This is from the
submission guidelines for Kindle Serials:
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A minimum of two episodes in a Word or text document. Each episode should be a minimum of approximately 10,000 words. We’re open to considering projects with more or fewer words per episode, where it makes sense. The complete book doesn’t need to be already written.
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As we were told yesterday, readers pay a one-time fee of $1.99 and get every subsequent installment for free. No word on what the author's cut is. If you write five episodes, that's 50,000 words. For $1.99.
How much is 50,000 words? From Jeff Bezos himself:
So authors who publish via the Serials service will be selling their books for $1.99.
Is this realistic? Is this desirable, for authors or for readers? Is this going to gain any traction at all? Or is it just a lure for desperate writers who will sell their work at rock-bottom prices in exchange for a chance at becoming known?