Amazon to Launch Kindle Singles
Posted on October 12, 2010
Amazon.com plans to add Kindle Singles to its Kindle store. Amazon says Kindle singles can range from less than 10,000 words to over 50,000. The length is described as ranging from twice the length of a New Yorker feature to as long as a few chapters of a typical book.
This could work for a short story, business lesson, a political point of view, a scientific argument, or an essay on a current event. Amazon says it is calling on serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world.
"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."