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Originally Posted by JeremyR
I dunno, doesn't this ability already exist on Amazon?
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No, it doesn't. Here's the press releases as a refresh:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....cle&ID=1481538
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Kindle Singles will have their own section in the Kindle Store and be priced much less than a typical book. Today's announcement is a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world.
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Emphasis, mine. "Kindle Singles" aren't "short books"; they are a
different category of books and will be merchandised separately. They strike me as a 2010 version of "chapbooks". See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapbook.
The potential for creating a new cottage industry of serialists (finally in a nice, not a deadly, way) is particularly encouraging. Charles Dickens, it might be noted did NOT write LONG books; he wrote serials.