The heart of tech is coming to the heart of the Mediterranean. Join TNW in València this March 🇪🇸

This article was published on September 10, 2015

Amazon will now publish reader-nominated authors from around the globe


Amazon will now publish reader-nominated authors from around the globe
Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Story by

Abhimanyu Ghoshal

Managing Editor

Abhimanyu is TNW's Managing Editor, and is all about personal devices, Asia's tech ecosystem, as well as the intersection of technology and Abhimanyu is TNW's Managing Editor, and is all about personal devices, Asia's tech ecosystem, as well as the intersection of technology and culture. Hit him up on Twitter, or write in: [email protected].

Amazon has announced that it’s expanding Kindle Scout — its program to publish books from aspiring authors voted on by readers — outside the US.

The company will now begin accepting novel-length English manuscripts from writers around the world, for publication under its Kindle Press banner. It’s also opened up voting to international users.

Find books by undiscovered authors and nominate them to be published
Find books by undiscovered authors and nominate them to be published

Publishing contracts include five-year renewable terms, a $1,500 advance, 50 percent of royalties from eBook sales, rights reversions and a marketing push on Amazon.

Launched last October, the program opens up voting on books for 30 days and publishes those the highest-ranking titles. Voters also get a free digital copy a week in advance if their chosen books are published.

75 titles have been selected for publication by Kindle Press so far. The company began publishing the first 10 books that made it through the program in February.

You can visit the Kindle Scout site to nominate brand new titles, or visit this page to see books slated for publishing soon.

➤ Amazon’s Kindle Scout Publishing Platform Expands Internationally [Amazon Press Releases]

Also tagged with


Published
Back to top
https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-will-now-publish-reader-nominated-authors-from-around-the-globe
thenextweb.com
CC-MAIN-2023-06
151173
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:RQUJEL5NEORFXYRCSRGZU2YBRBCWXQJ5
<urn:uuid:deaa4c3e-35aa-42eb-b1b4-4d28d1445933>
2023-01-30T12:57:41Z
104.19.174.111
text/html
sha1:7KF6UY3HEFQ6EKT26NVMUH7IA2SWE3EG
<urn:uuid:742fde2d-3a59-4efd-a1c2-6383307d61ab>
https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-will-now-publish-reader-nominated-authors-from-around-the-globe
response
<urn:uuid:a4bebdb3-29d7-4371-8b4c-5449bd1ac264>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2023-06
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for January/February 2023
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-78
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/