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  More Exclusive eBook Content: “Penguin Shorts” Launches

  1257 readersFrom The Guardian: The Penguin Shorts progamme, a collection of short digital reads, has just launched with nine titles, ranging from a creepy short story by Dunmore to an essay on multiculturalism from Elif Shafak, accounts of the battles of Alamein and Isandlwana, recipes for the perfect Christmas day from Felicity Cloake and a novella by Anita

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  Princeton University Press gets into eshorts

  2364 readers From PaidContent: Princeton University Press appears to be the first university press to join the e-singles game. On November 9, the press will launch Princeton Shorts, a series of nonfiction e-singles consisting of selections from previously published books. The e-singles “stand alone well and which speak to either some current event or are

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  E-Singles format starting to take off for e-publishing shorter works

  2819 readersPerhaps spurred by Amazon’s new Kindle Singles submission page, PaidContent has taken a look at the new “E-Singles” format for shorter works. The best-known example is, of course, Amazon’s “Kindle Singles” program, through which a number of magazines and writers are publishing feature-length non-fiction works (and some writers are publishing short stories) for prices ranging

• Short Form Content: There’s An App for That

  1554 readers New short form content initiatives seem to be sprouting up all around us.  You're probably familiar with Amazon's Kindle Singles program.  As I mentioned earlier this year, Singles is a smart move on Amazon's part but they're wrong to assume that "shorter" always equals "cheaper." We're also doing a lot with short form content at O'Reilly.

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  Short-Form Digital Grows at University Presses

  1149 readersBack in March, the Digital Digest profiled Princeton Shorts, a new short-form e-book program launched last fall by Princeton University Press. At least two more AAUP presses have launched short e-book programs this spring: Stanford, with Stanford Briefs, and North Carolina, with UNC Press E-Book Shorts. The basic idea of short-form digital is not original to university presses. Anticipating

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  Short-Form Digital Grows at University Presses

  1253 readersBack in March, the Digital Digest profiled Princeton Shorts, a new short-form e-book program launched last fall by Princeton University Press. At least two more AAUP presses have launched short e-book programs this spring: Stanford, with Stanford Briefs, and North Carolina, with UNC Press E-Book Shorts. The basic idea of short-form digital is not original to university presses. Anticipating

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  Amazon Launches new Submission Page for Kindle Singles

  1008 readersIt’s been just over 9 months since Amazon started the Kindle Singles program, and earlier this week Amazon posted that the program was doing well. The Kindle Singles storefront is now up to 80 titles, and the 80th Single was released on Tuesday. It’s called The Sum Of My Parts, and it was written by a

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  Discover Free Short Stories with Paragraph Shorts App

  701 readersShort stories occupy such a small real estate, but they now have a new home in Paragraph Shorts, a free app dedicated to the dissemination of short stories. Paragraph Shorts is the vision of Ziv Navoth, a short storyteller with a mission to “do to the short story what iTunes did to singles – provide people

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  University of Chicago Press Launches DRM-Free Short-Form Ebook Series

  2245 readers The University of Chicago Press launched its Chicago Short series today with nine titles. “Priced for impulse buying,” according to the The Chicago Blog, eight of the short-form ebooks are available for $3.99 and one for $0.99. To add to the appeal, that $0.99 title is free through the end of February. (For insight into

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  Kindle Single Sales Surpass 2 Million

  764 readersSince Amazon announced the Kindle Singles program back in 2010, authors including Margaret Atwood, Christopher Hitchens and Jeff Jarvis have experimented with the new short form eBook format. While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about its sales figures, today Paidcontent.org is reporting that Amazon has sold more than two million Kindle Singles. Paidcontent.org has the exclusive: “Amazon wouldn’t