I saw a blog post today over at iReaderReview.com, asking if authors could make a decent living by Kindle publishing. The blog post author, switch11, said that “J. A. Konrath put up a post talking about how he’s making $1,250 a month off of his book’s sales – these are unpublished books that he’s giving away for free on his website and selling for $1.85 on the Kindle Store.”
One of the factors cited in how more Kindle authors can become “rich” is the (relatively) small number of Kindles currently on the market. Although Amazon won’t release sales figures, it’s estimated there are about a half-million Kindles currently in use.
I totally disagree that the number of Kindles sold will impact the possibility for author success. Why? Because when Amazon made a Kindle app for the iPhone, they opened up the Kindle store to more than 20 million new readers.
It’s not the number of Kindles on the market, it’s how well you’re marketing to people who have access to the Kindle store.
What do you think?
I totally think that you can make decent money by publishing to the Kindle. Of course that being said you still have to be a good writer to succeed.
I have not make any money with the kindle publishing. I am still waiting for that moment….
I think Kindle is a Great idea but i don’t have one, like most of these devices it seems to be buy unseen, that is not very satisfactory. I WONDER WHAT OTHERS THINK.