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A Major Revolution In The Book Industry Is Letting Novelists Make A Living

Corey Adwar

Jul. 25, 2014, 5:20 PM

Authors are increasingly able to make a better living for themselves by ditching big-name publishers and selling their books themselves through Amazon.

Self-publishing used to be associated with failure. But that stigma is going away as many authors say they're making more money through self-publishing than their counterparts doing it the traditionally more accepted way, according to NPR.

The NPR story came a few weeks after the novelist Michael Stephen Fuchs (brother of BI Senior Editor Erin Fuchs) wrote a post on his blog explaining his positive experience with self-publishing.

Fuchs published his first two books with Macmillan, but he didn't make a living from writing until he began self-publishing his works through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, according to an appreciative open letter he wrote to Amazon's Jeff Bezos and shared with fans in a post on his blog. His earnings have increased so much he can support himself in London by writing alone.

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