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Amazon launches £20000 literary prize for Kindle authors – The Guardian

The prize will also include a marketing campaign and the possibility of translation for international sales. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian

£20,000 literary prize is being launched by Amazon for new work by authors releasing their work on Kindle”s self-publishing platform.

The Kindle Storyteller award is open to authors writing in English across any genre, fiction or non-fiction, for books launched on Kindle Direct Publishing between 20 April and 19 May 2017.

Reader interest will be taken into consideration when compiling the shortlist as well as the opinions of a judging panel and the winner will be announced at a ceremony in London in July. The prize will also include a marketing campaign and the possibility of translation for international sales.

Rachel Abbott

Alessio Santarelli, Amazon’s EU Kindle content director, said the prize was intended to celebrate great books. "We hope to encourage aspiring authors and those who have already been published, to get writing and make their new stories available to readers across the world," he said.

Up to a quarter of the top 100 titles in the UK Kindle store already come from the Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Rachel Abbott, bestselling Kindle author who has just released her sixth thriller on the platform, said she expected the calibre of entries to be high, "whether it’s from an established author or an aspiring writer who is encouraged by this prize to publish their first book".

the Titles submitted for the prize must be previously unpublished, and a minimum of 5,000 words in length with no upper word limit.

Amazon to close Kindle ‘Write On’ author community, pulling the … – GeekWire

Amazon’s Kindle Write On author community, billed as a "story lab" for authors to test ideas and get feedback from readers, will be closing on March 22, the company informed members of the community today.

The company said in a message on the Write On the forums, "While we have been proud over the last few years to have brought together such a vibrant, active, and creative community, unfortunately we will be closing the Write On’s doors on March 22. After this date, access to Write On will be unavailable."

Write On was called "doomed from the start by the e-book industry news site Good e-Reader when the service launched in beta in October 2014. One reason for that prediction: competition from I, a popular digital publishing site that likewise lets authors connect with readers and test their ideas for books and stories.

Even with that competition, Amazon had the benefit of its dominant Kindle e-reader business to give its author community momentum, but it appears that wasn’t enough.

We’ve contacted Amazon to find out the reason for the closure. The company is widely known for experimenting with new ideas and moving on if they don’t succeed.

"Judging by the lack of mentions on KBoards, Twitter, and elsewhere, to Write On is closing because no one was using it," opined Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader blog today.

One Italian out of ten law ebook, the IEA estimates the effect of Amazon and the Kindle in the Beautiful Country – Macity (Blog)

In Italy they sell the most books, digital but also paper, cala the large-scale distribution. Decrease also casual readers. The data of the IEA estimate for the first time the effect of Amazon and the Kindle in Italy

As goes the books market in Italy? For the first time the AIE, the Italian publishers Association, publishes data that include also an estimate of the weight of Amazon on the market, both for ebooks and for the sale of physical books that ebooks.

In summary, the library will confirm the place chosen by the italians, grows (and a lot) of e-commerce, while it collapses the Large-scale distribution. In 2016, the market for books varies, so that virtually all the books except the school, the technical university and the gifts, in the trade channel, i.e. libraries, online libraries, and large organized distribution has scored a +2.3% (on paper books, e-books and audiobooks), thus reaching a share of 1,283 million euro.

The news, however, are not all positive, if you watch the reading as well as the production and purchasing (i.e. the economic value of the market). In fact, from the point of view of reading, all know, the IEA is anticipating the data that will be presented officially tomorrow in the final day of the thirty-fourth Seminar of the School for the Librai Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri of Venice, the reading score overall by 3.1% compared to 2015 (by 24,051 million readers, down to 23,300 million in 2016), after +1.2% in the previous year. Readers strong, remain stable, while the decline especially affects the readers light and casual ones.

As the ebook

there are Not only paper books but also the digital ones, read on various other devices: ereader traditional but increasingly smartphones and tablets. The ebooks (and audiobooks) are worth € 62 million in 2016, or 5.1% of sales trade (+21% on 2015). The ebooks (and audiobooks) do not compensate, however, the decline in sales of books recorded from the 2011, but accentuate the positive sign of the market with a +2.3 percent, leading to a total turnover of 1,283 billion.

