Last month, Amazon's traditional publishing arm and its host of imprints at Amazon Publishing announced a new incentive to get people reading on their Kindles: Kindle First. Each month, the editors at Amazon Publishing will select several titles from a variety of genres to be released a month early to Kindle users and Prime members. While these titles will be pre-released for … [Read more...] about December Kindle First Titles Released
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Amazon Publishing Introduces Read-Before-Release Program Kindle First
Amazon customers just got a whole new incentive to read, and Prime members just got an additional perk for joining. Today, Amazon's traditional publishing arm Amazon Publishing announced a new program called Kindle First, a read-it-before-it's-released opportunity for customers to purchase unreleased titles at a steep discount a full month before they are launched. Open to … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Introduces Read-Before-Release Program Kindle First
Leadership Change at Amazon Publishing
When online book retailer Amazon decided to venture into traditional publishing more than two years ago, it staged a coup of sorts by winning over long-time industry professional Larry Kirshbaum to head up their operations. Now, with eleven distinct imprints and a staff of editors nearly thirty-strong, Kirshbaum is leaving Amazon Publishing and returning to his former role as a … [Read more...] about Leadership Change at Amazon Publishing
Amazon Publishing Newest Imprint Focuses on Biographies
Amazon's traditional publishing arm has grown at an incredible rate to include a wide variety of genre-based imprints. Its Kindle Singles platform, which focuses on long-form journalism, has seen probably the most surprising growth, indicating that an increasing number of readers are going back to the once-revered essay-length publications that were often serialized in … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Newest Imprint Focuses on Biographies
Kindle Singles Editor-in-Chief David Blum on the Popularity of eShorts
Amazon launched an innovative platform in 2011 that some have heralded as the salvation of long-form journalism and the renewal of reader content for short fiction. The Kindle Singles platform created a publishing home for stand-alone digital works that were between 5,000 and 30,000 words, a category far too short for traditional print publishing to invest in. David Blum, … [Read more...] about Kindle Singles Editor-in-Chief David Blum on the Popularity of eShorts
Amazon Publishing Speeds Up Royalty Payments to Authors
In the I-want-it-now, fast paced environment brought about by the advent of digital publishing, one of the major frustrations that authors still face is the lag time involved in the traditional publishing industry. Slow-to-market publication dates and quarterly holds on royalty payments are just a couple of the reasons that even seasoned traditionally published authors are … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Speeds Up Royalty Payments to Authors
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
Short List for the ABNA Awards Announced
The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, which opened to the maximum 10,000 entries in late January, has gone through two rounds of judging to announce today's Quarter-Finalists. The awards, open to authors of any ilk, incorporated several more categories this year as the contest grew in participation. In previous years, authors were invited to submit manuscripts in either the … [Read more...] about Short List for the ABNA Awards Announced
Amazon Launches Two Lions and Skyscape YA Imprints
Amazon has just announced two new youth imprints that seek to take advantage of one of the hottest segments in the publishing world. Two Lions will focus on picture books, chapter books, and middle-grade fiction, and Skyscape will be devoted to titles for young adults, which will have established and new authors contribute content. One of the elements should immediately gain … [Read more...] about Amazon Launches Two Lions and Skyscape YA Imprints
ABNA Awards Open to More Categories, More Authors
GoodeReader reported recently on the announcement of the upcoming Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, which opens for submissions next month. This year's staging of the competition, however, carries with it several key changes to the contest guidelines and the prizes for the winners. Daphne Durham, editor-in-chief of Amazon Publishing, and Libby Johnson McKee, the Managing … [Read more...] about ABNA Awards Open to More Categories, More Authors