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

2 April, 201816 May, 2018Amazon, Crowd-Sourcing35 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...

Amazon’s Crowd-Sourced Publisher Kindle Scout Expands Internationally

9 September, 20159 September, 2015Amazon, Crowd-SourcingOne 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...

Crowd-Funding Site PubSlush to Shut Down Next Week

14 August, 20152 September, 2015Crowd-Funding, Crowd-Sourcing4 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...

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

22 October, 201411 May, 2017Crowd-Sourcing, Kindle (platform), Self-Pub23 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...

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

14 October, 201415 October, 2014Amazon, Crowd-Sourcing, Self-Pub17 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...

Amazon Shares New Details on Their Crowd Sourced Publishing Program

2 October, 201411 May, 2017Amazon, Crowd-Sourcing5 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...