Don't get me wrong. It's not that I'm not happy for the indie authors mentioned in this article. Nor do I mean to diminish their accomplishments, of course. And I'm glad that self-publishing is much less stigmatized than it once was.
However, if you're going to write an article about indie author success, you'd have thought the journalists at ABC might have bothered to keep up with the New York Times ebook bestseller list.
This article is dated April 7, 2011. Nancy C. Johnson and Victorine E. Lieske are two self-published authors who made the New York Times ebook bestseller list on March 6, 2011. Hello? And you people call yourselves journalists???
I might add that these authors each stayed on the list for several weeks. Plenty of time to be noticed and mentioned in this piece. (Or by someone in the media other than Publishers Lunch! Pathetic!)
And note to New York Times: NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS (the ebook) was published by Victorine E. Lieske, not CreateSpace. Get your facts straight ...
PS: There was some other author who made the list, too. Twice. But that's neither here nor there. :)
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