By Steve WindwalkerEditor of Kindle Nation Daily
Call it the "Paper Curtain," if you like.
But like the Berlin Wall, it's coming down.
As a result of the Publishing Perestroika that has been unleashed by readers and writers connecting primarily around Kindle content in the short span of just 39 months, the walls that have kept self-published and ebook authors from being included in prestigious newspaper bestseller lists will come crashing down this week.
Tomorrow, USA TODAYwill roll out its weekly list of the top 150 bestselling books in the U.S., just as it does every Thursday.
But for the very first time, USA Today announced today, its list for the week ending February 6 will include bestselling self-published direct-to-Kindle authors like Amanda Hocking. Hocking's books currently rank #3, #11, #12, #27, #37, #41, and #46 on the Kindle Store top 50 bestsellers, and "the three titles in her Trylle Trilogy (Switched, Torn and Ascend, the latest) will make their debuts in the top 50 of USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list," wrote USA Today's Carol Memmott in an article entitled "Authors catch fire with self-published ebooks."
Read the rest of the story at http://kindlehomepage.blogspot.com/2011/02/publishing-perestroika-indie-authors.html.
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