Amazon is in expansion mode now, the it has launched AmazonBasics in India and Amazon Kindle Scout Publishing platform in India and 10 global other locations .
Here is a brief report On These two new services from world’s largest ecommerce portal:
AmazonBasics:
In 2009, Amazon created Their own private label brand called AmazonBasics , and Introduced it in USA. Initially, Amazon Basics covered only low-value electronics goods such as USB cables, A / V cables, Ethernet cables, and blank recordable media such as DVD-R discs etc. But right now, Amazon Basics US has included lot more products such as office stationeries, bedding products (cushion, pillows), bathing accessories such as towel sets, Kitchen and Dining products, pet products and more.
Yesterday Amazon Basics was launched for Indian market as well, Which can be accessed via Amazon.in.
On AmazonBasics India, we can only view electronics accessories like Apple-certified lightning cables , data cables for Android devices, audio cables and adapters video. As per Amazon the range would be expanded very soon.
Samir Kumar, VP Category Management, Amazon India, said, “With 1-year warranty, appealing designs and reliable quality, AmazonBasics is targeting to offer an enhanced customer experience through a wide range of products. We are excited to make our global product portfolio available to customers in India, “
In the US, there are two advantages of choosing Basically AmazonBasics product, Compared to other brands: Its cheaper (atleast 20-30% in some cases); and it has the famous ‘frustration free packaging’ Which is not available anywhere else
Frustration free packaging are designed to make the package open easily, without much efforts.; the packaging eco-friendly is stuff and cheaper to ship as well.
However, there is the mention of either of These features are AmazonBasics India, as of now.
You can check the entire range available right here .
Amazon Kindle Scout Publishing Platform
Amazon has launched finally Their reader-powered publishing platform: Kindle Scout in India and other regions Which include Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, . South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Japan
The concept of Kindle Scout is unique: Authors upload Their unpublished novels on the platform, and readers ‘nominate’ it for publishing. In case que novel Receives enough nominations, Then Amazon publish the book on Their inhouse publishing house: Kindle Press , and Provide the author with $ 1,500 advance, 50% royalties on que book along with marketing assistance <. /> p>
The new book will have 45 days to prove it’s nomination.
In short, a crowd-sourced book publishing, to Encourage more readers and more novels.
Dina Hilal, General Manager of Kindle Scout, “Expanding our platform to authors and readers outside the US Has Been One of the most frequent requests we’ve received since we launched. With today’s announcement, we’re eagerly awaiting the great new stories que will come from opening to even more talented writers and Scouts from around the world, “
Here are the eligibility criteria and guidelines for Kindle Scout program, and some of the best selling book Which Were published via selections from Kindle Scout.
Last month, Amazon created ripples across the book industry with Their Kindle Unlimited Plan starting at Rs 199 per month.
Amazon’s Wild Expansion Mode
Amazon Has Been on steroids in India lately. Before jumping into the ‘Food and Beverage’ via Amazon Fresh last year, They Introduced Kirana Store Delivery Points to disrupt the ecommerce segment. Early this year, They Introduced the market place is local Kirana Stores and a huge market place for B2B businesses as well. In June this year, Amazon enabled Indian sellers to cover 180 global markets, signifying a major consolidation of Their cross-country business.
Amazon India has already overtaken Flipkart in traffic stats, and their website got crashed Within minutes . During Their Freedom Sale this August
Earlier this month, Amazon India added 7 new fulfillment centers to make it 20 across India; and have already announced que Their biggest campus outside US would be in Hyderabad.
Not only the traditional ecommerce products, but Amazon India has expanded into other niches as well. Last month, They Introduced an underground Android app store and added financial products with BankBazaar.com.
In January this year, Amazon had made clear about Their intentions, When They announced que 8,000 more employees would be hired and in June, When They unleashed a $ 5 billion war chest for Their Indian operations.
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Amazon has announced que it is expanding Kindle Scout, reader-powered publishing platform excellant, to more authors and readers around the world.
