Joe Konrath. Yes, but, you should be talking about Amanda Hocking. 26 years old. Unpublished, dissed by agents. Self-published in April 2010. Now has sold almost 150,000 books. She was selling over 10,000 books a week last month. If you’re in the right genre, the right category, this is easier.

I’m in a not very hot category. Most of my books are backlist middle reader books. The final numbers just came back from B&N and between Nook and Kindle, I sold an unbelievable 915 copies. I was outselling Louisa May Alcott and C.S. Lewis in the category for most of December.

I didn’t do it with reviews, or publicity or a neat website. I was too busy writing the book I’m publishing today to help the old books. Of all ebooks at B&N, one of mine reached #422. For a book aimed at 9-12 year olds. I think that’s great.

Readers will find you. Give them a good story, well edited and a sharp cover. You can do it better than a traditional publisher. If you could only see the cover for my last traditionally published book coming out in a couple months, you would confirm I can do it better than they can. Their cover is an embarrassment. It took me ten minutes to improve it by deleting the “cute little yellow airplane” that was lost against their baby blue sky and putting a bright red Dreidecker in its place with Photoshop.

Ebooks won’t kill the publishing business, they’re committing suicide.