Unknown, self-published author makes one-millionth Kindle sale

Yeah! This thrills me - just what I like to see. Why rely on the opinions of strangers in some publishing house office (who regard themselves as elitist experts) when you can let the readers decide for themselves what they want to read! Also saves you paying the salaries of their staff.

Good on her! Self-publishing has been the way to go for authors in the past few years. Why bother sending your manuscript to large publishers, only to have it rejected countless times? Instead, bet on yourself, do a good job, and when Random House starts calling you up and asking you to sign a book contract, tell them to bugger off because you prefer keeping all the proceeds to yourself.

Just goes to show you what the publishers know.

Wow! Good for her!

Way to go. 5 years ago when I started my book review blog, I was told that I must NEVER EVER review a self published book on my blog or I wont be taken seriously. My blog is just about what I like reading. It's not meant to be serious. So, yes, I have occassionally reviewed some self published books.

good stuff, I must say

this is the future online self promoting and advertising the product that can be a book,a song or cd,a cloth or furniture,anything that can be produce and sold as quality new product

Good for her, if people likes it so be it, forget the publishing industries they are a dying breed. Internet is where it's at. Enjoy, write, make money, best of luck.

It's inspiring to know this is possible! Good for her.

Way cool!! Have a little faith in yourself,work hard and take your future in your own hands. This is not new but it is still fun to see somebody become wildly successful.

I've had my kindle book there for 3 months now and I've only sold one!! LOL!!! Anyway, I guess I shouldn't be writing biographies but rather zombie stories!! Humm, I'm gonna give that some serious thought!! lol!!

ENTERTAINMENT! "trolls, zombies and vampires". Wonderful distraction from the issues we must face & overcome. Or are these "trolls, zombie & vampires" just new names for bankers & politicians?

Wow! This give me hope. I am a self-published author who would love nothing more than my books to be read by millions. Even if I don't make that much money, just as long as what I'm writing will leave a big impact on somebody else would be wonderful :)

I wouldn't have signed a contract if I was her. I would have kept using Kindle. Kinda a slap in the face to the people who rejected her in the first place.

Kind of sad. She's made 2 million bucks and still signs up with a Publisher so that she can charge $10.00 a book instead of 2. She could just raise the price anyway. What in heck is the publisher doing for her at this stage?

This is a major break-through. Publishers are so out of touch with the real world these days. They sit on their high horses and decide what is good and what is not good. Get with the real world. They are no longer in control of what the world wants to read.

Awesome!

What Amanda Hocking has accomplished is great and I admire her for it but the majority (over 90 percent) of authors or wannabes are delusional if they think that they can sell even 5 percent of what Hocking did. I know something about self-publishing given that my books have sold over 700,000 copies worldwide. Fact is, whether e-books or traditional print books, the majority of authors will be lucky to sell 100 copies of their work - and that will be mainly to friends and relatives. Even though most of my books are self-published, I still have great respect for the traditional major publishers. Most people who criticize these publishers don't have a clue about publishing and will never ever attain any success in publishing themselves. Plain and simple, in the end Hocking went with a major publisher because she knows what she is doing just as she knew what she was doing when she first self-published her books. The people who criticize Hocking for going to a traditional publisher don't have a clue of what they are talking about. This quotation applies:

"The only way to know anything
definitely about success and
prosperity is to attain them
for yourself by yourself — anything
less is hypothesis, idle talk,
and folklore."
— Life's Secret Handbook

good job! well done and lucky her! at least she didn't do anything illegal and still went right through her goal of a dream and never gave up no matter the odds. literature is what you make of it and it evolves. it doesn't stay the way it is forever otherwise your knowledge and unadventurous mind on young adult fiction will be stuck in the classics age not knowing a thing on what makes the young teens of today more open-minded and stronger in accepting other imaginative characters which catches their fancy other than politics, gossips, violence, war, sex and whatever makes the world go nuts right now. These books at least give us a chance to believe that there are other topics that can be covered, discovered and played with.

Congratulations, Ms Hocking! There's only one thing that bothers me.
Quote: "The 27-year-old "paranormal romance" young-adult writer has been called the new Stephenie Meyer,"
Stephenie Meyer hit the market with her subject matter, but even she calls herself an amateur and doesn't consider herself a professional writer. Let's hope "the new Stephenie Meyer" doesn't become the standard "compliment" for all science fiction/fantasy writers, because there are far more talented sci-fi/fantasy writers that would be a more flattering comparison.