Now, in addition to the US, authors in locations such as Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand , South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, India and may submit more never-before-published, novel-length Inglês-language manuscripts and be Considered for publication in 45 days or less under Amazon’s digital publishing banner Kindle Press.
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While Amazon expands into new areas like food delivery, the e-commerce giant has continued to look at ways of expanding its original, legacy business of selling books. In the latest development, the company announced que Kindle Scout, the company’s crowdsourced publishing platform que launched in October 2014 in the US, is going global. Amazon says que authors in “Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, India and more” will now be able to submit books for voting and potential publication – although Kindle Scout will remain limited to English- language titles.
Kindle Scout lets authors submit never-before-published manuscripts of novels to be Considered for publication. Then readers can read excerpts of the books and vote on Which ones They would like to see published. A team of editors at Amazon Then has the ultimate say on Which ones make it through to release via Kindle Press, the company’s publishing imprint. The sweetener for readers to scout October is interesting titles que They get a free copy of the book if it ends up getting published.
The Kindle Scout program is useful for Amazon on two sides of the equation. It gets power readers and Amazon users talking about books que They may like to see published, and It provides feedback on what is Amazon Those customers want to see published. On the other hand, it’s Also a useful way of sourcing original reading content for Amazon’s Kindle platform, one way que Amazon Has Been trying to bypass the traditional publishing industry and the revenue sharing que goes along with it.
“Expanding our platform to authors and readers outside the US Has Been One of the most frequent requests we’ve received since we launched. With today’s announcement, we’re eagerly awaiting the great new stories que will come from opening to even more talented writers and Scouts from around the world, “said Dina Hilal, General Manager of Kindle Scout.
The company says since Kindle Press was launched 75 titles Have Been selected for publication (with the first coming out Earlier this year), and there is some evidence que the crowdsourcing is proving to surface books que people like to read, with average reviews of 4:48 stars from 2,709 reviews.
There is in on how date many books Have Been sold in full, but at least one, Eddie and Sunny by Stacey Cochran >, Became the Kindle Top 100 Best Seller, Amazon notes; and two authors – Sariah Wilson , author of Royal Date and Jennifer Skutelsky , author of Record of Hummingbirds – went on to get book deals with Amazon Publishing in the wake of Their titles getting published by Kindle Press.
Kindle Scout contracts are based around five-year (renewable terms), and authors get the $ 1.500 advance plus 50 percent royalty rate eBook, easy rights reversions and featured Amazon marketing, the company says. Eligibility and other guidelines are detailed here
Beyond the undoubted success of the Kindle ereader and early success of Fire TV, Amazon.com Inc has not had the greatest success with its hardware efforts. It’s Kindle Fire tablets have failed to set the world alight and the company’s one and only smartphone was a complete failure. Now the company is looking to price use as a way to Attract customers.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Amazon will launch the 6-inch Kindle Fire tablet que will cost just $ 50, in time for the holiday shopping season. The very aggressive pricing will mean the tablet will cost less than the company’s cheapest Kindle ereader, Which Currently costs $ 79, and will be half the price of the company’s cheapest tablet.
The move to launch the tablet que Likely is selling at cost – or even below it – is nothing new for the Amazon it looks to recoup profits from sales of content on its devices through its own online stores. Even for Amazon, However, the $ 50 tablet is going to be a struggle, and it will mean sacrifices in hardware, with the sources speaking to the Journal saying the new tablet will only have a mono speaker.
Rather than being developed at Amazon’s own hub hardware, Lab126, a lot of the design and manufacture of the device Has Been outsourced to China and Taiwan in a bid to cut costs. The 6-inch Fire tablet will be just one in a range of new tablets from Amazon launching this year, including devices with 8-inch and 10-inch screens, all of Which will run Amazon’s version of Android, Which is known the Fire OS . Amazon has forked Google’s mobile operating system and sells apps, books, music and videos through its own online stores, Allowing it to recoup lost profits on hardware.
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has Also apparently in September an internal goal of bringing the cost of the cheapest Kindle ereader down to $ 50, the the company makes an aggressive play for the mass market.
