebooks,

I've been making more money

that I ever have being traditionally published.

This is

steady money,

and seems to be growing.

Face time isn't required for me to be able to sell ebooks.

So I promised my wife

I'd stop traveling everywhere,

and do the thing I always said I'd do:

write full time.

Now I'm able to focus on the thing I love--the writing.

Out of all the cool things about the ebook revolution, this may be the coolest.

55) Saturday, July 31, 2010---Ebook Predictions Redux

--Eight months ago, I made some 11 predictions about the future of ebooks.

Let's see how I'm doing.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/07/ebook-predictions-redux.html

56) Sunday, July 18, 2010---With Change Comes... Anger ?

---And yet, around the internet, in person,

and even in the comments section of my own blog,

I see a lot of animosity toward the ebook future in general,

and me in particular.

How odd.

Some people seem to be really pissed off

that I'm making decent money

without relying on the gatekeepers.

They call me an outlier, an anomaly, an exception.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/07/with-change-comes-anger.html

They deride self-published ebooks, low ebook prices,

and anything not endorsed by

Big NY/New York (Big 6) Publishing.

They don't like what's happening with Kindle,

and don't like me talking about how much money I'm making,

and are bemoaning a future where other authors will do what I'm doing.

Change is always painful.

It's difficult, and frightening.

57) Monday, July 12, 2010---Konrath Sells 1/10 of James Patterson

---And yet, on my own, I've sold 1/10th of what he has.

In far less time.

With fewer titles.

On Kindle only.

With no advertising.

No TV commercials.

No name brand.

---Just as I'm sure I'll reach a million (ebooks sold) as well. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/07/konrath-sells-110-of-patterson.html

58) Thursday, July 08, 2010---How To Make Money on Ebooks (7 things) :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-make-money-on-ebooks.html

59) Saturday, July 03, 2010---The Difference Between Sales and Fans :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/07/difference-between-sales-and-fans.html

60) Tuesday, June 22, 2010 (in the evening !)---Konrath Kindle Stats

---In the forty (40) minutes it has taken me

to write this blog post, I made $43 on Kindle. :

(more than $1.00 per minute !!!)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/06/konrath-kindle-stats.html

61) Tuesday, June 22, 2010 (in the morning !!!)---

JA Konrath Releases Two Original Kindle Thrillers

---But the times are "a-Changin".

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/06/ja-konrath-releases-two-original-kindle.html

( The Byrds

-"The Times They Are A Changin'

-October 4,1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq4pe0cKQc0 )

And my goal has always been to make a living as a writer.

That means going where the money is.

Ebooks are a wonderful opportunity for writers to reach readers,

and I think it's cool that writers are figuring out

there are alternatives to NY Publishing,

which is flawed

and not the easiest industry to break into.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/06/ja-konrath-releases-two-original-kindle.html

I never wanted to be the poster boy for ebooks.

I'm just trying to make a living.

And if other people follow my example

and make a few bucks, I'm happy for them.

62) Friday, June 18, 2010---The Time Is Now

---Each day you wait, is a day you could have made some money.

So what exactly are you waiting for ? :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/06/time-is-now.html

63) Saturday, June 12, 2010---A Writer's Serenity Prayer :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/06/writers-serenity-prayer.html

64) Friday, May 28, 2010---Platform, Shmatform

---So if these authors don't have platforms,

how are they selling so well ?

Good cover, good product description, low price.

It doesn't take a well-read blog,

a print backlist,

and an established fan-base

to sell a lot of ebooks.

Please tweet this.

Link to this. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/platform-shmatform.html

65) Monday, May 24, 2010---Publishers Weekly Epic Fail

---That article certainly makes me seem like a loser,

doesn't it ?

Unfortunately, PW's version of the truth is lacking in many areas.

Let's shed some light on those areas. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/publishers-weekly-epic-fail.html

66) Thursday, May 13, 2010---Top Ebook Questions :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-ebook-questions.html

67) Monday, May 03, 2010---And They Say That A Hero

Will Save Us

---It's a wonderful, dynamic, empowering time to be an author.

For the first time, we can command our own ships.

We're the ones who write the books.

We can reach readers without any gatekeepers at all.

And we can make money doing it. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/05/and-they-say-that-hero-will-save-us.html

68) Thursday, April 22, 2010---How To Format For Kindle

---How much do you charge for a Kindle conversion?

---It really depends on the size and scope of the project,

but budget a couple hundred dollars for fiction.

Double that for non-fiction or picture books,

because of the advanced text formatting, tables of contents, and image optimizing. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-format-for-kindle.html

69) Saturday, April 17, 2010---Print is Eternal

---Welcome to

Obsolete Anonymous !