In the use of devices for reading growth according to the IEA is even more striking: 10% of italians in 2016 read on the devices, up from 8.9% in 2015 and 2.9% in 2010. The split of this rate is simple: made 100 the total number of readers of digital books, and only 7.3% use eReader, while 64.4 percent use smartphones, followed by 28.3 percent with tablets.

The use of ebook reader is, therefore, the residual between the ebook readers, who prefer to use the apps of your phone, smart or tablet. These data, however, take into account an assessment only approximate of how many actually use Amazon’s Kindle, because the american company does not provide data to anyone and it is not therefore possible to know the actual number of devices Kindle in circulation in our Country.

the role of The Amazon and the market

due To the policy of non-disclosure of the data, it is difficult to detect the actual weight of Amazon on the Italian market. We tried the IEA putting together different sources. According to the association of Italian publishers, if you add the estimate of the possible value of Amazon in Italy (about 120 million just for the physical book of change) in 2016 the total turnover of the market of paper books gets about 1,337 billion. It is a value of approximately € 100 million lower compared to the years 2010 and 2011, when Amazon had just arrived in Italy. Fall instead the sold copies, that stop 86.4 million in 2016 (Nielsen data), a value that rises to 87.5 million if you add also those sold by bookshops and points of sale small and "marginal".

From this point of view it is interesting to note how they are reconfiguring in the ultumi years, the market for distribution: the library will confirm the place chosen by the italians, is growing (much of the ecommerce, it collapses the large-scale distribution. In our Country we continue to buy books in a bookstore, independent or chain, which occupies almost three-quarters of the purchases (72.8%). Grow the performance of the libraries of the chain, decrease those of the libraries, the family-run. To be in a great difficulty, however, is the great organized distribution (GDO), which is reduced to 10.7% (in 2010 was 16.3%, which is still last year weighed in at 13.9%). Make a lot of e-commerce, which now accounts for 16.5% (in 2010 it was 5.1% last year to 13.9%).

At the global level, however, the Italian market is the one that registers the given positive lower. The United Kingdom marks of +2.5%, the Usa is +3.3% and Russia +8% (due to a strong increase of the prices).

as Many books as you do in Italy?

Very interesting data of how many actual books we produce and publish in our Country, including those written here and those translated. Surprising given: in 2016, the editors have published 66.505 securities, to add over 2,400 files available on Audible (for a comparison, the books were 59.198 in 2010). To these are added the 74.020 titles ebook, is strongly growing on the 2015 (they were 56.145) and eight times more than in 2010 (when they were only lire 9,076).

But the change is even more evident if we compare the production with respect to 1980: it has gone from 13.203 securities to 66.505 current. In particular, the narrative, which today has a population of 18.517 titles, in 1980 and stood at 1.087 titles and children’s books, today estimated at 6.457, constitute a number that is ten, compared to 612 of 1980.

the Index of reading

Ambivalent, finally, the data of the indices read: -3,1% compared to 2015, because you go from 24,051 million readers to 23,300 million. The ratio 2015 on 2014 had the sign posivito, with a +1.2% year-on-year recorded in 2015. Remain basically stable, the strong players (from 3,298 in 2015 become 3,285 million in 2016), while the largest decline relates to the weak and occasional readers.

Read more young people and adults (or "young elders"). The younger members of the population in fact continue to read more than the national average: 47.3% of children and teens between 6 and 17 years old who reads at least a book a year while in the remaining part of the population, the percentage of penetration drops to 39.5%. The fact, however, 100 the number of readers overall, the age group that recorded the highest growth is that of the Over60 (the "young elders"), with a +9.6% compared to 2010, while it decreases the share of readers in the age bracket between 25 and 44 years old with a -25,4%. The sign of demographic change, population ageing, long wave of schooling in the Sixties and Seventies.

