From The Bookseller:
Amazon has revealed statistics from its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) programme claiming Manchester as “an indie publishing hotspot”.
The northern city is home to more independently published authors per capita than any other town or city in the UK, based on Amazon’s ranking of the highest concentrations of self-published authors using its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. The data reflects the number of KDP authors in “top 50” towns – in terms of population – divided by population.
Manchester is the only place in the North West to feature in KDP’s “top 10 publishing hotspots in the UK”. After that, York was the second highest, followed by Nottingham; Bristol; Southampton; Plymouth; Milton Keynes; Northampton; Portsmouth; and Edinburgh.
Link to the rest at The Bookseller
I’ll give a WOOT! for Plymouth!
Does this include pen names as one author total or one per pen name? One or two prolific authors could easily be inflating the numbers.
My assumption would be that if they were using one account, the pen names would be rolled up under that one account. If for some reason they are distributing their pen names across several accounts, then those would count as multiples.