Independent Authors on Kindle worth your time

Here are a few independent author books that are good deals -

  1. Declaring Spinsterhood by Jamie Lynn Braziel. Rated 4.5 stars across 5 reviews and a good sales rank – #894. Just 99 cents (the paper book is $14).
  2. Zoe Winters’ Kept. Just 80 cents.  4.5 stars rating across 23 reviews. And its sales rank is #1,630.

    Zoe Winters' Kept

    Zoe Winters' Kept

  3. Parallax by Jon F. Merz for $1.59. Its rated 4.75 stars across 15 reviews. Kindle Store Sales rank is #4,347. This seems like it should be selling a lot more.
  4. Stalker by Dave Dykema for $1.19. Its rated 4 stars across 6 reviews. Kindle Store Sales rank is #4,914.
  5. Gone, the Day by Erik Williams. A Horror Novella with 1 4-star review for 80 cents.  Kindle Store Sales Rank: #7,977.
  6. The Nine Lives of Clemenza by Holly Christine. 4.5 stars rating across 9 reviews. Kindle Store Sales Rank: # 15,547. Its supposedly a book in the vein of ‘The Five People You meet in Heaven’.

For more independent authors in the Kindle Store that are selling well and you can get for just $1-$2 a book, check out my Kindle Independent Author Bestsellers list.

Its interesting to see the sorts of reviews these books are getting – take a book like Parallax by Jon F. Mertz. 4.75 stars across 15 reviews – there’s no reason this couldn’t reach the top 200 if enough people were made aware of it.

$9.99 Boycott continues to work 

  1. The $9.99 boycott continues to work – At the moment there are just 2 books priced over $9.99 in Top 100 Bestsellers in the Kindle Store.
  2. One of them is Bill O’Reilly’s Memoir for $11.99 at $41, and the other is a book on making Artisan Bread by Dr Jeffrey Hertzberg at #77.
  3. There are currently 33 free books in the top 100.

One Response

  1. I’m actually giving Jon F. Merz an interview today along with my co-host Stacey Cochran on JJ Talk Radio (Self Publishing for the Average Joe). You can listen to that tonight at 8:30 E. here:

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dawson-vosburg

    Hope you can listen or call in with a comment! I think it’ll be fun.

    Dawson

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