![]() ![]() ![]() After all, many authors don’t bother with the file conversion in the first place and choose to upload their manuscripts as Word documents. Instead, authors can still upload their Word documents in both. Now, for similar reasons, Amazon will not be accepting MOBI files as of June 28th. PDFs can be problematic though, as the conversion to a reflowable ebook format can get skewed. Amazon stops accepting MOBI books from authorsįor years, Amazon has had specific formats that they accepted for upload on Kindle Direct Publishing - namely MOBI files, PDFs, and Word documents. Readers will then purchase and redeem tokens to unlock subsequent episodes.Ģ021. The first few episodes of every story will be free so that readers have a chance to check out a new story and see if they like it. Kindle Vella stories will be able to be purchased right on the iOS app, using tokens. Authors can self-publish Kindle Vella stories in a serial format, one short 600–5,000-word episode at a time, using the same Kindle Direct Publishing platform that have always used in the past. It is a new way for authors to share serialized stories with readers, one chapter at a time. Amazon is launching Kindle Vella, mobile first serialized fiction self-publish platformĪmazon is launching a new system the iOS Kindle app called Kindle Vella, in the next few months. The funding will be used by Berlin-based Inkitt to continue building out its algorithms and technology, which is important because the curation of stories - including choosing what catapults from the free to the paid app as a longer work and acting as “editor” with A/B testing of variations in story directions - are all generated by those algorithms, not humans.Ģ021. Inkitt, the free, popular platform for anyone to write and publish stories - stories that Inkitt then analyses using data science to determine which of them to take to the next level to produce longer works for its separate paid app, Galatea - has raised $59 million. Inkitt wants to turn its data-driven, self-publishing platform into a multi-media powerhouse Latest news about eBook self-publishing platformsĢ021.
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