Amazon launched Kindle Singles 2011 collection which now several hundred titles. The Kindle is a single type of structure rather short (between 5,000 and 30,000 words) sold in digital form between 0.99 and 4.99 dollars. This format is particularly suited to what Americans call the “Creative nonfiction” (the fictionalized nonfiction), a kind of fashion in the United States akin to literary journalism or fictionalized testimony. The publishing model chosen by Amazon reminiscent of self-publishing: authors send their manuscripts directly to the team of David Blum (renowned American author and editor), which makes a selection. The best fall into the “Kindle Singles” collection and thus benefit from greater exposure resulting in a rapid take-off in sales. The others join the mass of self-published books.
Attention to the selection of materials guarantees the quality of the texts, it also takes a lot of work curation, as the more traditional publi sher , discoverer of new talent. This editorial model with little financial risk could swarm in the coming years, Amazon has announced that it already crossed the threshold of 5 million singles sold.
For more information: Amazon Singles, or how to overcome a few more editors, Florent Taillandier cnetfrance.fr, May 6, 2013
N ewspaper, Kindle or iPad? Source: marcoderksen for Flickr / CC by NC
To go further:
- display playback, challenges connected player, Marc-André Fog, October 2010.
- “The manufacture of the author by librarians in public libraries,” Cecile Plane BBF , 2011, No. 5.
Tags: Amazon, Kindle, Self-publishing, Curation
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