Leather to be published by Amazon Encore

Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 26/07/2011 - 08:50 Stephen Leather's bestselling ebooks The Basement and Once Bitten are to be republished under Amazon.co.uk's Encore programme. He will join other indie writers such as Joe Konrath who have been picked by the initiative, which seeks to unearth talent using reader reviews and sales. Leather, who has published books with Hodder & Stoughton, has sold 200,000 copies of the ebooks since he decided to self-publish them on the Kindle before Christmas last year. He said the move was his attempt to crack the US market. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]

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