I've gathered you all here to welcome our latest member,

the Print Industry.

Print Industry:

Hello, everyone. But there's been a mistake. I don't belong here.

(chuckles all around) :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/04/print-is-eternal.html

70) Tuesday, April 13, 2010---Looking at Kindle Bestsellers

---Right now I'm selling about 180 ebooks a day on Kindle.

That's pretty crazy.

So crazy, that some people on the interwebs are wondering if I'm making it up.

Well, I'm not.

I'm making $125 a day.

In July, it will be over $300 a day.

( Why this amount ?????

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010---

Amazon Introduces 70% Royalty Option For Kindle Digital Text Platform

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/30/amazon-introduces-70-royalty-option-for-kindle-digital-text-platform/

AND

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100630005307&newsLang=en )

By the end of the year, I'll have $100,000 in my pocket.

That's not a fluke.

That's simply paying attention to what customers want, and giving it to them.

Write a good book. Make a good cover. Use a good description.

Then sell it for cheap and make the money in volume.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/04/looking-at-kindle-bestsellers.html

71) Friday, April 09, 2010----Is Print

a Subsidiary Right ?

----it looks like I'm going to earn more money self-pubbing on Kindle this year

than I earned in six years on my first three print novels.

I've been lucky enough to make my living as a fiction writer since 2003.

And yet, all of my effort hasn't resulted in me appearing on the bestseller lists.

I make a living, but I drive an old car, live in a townhouse, and my wife still works.

Then along comes this ebook thing.

And now, Since April 8 of 2009, I've sold 36,000 ebooks.

I'm selling over 1,200 per week.

Crunching the numbers, I'll earn more on ebooks

than I have in my entire print career,

and I'll do it in a shorter amount of time.

I really don't think I'll ever sell my erights again.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-print-subsidiary-right.html

There certainly are advantages to this model.

Cover art and titles are of my choosing.

I can start selling a book a week after I'm done writing it, rather than waiting 8 to 18 months.

I can set my own price.

I can make instant changes and revisions.

I can earn $2.80 on a $3.99 ebook, which is more than I earn on a $23.99 hardcover.

I get monthly royalties, instead of bi-annual.

I never wanted to be the poster boy for self-promotion,

even though my efforts (chronicled on this blog) have made folks think of me that way.

And I certainly don't want to be the new poster boy for self-publishing.

What I want is the same thing I've always wanted:

to earn money by writing fiction.

So for the first time in the history of this blog, I don't know how to advise newbie authors.

For me, print has officially become a subsidiary right.

If I ever sign another print deal,

it will be to supplement my ebook income.

( NOT the other way around !!)

This is a strange development, but not a bad one.

The writer,

for the first time ever,

gets the lion's share of the profits from his work.

Never thought I would see that.

But I'm sure glad it's happening.

72) Wednesday, April 07, 2010---Publishers + Ebooks = Epic Fail

---The ebook world is changing fast.

A year ago, we had the Kindle and the Sony Reader as the two main platforms for ebooks.

Now we've got Kindle, Sony, Nook, and iPad.

Apple sold 300,000 iPads on its launch day.

( Sunday,April 6, 2010----Apple Inc. said it sold more than 300,000 iPads in the U.S.A.,

on the first day the device went on sale )

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304017404575165621713345324.html )

And this technology hasn't come close to reaching a saturation point

with the general population.

New ereaders are going to continue to come out.

They'll be better, less expensive, and more widely available.

And people will adopt them.

Our society is moving toward

a digital future.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/04/publishers-ebooks-epic-fail.html

So in two years I can make more money on my own on a self-pubbed ebook

than a book released by a major publisher

in hardcover, trade paper, paperback, and ebook formats,

supported by a tour and advertising.

Unless it's a big offer, I can't imagine selling rights to my work ever again...

73) Wednesday, March 31, 2010---March Kindle Sales Top $4,200

and 5,850 Ebooks

---Let me repeat myself, because I've spoken with a lot of my peers

who don't seem to grasp this point :

IT MAKES NO SENSE

TO GIVE YOUR EBOOK RIGHTS

TO A PUBLISHER. :

a) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-kindle-sales-top-4200-and-5850.html

b) Joe Konrath Ebook sales

---Transaction summary---Transactions from 03/01/2010 to 03/31/2010 :

( you MUST click on image to enlarge it !)

(click to enlarge)

74) Monday, March 29, 2010---A Writer Looks At 40

(The Joe Konrath timeline !!!)

---As I finish my fourth decade,

I'm taking a self-indulgent moment to reflect

and dwell on what brought me to this point

in my writing career. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/writer-looks-at-40.html

75) Wednesday, March 24, 2010---Am I Good Enough to Epublish?

