20+ Stories to Read on Kindle Vella

Kindle Vella Promotion Event

Hey everyone! I’m participating in a promotional event for Kindle Vella stories from June 30th – August 3rd. During this time, you can find 20+ Kindle Vella Stories using this Bookfunnel Link. You can find all of my Kindle Vella stories featured during this promo event, along with multiple other authors and genres.

If you are new to Kindle Vella or you aren’t familiar with the pretty big changes they have made to the platform, keep reading and I’ll get into it!

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What is Kindle Vella?

Kindle Vella is a mobile-first story platform similar to Wattpad or Radish. It is available in the Amazon Kindle app (it’s not a separate app) and you can read the first 10 episodes of any story completely free. This is generally enough time to decide if you like it or not, so you can try it before you buy!

Originally, you could only read the first 3 episodes for free. Now, they’ve extended that to make it easier for readers to decide if they want to keep reading.

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What are Tokens?

Tokens are the currency readers use to unlock episodes (after the first 10.) Tokens are relatively cheap with 100 tokens (10 episodes worth) going for $.99. If you wanted to go all in on Kindle Vella Tokens, you can get 2,000 (200 episodes worth) for just $16.79. That’s a lot of episodes!

“How to Buy Tokens for Kindle Vella

1. Open Kindle Vella in the Kindle app on your iOS or Fire tablet, or go to https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella using your mobile or desktop browser.
2. Tap the Tokens icon in the upper right corner for the Token purchase option to pop up.
3. Select the Tokens bundle that you’d like to purchase.
4. Proceed through the checkout steps.”

Steps from Amazon’s Help Center

I’m pretty sure you still can’t purchase through the app for Google Android, so you might need to buy the tokens at your computer instead.

Tokens used to vary based on the length of the story, but they decided to change that. Now, you pay the same amount per episode regardless of length. I think this is a good change because it no longer incentivizes writers to draw out the chapters if they don’t need to, in order to get paid more.

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