Amazon announces The Kindle UK Storyteller Award – Entertainment Focus

Amazon UK has announced The Kindle Storyteller Award, a new literary prize recognising newly published work in the English language across any genre.

Open to all authors who publish their books through Kindle Direct between 20th February and 19th May 2017, The Kindle Storyteller Award will award a cash prize of £20,000 and a marketing campaign to support the book on Amazon.co.the uk, as well as the opportunity to have their book translated for international sales to the winner.

The awards shortlist will be compiled based on a number of factors that measure customer interest in the titles, followed by an esteemed panel of judges, made up of both Amazon experts and literary authorities.

"Great books deserve to be celebrated and that’s what we want to do with the Kindle Storyteller competition," said Alessio Santarelli, EU Kindle Content Director, Amazon. "We hope to encourage aspiring authors and those who have already been published, to get writing and make their new stories available to readers across the world. Publishing a book has never been easier, and the Kindle Storyteller Award will reward the author whose story resonates the most with both readers and literary experts."

Best-selling author Rachel Abbott, who has sold more books in the UK through KDP than any author said: "I expect the calibre of work for the first ever Kindle Storyteller Award in the English language to be impressive, whether it’s from an established author or an aspiring writer who is encouraged by this prize to publish their first book. The Kindle helped me achieve my dream writing career and I believe so many people have a bestselling novel in them just waiting to be written."

Entries must be submitted using Kindle Direct Publishing and the titles must be previously unpublished and a minimum of 5,000 words with no upper word limit. All books entered into the Prize will be available on Kindle and Fire devices, as well as the Kindle reading apps for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets. Print copies will also available to buy on the Amazon.co.the uk store.

For more information, the authors can visit www.amazon.co.uk/storyteller

Amazon launches £20,000 literary prize for Kindle authors | Cultures … – The Guardian

A £20,000 literary prize is being launched by Amazon for new work by authors releasing their work on Kindle”s self-publishing platform.

The Kindle Storyteller award is open to authors writing in English across any genre, fiction or non-fiction, for books launched on Kindle Direct Publishing between 20 April and 19 May 2017.

Reader interest will be taken into consideration when compiling the shortlist as well as the opinions of a judging panel and the winner will be announced at a ceremony in London in July. The prize will also include a marketing campaign and the possibility of translation for international sales.

Rachel Abbott

Alessio Santarelli, Amazon’s EU Kindle content director, said the prize was intended to celebrate great books. "We hope to encourage aspiring authors and those who have already been published, to get writing and make their new stories available to readers across the world," he said.

Up to a quarter of the top 100 titles in the UK Kindle store already come from the Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Rachel Abbott, bestselling Kindle author who has just released her sixth thriller on the platform, said she expected the calibre of entries to be high, "whether it’s from an established author or an aspiring writer who is encouraged by this prize to publish their first book".

the Titles submitted for the prize must be previously unpublished, and a minimum of 5,000 words in length with no upper word limit.

Amazon is celebrating 10 years of the Kindle with 5 million ebooks – Macity (Blog)

almost ten years after the birth of the Kindle, Amazon has picked up a slice of the huge market-with 5 million ebooks. Guide books about religion, romance novels and books for children

Five million ebooks in fact, maybe a little more depending on where you are. The online bookstore of Amazon’s Kindle is going to touch the milestone of five million titles: a growth that should "close" on the impressive number within the next November, when the company will celebrate the tenth year of a life of service ebook and ereader devices that have forever changed the publishing market.

Today, we are around 4 million and 950 thousand titles on the store the american (English language), but the amount changes depending on countries where you look, because if it accesses the version .com Amazon, for example, from Germany, reports Goodreader, the goal of the books in the English language has already passed the five million to the local publishers. The mysteries and miracles of the geolocation.

Meanwhile, Amazon has already achieved above all thanks to self publishing and its publishing houses "internal" (Kindle Direct Publishing and Kindle Select), and numerous other goals. Are five years that the growth of the library on the Kindle in English is higher than the 17%. Every month are about $ 60/ € 75 new books in English and most are non-fiction books or "non-fiction" (the ratio is 1.5 to 1).

on the Contrary, wanting to see better the cross-section of the genres of books available on the Kindle, which takes a bit also to give a portrait of western society, at least from the point of view of the English language, there are more than 400 thousand titles for Religion & Spirituality, follow 339mila of genre romance novels, and 315mila for children.

