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Launch of Kindle Singles includes never prior to released calm from renowned writers such as Ian Ayres as well as Jodi Picoult, as well as the first-ever created works published by TED

January 26, 2011 09:15 AM Eastern Time SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ:AMZN)- Before a appearance of digital understanding, writers mostly had to choose in between creation their work short sufficient for a magazine essay or prolonged sufficient to broach a “heft” compulsory for book marketing and placement. Three months ago, Amazon done the call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, commercial operation leaders, historians, politicians as well as publishers to stick on Kindle in making the new kind of content available to readers-Kindle Singles. Typically in between 5,000 as well as 30,000 difference, any Kindle Single is intended to concede the singular killer idea — good researched, well argued as well as good illustrated — to be expressed during the healthy length. Today, Amazon is introducing the initial set of Kindle Singles to a Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlesingles).

“The reply to our announcement of Singles has been good,” pronounced Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “This first set of Singles was comparison by our team of editors, and includes functions by Rich Cohen, Darin Strauss, Ian Ayres, as well as a first-ever books published by TED. We consider clientele will be riveted by these stories which can take them to the Swedish bank heist or to a Mexican border town of Juarez, or to cruise the brand new approach to consider about complacency.”

The brand new Kindle Singles section of a Kindle Store is right away available during www.amazon.com/kindlesingles. Available to both Kindle device as well as app users, and labeled between $0.99 and $4.99, a first set of Kindle Singles embody strange stating, essays, memoirs as well as fiction. Amazon plans to frequently launch most more Kindle Singles over time.

The first set of Kindle Singles includes:

“Lifted” by Evan Ratliff (34 pages, $1.99): The thieves had the handpicked organisation, a stolen helicopter, a cache of explosives, as well as a plan to rob the $150 million money repository. The Stockholm police had the tip-off. Wired as well as New Yorker bard Evan Ratliff recounts a inside story of an brazen 2009 bank heist, and the competition to solve it. This is an initial pretension from publishing house The Atavist.

“The Happiness Manifesto” by Nic Marks (40 pages, $2.99): Modern research proves a ancient wisdom that “money can’t buy you complacency.” But then because do the governments see their categorical charge as simply flourishing GDP? Marks, owner of a London-based Centre for Well-Being, sets out an inventive new approach of defining inhabitant goals-and in the routine reveals 5 ways people can maintain their own happiness. One of a initial TEDBooks.

“Piano Demon” by Brendan I. Koerner (37 pages, $1.99): At age six, Teddy Weatherford was working in the Virginia coal cave. Two decades after, he was the jazz aristocrat of Asia. Koerner, the Wired contributing editor and writer of “Now The Hell Will Start,” tells how a piano fable in the sharkskin fit lived a American Dream by leaving it behind.

“Leaving Home” by Jodi Picoult (43 pages, $2.99): The low pains and absolute pleasures of parenting: those have been a extremes explored here by the unusual writer Jodi Picoult. In three short pieces which display her far-reaching romantic range, Picoult weaves together stories of adore and detriment with distressing simplicity.

“The Dead Women of Juarez” by Robert Andrew Powell (31 pages, $1.99): It sounded similar to a single of a great attempted murder mysteries of the time: who was killing the women of Juarez? Journalist Robert Andrew Powell went to a Mexican limit town to examine, as well as separates actuality from myth in the tale that eerily echoes a tract of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel “2666″.

“Pakistan as well as a Mumbai Attacks” by Sebastian Rotella/ProPublica (38 pages, $.99): The U.S. review of the 2008 militant conflict upon Mumbai provides a minute design of a ties in between Pakistan’s intelligence assistance as well as a leading militant organisation. The ultimate reporting from ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

“The $500 Diet” by Ian Ayres (39 pages, $2.99): When Yale law highbrow Ayres vowed to drop his weight from 205 pounds to 180 pounds, he put his income where his mouth was — literally. It was either lose a weight, or compensate the cost. A look into Ayres’ weight-loss process through simple monetary incentive.

“Darkstar” by Christopher R. Howard (44 pages, $2.99): A pre-apocalyptic love story. Sailor, the without a country Irish teen who’s condemned by the diabolical voice, seeks to reunite with the soulmate he hasn’t seen given boyhood, as the cosmic eventuality threatens to do away with life upon Earth. Howard’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, as well as his initial novel, “Tea of Ulaanbaatar,” comes out this May.

“Homo Evolutis” by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans (58 pages, $2.99): Enriquez as well as Gullans–two venerable authors, researchers, and entrepreneurs–explore a world where humans increasingly shape their surroundings, their own selves as well as alternative species. They envision the prospect in that humankind becomes the brand new species — a single that directly and deliberately controls the own evolution and which of most alternative class. One of a initial TEDBooks.

“Kindles Singles has since me a leisure to write a square that doesn’t need to be cut for the magazine essay or stretched for the book,” pronounced Ayres. “It lets me more fast and directly speak to the reader unhindered by page numbers or ad space. And I adore the reach of the Kindle platform. Nowadays only about anybody can read a Kindle book upon their phone or their laptop, or, of march, only upon the Kindle.”

Like all Kindle books, these books are “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”-Kindle clientele can purchase these books and read them upon a $139 third-generation Kindle device with brand new high-contrast Pearl e-Ink, on iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, Macs, PCs, BlackBerrys, Windows Phones as well as Android-based inclination. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can collect up where you left off. In addition, with a Kindle Worry-Free Archive, Kindle Singles will be automatically corroborated up online in your Kindle library on Amazon where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

The call remains open for serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians as well as publishers to submit functions for Kindle Singles. To be deliberate for Kindle Singles, meddlesome parties should hit [email protected].

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