Amazon’s 2012 bestseller list shows publishers and indie authors need each other

Amazon released its list of the bestselling books of 2012. The list is a great summary of one of the key themes in book publishing in 2012: Self-published authors and traditional publishers need each other. Four of the authors on Amazon’s 2012 adult top-ten list — which counts Kindle and print copies together — either originally self-published their books or published through very small publishers.