------I've tried to be clear that

the only writing you should sell on Kindle

is good writing,

and it's very hard to judge if your own writing is good.

I also believe it's foolish to put anything up on Kindle

unless you're 100% sure

it is good enough.

In my case, everything I write is read by several of my peers.

My peers are all professional writers

--people who have agents and have sold books to big houses.

If there is something wrong with the writing

--and even though I've now written over 2 million words,

I do still make mistakes--my friends point it out

and I fix it

before

it goes live.

If you're thinking of uploading to Kindle,

and you don't have an agent or any publishing credits,

here are some 6 IMPORTANT things

to ask yourself :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/am-i-good-enough-to-epublish.html

( Very, very detailed look

at the whys and why-nots of epublishing.

This should be required reading for everyone,

and I mean EVERYONE,

who is even thinking about epublishing.)

76) Saturday, March 20, 2010---Status Quo Vadis ?

---More than 95% of everything ever published

has gone out of print.

But Out-Of-Print does not equal Worthless.

There is still money to be made on old books.

Ebooks are not only here to stay,

they're only going to grow in popularity.

And an ebook is forever.

Your $50 a month now may be $10,000 a year in 2016

( 6 years from now).

You have to an opportunity to make money for eternity on these rights,

and eternity is a long time.

If you have out of print books, get them on Kindle yourself.

If you need help, pay a flat fee for it.

For the first time in the history of publishing,

writers have the upper hand.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/status-quo-vadis.html

77) Wednesday, March 10, 2010---The Value of Ebooks :

For the moment,

let's ignore the hard work the author has put into writing the book.

To bring an ebook to market,

a book needs to be edited,

proofread,

put into a proper layout and format,

and given cover art

and a product description.

These costs can fluctuate. But they are one-time costs.

Once an ebook is created, it can be reproduced indefinitely for free.

There are no printing costs or shipping costs.

Distributing ebooks to readers costs about

5 cents per download.

The value of an ebook is determined

by the overall amount of money it earns,

not the list price.

Let's see if publishers can figure that out.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/value-of-ebooks.html

78) Monday, March 08, 2010---Whoa There, Ebook Writer (Some 4 truths).

---- But no matter your path to success,

I urge you not to cut corners.

There is no shortcut to selling a lot of books, because books sell one at a time.

Learn your craft, learn the business, work hard, try your best.

That's the secret.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some writing to do...

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/whoa-there-ebook-writer.html

79) Thursday, March 04, 2010---JA Konrath Kindle Sales:

30k Ebooks In 11 Months :

( Here are my 10 guesses as to why I keep selling well )

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/ja-konrath-kindle-sales-30k-ebooks-in.html

80) Wednesday, February 24, 2010---Shelf Space and Paper Trails

---The Internet is permanent.

Every mention of your name and your books will last forever,

leading people in your direction.

And unlike print,

which can take a long time to build up to reach that critical mass/tipping point

where you become a household name,

the Internet can work much faster.

(Top 5 ways to increase your exposure)

a) http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/02/shelf-space-and-paper-trails.html

b) Joe Konrath ebook sales---February 1 to 24,2010 :

( Click on image TO ENLARGE or see it better)

(click to enlarge)

81) A) Wednesday, February 17, 2010---Understanding Kindle Bestsellers

---This blog title is misleading.

I make no claim to understand

why a book becomes a bestseller on Kindle.

I have a few hypotheses,

but no real way to test them.

----Is it cover art ?

Is it genre ?

Is it the writing sample people can download for free before they buy ?

Is it the product description ?

Is it bestseller ranking

(meaning a bestseller continues to be a bestseller

because people see it on the bestseller list) ?

Is it word of mouth ?

The natural assumption would be that this book sells the best

because it is my best.

But I don't feel it's better than the others,

and neither do readers

if we go by reviews and the email I get.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/02/understanding-kindle-bestsellers.html

B) March 4,2010

(or 15 VERY THOUGHTFUL days later !!!)

----Here are my 10 guesses as to why I keep selling well :

( or EXACTLY WHY Joe Konrath really and truly

is a KINDLE ebook BESTSELLER !!!!!

No more guesswork required !!!)

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/03/ja-konrath-kindle-sales-30k-ebooks-in.html

82) Monday, February 15, 2010---Kudzu and Kindle

---All along, the goal has been to build a fanbase

---For those new to my blog,

here's a recap of how I got started on Amazon. :

So you want to be a Kindle bestseller ?

The more quality content you have, the better your chances.

Short stories.

Out of print books.

Unpublished work that your agent couldn't sell.

Be the kudzu.

Join the EBOOK revolution before everyone else figures this out and it's harder to get noticed.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/02/kudzu-and-kindle.html

83) A) Friday, February 12, 2010----You Can Pry My Ebooks (!!!)

