Kindle Indie Bookstore

While this isn’t new News, I ran across a saved pointer that drew me back to this site that was started up in August. It is called the kindle indie books site and is a place to explore for and find “unique”, “cool, creative, and different” is classified as “indie”.

The Kindle Indie Bookstore is a unique experience in the literary world, a place to discover the next great authors and their books.

There are over 950,000 publications here now. This section is curated by machine and by human and contains a selection of popular indie and self-published titles.

Kindle Indie Bookstore

The Kindle Indie Bookstore on Amazon.com is a convenient way for readers to explore and browse for top selling, popular and high quality books from independent authors and publishers who publish using KDP. Below are answers to a few commonly asked questions regarding the Kindle Indie Bookstore.
How can I become a featured author?
Our editorial team selects authors to highlight in this area based on criteria that we believe will best serve the interests of Kindle readers. At this time, we do not accept submissions for this placement.
How can I have my books featured in the Kindle Indie Bookstore?
We use a combination of automated techniques and editorial activities to select books based on criteria that we believe will best serve the interest of Kindle readers. At this time, we do not support any specific requests for placement. The likelihood of appearing within the Kindle Indie Bookstore is higher for highly rated, popular and top selling books.
How often are the top selling books updated?
The top selling independently published books are located on the right side of the Kindle Indie Bookstore page and are updated hourly. Books that are featured in the top KDP genres are updated in real-time.
How many genres are featured in the Kindle Indie Bookstore?
Currently we feature books from 7 popular categories in the Kindle Indie Bookstore.
Why do you only feature a select number of genres in the Kindle Indie Bookstore?
We chose seven categories that our Kindle readers look at frequently. Periodically we will review our top selling categories and add to the Kindle Indie Bookstore so that readers can enjoy more variety of great indie books.

Promoting indie books in a separate location is a beneficial step for independent/self-publishing authors. The Kindle Indie Books page rotates 4-5 authors, so if you’re featured, visitors may not see you. It also rotates the order in which various genres are shown.

The page also has a Kindle Indie Books Bestseller List, Top-Rated Indie Books, New Indie Releases and several other indie promo features.

If you are a supporter of self-publishing authors, you may wish to take a look at this site. Remember, there is little screening if any of the titles that are self-published so be a little careful of what you are downloading. Because the books are shown by their popularity, the more popular titles are probably the safest bets. That is of course, that a whole bunch of people didn’t get hornswoggled, Good Reading..

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[Bob Appleby]

Thanks for your comments they are much appreciated. It's always nice to know when you have been able to provide something that is interesting or useful to someone.