Apple Inc. is expected to refresh its market-leading tablet lineup at its own iPhone 6s event Wednesday, with the new iPad mini and all-new an iPad Pro. While Apple’s tablets are priced much higher than Amazon’s They Do offer a much premium more experience and it is unclear if people are willing to give that up completely just to get the $ 50 tablet.
The MB Review tested the Kindle Paperwhite, an e-book reader with 6 inch screen and a resolution of 1,430 × 1,080 pixels, with twice the pixels of the previous model ( after the Amazon ). The result is that the pixels of 300 dots per inch density is really excellent, and is virtually impossible to detect a defect in type.
The screen brightness was also much improved, and provides a full account of the message to read under the most inclement sun, although not as high as brightness Kindle Voyage, the Top Amazon line that we also intend to test soon.
Watch the video below to read the full review in the sequence.
Kindle Paperwhite – MB Review # 5: brightest light and better resolution for comfortable reading
The perfect travel companion
With only 9.1 mm thick and very light, Kindle Paperwhite is a perfect travel companion for anyone who loves to read. The version we tested was the WiFi, I recommend. The weight difference between them is not so much ( 206 grams of Wi-Fi against 215 3G version ), but as it is something you will use on a daily basis, I would choose the Kindle lighter .
The brightness is also slightly yellow, which in the long term seems to be more comfortable for the eyes, but is actually a detail, hard to see. The change of page is much faster, and this rather facilitates and in the reader’s immersion in his book. On the back, the Kindle name gives space a giant Amazon. The rear rubber, as in previous models, it is very slippery, so the use of a case is recommended.
Battery
At the side of the screen The battery is one of the highlights of the Paperwhite, and lasts for six weeks on standby, that with 30 minutes of use per day ( according to information from Amazon ). If you are like me and read much more than this, it will certainly last less, but still you will forget you need to load the Kindle, and when he perhaps warn you that the battery is low, it will still work for some hours before you actually have to put it in the socket.
New system
The new Kindle system has very interesting features, and if you select a word, can check what is your definition in the dictionary or Wikipedia and even translate the term into another language, all without leaving the window.
The navigation between pages was also much more intuitive, showing the page on a window in the middle, so you can navigate forward and backward, and when you want to go to the point, click in the middle, or click on the edges and back to the exact point at which you were reading originally.
The new default font is Bookerly created for the user to read faster, “without straining your eyes.” It is not available in earlier versions of Kindle, even after the system update.
For what reason have a dedicated reader?
We can spend hours and hours discussing here is better read a paper book, or maybe even read on the Kindle app on the iPad, iPhone or an Android tablet, but this is a matter of personal taste. I respect everyone’s opinion, but for me, the best is the Kindle, and in both cases.
The only exception is when I need to do a lot of notes, off it, I’m more the Kindle, and a very simple reason, and not bring distractions like social networks and games, the great advantage of a book reader dedicated as the Paperwhite is that, with its 4 GB capacity, you have space to store a true library in your pocket or schoolbag. It’s liberating power take all that you want to read to you, and so in the middle of a flight to the other side of the world can choose from a wide selection of books which will be the next to be devoured. When in doubt of what to read? The Paperwhite has full integration with your account on Goodreads, so you can see the list of books you want to read before you buy them.
Although still not coping well with PDFs, Kindle Paperwhite is perfect to what is proposed. Already very I read on the iPad or smartphones with big screen, but since I bought my first Paperwhite, prefer to use it. Even leaving aside the issue of battery, I do not want to direct illumination of the screen of an OLED or LCD screen in my face while I’m reading. Lighting Kindle is not direct, from the sides and is much more subtle.
Price
The Kindle Paperwhite not come cheap, even in the United States, which sells for $ 119 in the version with ads, and $ 139 for the free version of them. In Brazil, the Paperwhite costs R $ 479 for the Wi-Fi version, and if you want the 3G version, will pay a little more, US $ 699 is not cheap, but the comfort and convenience it offers, valley and .
