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Writers everywhere get excited about an email from Amazon, where they explain a glimpse into offering a new program, a crowd-sourcing program:  
Your readers and followers can decide if an e-book / audio-book will be published by Amazon – and you can keep the print rights.  There will be a (small) advance, royalties and certainly Amazon’s tremendous marketing power.  Here are the first details:
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• Focused formats: We acquire worldwide publication rights for the e-Book and audio formats in all languages. You retain all other rights, including print.
• Submit your complete! (means edited) never-before-published book and cover.
• After a few days, we will post the first pages of each book on a new website for readers to preview and nominate their favorites.
• Books with the most nominations will be reviewed by our team for potential publication.
• Should you be selected for publication you will receive benefits that include: