And to put a more positive angle into this thread:
John Locke is First Independently Published Author in ‘Kindle Million Club’
Quote:
SEATTLE—Jun 20, 2011—Amazon.com announced that John Locke has become the eighth author to sell over 1 million Kindle books, becoming the newest member of the “Kindle Million Club,” and the first independently published author to receive this distinction. As of Sunday, John Locke has sold 1,010,370 Kindle books using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP).
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The story (ironically, in a printing trade magazine)