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Independent Authors are Still Underestimating Serialized Fiction
Here’s what you need to know.
With Amazon’s Kindle Vella platform launching in July 2021 and not one but two major acquisitions in the serialized fiction app space expected to close in June 2021, I thought I’d do a series about serialized fiction and how it’s changing the landscape of independent publishing, especially around how we make money and sell ebooks.
I know not everyone in the publishing world is interested in serialized fiction — many prefer writing novels and have no intention of jumping in — but what’s happening in serialized fiction is having an effect on ebooks sales and that effect on the market is only set to grow in the coming years.
The Popularity of Serialized Fiction is Here and Growing
Serialized fiction is seeing a renaissance in both English-language markets and globally in other markets. It differs from novels in that it’s far more episodic, organic, and addictive, and the beats are far from set as they might be in a structured novel that plays to specific tropes. Furthermore, serialized fiction has many communities of writers, overlapping with independent self-published authors, television screenwriters, fan fiction writers, and serial writers.
