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Monday, August 15, 2011

New Flash: Kindle to Feature Special Indie Bookstore


In the News:  Kindle/Amazon announced its new Indie bookstores of Kindle books today.
They see it as a wonderful advantage of authors. I am reading between the lines but I see it as a way to separate the wheat (professionally produced indie books) from the chaff (indie books that leave something to be desired). That is a good thing for readers and may be good for writers, too, if it encourages them to take more care with their editing and formatting, etc. Learn more about it on this Amazon page:


By the way, there is no way for authors to submit their books for this honor. Amazon is selecting entries using their algorithms.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of This Is the Place; Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered; Tracings, a chapbook of poetry; and how to books for writers including, The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't; The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success; and Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers . The Great First Impression Book Proposal is her newest booklet for writers. She has three FRUGAL books for retailers including A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques. Some of her other blogs are TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, a blog where authors can recycle their favorite reviews. She also blogs at all things editing, grammar, formatting and more at The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor . If your followers at Twitter would benefit from this blog post, please use the little Green widget to let them know about this blog:

6 comments:

  1. Or it could be a way for Amazon to list those books that is considers "unsuitable" in some way away from their main site ;) Whether it be because it is self-published or has content that it doesn't like.

    Take care,
    Annette

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  2. I like it but I wish they would prominently display the page. How is anyone going to know about the new Amazon Indie Books site if they can't find it?

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  3. Thanks for coming by, you two. Yeah, Kristie, I think they're going to need to promote it a bit more. I just worry that most folks won't consider books that aren't on the list.

    So, Annette, I get it. It may be just another way to discriminate.

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  4. Hmmm, I'm not so sure about this. I'd like to know what criteria they are basing it on. Who are the "qualified" people doing this? It concerns me.

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  5. I don't think the separation is a good thing.

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  6. I can't agree more. There is this developmental work to strengthen the story and literary qualityof a book/ebook. But many frequently don’t know about all the other trades who wade in once the words are right – copy editing, proof reading, text design, cover design, ebook formatting. So much to be done to achieve such quality.

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