Orbit US short e-stories edicija je pokrenuta u aprilu i ocigledno se stvari dobro zakuvavaju po pitanju trzista, posto su juce objavili da prosiruju inicijativu na internacionalno trziste, u saradnji sa Orbit UK. Svi veci SF&F ritejleri tu pomalo upadaju u semu a Amazonova lista najprodavanijih naslova tokom 2011 sad obavezno ukljucuje i Kindle Single kategoriju.
Misljenja su, izgleda, dobrano podeljena, kao sto je i red kod nove inicijative. Imam tu masa pro&contra argumenata, ali, u sustini, meni ona pro varijanta glanc odnosi prevagu.
Amazon, naravno, ne propusta sansu da i u tu piticu zabode prst, a mozda i dva, ako je suditi po propozicijama: maloprodajna cena im je u rangu od $0.99 do $4.99, a odredjuje je, naravno, sam Amazon. S druge strane, Amazon kindle-single autorima nudi 70% royalty opciju, a to stvarno nije losa para za takvu muziku. :mrgreen: Za razliku od Orbita koji objavljuje samo SF&F kratku prozu, Amazon izgleda planira objavljuje sve i svasta, od putopisa i uradi-sam prirucnika, pa do proze za decu i kojekakve odrasle. Slovni limit je 5 - 30 hiljada reci, sto je sasvim pristojno za esejistiku, recimo, koja ce pre imati sanse da se udomi kod Amazona negoli kod Orbita i slicnih izdavaca.
S druge strane, ovo ce sigurno imati impakt na editore antologija i kojekakvih zbirki, mada ne znaci da ce biti nuzno negativan. Danasnji najaktivniji editori su zesce zanrovske face sa zescom reputacijom i bas me zanima kako ce oni gledati na e-single korpus proze.
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Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop
by Garry Kilworth
($0.99/£0.77)infinity plus singles #17 [Mar 2012]
Understand the one you hate. What did the old Chinese man smoke? He smoked his enemy, and when he had smoked the hated man he would know him. "The best short story writer in any genre" (
New Scientist).
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All the Little Gods We Are
by John Grant
($0.99/£0.77)infinity plus singles #18 [Mar 2012]A moving tale by award-winning author John Grant about a man discovering that somehow the story of his past has been written all wrong. A superbly measured fantasy about loss, and sorrow, and the pain of dealing with past passions.
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Closet Dreams
by Lisa Tuttle
($0.99/£0.77)infinity plus singles #19 [Mar 2012]"Something terrible happened to me when I was a little girl..." So begins this extraordinary, International Horror Guild Award-winning tale of abduction, survival and escape from the author Stephen Jones has called "a major force in macabre fiction."
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Pilots of the Purple Twilight
by Kit Reed
($0.99/£0.77)infinity plus singles #16 [Mar 2012]The wives spent every day by the pool – this was where the men had left them, after all. A moving, incisive story that gets right under your skin from an author whose prose style has been described as "pure dry ice" by
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RosettaBooks is releasing a new novella from author Kurt Vonnegut as a Kindle Single. Vonnegut wrote the previously unreleased book Basic Training in the 1940s, but had trouble selling it at the time.
A spokesperson for the publisher explained more about the book via email. She writes: "Written to be sold under the pseudonym of 'Mark Harvey'—Vonnegut was working in public relations for General Electric and used pseudonyms to protect himself from the charge of moonlighting..." It was never picked up and has never been published until now.
The book is 22,0000 words, which fits into the Kindle Singles format for content that is longer than a magazine article but shorter than a book. Paidcontent.org recently reported that Amazon has sold more than two million Kindle Singles (http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/kindle-single-sales-surpass-2-million_b21062).
As part of my continual war of attrition against speculative fiction, my short story "Vegans Are F**king Delicious" is available for free on Amazon (http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008DL2VN2/sfsi0c-20?tag=sfsi0c-20).
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:mrgreen: