But when 25 publishers passed on buying his thriller Riptide, Prescott thought the gig was up. Then, on a whim, he decided to self-publish it as an e-book.Read the very informative article here: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2011-12-14/self-published-authors-eBooks/51851058/1
Prescott says he has earned more than $300,000 before taxes this year by selling more than 800,000 copies of his self-published e-books.
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The 800,000 self-published ebooks sold were from his backlist (with rights reverted back to him from the traditional publishers when they went out of print) and his new self-published novels.
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Thanks for the shout-out! By now, my sales have passed the 1,000,000 mark, though they have slowed down quite a bit. This kind of success is something I never expected.
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