
The first three episodes of every story will be free. Episodes will have space for an “Author’s Note” section, allowing the author to talk to the reader directly with each episode. Thumbs Up: readers can give a thumbs up to any episode, letting the author and other readers know which installments they liked the most. Fave: readers can mark the stories they like the most, and the stories with the most Faves will be featured in a leaderboard. Follow: readers will be able to follow the stories they want to read. Readers will have the opportunity to engage with their stories using the following. You can publish, update, or delete an episode at any time.
Readers will spend their money on “Tokens” that will be used to unlock the story, episode by episode.At launch, it will only be available in the Kindle iOS app and on.It will be available to readers in “the next few months”.It is currently only available to those in the U.S.Episodes will be between 600-5,000 words long.There’s a lot to unpack in the above video and on KDP’s pages on the subject, but let’s break down a few of the core features:
So let’s take a deeper dive into this new platform. In it, authors will have the chance to engage with readers in a new way, “one short episode at a time”. The product is the newly announced Kindle Vella, a new Kindle platform created as a “mobile-first” approach to serialized storytelling.
Step 7: Fill in Your Episode Content and DetailsĪmazon continues to push its own boundaries in the reader market, this time spreading into a micro-industry that has been gaining traction elsewhere, resulting in an exciting leap forward for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and potentially for authors as well. Step 2: Enter the Title, Author Name, Description.