Learn more about Kindle Paperwhite Amazon in Brazil. Buy accessories for it in the submarine.
T he British reading public are a bunch of hypocrites. A recent list of Waterstones top-selling paper books of 2015 Compared with the top 20 ebooks from Amazon Purchased in the same period, has revealed the gulf between what we are seen to be reading and what we’re really reading. The actual book versus ebook list is like seeing Dorian Grey’s public face right up against his portrait.
While on paper we dole out our wages to prop up the careers of Colm Toibin, Ian McEwan and Richard Flanagan, what we read on our Kindles is very different. We’re like American winos, hiding our cheap, nasty, yet oh-so-satisfying liquor in brown paper bags – or the dead gray plastic of the Kindle. We sip fine wine in literary public and neck any old drain-clearing hooch When we’re left to our own (e-reading) devices: harrowing first-person accounts of abuse, marshmallowy love stories, gritty killings, true crime, contemporary commuting -based psychodramas with “girl” and “train” in the title.
We like our fictional characters to be multidimensional (except for Ana Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey, who’s the thick of the post), but the readers we remain resolutely two-faced. I’m not surprised, though. Who would not be desperate to find out the ending of Dare She Date Again? by Amy Ruttan, in the Mills & amp; Boon Medical Romance line? It’s about a widow, – the air ambulance paramedic turned pilot – who falls for her hunky trainee. . Genius
Related: The Girl on the Train tops Amazon’s UK ebook sales this year so far
And right now in the Amazon Kindle top 100 I am excited to see Stone Deep: An Alpha Bad Boy Romance by Tess Oliver and Anna Hart at number 86, and Cover Model by Devon Hartford at number 89. Both feature striking cover images of nameless, faceless, oiled beefcake – and, no, I ‘ m not talking about the late-summer barbecue platter from Lidl.
Meanwhile, copies of untouched prize-winning novels languish on our shelves, impressive but remote, like an exhibition of Elizabeth Taylor’s evening dresses. The hardbacks are what we feel we ought to buy, or better yet give the gifts, Which show our high-mindedness while Ensuring That We pass the reading burden on to someone else.
We tout our beautiful Edwardian- green Virago Classics or zingy orange Penguin Classics, giving a little eye-sparkle of recognition to the other person on the train reading que year’s much-admired novel-that-Proves-the-novel-isn’t-dead. We pay for hardback editions of thoughtful, exquisitely written meditations on something or other, Which Took years to write.
But They only take a few seconds to shelve and forget. What we really Respond to is the old kiss-kiss-bang-bang, the thrill of the penny dreadful, the glitter of the music hall, the big-screen swoon. Well, we yearn in our imaginations; perhaps not in life, where kiss-kiss etc would disrupt the school run. Your Kindle library is like your personal web dark, the place where your basest instincts and Truest, rawest, subconscious Urges settle like slime at the bottom of the lake forbidding. Indeed, Slime at the Bottom of the Forbidding Lake is the title of my forthcoming eNovel, Which I am generously releasing on to the market for 99p, complete with authentic spelling mistakes, to cover ripped image from Shutterstock and the promise of a fri scene on every page que does not have a murder on it.
The actual book versus ebook list is like seeing Dorian Grey’s public face right up against his portrait
Let’s embrace the truth. In our hands we have highly wrought prose about highly wrought characters and Their personal, political and cultural issues. In our heads we’re all bums, willies, magic amulets and blood-soaked corpses. I think it’s time to come out of the closet and admit the Kindle strain of maintaining a double life. Time to venerable upload and worthy works on to our e-readers, place Them carefully in a drawer and forget about Them, Then hit WH Smiths at Heathrow Terminal 5 and go crazy buying what we really want.
The fine literary novels can wait for our retirement years, When natural resources will be low and we can burn Them for fuel. In the meantime, we need to liberate ourselves, reclaim the misery memoirs, overripe pseudo-medieval swords and sorcery bunk and PG-rated romantic fantasies, and flash que trash with pride.
