Les Cochran’s book hits Kindle best seller list

Staff report

SAN CARLOS PARK, FLA.

Former Youngstown State University President Les Cochran’s book cracked the Kindle Best Seller List.

“I got goose bumps as I read the announcement that ‘Signature Affair,’ my first novel, had made Kindle’s Top 100 Best Seller list,” Cochran said in a news release. “I had no idea that we were even close.”

After ranking 16,600 out of more than a million books on Amazon.com’s Kindle list, the 2013 book dropped in recent months.

The publisher suggested the Kindle price be reduced from $5.99 to 99 cents.

“He said, ‘You won’t make any money, but you’ll expand the reader list for “Costly Affair,”’ which was recently released,” Cochran said. “That made sense to me, so we did it. I knew we’d sell a few more books. But I had no idea it’d take off like it did.”

“Signature Affair” is the first book in Cochran’s trilogy. “Costly Affair” and “Presidential Affair” round out the group. Cochran says the books are fiction, not memoir.

Cochran served as YSU president from 1992 to 2000. He and his wife, Lin, live in San Carlos Park, Fla.