Kindle customers can also enjoy new short fiction from Lee Child, Stephen King and Karin Slaughter
Best-selling authors Lee Child, Stephen King and Karin Slaughter are also publishing short stories this month as Kindle Singles. Their work appears alongside “The Eight Foot Woman” by Matthew Ducker, a University of Virginia MFA graduate and a strong new voice in literary fiction. Together, these authors have made the Kindle Singles Store a go-to destination for fiction this summer.About Amazon.comForward-Looking StatementsAmazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, and www.amazon.it. As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.SEATTLE -- Last year, Tom Rachman’s debut novel “The Imperfectionists” became an instant best seller after earning a cover rave from Christopher Buckley in the New York Times Book Review, landing on numerous Top 10 lists and appearing on the Amazon editors’ list of the Best Books of 2010. Today, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that Tom Rachman has published his first short story exclusively as a Kindle Single. Titled “The Bathtub Spy,” Rachman’s Kindle Single tells the story of a middle-aged intelligence bureaucrat and his odd relationship with his boss. It’s available now in the Kindle Singles Store (www.amazon.com/kindlesingles) for $1.99.Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.New Kindle Singles in Fiction include:Since launching in January, Kindle Singles have received more than 600 5-star reviews from Amazon.com customers and 25 titles have made it into the Top 100 in the Kindle Store. Kindle Singles are typically between 5,000 and 30,000 words and are intended to allow a single compelling idea — well-researched, well-argued and well-illustrated — to be expressed at its natural length. To be considered for Kindle Singles, writers can email their manuscript or a brief synopsis to kindle-singles@amazon.com.
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