name=”intellitxt”> id=”intellitxt” Amazon on Thursday launched into new Kindle Singles series for long-form interviews with world leaders and other well-known figures.
name=”intellitxt”> id=”intellitxt” Interview The debut Kindle Singles, “The Optimist” (left) features a nearly two-hour Conversation with Shimon Peres, the 89-year-old President of Israel. During the interview, Peres, who was Elected in 2007, “insists That peace talks arranged by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are serious, and I have calls for a peaceful resolution to his country’s Conflicts with Iran,” According to Amazon’s description.
id=”intellitxt” name=”intellitxt”> The 42-page piece is priced at $ 0.99, and available Exclusively to Kindle users in the Kindle Singles store. The interview was Conducted by Harper’s contributing editor David Samuels in association with Tablet Magazine.
Also id=”intellitxt” name=”intellitxt”> The interview touches on Peres’s mentor David Ben Gurion, the Yom Kippur War, the Oslo Peace Accord, and the personnel psychology of Yasir Arafat. At one point in the interview, Peres Refers to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as the world ‘s most important leader today.
id=”intellitxt” name=”intellitxt”> “Karl Marx never forecast Zuckerberg,” Peres said, According to Amazon. “I made a revolution with a billion people.”
name=”intellitxt”> id=”intellitxt” Kindle Singles editor David Blum said the new series was inspired by novelist Alex Haley’s 1962 Conversation with Miles Davis, que was featured in Playboy and Pioneered the concept of a long-form, extended dialogue.
id=”intellitxt” name=”intellitxt”> “We hope to carry forward That tradition, and use the digital space to engage unlimited great artists and thinkers in Conversation with skilled writers and interviewers,” Blum said.
name=”intellitxt”> id=”intellitxt” Singles Amazon Kindle First launched back in January 2011 as a feature That Allows Their writers to submit work for inclusion in the Kindle e-bookstore. The section offers the original reporting, essays, memoirs, and fiction pieces That Are Between 5,000 and 30,000 words and priced from $ 0.99 to $ 4.99. As of last March, Amazon had sold more than 2 million Kindle Singles.
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