From My Cold, Dead Fingers :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/02/you-can-pry-my-ebooks-from-my-cold-dead.html

B) Monday, February 08, 2010---You Can Pry My Paper Books(!)

From My Cold, Dead Fingers :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/02/you-can-pry-my-paper-books-from-my-cold.html

84) Monday, February 01, 2010---Digital Perception :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/02/digital-perception.html

85) a) Sunday, January 31, 2010---Selling Paper :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/01/selling-paper.html

b) Here's a screen shot of my January 2010 sales

on Amazon Kindle :

(click to enlarge)

86) Thursday, January 14, 2010---Luck You---

Long time readers of this blog know that I truly believe,

deep in my heart,

that no one deserves anything.---

If people truly deserved things in life,

it would imply there is some sort of fairness in the world,

and some sort of guaranteed way to get rewarded for our talents and efforts.

I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

Many talented writers languish in obscurity and poverty.

Some newbie writers get huge deals without "paying their dues".

It's always been about luck.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/01/luck-you.html

Luck dictates where you're born, and who your parents are.

Luck dictates the traits you're born with.

Luck plays a part in your education, your career,

your love life, the friends you have, and pretty much every facet of life.

By the same token,

no one deserves to land big publishing deals.

We all want big publishing deals.

And a select few get lucky.

I believe if you work hard,

learn to understand the business,

and work at bettering your craft, you can improve your odds.

But at the end of the day, it's still luck.

People really hate to think that

we don't have complete control over our lives.

The fact is, you never truly know what's going to happen.

You can create incredible works of art, toil your entire life,

and never sell a single thing.

Landing a big publishing deal is not something within your control.

So focus on what is within your control.

Read. Write. Improve. Submit. Learn. Experiment. Try.

I'm not entitled to all of these good things that are happening in my career.

I don't deserve success.

And neither does anyone else.

( PatrickGannon1938 belief/response to this

on May 1,2012 :

---you do "deserve" to be lucky

considering how hard you work !!!)

87) Sunday, December 27, 2009---What I Know

---I've been blogging for almost five years,

and am closing in on 500 blog posts

all about the publishing industry.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-i-know.html

So here's a blog post that distills the essence

of what I've learned in this biz :

---1) Luck Is Important

2) Understand The Industry

3) The Harder You Try, The More Books You'll Sell

4) The Race Is With Yourself

5) Set Achievable Goals

6) Love It

7) Make Sacrifices

8) Get Used To Insecurity

9) Know When To Quit

10) Be Cool.

There.

Now you don't have to read 500 blog entries.

88) Friday, December 18, 2009----Resolutions for Writers 2010 :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/12/resolutions-for-writers-2010.html

a) 2006---26 resolutions.

b) 2007---6 resolutions.

c) 2008---4 BIG resolutions.

d) 2009---1 IMPORTANT resolution.

e) 2010---4 resolutions

89) Friday, December 11, 2009----Promotion, Social Networks, and Going Viral :

I went heavy into MySpace a few years ago,

getting more than 12,000 friends.

Then MySpace started to suck, so I spend my effort on Facebook and Twitter.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/12/promotion-social-networks-and-going.html

90) Tuesday, November 10, 2009---E-Volution :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/11/e-volution.html

91) Tuesday, October 27, 2009---In Defense of Print :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-defense-of-print.html

92) A) Wednesday, October 21, 2009---Estributors :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/10/estributors.html

B) PatrickGannon1938 in May 2012----I agree with MOST of what Joe Konrath

writes or blogs about

BUT this is NOT one of those times !!

C) Dean Wesley Smith,

prolific author of 21 EBOOKS as of May 2012,

and what he said in June 2011 :

( Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels

and hundreds of short stories.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Wesley_Smith

The e-stributor name is dumb and the idea is just raft

with scams and problems

and should never be started in this new world.

My goal here is to protect the new writers.

It just makes no sense to me either,

which is why I'm shouting for authors to

not go that route

and (lovingly) chiding Joe for even still pushing it.

He's one of the smarter business people I have watched,

yet he has a blind spot on this one percentage thing.

Very puzzling.

93) Tuesday, October 13, 2009----Kindle Numbers:

Traditional Publishing Vs. Self Publishing :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/10/kindle-numbers-traditional-publishing.html

94) Friday, October 02, 2009---That About Covers It

---I approached the new covers with

some 5 specific goals in mind.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/10/that-about-covers-it.html

95) Monday, August 24, 2009---Keeping Up

---If you want to sell books by using the Internet,

INTERNET maintenance is essential.

When was the last time

you updated your website?

When was the last time

you blogged ?

A good website or blog will keep attracting new visitors.

