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Amazon Cuts Kindle Price in Japan After 2 Weeks

Source: Mashable, Nov 8 2012, 3:13pm CST

Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share Amazon has reduced the price of its Kindle Paperwhite e-reader in Japan just two weeks after the device went on sale in the country. The first round of orders has not eve ...

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Amazon Launches 'Kindle Worlds' Publishing Platform for Fan Fiction

Source: PC Magazine  |   May 22 2013, 3:27pm CDT

Amazon on Wednesday announced a new commercial publishing platform, dubbed Kindle Worlds, which will let any writer publish fan fiction based on a variety of well-known stories and characters, and earn royalties for their efforts. The We ...

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Amazon unveils commercial publishing platform, Kindle Worlds

Source: Telecom Paper  |   May 22 2013, 3:03pm CDT

Amazon Publishing has announced Kindle Worlds, a commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. Amazon ...

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You Can Now Sell Your ‘Destiel’ Supernatural Fan Fiction On Amazon

Source: College Candy  |   May 22 2013, 2:26pm CDT

Ship! Ship! Ship! Amazon knows that most of us spend NaNoWriMo writing extensive fan fiction about our favorite male TV characters touching each other’s butts. To help us to continue to be more weird than the rest of our friends ...

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Amazon Announces Kindle Worlds, a Platform for Fan Fiction

Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home  |   May 22 2013, 2:15pm CDT

Fan fiction is an interesting genre. You start with characters that already exist from movies or television shows and create new stories around them. Admittedly, I read my share of fan fiction. Sometimes a show’s run ends too early, ...

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Amazon sets up system to trade on fan fiction

Source: Ars Technica  |   May 22 2013, 2:10pm CDT

Amazon plans to start selling fan-written fiction based on the works of other authors and franchise creators, according to a press release sent out on Wednesday. Kindle Worlds will be a platform heavily regulated by Amaz ...

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Amazon Legitimizes Fan Fiction

Source: The Stranger  |   May 22 2013, 1:44pm CDT

Get ready for Kindle Worlds, a place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. With Kindle Worlds, you can write new stories based on featured Worlds, engage an audience of readers, an ...

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Amazon & Book Publishers Just Made Music Industry Look Like Neanderthals

Source: Hypebot.com  |   May 22 2013, 1:39pm CDT

Who knew that the people running book publishing empires were far more forward thinking than your average music exec? After all, they are still, for the most part, peddling paper. But Amazon's new deal to licence som ...

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'Real Books From Real Trees for Real People': Microsoft's Fun eBook Predictions From 1999

Source: The Atlantic  |   May 22 2013, 1:22pm CDT

"2001: Electronic textbooks appear and help reduce backpack load on students." The Microsoft Reader product was unremarkable and did not drive a revolution in the book marketplace. But the predictions! They're fas ...

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Kindle Worlds would like to pay you for your Emaya and Paily fan fiction

Source: AfterEllen.com  |   May 22 2013, 1:17pm CDT

Have you ever wondered how to make a buck from writing fan fiction? Well, Amazon has wondered the same thing. In fact, Amazon has wondered how they could make 65 cents from every buck you could make from writing fan ficti ...

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Kindle Daily Deals: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children’s and More for 5/22

Source: Common Sense with Money  |   May 22 2013, 1:15pm CDT

SPECIAL NOTE: I have received emails with feedback about the new format for this post. I understand some of you may be frustrated by it. Unfortunately Amazon didn’t like me sharing the long list of freebies. I can share some as I do now. But ...

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