Amazon Introduces Singles Classics To Kindle Users, Basically An iTunes Of Classic Writers

According to Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN's Tuesday press release, the company introduced single classics, available on Kindle E-readers, Fire Tablets, and the free Kindle app for iOS, Android, PC and Mac.

Single classics, priced from $0.99 and available for free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers, is a way to make iconic articles, stories and essays from well-known authors writing for top magazines and periodicals available in digital form, many for the first time.

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It includes more than 140 essays and stories from writers like Susan Orlean, Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Lawrence Wright, Margo Jefferson, Gay Talese and Chang-rae Lee, and short stories from best-selling authors like John le Carré and Kurt Vonnegut. In addition, Singles Classics features memorable work originally published in magazines like TIME, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Atlantic and Playboy.

"Some writing is meant just for the moment, but much of it—the best of it—is worth reading and rereading. Singles Classics finally gives us a way to enjoy those timeless pieces. As a reader, I'm thrilled to have access to the stories that mattered the most to me and ones that I somehow missed the first time around. As a writer, this is a really exciting innovation. It's a chance to revitalize past work, to introduce it to today's readers, and to give it both new immediacy and a true permanence," said New York Times best-selling author Susan Orlean.