But new content is what keeps visitors coming back.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/08/keeping-up.html

96) Sunday, August 09, 2009---If It Gets Made,

Someone Will Like It

---On one hand, if you want to create something truly unique,

chances are you'll find some people who will like what you've created.

On the other hand, if you want to reach a large audience,

pay attention to the things that reach a large audience.

The point of writing is to be read. It can't hurt to pay attention to what people are reading.

And I'm sure it is possible to do this while still being you.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-it-gets-made-someone-will-like-it.html

97) Wednesday, August 05, 2009---The End of The Critic

--Communication, which has always been a two way street,

is now more balanced than ever before in history.

For decades we were told

what to watch

and what to read.

The networks, studios, and publishers put out what they think we wanted,

and learned professionals critiqued it.

----We have more choices than ever,

and more opinions than ever to help us make those choices.

I don't see a downside.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-of-critic.html

98) Wednesday, July 29, 2009---Get Better,

Not Bitter :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/07/get-better-not-bitter.html

99) Thursday, July 16, 2009---Brain Donors---Maybe it's just me,

but I've noticed a lot of really stupid behavior lately

---9 BAD behaviors :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/07/brain-donors.html

100) Saturday, July 04, 2009----How Not To Write A Story :

So, for the benefit of the newbie writing world,

and to save me future pain

if I ever judge a short story contest again,

please take the following 15 warnings to heart :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-not-to-write-story.html

( In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm in a bad mood

---This bad mood has been brought about by

seeing the same story mistakes,

over and over, and over, and OVER, AND OVER... )

101) Wednesday, July 01, 2009---Are You There, Amazon?

It's Me, JA

---An open letter to Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

I want to tell you why I haven't bought a Kindle yet. :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/07/are-you-there-amazon-its-me-ja.html

102) Wednesday, June 17, 2009---Should E-Books Be Cheap ?

---Scribd is not the future of epublishing.

---Publishers, like oil tankers,

take a long time to change direction.

That doesn't mean publishers aren't smart

--they're some of the smartest folks I know.

But being smart,

and being willing to scrap a business model you've used for fifty years,

are two different things.

But as an author,

I'm emboldened that with enough titles under my belt,

in the future

I might actually be able earn a living

uploading my own books digitally,

rather than depending on someone else to sell my books for me.

And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one

who believes this.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/06/should-e-books-be-cheap.html

103) Thursday, June 11, 2009----Amazon Kindle Numbers :

So far on Kindle I've earned $2,781.35 in 64 days.

( making an average of $43.46 per day) :

Once you're on a bestseller list,

that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

People browse the lists, see your book, buy your book,

you stay on the lists.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/06/amazon-kindle-numbers.html

104) Thursday, June 04, 2009---Helping Each Other

---Let's talk about the Internet,

and why it is the greatest invention in the history of mankind.

---Here are 6 ways

to strongly help other authors

( We aren't in competition with one another ) :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/06/helping-each-other.html

105) Sunday, May 31, 2009---More on the Amazon Kindle :

At this date, May 31 2009, agents and publishers are necessary.

Any author who wants to make writing their full-time job

can only support themselves by selling print books,

and the agents and publishers are a crucial part of this industry.

But how about in 2012 ?

2015 ?

2025 ?

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-on-amazon-kindle.html

106) Thursday, May 28, 2009---Advice For Professional Writers :

I keep seeing authors (with 2 to 10 published books)

making the same 7 mistakes :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/05/advice-for-professional-writers.html

107) Sunday, May 24, 2009---Ebooks and Free Books and Amazon Kindle, Oh My

---Amazon actually allows authors to upload their own ebooks on Kindle,

set a price, and earn 35% royalties.

This is either a closely guarded secret,

or authors are just plain stupid,

but as far as I know I'm the only published author taking advantage of this.

( Joe Konrath is a classic early adopter !!!)

----So how much have I earned in royalties in the 46 days

my books have been available on Kindle ?

As of this morning, I've had 1,906 downloads on Kindle,

and I've made $1,370.12 in royalties.

That averages out to $30 a day, or almost $11,000 a year.

Now, eleven grand a year isn't a huge amount of money,

but I consider it pretty much a gift,

and it really helps supplement my writer income.

This is the future.

But no one else

seems to see it

( except for Boyd Morrison & Stephen Windwalker,etc.)

Let's recap

---7 important facts for all ebook authors :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/05/ebooks-and-free-books-and-amazon-kindle.html

108) Friday, April 03, 2009---Obsession, Reviews, and the Afraid Tour

---In other circles, I'm known to be a lot over-zealous

when it comes to self-promotion.

If you look at wildly successful people, they are all, to some degree,

obsessive about becoming successful.

