Amazon launched the Kindle USA Scout, a new service for authors and readers. Each author may propose pitcher and the first pages of a manuscript ever published. These items are posted on the dedicated website.
Readers then take out and to vote for their favorite texts. Books winning the most votes are then published and sold in the Kindle store for digital books. ( read details here) .
On Kindle Scout, it is the readers who decide almost last. They can read extracts and choose their favorite manuscripts (3 maximum). Future novels that have repotted the most votes are then read not Amazon team chooses the best.
“We are always looking for new ways to link authors with readers, “said in a statement Dina Hilal, General Manager of Kindle Scout.
Russ Grandinetti, Senior Vice President of Kindle estimated as him with this new service, readers have their say.
With this program, the Web giant continues its inexorable loom canvas to convince authors and established his publisher position in the global book industry.
For the authors, independent, this new model can be a path to success, provided the Amazon game play.
A good fifty projects have already been submitted to a vote on the US site, France should follow in the coming months.
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