Despite the odd name, Kindle Singles is not a new dating service on Amazon’s ebook reader. It’s a new format released by the popular online store, which has been especially created for shorter ebooks.
Kindle Singles is aimed at books between 10,000 and 30,000 words (roughly 30 to 90 pages, or a few chapters of a standard book). It’s perfect for those stories that were too long to be published as a featured article on a newspaper, but also maybe too short to be worth the costs of a typical book marketing and distribution campaign.
According to Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content:
Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format. With Kindle Singles, we’re reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers and we’re excited to see what they create.
This new ebook format will have its own section in the Kindle Store on Amazon, and will also benefit from the “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” feature that characterizes all Kindle content. Once you buy your Kindle Singles, they’ll be available for download on your Kindle, as well as any other device where you have installed the Kindle application. They’ll be also automatically synced across all your devices, and archived online for future download. One difference though is that they’ll be much cheaper than regular books.