I'd go so far as to say they all share some 4 similar traits:

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/04/obsession-reviews-and-afraid-tour.html

109) Thursday, April 02, 2009-----Ebook Blowout: Amazon Kindle Free Downloads

---Anyone who follows my blog knows my feelings about ebooks.

Namely, they're the future.

For heaven's sake, in what crazy world can

Afraid by Jack Kilborn ( pen-name of Joe Konrath !!!)

outsell

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, JK Rowling,

Harlan Coben, Clive Cussler, and all the other giants ?

Only in the world of lower (ebook) prices.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/04/ebook-blowout-amazon-kindle-free.html

110) Wednesday, April 01, 2009----Where's...Enough Already !

Blog Tour Recap

---So, is blog touring a good time investment?

I say yes.

---In fact, except for selling short stories and visiting bookstores,

I can't think of a better return on your self-promo investment than blog touring.

---If you're considering doing a blog tour, here are some 7 things to keep in mind.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/04/wheresenough-already-blog-tour-recap.html

111) Here are 3 BRILLIANT articles by Joe Konrath

on ebook self-publishing,

which EVERY potential/aspiring ebook author

in 2012 and beyond

COULD LEARN A LOT FROM :

A) Saturday, March 19, 2011---Ebooks and Self-Publishing

- A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/ebooks-and-self-publishing-dialog.html

( 79 pages long !!!!)

B) Sunday, April 03, 2011---Ebooks and Self-Publishing Part 2 -

Another Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath

----Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath Continue to Discuss Ebooks and Self-Publishing

(with some help from Dean Wesley Smith) :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/04/ebooks-and-self-publishing-part-2_03.html

( 87 pages long !!!)

C) Wednesday, June 01, 2011----Ebooks and Self-Publishing Part 3

- Yet Another Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/06/ebooks-and-self-publishing-part-3-yet.html

( Again 79 pages long !!!)

112) The VERY FIRST blog post of Joe Konrath :

----Sunday, March 20, 2005

---Who am I and why should you care ? :

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2005/03/who-am-i-and-why-should-you-care.html

(click to enlarge)

( Just WRITE your first EBOOK !!!!

In 2012

or ??? )

Sincerely ,GENEROUSLY & Inspirationally Yours,

PatrickGannon1938,

PatrickGannon1938 Blog,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada.

Monday,May 14,2012.

In Ebooks I Trust.

PS # 1 :

Sunday,May 6,2012------The PatrickGannon1938 Guide To The 11 BEST Ebooks

(and books)

On How To Write Well :

( VERY Life-changing !!!)

Above all,write a good book !! :

Your writing MUST BE very enjoyable

or quite interesting,entertaining,enlightening,useful and/or helpful,

if you want to make decent to GREAT money

from your ebook or ebooks !!

To BECOME a MUCH better writer

you MUST read books and ebooks

on how to write well !!

( most writers would be better off

learning the WRITING craft

and

mastering it

than doing other things)

How about reading these 11 ebooks

(and paper,old-fashioned books) ???

( PLEASE read them

if FINANCIAL SUCCESS is

EXTREMELY important to you

in 2012

and beyond !!!

Writing ebooks is

CERTAINLY NOT

a time-wasting hobby for me !!!) :

A WARNING to all aspiring ebook authors :

"The VERY BEST writing advice"

GENUINELY comes from these ebooks/books,

so PLEASE

do NOT rely on :

UNTRAINED,

non-developmental editor,

inexperienced,

NON-bestselling ebook authors,

non-literary agent,etc.

individuals,

like your :

mom/dad,children,co-workers,best friends

or even your lovely wife

or great husband

to give you,the aspiring/potential ebook author :

QUALITY,WORLD-CLASS,BEST-SELLING

ebook writing advice

even a finished ebook critique/evaluation,etc. !!!

Your loved ones & friends

DO NOT know

what needs improvement

in your ebook writing

AND

certainly will NOT tell you if your writing is

REALLY BAD,horrific

or "just simply amateurish",

in order to spare your feelings !!

That,baby,is the truth !!

STRONG Hint for ALL potential

ebook authors :

Read 2 of these ebooks

PER MONTH

and

then takes notes from each

on WHAT you have learned

from that ebook

or book

on how to write well !

In 6 months,you will have finished ALL of the 11 ebooks/books

below

AND you WILL thank me for this GREAT hint/suggestion !!

( OR-----I wouldn't have done it

OR read these 11 OUTSTANDING,world-class

writing ebooks/books

if you,PatrickGannon1938, had not

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

this course of

READING ACTION !!

Thanks to The PatrickGannon1938 Blog !!!).

The cost of these 11 ebooks/books is

----$133.69.

April 30,2012 prices !!!

