One of the most prolific Amazon Shorts authors is business consultant Lonnie Pacelli, who has 15 bestselling Shorts. His Shorts are cross-promotional tools for his two business hardcovers and 13 full-length downloadable e-books sold on Amazon for $4.99 each. All these e-books help promote fee-based seminars Pacelli conducts on his Web site. His most popular Amazon Short is The Perfect Brainstorm.
Shorts can be used to test ideas for full-length books or expanding into new topics or genres. Authors can use Shorts as full-blown laboratories, testing story concepts and soliciting reader feedback. For example, fiction writers can update characters from a book series, giving hints on what might happen in the next hardcover installment, with readers serving as a focus group.
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