More on Kindle Vella... this strikes me as vaguely Asian mobile first something something. People buy platform tokens, and then use the tokens to unlock episodes of serialized stories. This really is kinda what I want.
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They buried the lede: you have no pricing control. They price in tokens based on word count and capped at 50, so obv. you should do the minimum word count that hits the max token count and publish as frequently as possible to win at this financially.
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Though to the extent there's a natural rhythm to the medium, and it's different from a revenue maximizing tempo, you should favor the natural rhythm that makes the story flow and build the audience connection. I wonder what's the most natural type of story to tell in this medium
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Normally I bet on committed startups, but where we're talking Amazon's enormous device/app footprint in Kindle, it's a no-brainer. If there's a market here at all, Amazon will take it over. I'm not downloading a different app.
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The token scheme is... interesting. What kind of reader would buy a bunch of commodity tokens to read with? Heavy readers but ones who view writers as kinda fungible. This is like the opposite of NFTs, and that alone makes me inclined to bet on it.
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Hobbesian. Writer vs. writer. Compete for token share. The truly interesting thing is the reversibility. Looks like you can unpublish your content and level-up to a different medium.