To get a proportion of what we speak from the point of view of the publishing market, in the "physics" of the library of Amazon around the world altogether there are hardcover editions and paperbacks, about 49 million books.

Amazon is celebrating 10 years of the Kindle with 5 million ebooks – Macity (Blog)

almost ten years after the birth of the Kindle, Amazon has picked up a slice of the huge market-with 5 million ebooks. Guide books about religion, romance novels and books for children

Five million ebooks in fact, maybe a little more depending on where you are. The online bookstore of Amazon’s Kindle is going to touch the milestone of five million titles: a growth that should "close" on the impressive number within the next November, when the company will celebrate the tenth year of a life of service ebook and ereader devices that have forever changed the publishing market.

Today, we are around 4 million and 950 thousand titles on the store the american (English language), but the amount changes depending on countries where you look, because if it accesses the version .com Amazon, for example, from Germany, reports Goodreader, the goal of the books in the English language has already passed the five million to the local publishers. The mysteries and miracles of the geolocation.

Meanwhile, Amazon has already achieved above all thanks to self publishing and its publishing houses "internal" (Kindle Direct Publishing and Kindle Select), and numerous other goals. Are five years that the growth of the library on the Kindle in English is higher than the 17%. Every month are about $ 60/ € 75 new books in English and most are non-fiction books or "non-fiction" (the ratio is 1.5 to 1).

on the Contrary, wanting to see better the cross-section of the genres of books available on the Kindle, which takes a bit also to give a portrait of western society, at least from the point of view of the English language, there are more than 400 thousand titles for Religion & Spirituality, follow 339mila of genre romance novels, and 315mila for children.

To get a proportion of what we speak from the point of view of the publishing market, in the "physics" of the library of Amazon around the world altogether there are hardcover editions and paperbacks, about 49 million books.

Dinah Jefferies ebook more sold on the Kindle – LOOP.it

(ANSA) – ROME, 28 DEC – the Most interest to the novels in 2016, especially those of love, and the thriller compared to the 2015, with the top of the standings in the top 10 of the ebooks sold on the Kindle Store ‘The scent of the leaves of the tea’ of Dinah Jefferies. While the top ten paper books sold on Amazon is driven by ‘Harry Potter and the curse of the heir.
Part one and two Scriptbook’. Special edition of J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany, followed by ‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and ‘The diet of dr. Mozzi. Blood groups and food combinations’ of Peter and Martin Hubs.

The reveals Amazon is known also phrases, most appreciated by readers in 2016. On the second place in the ranking ebook ‘the girl on The train’ by Paula Hawkins (“I’ve lost control of everything. Also the places that are inside my head”), and the third is A family almost perfect’ by Jane Shemilt (“In real life only the beginning is happy and nothing ends well. On the other hand, nothing really ends”.

Following are among the 10 ebook more sold: ‘I am before you’ by Jojo Moyes, ‘Screaming in silence’ by Angela Marsons (“for the triumph of evil it is enough that the good renounce to the action”), ’9 days’ of Gilly Macmillan , ‘on war Brides’ by Helen Bryan, ‘The girls of Kabul’ by Roberta Gately. Ninth, the only non-novel in the top 10: ‘the diet of The longevity of Valter Longo. Close Catherine Bybee with ‘Not a date’ (Not quite series), and most beautiful phrase: “Smiles, so should be preceded by a signal of danger.”

In the ranking of the 10 paper books sold by Amazon.en we find in the fourth place ‘I am before you’ by Jojo Moyes, ‘the diet of The longevity of Valter Longo, ‘fresh Juices of fruits and vegetables’ by Norman Walker, ‘Kobane calling’ of Zerocalcare, ‘Seven short lectures on physics’ by Carlo Rovelli, ‘The magical power of the reorganization. The japanese method that will transform your spaces and your life’ by Marie Kondo, and ‘The friend of genius’ by Elena Ferrante.

