Evan Ratliff, cofounder, CEO and editor of Atavist Interview starts at 18:53 We publish through the Kindle Singles program, usually. Our stories are all nonfiction. They are between 5,000 and 30,000 words, and they generally cost about $1.99….By nonfiction narrative we usually mean stories that are either some sort of adventure or mystery–some set of [...]
News - 1) First impressions of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9“. 2) The Waterstones-Kindle partnership unfolds in the U.K. with a free hour of reading eBooks in the stores. CORRECTION 11/17/12- Eolake Stobblehouse points out that I probably was not comparing apples with apples in my video comparison of the iPad 3 and the Fire HD [...]
(Cross Post of my Kindle Nation Daily contributing editor’s column) November 2, 1012 Three books? 12 months? For most Kindle Nation readers or Kindle Chronicles listeners, it’s hard to imagine such a choice. But which ones would you choose? In my case, it may take another year for me to finish Tolstoy’s War and Peace at [...]
Click here for Kindle Nation Daily Link October 5, 2012 Welcome to the Third Layer of Publishing. That his how Jennifer 8. Lee, Co-Founder and President of Plympton, a literary startup creating serial fiction for digital readers, refers to the emerging alternative to major publishers and uncurated online markets. I learned more about the third layer [...]
Click here for Kindle Nation Daily Link August 31, 2012 What if you could subscribe to an author’s next book before he or she writes it– providing encouragement, receiving updates on how it’s going, and meeting other supporters? And what if, in return for your pledged support, your name appeared in the published book as [...]
It’s hard to believe it was only a year ago that Amazon launched the Kindle Daily Deal. I always check the email each morning announcing the deal, and I end up buying probably one out of ten of them. Today they’re celebrating the anniversary by re-offering 25 of the Daily Deals, at $1.99 each. The [...]
The KND Kindle Chronicles Interview – Two Kindles Before the Mast: It’s Our Gain as Len Edgerly Interviews Eric Loss About Sailing Solo — and Reading eBooks — Around the World in 258 Days As Originally Published at Kindle Nation Daily. How many Kindles would you take on an eight-month solo sail around the world? [...]
When Eric Loss set sail from Los Angeles on November 7, 2011, to circle the globe solo in his 37-foot Odyssey, he gave almost as much thought to what he would read as to what he would eat. Since he planned to make the trip nonstop, he brought along approximately 800 cans of food and enough [...]
News - By the time you hear this episode, we may have already heard an official Amazon announcement of new Kindles, but meanwhile here are some other good stories: 1) New York Times Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus metaphorically falls off his chair during the July 22nd Book Review podcast in the face of news that U.S. publishers sold [...]
News – Since I created this episode earlier in the week than usual, I’m not including news that might be stale by Friday. Tech Tips - Why you might, from time to time, find that a book published through Kindle Direct Publishing has a smaller font than you’re used to. Also, an update on a persistent [...]
