Amazon is going to pay you to write fan fiction. I can't make this shit up.
Feast your eyes on the official press release.
Amazon.com: American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel eBook: Neil Gaiman: Kindle Store
amzn.toFor the next few hours, AMERICAN GODS is the $1.99 deal of the day at Kindle. I thought you would like to know this. It will probably only work for you if you are in the USA or Canada, though (not Australia or the UK).
All Your Fanfiction Belong To Us: What the Fuck is Kindle Worlds?
terribleminds.comAmazon is now monetizing fan-fiction. I mean, I guess? The press release (with scads more detail) is right here. I am of two minds on this. Maybe three minds. MAYBE… Read The Rest
(Source: Terribleminds)
Top 20 Most Highlighted Passages of All Time on Kindle Readers
Some interesting facts about this list:
- It contains only four authors
- The top 15 quotes were written by two females
- One author wrote 80% of the quotes (16 total)
All information provided by Amazon, May 20, 2013 Here’s the list:
- “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.”
Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 17784 Kindle users - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Book: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Highlighted by 9260 Kindle users - “The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”
Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 9031 Kindle users - “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
Book: Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 8833 Kindle users - “I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you, ” Peeta replies.
Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 8500 Kindle users - “‘I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,’ he says.”
Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 8473 Kindle users - “Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
Book: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Highlighted by 8437 Kindle users - “Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.”
Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 8223 Kindle users - “‘Having an eye for beauty isn’t the same thing as a weakness,’ Peeta points out. ’Except possibly when it comes to you.’”
Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 7900 Kindle users - “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 7519 Kindle users - “District Twelve. Where you can starve to death in safety,”
Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 7389 Kindle users - “We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
Book: Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 6685 Kindle users - “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch—this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. ”Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”
Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 6361 Kindle users - “The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out to save Peeta because I knew I would be shunned if I came back without him, then I am despicable. If I held them out because I loved him, I am still self-centered, although forgivable. But if I held them out to defy the Capitol, I am someone of worth. The trouble is, I don’t know exactly what was going on inside me at that moment.”
Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 6355 Kindle users - “He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained.”
Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 6160 Kindle users - “The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
Book: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Highlighted by 6054 Kindle users - “It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”
Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 6039 Kindle users - “Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you.”
Book: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 5579 Kindle users - “I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
Book: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Highlighted by 5291 Kindle users - “I watch his hands, his beautiful, capable fingers. Scarred, as mine were before the Capitol erased all marks from my skin, but strong and deft. Hands that have the power to mine coal but the precision to set a delicate snare. Hands I trust.”
Book: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
Highlighted by 5245 Kindle users
Amazon Media Room: Press Releases
phx.corporate-ir.netAmazon Publishing Introduces “Kindle Worlds,” a New Publishing Model for Authors Inspired to Write Fan Fiction
“Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a mental representation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure. The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices. Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.”
—The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus ScreensKindle || frominktoash
A mission. So sudden. As soon as the artist had awoken from an actual pleasant night’s sleep, one he’d long needed, he was ushered by the Akatsuki’s informant that the Leader had summoned him.
Twas this that got him up from his spot, azure eyes widening in wake. Without as much as dressing and so on, he rushed out of his dorm and right to the main base. And there he was, Pain-Sama, standing before a well known person. Ame.
No one else but them.
Narrowed eyes watched, for it was an unusual sight. In most cases Sasori would be accompanying them, but the memory of him being assigned on another mission the previous day emerged. It told enough to foreshadow the outcome of this summoning.
A mission.
And indeed it turned out just as expected. Pain informed both the Akatsuki member and the subordinate of the details of their mition, something brief yet well informed. Neither too short nor too long.
Spying. The Village Hidden in the Mist seemed to be plotting something. The something they were unsure about, but not of any sort of hospitality to those who had killed their jinchuuriki. If unusual movement was found to be, they were to attack. Other than that they were to watch from the air, inspect premises, kill if need be, and return with as much gathered intel as possible.
Both members agreed upon the designated mission without seconds of hesitation, the Leader setting them off to go immediately. Their intentions might not be clear, but the idea was still set.
Plotting to attack head on.
