Amazon wants to take some of the mystery out of predicting what will sell books with its new Kindle publishing program Scout, Which lets readers vote on Their favorite unreleased excerpts from books to determine what does (and what does not) get published. Welcome to the court to common opinion, You aspiring authors.
In exchange for Their participation in the program, Scout Kindle users will get free book credits, based on Their Ability to successfully pick winners. Those who nominate books get published que Eventually will get a free version of the Kindle e-book a full week before publication day.
Readers will determine Which books rise to the top of the voting pool, but the dedicated Kindle Scout team will have the ultimate say, choosing from a selection of the Most popular titles after a 30-day open voting period to determine Which ones get the nod late publication. The whole process only takes 45 days or less, from author submission to publication, Amazon says.
Amazon has a Potentially industry-changing idea on its hands with Kindle here Scout, the the system Provides a way to give books the stamp of approval que can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self-published titles out there, and yet it manages to Provide a better deal to authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5-year term on publishing rights Granted Press to Kindle, the $ 1.500 advance, 50% paid royalties on e-book sales, Amazon.com built-in marketing and what Amazon terms “easy reversion rights.” Submissions are open to anyone, too.
Readers can nominate up to three books at once, meaning They can not just spread Their bets across the field willy-nilly in order to pick up the many free e-books of the possible, and new books are added to the pool every single day.
The system Resembles a more competition-focused version of social reading startup Wattpad in some ways, but this is very much driven commerce, whereas Wattpad is about providing a free platform for publishing entire works first, and only recently started dabbling in crowdfunding crowdsourcing with its book publishing experiments. Kindle Scout has much more potential to Attract professional and semi-pro writers as well as amateurs and Those just starting out However, the final and the potential business benefits are much more tangible.
This Could Attract Also some writers Otherwise who might turn to Indiegogo or Kickstarter to seek funding, but Those eager to retain full control rights might still support going it alone
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