The online retailer Amazon launches its” Kindle Singles now “service in Germany. About this authors are able to publish works that perhaps not suited to a full-fledged book.Before the digital reading was, authors had their work cut frequently either to publish a magazine article can expand or to achieve the scope of a book. With Kindle Singles authors can now publish works without artificially set limits and in the detail that corresponds to their preferences, the company explained the concept behind the service. In the English-speaking world is the offer available for some time. Now it can also use German users. Customers can choose to start in this country from about 360 English-language Kindle Singles as well as from more than 40 popular German translations of texts. These have their own section in the Kindle Store, and are available at prices from 99 cents.
“With Kindle Singles is completely free for authors to decide the length of their text and still have the chance to publish their work,” said Jorrit Van der Meulen, Director of the Kindle business in Europe. In a text magazines usually have to make do with less than 10,000 words, for an actual book, it should already be at least 50,000. “This rich, in many cases 5000-30000 words from and may be just the right length to perform an exciting idea,” Van der Meulen
. In the U.S., the concept is already well accepted by Kindle users Service. “Since the launch of Kindle Singles now almost two years ago Kindle 4.5 million singles were sold,” said the manager. There, the company was able to secure well-known authors such as Susan Orlean, Jon Krakauer, David Mamet, and Stephen King for publications in the segment.
Unlike the e-book, the authors offer on Amazon self-published will be decided in the singles editorial about which texts are included. But that the author comes to enjoy a proofreading by the company.
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