Amazon’s Kindle Bookstore

Nick Russell on May 22nd, 2012

Today marks one year since I uploaded my first e-book to Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. I announced on my daily RV blog and on Facebook that my first mystery novel, Big Lake, was available, and sold 26 copies the first day. Within a few days I had uploaded four other e-books; Meandering Down The Highway, The [...]

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Nick Russell on November 10th, 2011

I wrote my mystery novel Big Lake back in 1998, and the only people I showed it to were my secretary and my wife, who both encouraged me to publish it. But even though I had made my living as a newspaper editor and publisher, and had done some magazine work from time to time, [...]

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Nick Russell on November 3rd, 2011

In late August, I wrote a blog post titled The Importance of Setting Goals, in which I said that  when I uploaded my first e-books to Amazon’s Kindle bookstore in late May, I had a goal of earning $300 a month from e-book sales within six months. The September sales report is in, and I [...]

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Nick Russell on August 23rd, 2011

All of my life, I have believed in setting goals, both personally, and in business. I have always felt that if you don’t have a goal, how can you know where you are going, and which path to take to get there? I also believe that goals have to be specific. It’s easy to say [...]

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Nick Russell on May 28th, 2011

It was a week ago that I uploaded my first e-book, the murder mystery Big Lake, to Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Since then, I have uploaded three nonfiction titles, The Frugal RVer, The Gun Shop Manual, and just today, Work Your Way Across The USA. The last one should be live sometime Sunday or Monday. (Update, [...]

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