Scout Kindle, Amazon’s service that allows us to read and rate books unpublished – Tech Fanpage

ebook readers finally have a platform to choose the next publications. It’s called the Amazon Kindle and the Scout program of well-known e-commerce portal that allows you to read and evaluate extracts books not yet published.
Users can then access these extracts and vote on them, indicating a preference for those who would like to see published and sold by Amazon.com. You can “appoint” up to three books at a time and new proposals are added every day, so if you are interested you can check the site regularly to update your list of favorites.

Currently the platform with an offer somewhat mixed consists of novels, dramas, thrillers and yellow ready to be nominated. Each book has 30 days to collect the highest number of votes, then the Kindle scout team evaluates all the works that have received the most votes and select those worthy of publication.
The authors of the selected books will be able to sign a contract renewable for five years, will receive $ 1,500 in advance, will earn 50% of the profits of the book and can rely on the advertising push to Amazon. We users, however, will receive a free copy preview and all the books that we have appointed and who have been selected for publication.

The books that receive the most votes does not automatically gain access to the publication. Amazon has explained that the votes needed to get an idea of ​​what books seem more interesting, but the real decision lies in the hands of the team’s Kindle Scouts. “Users of Amazon are passionate readers who have long affect the performance of the portal and decide which books become best sellers,” said Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle “With the launch of Kindle readers will have a chance Scout more directed to have their say on what is posted on Amazon. “
According to the company, the new program will not only benefit the readers, but also to the authors, who will have more chance to be published and retain users even before they have read their whole work. You can start reading extracts or propose your Kindle books on the site of the Scout.

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