Amazon’s newest service
p2pnet.net News:- Amazon.com has come up with an appropriate way to make itself stand out in the crowd.
It started out as an online bookstore but, “now sells everything from bird feeders to brake fluid,” as the Seattle Post Intelligencer adequately sums it up. And it`s now selling specially commissioned digital short-stories that can be e-mailed, downloaded or printed from a Web site for 49 cents a pop”.
About 60 authors have signed up so far, “including novelist Danielle Steel, who writes about her life in a 13-page short titled Candy for the Soul’,” says the story.
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“Shorts range from 2,000 to 10,000 words and are sold in six categories: literature and fiction, nonfiction and essays, biographies and memoirs, mystery and thrillers, editor’s picks and one dubbed ‘Maybe You Know’ …”
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See:-
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Amazon.com starts selling exclusive digital “shorts”, Augvust 19, 2005
Denver Post – Going, going, gonzo, August 21, 2005
