Crowd-Sourcing

Amazon is Shutting Down Its Crowd-Sourcing Platform, Kindle Scout

2 April, 2018 // 35 Comments

Amazon informed authors on Monday that they were no longer accepting new submissions to Kindle Scout. Dear valued scout, As a member of the Kindle Scout voter community, we wanted to let you know of [Read More ...]

Amazon’s Crowd-Sourced Publisher Kindle Scout Expands Internationally

9 September, 2015 // 1 Comment

Amazon opened the flood gates today on its hybrid publishing platform, Kindle Scout. When the program launched last October, it was only open to authors in the US, but as of today it [Read More ...]

Crowd-Funding Site PubSlush to Shut Down Next Week

14 August, 2015 // 4 Comments

PubSlush , the first startup to style itself a "Kickstarter for books", is shutting down on 23 August. IndieReader reported, and several authors have confirmed, that PubSlush sent out an email on [Read More ...]

Guest Post: Is Kindle Scout Worth the Risk? For Me, Yes

22 October, 2014 // 23 Comments

The Kindle Scout program is getting a lot of buzz, and some controversy, from the writing universe. Is it worth the risk? For me, the answer is yes. Here’s why. Earlier this week I submitted my [Read More ...]

Amazon Launches Kindle Scout, Asks Readers to Help Pick eBooks to Publish

14 October, 2014 // 17 Comments

After weeks of referring to their as-yet unlaunched crowd-sourcing program as "that thing", Amazon officially launched the program today with a name, webpage, and an invitation to authors to [Read More ...]

Amazon Shares New Details on Their Crowd Sourced Publishing Program

2 October, 2014 // 5 Comments

Reminding us that Amazon always has multiple irons in the fire, the retailer launched a new writing community yesterday, and today they sent out a new email with an update on the crowd source [Read More ...]