Kindle Announces Singles Classics
July 19 2016 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
Singles Classics launches with essays and
stories by iconic authors, including John le Carré, Kurt Vonnegut,
Norman Mailer and Susan Orlean, curated from top magazines
Many now available digitally for the first
time
Singles Classics are exclusive to Kindle, free
for Kindle Unlimited members, and can be read on Kindle E-readers,
Fire Tablets, and the free Kindle app for iOS, Android, PC and
Mac
(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, Kindle announced the launch of Singles
Classics—a way to make iconic articles, stories and essays from
well-known authors writing for top magazines and periodicals
available in digital form, many for the first time. Readers can now
enjoy easy access to hard-to-find and long-lost articles and
stories written by some of their favorite authors. Singles Classics
are priced from $0.99 and available for free to Kindle Unlimited
subscribers. To discover Singles Classics visit
www.amazon.com/singlesclassics.
Launching with more than 140 essays and stories, Singles
Classics includes works from writers like Susan Orlean, Norman
Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Lawrence Wright, Margo Jefferson, Gay
Talese and Chang-rae Lee, and short stories from best-selling
authors like John le Carré and Kurt Vonnegut. Singles Classics
features memorable work originally published in celebrated
magazines like TIME, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone,
Esquire, The Atlantic and Playboy. From magazine cover stories that
defined a generation, to award-winning articles that challenged the
status quo and short stories by revered writers, Singles Classics
pays tribute to the lasting power of the written word.
“Some writing is meant just for the moment, but much of it—the
best of it—is worth reading and rereading,” said New York Times
best-selling author Susan Orlean. “Singles Classics finally gives
us a way to enjoy those timeless pieces. As a reader, I’m thrilled
to have access to the stories that mattered the most to me and ones
that I somehow missed the first time around. As a writer, this is a
really exciting innovation. It’s a chance to revitalize past work,
to introduce it to today’s readers, and to give it both new
immediacy and a true permanence.”
“Today’s readers might never have the opportunity to discover
great works like Ron Rosenbaum’s ‘The Secrets of the Little Blue
Box,’ Marcelle Clements’ ‘The Dog Is Us’ or TIME Magazine’s
legendary 1966 cover story ‘Is God Dead?,’” said David Blum, Editor
of Kindle Singles. “With Singles Classics, we are making these
seminal works easy to find and afford – by a student writing a term
paper or by readers in search of short works by the writers they
love.”
Kindle Singles launched in 2011 to showcase great fiction and
nonfiction between 5,000 and 30,000 words – compelling ideas
expressed at their natural length. Now with Singles Classics,
readers have access to the articles and stories that have shaped
decades of conversation and thought.
With Singles Classics, writers and publishers sell their
previously published work via Kindle Direct Publishing, which will
earn them up to 70% royalties from the sale of every copy and allow
them to retain the rights to their work.
Customers can download and read Singles Classics on their Kindle
E-readers, Fire Tablets, and the free Kindle app for iOS, Android,
PC and Mac. To learn more about how Kindle helps you read anything,
anytime, anywhere visit www.amazon.com/kindleapps.
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