The Business Storytelling Podcast BONUS: What's Amazon Kindle Vella?
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Nov 6, 2023 Learn about Amazon Kindle Vella, a new publishing platform that releases story chapters called episodes. Explore the concept of interactive writing and audience voting for the next chapter. Discover the format and features of Kindle Vella, including episode-based reading and the use of tokens. Discuss the importance of high-quality content and using personal stories.
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Publishing A Fiction Series With Reader Polls
- Christophe Trappe describes publishing his first fiction series on Amazon Kindle Vella as episode-by-episode installments.
- He explains using polls to let readers vote on what should happen next and plans to write episodes based on votes.
Episode Format Forces Continuous Engagement
- Kindle Vella delivers stories chapter-by-chapter with the first three episodes free and paid tokens thereafter.
- That format forces writers to create cliffhangers and continuous engagement to get readers to pay for later episodes.
Use Polls To Drive Engagement And Direction
- Use polls at the end of episodes to increase reader involvement and steer the story.
- Keep polls open for a fixed period (Christophe uses two weeks) and then write the next episode based on results.