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Dinah Jefferies ebook more sold on the Kindle – Books – ANSA.en – LOOP.it

(ANSA) – ROME, 28 DEC – the Most interest to the novels in 2016, especially those of love, and the thriller compared to the 2015, with the top of the standings in the top 10 of the ebooks sold on the Kindle Store ‘The scent of the leaves of the tea’ of Dinah Jefferies. While the top ten paper books sold on Amazon is driven by ‘Harry Potter and the curse of the heir.
Part one and two Scriptbook’. Special edition of J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany, followed by ‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and ‘The diet of dr. Mozzi. Blood groups and food combinations’ of Peter and Martin Hubs.

The reveals Amazon is known also phrases, most appreciated by readers in 2016. On the second place in the ranking ebook ‘the girl on The train’ by Paula Hawkins (“I’ve lost control of everything. Also the places that are inside my head”), and the third is A family almost perfect’ by Jane Shemilt (“In real life only the beginning is happy and nothing ends well. On the other hand, nothing really ends”.

Following are among the 10 ebook more sold: ‘I am before you’ by Jojo Moyes, ‘Screaming in silence’ by Angela Marsons (“for the triumph of evil it is enough that the good renounce to the action”), ’9 days’ of Gilly Macmillan , ‘on war Brides’ by Helen Bryan, ‘The girls of Kabul’ by Roberta Gately. Ninth, the only non-novel in the top 10: ‘the diet of The longevity of Valter Longo. Close Catherine Bybee with ‘Not a date’ (Not quite series), and most beautiful phrase: “Smiles, so should be preceded by a signal of danger.”

In the ranking of the 10 paper books sold by Amazon.en we find in the fourth place ‘I am before you’ by Jojo Moyes, ‘the diet of The longevity of Valter Longo, ‘fresh Juices of fruits and vegetables’ by Norman Walker, ‘Kobane calling’ of Zerocalcare, ‘Seven short lectures on physics’ by Carlo Rovelli, ‘The magical power of the reorganization. The japanese method that will transform your spaces and your life’ by Marie Kondo, and ‘The friend of genius’ by Elena Ferrante.

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Amazon, the 10 ebook of 2016 in the Kindle Store – Want …

Amazon reveals the titles of the ebooks the most sold in the Kindle Store, and their sentences more appreciated by the readers in the course of the 2016. Compared to last year, in 2016, the readers of the Italian language have shown greater interest in the novels, especially those of love and thriller. At the top of the ranking we find The perfume of the leaves of tea of Dinah Jefferies, novel number 1 in England and translated in 17 Countries, tells the story of Gwendolyn, a young londoner newly-married that in the twenties he moved to the island of Ceylon to join her husband. The love story in the new Country seems to move the pair, which seems to get closer when the main character discov ers she has become a mother.

The sentence underlined was: "No one had ever said that being a mother meant living with a love so boundless that will leave you breathless, and with a fear so terrible to shake the soul. Only at that moment understood how those two feelings were similar." The second place in the ranking of the international bestseller the girl on The train Paula Hawkins. Bronze medal for A family almost perfect, a thriller that has gripped the entire world from the pages of Jane Shelmilt, try together with Jenny is the daughter of Naomi that seems to have disappeared into nothing. "In real life only the beginning is happy and nothing ends well. On the other hand, nothing really ends" is the phrase that is most liked to the readers.

the meeting between Louisa and Will in Me before you Jojo Moyes stood on the fourth place taking the Italian readers, that, in particular, appreciated this step of the novel: "I Felt the need to tell him, silently, that things could change, grow or wither, but that life went on. We all we part of a great cycle, a plan that only God could understand."

