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Title: Amazon adds the ability to quiz authors through the Kindle
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-adds-a ... 2VjA3RvcF9zdG9yeQR2ZXIDNmY0ZTQ
Published: Sep 1, 2011
Author: Mike Flacy
Post Date: 2011-09-01 02:04:08 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 65
Comments: 2

Announced today, Amazon is testing a new feature of the Kindle that allows readers to directly ask questions to the author of a book. Borrowing a page from Twitter, the program is called @author and allows readers to post questions from the Kindle. Readers can also visit the Amazon Author page to post questions on the Web. Questions are published on the Amazon Author page and readers interested in the author can read all questions. Using the 5-way controller, the reader can highlight a specific passage on the page and ask a question by typing ‘@author’ previous to the query. Readers are limited to 100 characters as Amazon is tweeting the question to the author.

Since the high-tech program is currently in beta form, there are only twelve authors participating in the process. Popular authors include action-adventure writer James Rollins, The 4-Hour Workweek author Timothy Ferriss, staff writer for The New Yorker Susan Orlean, suspense novelist C.J. Lyons, Rich Dad, Poor Dad scribe Robert Kiyosaki, Brad Meltzer of Identity Crisis fame and thriller, suspense writer Ted Dekker. Amazon is encouraging readers to ask specific questions about characters and situations within novels as well as an author’s personal influences and background on how they got started writing. Amazon is also attempting to dissuade readers from posting inflammatory or negative comments.

This new program from Amazon is designed to help self-publishing authors open up a new venue for online marketing and accessibility. Traditional publishers have been slow to catch up to online promotion and successful authors that are publishing exclusively on the Kindle continue to be approached by large publishers that wish to purchase rights of publication for print. For instance, John Locke, one of the authors in the Amazon promotion, recently signed a deal with Simon & Schuster that allows the company to handle the promotion and sales of the print version of his works. However, Locke can continue selling digital versions without paying any piece of revenue to Simon & Schuster.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Everyone already had this ability. I don't see how this is news in any way.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2011-09-01   2:21:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: RickyJ (#1)

There's something as quick and easy as this?

Amazon Kindle launched a new@author feature that lets you tweet at writers while reading -- and possibly get some questions answered. Here's how it works: While reading on the Kindle, you can use its controller and type in @author, then your question. Kindle will tweet the question and post it on the author's page. When you get an answer -- you will be notified via email.

You can also ask a question directly to an author by going to the button below an author's page.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2011-09-01   3:40:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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