Amazon announces a literary prize of 20 thousand pounds – the Observer

The Amazon UK will be launching a literary prize in the amount of 20 thousand pounds (more than 23 thousand euros) for the writer to publish a book online (ebook) on the platform Kindle Direct Publishing, which allows authors and independent publishers to place a book for sale for its own account. The premium Kindle Storyteller is open to authors with more than 18 years, write in English and in any kind of literature, fiction or non-fiction. The ebook must have a minimum of 5,000 words and not have been published before.

The interests of the readers will be taken into consideration when it is compiled the list of ebooks, as well as the opinion of a panel of judges. In addition to the monetary prize, the distinction will also include a marketing campaign, and the ability of the ebook to be translated into other languages. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in July in London.

The director of content associated with the Kindle, Alessio Santarelli, revealed in a statement on the website of Amazon UK that "good books deserve to be celebrated and this is what we want to do in the competition the Kindle Storyteller. We hope to encourage aspiring writers and authors who, even having already been published, write again to the stories they are available to all readers around the world. Publishing a book has never been easy and this award will help the author whose story appeals more to the readers and to specialists in literary."

A quarter of the authors in the top 100 of the Kindle store UK have been published through this platform Kindle Direct Publishing. Rachel Abbott, author of Kill me Again , a bestseller in the Kindle, confessed that he has "great expectations in the titles that will be presented in this first competition of the award, whether an author already known, or an aspiring writer who is encouraged by the prize to publish his first book. The Kindle has helped me to achieve my dream of having a career as a writer and I believe that many people have one great book in them, waiting to be written".

the deadline for The submission of ebooks begins February 20th and ends on the 19 of may of this year.