Over 6 months,that is

ONLY $22.28 spent PER MONTH

on "mastering YOUR writing or AUTHOR craft" !!

Learn from the BEST authors/writers to become

a prolific & serious money-making ebook author,

won't you ??

( Don't be a LAZY,get rich quick,semi-serious,

hate to read,etc. guy/gal !!!)

Read on !! :

How To Attain A Master of Fine Arts or MFA

in Writing

without

going to college or a university :

The 11 mandatory ebooks/books

for

bestselling ebook success !! :

( NOT learning your writing skills/craft

is like the equivalent of

embracing author poverty

or a VERY low income lifestlye !!)

Joe Konrath says---There will always be writers who strive to improve their craft.

These are the ones who will sell.

The ones who post crap won't sell, at least not for long.

They'll either be forced to improve,

or they'll give up out of frustration.

Joe Konrath says----Self-publishing is the most important thing to ever happen to writers.

It liberates us from an arbitrary, unfair, broken system,

and allows us to reach more readers at a faster rate

than traditional publishing ever had.

Best of all,self-pubbing allows writers to do it on our own terms.

To be paid MONTHLY to write exactly what you want to write,

and have absolute control over the presentation,

is an amazing thing.

Note----All EBOOK prices and customer review counts are as

of Monday,April 30,2012 !!!

Sunday,May 6,2012------The PatrickGannon1938 Guide To The 11 BEST Ebooks

(and books) On How To Write Well :

Every potential/aspiring ebook writer or author should have INITIAL

and reasonable financial goals

RIGHT from the beginning

or before they start their FIRST (or second,third,etc.) EBOOK.

Here are a FEW great GOALS for every potential/aspiring ebook writer or author

( because YOUR writing should NOT be a charity event !!!) :

Ebook writing Goal # 1 for 2012 and beyond----Be Good Enough To Make $500 to $3,000 Monthly

From Your One To Three Ebooks !

Ebook writing Goal # 2 for 2012 and beyond---- Write An Ebook Bestseller on Amazon.com's

Kindle ebookstore within the next 1 to 5 years.

Ebook writing Goal # 3 for 2012 and beyond----Making $3,000 to $5,000 Monthly from one

to three

of my ebooks for

AT LEAST

3 CONSECUTIVE months !!

1) a) Ebook---The Anatomy of Story:

22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

[Kindle Edition] :

($9.99 USA funds---468 pages )

(51 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Anatomy-Story-Storyteller-ebook/dp/B0052Z3M8A

b) John Truby :

http://www.amazon.com/John-Truby/e/B001JSAFDY

2) a) Ebook---On Writing

[Kindle Edition] :

( $12.99 USA funds---320 pages )

(1,080 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/On-Writing-ebook/dp/B000FC0SIM

b) Stephen King :

http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-King/e/B000AQ0842

3) a) Ebook---The War of Art

[Kindle Edition] :

( Notice THE title---it DOESN"T say "The Art of War" !!)

( $9.99 USA funds----192 pages)

(324 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-War-of-Art-ebook/dp/B007A4SDCG

b) Steven Pressfield :

http://www.amazon.com/Steven-Pressfield/e/B000AQ8R8Q

4) a) Ebook---Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

(Shambhala Library)

[Kindle Edition] :

( $8.52 USA funds---260 pages )

(210 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Down-Bones-Shambhala-ebook/dp/B003ZSISIU

b) Natalie Goldberg :

http://www.amazon.com/Natalie-Goldberg/e/B000AP7I9G

5) a) Paper/Print Book---Stein On Writing:

A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers

of Our Century

Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

[Paperback] :

( $10.69 USA funds---320 pages)

(83 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Stein-Writing-Successful-Techniques-Strategies/dp/0312254210

b) Sol Stein :

http://www.amazon.com/Sol-Stein/e/B000AQ27H8

6) a) Paper/Print Book---The Courage to Write:

How Writers Transcend Fear

[Paperback] :

( $9.85 USA funds---224 pages )

(44 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Courage-Write-Writers-Transcend/dp/0805074678

b) Ralph Keyes :

http://www.amazon.com/Ralph-Keyes/e/B001IOF5ES

7) a) Ebook---Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

[Kindle Edition] :

( $11.99 USA funds---274 pages )

(428 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-ebook/dp/B000SEGI8Q

b) Anne Lamott :

http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Lamott/e/B000APMU80

8) a) Paper/Print Book---Zen in the Art of Writing:

Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

[Mass Market Paperback] :

( $3.51 to $25.90 USA funds---158 pages)

(60 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Writing-Releasing-Creative/dp/0553296345

b) Ray Bradbury :

http://www.amazon.com/Ray-Bradbury/e/B000AQ1HW4

9) a) Paper/Print Book---The Writers Journey:

