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  Is Amazon Singles’ The New Place To Break Into Literary World?

  185 readersIn a profile with The New York Times, David Blum a New York media veteran who is now heading up Amazon’s Kindle Singles division says that Amazon is bold for creating a business model which pays writers based on sales. And the service does. Authors are paid 30 percent of all sales through the store. Kindle Singles

• Kindle Singles Could Be So Much More

  750 readersAmazon launched their new Kindle Singles line with the usual series of email blasts and banners on amazon.com recently. There appear to be 20 or so Singles products so far but I'm sure many more are in the works. Amazon...

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  Amazon Singles could be so much more

  791 readersAmazon launched their new Kindle Singles line with the usual series of email blasts and banners on amazon.com recently.  There appear to be 20 or so Singles products so far but I’m sure many more are in the works.  Amazon says Singles are “compelling ideas expressed at their natural length.”  My interpretation of that is, “most

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  How to Write a Kindle Single

  1979 readersToday’s guest on the Morning Media Menu was Evan Ratliff, editor of the brand new long-form nonfiction publication, The Atavist. During the long interview, Ratliff offered advice for publishers and authors looking to explore Amazon’s Single...

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

  2816 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

• Amazon Launches Kindle Singles

  1194 readersAmazon Launches Kindle Singles http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/01/26/kindle-singles Three months ago, Amazon made a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Kindle in making a...

• Amazon Kindle Launches Singles with TED E-books

  1009 readersBy Hannah Johnson Yesterday, Amazon began selling its Kindle Singles online. Singles are e-books between 5,000 and 30,000 words long. According to the press release, these e-books are meant to “allow a single killer idea —...

• Amazon Eyes Different, Shorter Kinds of Content for the Kindle

  841 readersAmazon issued a call today for “compelling ideas expressed at their natural length” for its e-book store.Specifically, per Amazon’s guidelines, that means non-fiction works in the 10,000-30,000-word (30 to 90-page) range that deliver a well-researched and thoughtfully executed…

• Stephen King Praises Kindle Singles, Goes Exclusive for Essay ‘Guns’

  753 readers [Press Release] Best-Selling Author Stephen King Publishes Kindle Single “Guns,” Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store—You Won’t Find it Anywhere Else King’s essay available for $0.99 to read on Kindle and all free Kindle reading apps Amazon.com today announced that the best-selling and iconic author Stephen King has published a personal essay—“Guns”—available exclusively in the Kindle Store as

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  Amazon Eyes Different, Shorter Kinds of Content for the Kindle

  239 readers Amazon issued a call today for “compelling ideas expressed at their natural length” for its e-book store. Specifically, per Amazon’s guidelines, that means non-fiction works in the 10,000-30,000-word (30 to 90-page) range that deliver a well-researched and thoughtfully executed argument related to business, politics, science, history, current events or other topics in the