Amazon Publishing Encores

Publishers have a new competitor in Amazon (in addition to the self-publishing options available with the Kindle). Rachael Deahl reported last Thursday in Publishers Weekly that Amazon Launches Publishing Program. In addition to the hardcover, Amazon will release Legacy as an audiobook (through Audible) and as an e-book (as a Kindle edition).

The imprint called Encore specifically targets previously self-published and perhaps out of print books. It begins with the improbable Legacy written by 16-year-old Cayla Kluver, and published with the help of her mother. The ambitious midwesterners call their publishing company Forsooth.

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