Amazon “Encore” publishing venture announced
By Paul Biba
This looks like a great idea on Amazon’s part. Here is the write up from their site:
Unearthing Exceptional Books and Emerging Authors for More Readers to Enjoy
Even great books can be overlooked. And authors with great potential often struggle to connect with the larger audience they deserve to reach. We’re fortunate at Amazon.com to have customers who know a good book when they read one, so we’ve introduced AmazonEncore to help connect authors and their books with more readers.
AmazonEncore is a new program whereby Amazon will use information such as customer reviews on Amazon.com to identify exceptional, overlooked books and authors with more potential than their sales may indicate. Amazon will then partner with the authors to re-introduce their books to readers through marketing support and distribution into multiple channels and formats, such as the Amazon.com Books Store, Amazon Kindle Store, Audible.com, and national and independent bookstores via third-party wholesalers.
Our premiere AmazonEncore title, Legacy, written by 14-year-old Cayla Kluver (now 16), had review titles such as “loved it, loved it,” “rich lyrical tapestry and story,” and “breath-taking in scope and execution!” In addition to raves from customers, Ms. Kluver has won several awards from literary groups. The new version of Legacy will be available in Fall 2009.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I wrote you several days ago to ask you how to get involved in this program, and have not received an answer as of this day. Please let me know how to access this program. I have written 6 novels, three of them have been self-published, but without marketing, they went nowhere. I do not want to go that route again.
Thank you for a reply.
Lloyd J. Guillory
June 16th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I wrote you several days ago, requesting instructions for accessing this program, but have received no reply as of this date. Please advise how to access this program. I have written 6 novels, one of which won the 2001 Foreword magazine Bronze award for the best romance novel for that year. Without proper marketing, it went nowhere in sales. I would not go that route again. I would appreciate a reply. Thank you.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I am the self-published author of: The Broken Balance (of Blind Justice)by Peter John,(Fiction) with the trade paper back ISBN 978-1-4363-0619-5… 200,900 words, close to 700 pages. I have seven more novels in my computer. I have been searching for a P. O. D. company. Could you be the one?
Peter John