Five people are around a pit. In turn, each of them is forced to dig for the burial of a corpse. Half of the ranking, another great thriller that kept the suspense to the readers, the lovers of ebooks, she Screams in silence Angela Marsons. "For the triumph of evil it is enough that the good renounce to the action." This is followed by another thriller, the intelligent and brilliant, 9 days, Gilly Macmillan: at the center of the disappearance of another young boy. "If you speak too openly of the terrible things, people instinctively tend to move away" is the phrase most emphasized within the novel.

"Too many rules of ecclesiastical’d to stand in the way of christianity" is emphasized in the eBook that are in the seventh position, the Brides of war Helen Bryan, the story of five friends conosciutesi in a little village of Great Britain during the Second World War. the Roberta Gately and girls of Kabul city are in eighth place, a story of love and hope in a land ravaged by the pain of Afghanistan. The sentence underlined was: "I Think that for how much suffering is unfair, they own the suffering, to teach men to find the strength to react. In good and in evil, pain has a meaning."

In the penultimate position of an outsider, the only non-novel in the top 10 of the eBook the most read: diet and longevity. By the scientist who revolutionized the research on stem cells and aging, the Diet mimics fasting to live a healthy life up to 110 years of Valter Longo.

Closes the list Catherine Bybee Not a date (Not quite series). "Smiles and so should be preceded by a signal of danger" you liked it very much to the readers who have chosen the most beautiful phrase of this love story.

Mega offer on the Kindle 99 ebook discounted to 99 cents – Macity (Blog)

Amazon wishes you a good start to the new year with a selection of ebooks at the discounted price: until 5 January 99 digital books for the Kindle you buy from 0.99 euro

Until January 5, on the Kindle Books are on offer 99 digital books starting from just 0.99 euro. The offer comes on the occasion of the end of the year festivities and embracing the titles of the various categories between reading and fiction, mystery and thrillers, romance novels, and not only.

In the digital library of fans of Twilight can’t miss, Life and Death, which is available in special edition for the tenth anniversary, to 3.99 euros, which includes a preface by the author both to the original novel, both for its rewriting, or Obsidian, the first book in the Lux series on offer at 1,99 euro.

At 73% off then there is I am Malala, now a universal symbol of the women who are fighting for the right to culture and to knowledge, Nobel Prize for Peace 2014. For just 2,99 € you can buy also volume 2 of the Unfortunate like me, a selection of comic stories in which a virtue or a sympathetic defect characteristic of Donald duck is put in the particular attention.

you Can take a look at all of the 99 titles discounted until 5th January by clicking here.

please note that the offers in the catalogue ebooks on Amazon are not only active in this festive period. Every day it is possible to choose three new books that are being offered at a special price only for 24 hours. You can access the page of the discounts flash active Kindle Books every day by clicking here. If you are interested we recommend that you save the page to favorites in your browser.

Mega offer on the Kindle 99 ebook discounted to 99 cents … – Macity (Blog)

Amazon wishes you a good start to the new year with a selection of ebooks at the discounted price: until 5 January 99 digital books for the Kindle you buy from 0.99 euro

Until January 5, on the Kindle Books are on offer 99 digital books starting from just 0.99 euro. The offer comes on the occasion of the end of the year festivities and embracing the titles of the various categories between reading and fiction, mystery and thrillers, romance novels, and not only.

In the digital library of fans of Twilight can’t miss, Life and Death, which is available in special edition for the tenth anniversary, to 3.99 euros, which includes a preface by the author both to the original novel, both for its rewriting, or Obsidian, the first book in the Lux series on offer at 1,99 euro.

At 73% off then there is I am Malala, now a universal symbol of the women who are fighting for the right to culture and to knowledge, Nobel Prize for Peace 2014. For just 2,99 € you can buy also volume 2 of the Unfortunate like me, a selection of comic stories in which a virtue or a sympathetic defect characteristic of Donald duck is put in the particular attention.

you Can take a look at all of the 99 titles discounted until 5th January by clicking here.

please note that the offers in the catalogue ebooks on Amazon are not only active in this festive period. Every day it is possible to choose three new books that are being offered at a special price only for 24 hours. You can access the page of the discounts flash active Kindle Books every day by clicking here. If you are interested we recommend that you save the page to favorites in your browser.