Kindle Singles: 5,000,000 copies sold - ActuaLitté - Actualitté.com

Get Amazon figures is not easy. So when the giant communicates on its sales, the results are always something colossal. This time, the company Jeff Bezos announced via an interview New York Times the threshold of 5 million Kindle Singles sold. Launched in 2011, this format short – between 5,000 and 30,000 words – takes the concept of the novella, new format of significant size. Not to mention the impact of digitally Amazon, an aggressive pricing policy on competition.

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Put forth in a dedicated focus with prices below $ 2 for the majority of texts shop, the short format finds its audience quickly. In the space of a year, more than two million singles were sold on the site. An attraction of the reader for a production that offers young writers encouraged by the favorable obtaining copyright. But we also find more established authors. Nevertheless, the editorial War merchant site makes chilly novelists who have already passed the stage of the paper published in another editor like.

Especially designed for digital reading, the short format, downloaded a wink and read immediately offers a new habit of reading faster. Quasi-nomadic, the Single draws at the same time occasional authors: academics, journalists. With a thousand titles not held by other publishers, and any financial risk in own digital, David Blum, founder of the subsidiary can continue to enrich his shop. And cajole his goose that lays golden eggs.

“Every day I am fascinated by the great potential of this concept,” the man enthusiasm and figures ahead of $ 22,000 in revenue for authors who work and 10,000 copies sold on average. If lower cost digital production, distribution and storage, Blum does not count too much focus on the unlimited space in the catalog. Only 345 titles were released on the store. Proof is that the Kindle Single is upscale for KDP. But always with a similar policy.

logic Amazon, a well-known recipe for low prices, below $ 5, the revenue paid 70% as copyright in the way of his self-publishing services, Kindle Direct Publishing. But with filtering a peer. A guarantee of quality editorial that brought in big names like King novel, a supporter of the first hour of the Kindle, it will be remembered. The novelist Maine had cracked a test better gun control last winter.

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