King’s essay available for $0.99 to read on Kindle and all free
Kindle reading apps
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2013--
(NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon.com today announced that the best-selling and
iconic author Stephen King has published a personal
essay—“Guns”—available exclusively in the Kindle Store as a Kindle
Single. This essay highlights one of the compelling features of Kindle
Singles—they allow top authors to publish their works quickly. “Guns” is
available now, and exclusively to Kindle customers in the Kindle Singles
Store (www.amazon.com/kindlesingles)
for $0.99.
“I think the issue of an America awash in guns is one every citizen has
to think about,” said King. “If this helps provoke constructive debate,
I’ve done my job. Once I finished writing ‘Guns’ I wanted it published
quickly, and Kindle Singles provided an excellent fit.”
“It’s exciting to offer a way for a brilliant writer like King to
publish quickly, and to reach a large audience of loyal readers and new
customers,” said David Blum, editor of Kindle Singles. “King finished
this essay last Friday morning, and by that night we had accepted it and
scheduled for publication today.”
Like all Kindle books, Kindle Singles are “Buy Once, Read
Everywhere”—customers can read them on their Kindle, on the web with
Kindle Cloud Reader and on free Kindle reading apps for Android, iPad,
iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Windows 8, PC and Mac.
Launched in 2011, Kindle Singles are typically between 5,000 and 30,000
words. Too long for a magazine article and too short for a book, Kindle
Singles allow ideas to be expressed at their natural length. Writers can
learn more about submitting their work for consideration at www.amazon.com/singlessubmissions.
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opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s
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storage for HD content, and the latest generation processor and graphics
engine—and it is available in two display sizes—7” and 8.9”. The
large-screen Kindle Fire HD is also available with 4G wireless, and
comes with a groundbreaking $49.99 introductory 4G LTE data package. The
all-new Kindle Fire features a 20% faster processor, 40% faster
performance, twice the memory, and longer battery life.
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