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Skipping the Middleman: Why the Kindle Is Ideal for Short Pieces

(This post is excerpted from my recently published book, The Complete Step-by-Step Guide To Publishing Books, Articles &..., which is available both in paperback and Kindle editions).

The Kindle provides an ideal platform for "short-form" publishing including articles, essays, short stories and reports. You can even excerpt appropriate chapters from a longer work in progress.

What makes the Kindle so great for shorter content?

1. The Kindle is a highly evolved search-and-read environment that exists for the primary purpose of connecting readers with the content that they seek. If you can provide that content, you rule.

2. While the Kindle is certainly a fine medium for reading War and Peace, for many owners it is even better for reading shorter material. An article or two can pass the time and edify a reader on the train or the plane, at the doctor's office or over a reader's morning coffee. Kindle readers are curious and inquisitive people almost by definition, and it is up to you as a writer to satisfy their curiosities.

3. With the Kindle, there is no middleman, broker, or editor to get in between you and your readers. If you write it, they will come. You could think of the Amazon Kindle store as the entity that is playing that brokering, middle-man role, but once you learn how to make optimal use of the Amazon environment you will come to see it as something that is there to help you connect with readers.

Warning: This lack of a middleman can be a great thing, but the naked relationship between you and your readers can also be rife with danger. Unless you are working with an editor or other professional support staff, the burden is entirely on you to polish, package and present your work on the Kindle platform. Good editing and proofreading is essential, and the time that you devote to these activities as well as the presentation of your bibliographic and search material on the Digital Text Platform will directly influence the success of your titles.

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