Write your story’s description (you’ll find some great tips for writing a strong book description here).Enter your story’s title and your name.You can create “stories” and “episodes” directly from your KDP dashboard, and in just a few steps: One of the best things about Kindle Vella is that it’s pretty straightforward and easy to use for authors. How does Kindle Vella work for authors? Image by Amazon ❗️ Note that Kindle Vella is open for English-language submissions from US authors only since mid April 2021, and launched to US-only readers in the summer, though there’s no doubt that more countries will rapidly follow. Faves are only available to paying readers - who can fave a maximum of one story every week - and are used by Kindle Vella to curate and feature the most beloved stories on their app.
The number of tokens required to unlock an episode will depend on its length, and authors are remunerated for their stories based on the number of tokens spent by readers to unlock them. Readers can also interact with stories by giving them a “thumbs up,” or by “faving” them.
Episodes can range from 500 to 6,000 words, and while the first three episodes of any Kindle Vella story are free to access, readers need to acquire and use tokens to unlock future ones. Kindle Vella is a serialized reading platform, in the vein of Wattpad and Radish, where readers can access stories released in short episodic installments, either on the Kindle Vella app for iOS or Android, or on the Kindle Vella website on desktop. So how is Kindle Vella different, and what opportunities does it offer authors? That’s what we’ll uncover in this post.
Kindle Vella is Amazon’s foray into the “serialization market,” currently dominated by established apps such as Wattpad or Radish, and with a readership consisting mostly of young readers. Amazon announced the launch of the new Kindle Vella program in April 2021, a few months before actually making it available to readers - already pre-loaded with hundreds of stories from authors.
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