Minimum content requirements? Help for our student, please.

[Patti (baconater)]

Need your help again, groupites.

Katie informed me this morning that she has seen a thread on kindle boards stating that Amazon is now enforcing a 2500 word limit on published content.

If this is the case, it may affect our student.

I'm just thinking through other avenues we could pursue.

Are there minimum content rules on Smashwords?

Someone mentioned a site called pixleofink?

Any advice most appreciated!

[Katie]

This is the thread on KindleBoards if anyone wants to read it. It's hard to know if Amazon is really clamping down, or if they're all just jumping to conclusions, but I'd hate to see this young lady get a "quality assurance" email when she first steps out.

http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topi...

[Patti (baconater)]

Thanks Katie. I should have linked that! D'oh!

[Sara]

Didn't know about Amazon but on Smashwords you have books, or better said, stories, that have 1300 words and are priced at $3 or more. I kid you not. So I guess they have no problem with that. If you go to Smashwords' main page:
http://www.smashwords.com/
you'll see a listing of the books they have. A cover image and then the details, name, price and word count. Today the first one that appears has 3300 words and costs $2.99.

[Sara]

Also, formatting for smashwords is time consuming. There's a 94 page (yes, 94)guide you can download for free and you have to follow EXACTLY what it says. I can help her with this if she needs help.

[Patti (baconater)]

Grief Sara.

Thanks for that!

May be taking you up on that!

[Jud]

We should all email Amazon saying that we love short stories!

They should just put a price limit on anything under 2,500 words instead and make authors state in the blurb that it is a short story under 2,500 words.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Just a thought, but as she's obviously a talented young lady - she doesn't have another piece of writing she could add to get over the target?

[Patti (baconater)]

There's a thought Rosemay.

I'll look into that.

[D.D. Chant]

I've never had any problem with uploading on smashwords. The biggest thing is that it doesn't like font changes of any sort.

[Sara]

Smashwords doesn't like many things... I didn't have a problem uploading but did exactly what it said on the guide. But this was really simple formatting because it's a novel; only chapter numbers and names and writing, no graphs, tables, drawings, pictures, etc.

[Sara]

Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "Grief Sara.

Thanks for that!

May be taking you up on that!"

Sure, just PM me if you need anything.