Wel­come to 2012!! Ama­zon just released its 2011 sales roundup and the #1 and #4 best-selling books for Kin­dle were self-published! This is great news of self-publishers (like myself) because it shows that there’s both a mar­ket and a viable plat­form for pub­lish­ing your own work.

The #1 best-selling book for Kin­dle in 2011 was The Mill River Recluse by Dar­cie Chan. The #4 best­selling book for Kin­dle in 2011 was The Abbey by Chris Cul­ver. Both books were pub­lished using Kin­dle Direct Pub­lish­ing, Amazon’s self-publishing platform.

And in Decem­ber, Kindle’s #5 best-selling book was Wife by Wednes­day, writ­ten and self-published by Cather­ine Bybee, a for­mer nurse. Her book even landed on the USA Today and Wall Street Jour­nal best-seller lists!

Amazon’s full press release (found here), details more of the company’s 2011 suc­cesses, includ­ing the tid­bit that cus­tomers bought more than 1 mil­lion Kin­dles per week in Decem­ber 2011. That’s a lot of eread­ers, folks.