From: darriesf@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:50:47 +0000
Subject: Amazon Introduces The Digital Pamphlet With 'Kindle Singles'
To: darriesfa@gmail.com
It looks like Amazon is extending its e-reading platform to include
short works and digital pamphlets. Today, Amazon is launching Kindle
Singles, which are Kindle books that are in the company's words,
"twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters
of a typical book." Generally, Amazon characterized Kindle Singles as
10,000 to 30,000 words (roughly 30 to 90 pages).
Amazon says that Kindle Singles will have their own section in the
Kindle Store, which currently has over 700,000 books, and will be
priced much less than a typical book (although Amazon didn't reveal a
range of pricing for the new format). Like standard e-books on the
platform, Kindle Singles can be read on the Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle
DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based
devices.
It sounds like anyone can submit a story or piece to be included as a
Kindle Single, and Amazon is using the announcement as a "call to
serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians,
politicians and publishers" to submit writings. As Amazon writes in
the release: Singles are a "perfect, natural length to lay out a
single killer idea, well researched, well argued and well
illustrated—whether it's a business lesson, a political point of view,
a scientific argument, or a beautifully crafted essay on a current
event."
This new format is is important because Kindle Singles opens up a
market for new authors. Singles gives bloggers and writers out there
who don't have time to write a book the opportunity to publish a
pamphlet or shorter work. In reality, the Kindle Single is something
in between a blog post and a digital book.
A few weeks ago, Amazon released "Kindle for the Web", which enables
people to read and share digital book samples in their browsers
without the need to install or download anything
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