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11 September 2015

Ansgar Warner

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Amazon is expanding its publishing activities – and relies at the same time on the latest trend: Crowd Publishing, or rather crowdgesourctes Publishing. Already in 2014 was the crowdsourcing platform Kindle Scout in the US at the start, where the reader-voting decides which submitted manuscripts of authors at the end of Amazon Digital Label Press Kindle be published. Since this week English-language texts can also be submitted by authors from Europe, Asia and South America now.

Kindle Press titles in the store successfully

Before a title will be presented at the reader Kindle Scout community, he goes through a review process by the Amazon team. Among the desired genres include Romance, Mystery & amp; Thriller, SciFi & amp; Fantasy and Children’s Book. So far, according to the company 75 titles for the Kindle Press Channel were chosen what seems for the authors to be worth in any case: the E-Books received very good reviews and many Customer Reviews (average 4.48 asterisk and more than 2,700 . Reviews)

authors get $ 1,500 advance

A few top sellers were born: Stacey Cochran’s novel “Eddie and Sunny” about, one of the first Kindle Press titles, made it straight into the top 100 in the Kindle charts. Kindle Press writers receive a 5-year contract and an advance of 1,500 dollars, they also naturally benefit from Amazon’s marketing support. Equally attractive is the chance to get a publishing contract for one of the imprints of Amazon Publishing.

Test-reader will be rewarded with free copies

For readers scouts the nominating and Sharen titles worth also. If one of them selected title, you will receive a free copy as a reward. The nomination phase is limited for each book to 30 days, every reader can nominate 3 books at a time. The excerpts can be read directly in the browser, but can be also send to Kindle’s.