class=”wp_keywordlink”> Amazon will be more involved in the future in Germany for its range of Kindle Singles. For this it has hired a new head of department among other things – Laurenz Bolliger, currently the Program Director for International Literature on Dumont Verlag, takes the position in September
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Kindle Singles are texts with 5000-30000 words. Amazon in the English shop, there are 373 such deals which are on sale in Germany. Just 40 more to come in the German language. Prices start at 99 cents.
the book industry notable were the activities of the trader, above all, because he is trying for the first time on a large scale in Germany with its own publishing program, explains the book industry magazine report in its online edition. To push the business, Amazon will rely not only on German-language authors, but also translates Mini e-books from English.
book report also points out that the mini e-books in Germany are underrepresented in international comparison. The industry magazine called tentative baby steps of established publishers and still stuck in its infancy German start-ups and micro text Culturbooks.
In the United States and the English-speaking world in contrast are among others the British bookstore chain Waterstones with the service Read Petite, the New York Times, the young company Byliner from San Francisco and The Atavist from New York, attended by Google Manager Eric Schmidt is involved, very active. Moreover Holocene with crafts and building instructions as well as the self-publishing platform Wattpad would offer a wide range of short e-books. So Wattpad delivers claims to 1.5 million new texts per month.
[with material from Peter Marwan, ITespresso.de]
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