Literary medium-range missile: Amazon launches German Kindle Singles ... - E-book News.de

July 3, 2013

Ansgar Warner

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Jeff Bezos’ medium-range missile strikes in the German book industry one: with the launch of German “Kindle Singles” ” compelling texts in the correct length “in a separate section at Amazon.de are now also available, maximum: 30,000 words. To start there’s 40 German-language translations of Kindle shorts from the U.S. – there are more than 4.5 million of these e-book singles have been sold since the beginning of 2011. German readers may now be about to Jeff Jarvis’ “Gutenberg nerd” look (see our e-book review), Karin Slaughter’s t hriller “The Parasite” and Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “basic training”. As usual with the Kindle Singles, the texts are not only offered unbeatable cheap – prices range currently between 0.99 cents and 1.99 euro, but also mostly exclusive to the Kindle Store. In the U.S. and UK, the singles have a real boom for the short-and medium-range genre – such as projects show à la Atavist or Read Petite

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from September’s German program manager

Kindle Singles

directly from German spring there should be no later than during the Christmas season – from September 2013 to record as Kindle Singles editor for Amazon.de Laurenz Bolliger his work. Amazon headhunters have the 41 years of professional lecturers recruited in Dumont where Bolliger previously worked as program director for international literature. With this step, Amazon finally blossomed in Germany for publishing – and complements the self-publishing platforms KDP and CreateSpace with a high-end rail. The German Submission Guidelines for Authors are not online yet, but this much is at least once already clear: the German Kindle Singles will have 5000-30000 words, the authors will receive a 70 percent bonus. In a short text, which is sold for 1.99 euros gross, jump out EUR 1.35 per download here.

In the U.S. publishers also use the singles-bar

Bad news for traditional publishers, but also the online bookstores. Not for nothing speaks farmyard Nate from The Digital Reader for Amazon’s tactic of “disintermediation”: “For the same reason, Amazon has created the KDP platform, but in the case of Kindle Singles, the company is still in a far greater degree replacement for publishers, instead of just a bypass, which is placed around them. “ In the U.S., however, use also the publisher Kindle Single program to have a longer range. How about Lee Childs bestseller “Second Son” was (published in the Random House imprint Transworld Publishers) as a Kindle short text more than 250,000 copies. For self-publishers in the Kindle single universe, the range plays an equally important role – every third Kindle single has sold more than 10,000 times, according to Amazon, every twelfth title more than 50,000 downloads have been counted

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A week from manuscript to publication

Particularly attractive is of course also the speed can be thrown with the current texts on the market – in the case of Stephen King’s 8,000-character essay “guns” on arms control, it took only about the submission of the manuscript to publication one week. It therefore makes sense, Amazon.de, the new Kindle single division not only writers, but also “journalists, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians or” puts his heart. All alone on a limb Amazon Kindle is the start of the singles in Germany but not more – in addition to some newspapers and magazines (such as TIME, FAZ or MIRROR) also set publishing startups recently, micro text

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