Amazon’s UK Kindle Store is celebrating five years of business, with a catalog of nearly four million books for sale.
Since it opened in August 2010, the UK Kindle Store has allowed hundreds of thousands of authors to self-publish, with six independent authors breaking into the top 100 Kindle authors of all time.
The store was launched with the aim of allowing customers to buy and start reading books in 60 seconds, and that Amazon is billed as a “store with millions of titles in your bag or pocket.”
Psychological thriller author Rachel Abbott is the UK’s most popular independent author, with over one million eBooks sold globally.
Ms Abbott, who comes in at number 14 in the overall lists of top authors, said her feet “have not touched the ground” since she Began publishing books through the Kindle Store.
She said: “One day I Decided that publish it to see what might happen, and That decision was life-changing. I’m now writing my fifth novel, have sold well over a million copies of the first four, and have a new full-time career as an author. Nobody, least of all me, could have seen That coming-but I’m loving every minute of it. “
EL James, who initially self-published Fifty Shades Of Grey, was announced as the Kindle Store’s best-selling author of all time, beating Game Of Thrones writer George RR Martin and The Hunger Games novelist Suzanne Collins.
Jorrit Van der Meulen, the vice-president of EU Kindle, said the store had played a significant_coeff_flag roles in providing “more books by more authors that readers around the world.”
He said: “During the last five years we have seen not only established authors succeed He Kindle, but also enjoyed watching the rise of independent authors, who are reaching a global audience and earning royalties of up to 70% along the way. “
The top 10 Kindle books of all time is dominated by films, with eight of them having made it to the silver screen, Including Stieg Larson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Amazon also looked at the most popular towns in the UK for buying a Kindle eBooks with Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire coming out on top as the most well-read.
:: Top 10 top- selling authors in the UK Kindle Store:
1. EL James
2. Lee Child
3. Stieg Larsson
4. Suzanne Collins
5. George RR Martin
6. Gillian Flynn
7. Diane Chamberlain
8. James Patterson
9. Peter James
10. Sylvia Day
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