Like many other traditional publishers, Amazon Publishing has multiple imprints under its brand that specialize in different genres and categories of literature. Today, the company announced a new imprint, Amazon Original Stories, that will focus on "one sitting" fiction and non-fiction.“The goal of Amazon Original Stories is to champion stories, essays, and reporting by … [Read more...] about Amazon Launches New Imprint Original Stories
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Racy Cover Lands Author in Court over Theft of Image
It's always a good thing when Gronkerotica makes national headlines since it serves to remind the rest of us that yes, there are steamy books available that offer fun word play on terms and phrases like "tight end" and "the receiver was wide open." The fact that the title character (spoiler alert) doesn't get to have sex in the erotica title he stars in is unimportant to this … [Read more...] about Racy Cover Lands Author in Court over Theft of Image
Amazon’s One-Sitting Short Reads Meets Need for Fast Fiction
A number of platforms have offered great content in a short essay, long-form journalism environment, but it has typically been informative, expository non-fiction pieces. But news came out this week about a quiet launch from Amazon that will offer short works of fiction to be consumed in one-sitting, as the site is referring to it. Amazon's Short Reads, which features short … [Read more...] about Amazon’s One-Sitting Short Reads Meets Need for Fast Fiction
Amazon Launches New Short Story Publishing Imprint StoryFront
One of the most potentially useful features of digital publishing was the ability of authors to publish their short stories without the tedious process of anthology selection. In the past, authors who pen short stories had to submit their stories to collections publishers, and those anthologies are typically only published periodically; barring that, the author could try to … [Read more...] about Amazon Launches New Short Story Publishing Imprint StoryFront
Amazon Publishing Announces Two New Imprints
After the original surge of growth from the online retailer and digital publisher, Amazon shook the publishing world to its core in 2010 when it announced the creation of its traditional publishing model, Amazon Publishing, headed up by industry leader Larry Kirschbaum. Already known--and somewhat reviled--at that time for its rumored free-for-all into self-publishing through … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Announces Two New Imprints
Atavist and Short-Form Digital Publishing
Digital Book World 2012 has showcased a variety of forms of digital reading content or add-ons, essentially the ways that e-reading is so much more than just novels. Copia demonstrated its social reading platform and rolled out its college textbook interactivity, BookTracks offered samples of its fully integrated audio enhancements, and a variety of companies like start-ups … [Read more...] about Atavist and Short-Form Digital Publishing
Digital Publishing Reviving Short Stories
More than one traditional publishing house has decided to experiment with meeting the needs of the reading consumer in a time-strapped and financially weakened economy. Publishers are bringing more short story content to publishing markets everywhere and they are relying on the popularity of digital reading to make it possible.Both Penguin Group and Random House have … [Read more...] about Digital Publishing Reviving Short Stories
Amazon’s Digital Short Story Publication Platform
Amazon launched its Kindle Singles site earlier this year, and despite its popularity—six titles in the Kindle Singles store were ranked in the top twenty for all Kindle downloads, ebooks included—and a wealth of submitted material, this seems to be one avenue in which Amazon is not willing to give authors free reign. All submissions of the 3,000 to 5,000 word titles are read … [Read more...] about Amazon’s Digital Short Story Publication Platform