Amazon to Publish Inaugural Books Selected by Kindle Scout
2015年2月24日 - 11:00PM
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Customers can now pre-order 10
reader-discovered titles that will be released on March 3
21 books have been selected to date, with more
submitted and selected daily
(NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon today announced that customers can
pre-order the first 10 titles discovered through Kindle Scout,
Amazon’s new reader-powered publishing platform. The books, which
will be released on March 3, are the first to be published under
the digital publishing banner Kindle Press. To date, there have
been 21 titles selected for publication by Kindle Press, with more
books submitted and selected daily. Today, Kindle Scout also began
accepting Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Action
& Adventure submissions in addition to Romance,
Mystery/Thriller and Science Fiction. Learn more about the
inaugural Kindle Press books and submit your manuscript to Kindle
Scout at kindlescout.amazon.com/selected.
“Since we opened our doors we’ve been busy weighing the feedback
of over 29,000 enthusiastic Scouts who have nominated the books
they want to read next,” said Dina Hilal, general manager for
Kindle Scout. “These first 10 titles signal a new option for
authors, who can choose to have their books discovered and
supported by Amazon customers even before they are published.”
The first 10 Kindle Press books to be published on March 3, 2015
are:
- G1 by Rigel Carson –
Science Fiction
- A Highland Knight's Desire by
Amy Jarecki – Romance
- Eddie & Sunny by Stacey
Cochran – Mystery/Romance
- L.A. Sniper by Steve
Gannon – Thriller
- Pit Bulls vs. Aliens by Neal
Wooten – Science Fiction
- Royal Date by Sariah
Wilson – Romance
- Running from the Past by Alan
Orloff – Thriller
- The Game Master by William
Bernhardt – Thriller
- The Omega Connection by Allan
Leverone – Thriller
- Unpaved Surfaces by Joseph
Souza – Mystery
“Having Eddie & Sunny chosen for publication by Kindle Press
has been nothing short of a dream come true,” said author Stacey
Cochran. “The reader enthusiasm galvanized during the Kindle Scout
campaign was exciting beyond anything else I’ve experienced as a
writer, but the thing that’s been most surprising in all of this is
the community experience and friendships I’ve made with the other
writers I’ve come to know through Kindle Scout after connecting on
social media.”
Kindle Scout by the numbers:
- 9 – The average number of excerpts a
Scout considers before nominating a title to be published
- 3 – The number of minutes it took the
fastest author to submit a manuscript to Kindle Scout
- 31 – The average number of days in
which a Kindle Scout author receives a publishing decision after
submitting a book
- $25,000 – If a Kindle Press author does
not earn at least this amount during his 5-year contract, he can
request his rights back
- 10 – The highest number of free Kindle
books an individual Scout has earned for nominating books to
date
About Kindle Scout
Kindle Scout is reader-powered publishing for new,
never-before-published books. It’s a place where readers help
decide if a book gets published. Selected books are published by
Kindle Press and receive 5-year renewable terms, a $1,500 advance,
50% eBook royalty rate, easy rights reversions, and featured Amazon
marketing. For more information about Kindle Scout please visit
kindlescout.com/about. To see a video on how Kindle Scout works,
visit kindlescout.amazon.com/video.
About Amazon
Amazon opened on the World Wide Web in July
1995. The company is guided by four principles: customer obsession
rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire phone, Fire
tablets, and Fire TV are some of the products and services
pioneered by Amazon.
Amazon.com, Inc.Media Hotline,
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