Amazon Announces Low Price "Kindle Singles"
Amazon Announces Low Price "Kindle Singles"
Posted 10/12/2010 at 6:58am
| by Paul Lilly
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If you're scratching your head raw trying to figure out what exactly a Kindle Single is, don't worry, we wondered the same thing. As it turns out, that's the designation Amazon is giving to literary works that don't fall into the usual below 10,000 words or above 50,000 words mark, which is "the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century."
"Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. "With Kindle Singles, we're reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers and we're excited to see what they create."
Amazon describes the length of Kindle Singles as being twice that of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book. Kindle Singles have their own section in the Kindle Store and will be "priced much less than a typical book," Amazon says.
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Keith E. Whisman
October 12, 2010 at 4:44pm
I predict that these will be the Kindle's to buy because someone is bound to make a crack that will unlock the word limit and make it just as capable as the more expensive Kindle ereaders.
Anyone else agree with my prediction?
Tekzel
October 17, 2010 at 4:02am
Err, I predict that you misread the posting. This isn't a limit in the ereader device, but a limit in the CONTENT. It's the book they are talking about.
I DO have a prediction though: eBooks won't really come into their own until publishers get their heads out of their asses and realize that eBooks "price position" isn't "between paperbacks and hardcovers" like they want, but comfortably below paperbacks. Why would I pay more for a book that costs less to make and deliver, AND that I can't sell to a used book shop when I'm done? Morons.
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