Launched by the two majors of the book and the start-up 20lines, BigJump reward the best authors that publish on Kindle Direct Publishing
The panorama of the Italian self publishing is increasingly vital and attracts more and more attention of the majors traditional publishing. One example is BigJump launched, the first literary contest dedicated to the novels in digital self-produced, organized by Rizzoli in collaboration with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Amazon (leader in our country in the field) and the Italian startup 20lines.
competition – whose inscriptions were opened yesterday and will end on February 14th – will be able to attend free of charge thriller writers, pink and historical setting. The formula BigJump expected that the competition will be articles in successive stages of selection. The first phase is based on the appreciation and involvement of the public online. In fact, from 18 February to 16 March 2014 on the site of www.bigjump.it 20lines, you can discuss and comment on the competing novels, all published with Kindle Direct Publishing and available in the full version of the Kindle Store. At this stage, based on the preferences of readers, 10 novels will be selected for each category. The second phase, by April, Rizzoli provides that – “at its sole discretion,” reports the note of the publishing house in Milan – select three novels, one per category, identifying the three award winners BigJump Category, which will be announced and published in the digital version in the month of May 2014. In the month of June 2014 will be finally announced the winners of BigJump Rizzoli and BigJump KDP. The prize winner will be selected from Rizzoli BigJump one of the winners of the prize BigJump Category and will be published by Rizzoli in the print edition. The winner will be selected from Amazon KDP BigJump, among all the novels participating in the competition, taking into account the satisfaction of its customers, and will be promoted on the home page of the Kindle eBook.
But what are the prizes of BigJump? BigJump Rizzoli offer the possibility of publication of the work in both the print edition in both digital necklaces RCS, the winner will receive a promotion BigJump KDP ad hoc on the pages of the Store Amazon, while BigJump Category, is the publication of the novels in digital winners in the three categories. In any case, all the novels that take part in the competition will be available in full on the Kindle Store for download and reading on the Kindle family of devices, eReaders and tablets, and – thanks to the free Kindle Reading Apps – iPad, iPhone, iPod touch.
more and Regulation are available at: www.bigjump.it
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