Quick money: Kindle single division is a million dollar business - e-book News.de

Everyone is talking about Amazon’s self-publishing platform KDP, but the online retailer is already mutated into a successful publishing – under the label “Kindle Singles” selected short texts 5000-30000 characters are markets, usually at a price of $ 2 or less (see “Submission Policy”). The concept is: Even in late 2012, nearly two years after its launch, 4 million singles had already been sold, since the 5 million mark in sight should be – and Amazon writes with the supposed niche business black numbers

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In a NYT article this week there were a few insights into the quasi-publishing business from Amazon, headed by David Blum is a journalism professional who is a few years ago to ailing weekly newspapers like the Village Voice and New York Press cared.

“Mr. Blum makes own title suggestions, or picked the raisins out of the more than 1000 manuscripts coming in each month. He makes the publishing work and helps in the selection of cover designs with. “

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Similar KDP can send each author a short nonfiction text or a novel on Amazon – but the publishing program of Kindle Singles is handpicked

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“Mr. Blum tried to preserve the prestige brand, in which he severely limited the number of titles offered. Although the digital bookshelf Amazon is in principle unlimited, just 345 singles were released so far according to the company. “

What is Amazon succeeded with the short-texts, Nate farmyard rightly subsumed by the term “disintermediation”:

“For the same reason, Amazon has created the KDP platform, but in the case of Kindle Singles, the company is still a much greater degree a substitute for publishers, instead of just a bypass, which is placed around them.”

However, the publishers also use the Kindle even single program to have a longer range. A good example is Lee Childs bestseller “Second Son” – was downloaded more than 250,000 times the e-book. In this case, the deal between Amazon and publisher Lee Childs was closed – and that was worth over a different channel when the book was so often sold

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for self-publishers in the Kindle single coverage universe might play an important role along with the attractive bonuses by 70 percent – of every three Kindle single has sold more than 10,000 times, according to Amazon, every twelfth titles were counted more than 50,000 downloads.

addition, many authors would naturally irritate the comparably short period of time within which a title can throw on the market via the Kindle single – as in the case of Stephen King, one of the last U.S. school massacre with the 8000-character essay “Guns” replied:

“He chose the singles because of the speed. A week after King had submitted the manuscript, it was proofread, provided with cover and ready for online sales. “

Meanwhile, Amazon has expanded the Kindle single concept to the UK, and there is already a section for Spanish titles. A corresponding offer German language, however does not exist – but however it should only be a matter of time until arises also a local label for Kindle Short texts after the successful launch of KDP

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(via NYT & The Digital Reader)

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