Kindle Singles

Before the advent of digital reading, writers often had to choose between making their work short enough for a magazine article or long enough to deliver the "heft" required for book marketing and distribution. Three months ago, Amazon made a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Kindle in making a new kind of content available to readers--. Typically between 5,000 and 30,000 words, each Kindle Single is intended to allow a single killer idea -- well researched, well argued and well illustrated -- to be expressed at its natural length. Today, Amazon is introducing the first set of to the Kindle Store. The new section of the Kindle Store is now available. Available to both Kindle device and app users, and priced between $0.99 and $4.99, the first set of include original reporting, essays, memoirs and fiction. Amazon plans to frequently launch many more over time.