Over the past few days, Amazon emailed some self-published KDP authors about a new initiative in the works, according to a discussion on the Kindle forum. In response to a query, Amazon spokesperson Susan Stockman confirmed to us that the company is “working on a new reader-powered publishing program with transparent, fixed contract terms.” The new venture uses reader feedback to “vote” for books that should be published by Amazon: “Under the program, authors submit their books and, after a few days, an excerpt of a few pages will be posted for readers to nominate books they’d like to see published. […]
