Back in November, Amazon put out the call out to the world's great thinkers, artists and writers to pony up some new content to add to their growing library of Kindle offerings. They weren't asking for more books--they have quite enough of those, thank you very much. Rather, the online retailer was interested in exploring the possibility of offering something new to their customers: short, but fully realized essays, arguments and explorations of a single idea. Amazon calls these new offerings Kindle Singles, and they may well be worth paying some attention to.
As Amazon's blog post points out, each of the topics featured in a Kindle Single is thoroughly researched, and well written by some of the leading experts from a wide variety of fields. With each Kindle Single weighing in somewhere between 5000 and 30,000 words, voracious readers will be able to tear through a few a week with no problem, propelling the topicality of their water cooler conversations to new heights.
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