Amazon Kindle Serials: old approach, newer technology

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If you have an Amazon Kindle and long for the approach of Dickens when reading new stories, Amazon may have your answer. Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, said, “for our next invention, we reached back into the past for inspiration.” Amazon released eight Kindle Serials to begin this new distribution method. Each edition will be priced at “an introductory price” of $1.99. Each title will be exclusive to Amazon.

While the approach is not new even for e-publishing, Amazon hopes this process will be “seamless and hassle-free.” You only pay once, then the downloads are automatic with Amazon Whispernet. As new portions of the story are published, Amazon automatically adds them to the end of your existing book. Readers don’t have to remember to check for new episodes and they don’t have to pay for them.
If you enjoy having a conversation while reading through a story, you can join the conversation on Amazon discussion boards. Amazon hopes that this will allow “the authors to learn from readers in real-time and perhaps influence a story’s path.” Customers can try out the program for free by downloading Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” or “The Pickwick Papers,” published with their original covers and illustrations, delivered in the same segments they were published in during Dickens’ day.

If you are an author and wish to be considered for Kindle Serials, visit www.amazon.com/kindleserialssubmissions and submit ideas.

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