Amazon launched "Kindle Scout" to digitize books by popular vote

E-books that can be read anytime and anywhere and save a lot of love books without taking up space are very useful, but there is a problem that they can not be read unless they are digitized in the first place. Also, excellent works that are not converted into electronic books are buried a lot in the world, and discovering this is important for further development of the e-book market. A project called "reader's recommendation" to discover such buried work and to make Amazon electronic book form "Kindle ScoutIt is scheduled to start soon.

How It Works - Kindle Scout
https://kindlescout.amazon.com/about

◆ Procedure of my author who wants to publish books electronically
Amazon first requestsSubmissions check-listMake sure that you comply with the conditions of (Checklist). In this list, the books to be digitized are "not ever published as e-books", "it is a long sentence of over 50,000 words", "the cover of the cover is a JPEG · PNG image of 5 MB or less "" To put a description of a book of 500 words or less "are mentioned.

After clearing all the requirements, click on "I accept" Submission & amp; Publishing Agreement "to upload the book data to show the will to participate in the popular vote of Kindle Scout. In addition, the body must be in Word format.


Amazon recommends that the nominee for "Kindle Scout" be widely disseminated to acquaintances and potential readers through SNS such as Facebok and Twitter.


Also recommend e-mail that urges "NOMINATE (recommended)". It is possible to have the recipient read the book of their own by pasting the link of the preview page.


If you decide elegantly, you can let me know by e-mail. Since e-book notification decisions are sent from Amazon within 45 days after participating in Kindle Scout, as a creator who applied, I just wait for the good news. By the e-book creator, the author can get 50% of Kindle's sales from Amazon.


◆ Readers who choose books to be converted into electronic books
Anyone who enjoys e-books using Kindle can join Kindle Scout. In Kindle Scout, "Books that have never been published as e-books" has been announced for a long time. New books will appear on the timeline one after another and will be on display for 30 days so check.


A voting reader can list three of his "(Recommendation to e-book)" as nominated (recommended) works. You can choose up to 3 nomination lists, replacing works at any time is OK. Also, when the work is converted into electronic books, the framework automatically becomes free.


If it is decided that the work named in the nominated list will be elegantly made elegantly, a notice mail of electronic decision will be sent.


And those who nominated electronic work can get the full volume of books with Kindle. In other words, the work is delivered free of charge as a reward to fans who have unearthed the eyes and discovered the buried work.


Kindle Scout is a project to convert e-books by voting readers, you can get the work electronically converted by digitizing and authorizing more people to read books and quickly discovering interesting works It is an interesting mechanism that the reader who gains the excavation fun and the book profitable reader can maintain the win-win relationship.

Most importantPublisher and trouble continued AmazonIf you look at it, it is said that Kindle users can find out "eggs of popular writers" that have not yet appeared in the world, and can be said to be a great idea to enrich the e-book lineup.