Kindle Singles

[Stuart]

I have been reading a lot of these and I found them varying in enjoyment. I will read more but, what I want to know are what are your views on them?

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh, good thread! Well done, Simon!

I've read a few but not in ages.

I gave up on even looking at them as they seem to be expensive marketing ploys.

[Jim]

what exactly are they?

[Patti (baconater)]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-single...

Marketing.

[Jim]

so are you buying a book or a pamphlet or just the first installment of a book?

[Patti (baconater)]

Jim wrote: "so are you buying a book or a pamphlet or just the first installment of a book?"

Yes.

Rather a cheat, isn't it?

[Jim]

An utter rip off.
I'm struggling to work out what anybody but Amazon gains. I've done the Port Naain Intelligencer, but they're stand alone short stories and once you've paid your 99p you've bought the full story, complete in every way.

[Tim]

Not sure how these are different from a regular novelette? They seem to be roughly the same length (8-15K), and stories mixed in with memoirs. Very little genre fic, other than Lee Child. I guess we don't get invited. Prices seem to be on a par, maybe a little higher (but as an author I can hardly complain about that!). Going by their sales ranking, they mostly don't sell any better than my own novelettes.

I don't see them as a rip off, but other than gaining an extra unpublicised category, I don't really see the gain either.

[Louise]

Stuart wrote: "I have been reading a lot of these and I found them varying in enjoyment. I will read more but, what I want to know are what are your views on them?"


Hi Sean,

I really like singles. Read a Jack Reacher recently and something on Gawker. They do what they say on the tin, don't they?