After Paul Torday related his latest adventure in the digital new world, here is Fleet Street veteran Walter Ellis on the trials of self-publishing on Amazon.
Soon kindled and soon burnt: The gentle art of online publishing
The idea of a level playing field is that everyone engaged in a competitive activity should have the same opportunity to achieve success as everybody else.
Kindle is supposed to offer independent authors a level playing field. But does it? So far as I can tell, unknown authors who break into the Top 1,000 are quite rare, though nowhere near as rare as
those who make it into the Top 100.
There are, of course, examples of complete unknowns rising to the top of the virtual pile and staying there. Kerry Wilkinson, whom I profiled
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