Mythic Structure for Writers,

3rd Edition

[Paperback] :

( $17.79 USA funds---300 pages )

(218 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Writers-Journey-Structure-Edition/dp/193290736X

b) Christopher E. Vogler :

http://www.amazon.com/Christopher-E.-Vogler/e/B000ARC2YU

10) a) Ebook---The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

[Kindle Edition] :

( $12.99 USA funds---258 pages )

( 79 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Right-Write-Invitation-ebook/dp/B002JF1N2S

b) Julia Cameron :

http://www.amazon.com/Julia-Cameron/e/B000AQ2R2S

11) a) Ebook----The Newbie's Guide to Publishing

(Everything A Writer Needs To Know)

[Kindle Edition] :

( $2.99 USA funds------1,420 pages estimated )

(31 customer reviews)

http://www.amazon.com/Newbies-Publishing-Everything-Writer-ebook/dp/B003I6496Y

b) J. A. Konrath :

http://www.amazon.com/J.A.-Konrath/e/B000BCH4EM

12) Free "Kindle EBOOK Apps"

---Read Amazon Ebooks On Your Phone,

Tablet Computer

Or Desktop/Laptop/Notebook Computer :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

PS # 2 :

Sunday,May 6,2012-----The PatrickGannon1938 Guide to

the best 100% FREE

and Paid

writing software to write your first ebook are :

A) What writing software does Joe Konrath use

to write his ebooks ? :

Microsoft Word

( 2003 ?)

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word )

B) Do NOT download these versions of Microsoft Word

(heartbreak hotel !!!)---Microsoft Office Word 2010 !!!

Same applies to Microsoft Word 2007 [Old Version] ,

Microsoft Word 2002 [OLD VERSION],

Microsoft Word 2000 [Old Version],

and Microsoft Word 1997 !!!

( Corel WordPerfect would/MUST be included too

---there are better PAID software

options for writing your first ebook !

For ebook writing,the following software writing programs

are considerably

more efficient and effective

than WordPerfect !!! )

Noteworthy----If you REALLY,really want to buy Microsoft Word to write,

then at least choose Microsoft Word 2003 [OLD VERSION].

priced at $172.99 as of May 2012 !!

C) Any MAC or Apple-oriented WRITING SOFTWARE ?

Free or non-free ! :

Scrivener for Apple or Mac OS/X users :

( Scrivener 2.2 for Mac OS-X : $45 USA funds)

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php?platform=mac

D) Any PAID outstanding ALTERNATIVE writing software

to Microsoft Word

(and/or Corel WordPerfect )?? :

( Why ???

Well,because I like to actually

produce/write an ebook

AND

not spend my time dealing with nightmarish,frustrating & annoying software problems !

I also do NOT want to spend more TIME

trying to move things around so they fit nicely on the page

than

actually writing and creating my ebook !)

aaa) Liquid Story Binder XE (Version 4.93)---$45.95 USA funds

( MUCH cheaper than Microsoft Word,

eh ??!!!)

---is a uniquely designed word processor for professional and aspiring

authors, poets, and novelists.

Writing software for those who require the editing ability of a commercial text editor

as well as a document tracking system.

It is for those who want the freedom to create, outline and revise

but are tired of losing track of their work :

http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com/

http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com/download.html

http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com/purchase.html

bbb) Scrivener for Microsoft Windows----$40 USA Funds :

( MUCH cheaper

than Microsoft Word,eh ?!)

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

AND :

http://scrivener.s3.amazonaws.com/Scrivener-installer.exe

E) Sunday,May 6,2012---The PatrickGannon1938 Guide to

the best 100% FREE writing software to write your first ebook are :

Are there any 100% free versions of writing software that

are comparable to

better than (the best !!!)

Microsoft Word,

as of NOW or May 2012 ?? :

Note----DEFINITELY do NOT use LibreOffice

AND OpenOffice.org Writer !!

Please !!!

aaa) ZenWriter :

http://www.beenokle.com/zenwriter.html

( Free,Windows operating system AND only 60 Megabytes or small !)

bbb) EverNote :

http://evernote.com/evernote/index.php

http://evernote.s3.amazonaws.com/win4/public/Evernote_4.5.5.6827.exe

and :

http://evernote.com/

ccc) yWriter5, for Windows PC's or personal computers :

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_Download.html

AND :

July 19,2009----yWriter Software Tutorial :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5HNVVIV1w

( 8 minutes & 56 seconds----59,129 views to May 6,2012)

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Sincerely,Karma-liciously & generously yours,

PatrickGannon1938 Blog,

Vancouver,B.C.,Canada,

Monday,May 14,2012,

In Ebooks,Vancouver and Chocolate I Trust.

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