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Dulue Mbachu's short story makes Amazon.
com special series
Paapa's Modernization, a short story by The New Gong author, Dulue
Mbachu, has joined a special selection of works chosen globally by online
retail giant Amazon.com under a new programme to showcase short length
works.
Called the Amazon Shorts programme, it features previously unpublished
short-form literature for sale exclusively at Amazon.com. Mbachu is the first
Nigeria-based writer to be picked for the fiction and nonfiction series on a
wide variety of topics available in a digital format only for just $0.49.
Amazon Shorts pieces are available exclusively at Amazon.com. They are
delivered electronically and there are no printed editions. Once purchased
an Amazon Shorts piece belongs to the buyer forever, can be read on
Amazon.com at any time or downloaded to be printed and read in hard copy
when convenient.
Mbachu, the author War Games, the highly acclaimed novel based on the
Nigerian civil war, describes Paapa's Modernization as a foray into fantasy.
“I have always had a strong attraction to the surreal, especially the glimpses
in between,” Mbachu said on the amazon.com web site. “The short story is
based on a story someone once told me was a true life event. I thought it
was unbelievable but being of the mindset to believe nothing without
doubting anything at the same time, the idea it represented stuck with me for
a long time. Eventually it found expression in Paapa's Modernization.”
At its launch in August 2005, Steve Kessel, Amazon.com's vice president for
digital media, said the programme was aimed at helping authors find new
readers and helping readers discover exciting authors of short-form
literature.
Amazon Shorts authors include James Lee Burke, a two-time winner of the
Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year dubbed the "Faulkner of
crime fiction"; F. Paul Wilson, an award-winning author of 30 novels and
over 100 short stories, including the bestselling Repairman Jack series;
Danielle Steel, novelist, children's book author and non-fiction writer, and;
Pico Iyer, a prolific travel writer whose articles appear in "Harper's," "The
New York Times" and "Conde Nast Traveler" among many other writers.
With the short feature series Amazon.com is signifying the increasing shift in
publishing toward digital delivery of content spurred by the digital music
revolution. The series is expected to be a precursor to the dawn of direct
download of digital publications that offer publishers the highest possible
profit margins compared to physical items that require inventory, shipping
and handling.
Since taking a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, in 1983, Mbachu has worked as a writer, teacher and journalist.
During 25 years of journalism Mbachu has worked for Nigerian media
houses such as Newswatch magazine and The Guardian newspaper group
as well as international media organisations including Reuters news agency,
The Washington Post newspaper and Associated Press news agency.
To view Paapa's Modernization click here.
com special series
Paapa's Modernization, a short story by The New Gong author, Dulue
Mbachu, has joined a special selection of works chosen globally by online
retail giant Amazon.com under a new programme to showcase short length
works.
Called the Amazon Shorts programme, it features previously unpublished
short-form literature for sale exclusively at Amazon.com. Mbachu is the first
Nigeria-based writer to be picked for the fiction and nonfiction series on a
wide variety of topics available in a digital format only for just $0.49.
Amazon Shorts pieces are available exclusively at Amazon.com. They are
delivered electronically and there are no printed editions. Once purchased
an Amazon Shorts piece belongs to the buyer forever, can be read on
Amazon.com at any time or downloaded to be printed and read in hard copy
when convenient.
Mbachu, the author War Games, the highly acclaimed novel based on the
Nigerian civil war, describes Paapa's Modernization as a foray into fantasy.
“I have always had a strong attraction to the surreal, especially the glimpses
in between,” Mbachu said on the amazon.com web site. “The short story is
based on a story someone once told me was a true life event. I thought it
was unbelievable but being of the mindset to believe nothing without
doubting anything at the same time, the idea it represented stuck with me for
a long time. Eventually it found expression in Paapa's Modernization.”
At its launch in August 2005, Steve Kessel, Amazon.com's vice president for
digital media, said the programme was aimed at helping authors find new
readers and helping readers discover exciting authors of short-form
literature.
Amazon Shorts authors include James Lee Burke, a two-time winner of the
Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year dubbed the "Faulkner of
crime fiction"; F. Paul Wilson, an award-winning author of 30 novels and
over 100 short stories, including the bestselling Repairman Jack series;
Danielle Steel, novelist, children's book author and non-fiction writer, and;
Pico Iyer, a prolific travel writer whose articles appear in "Harper's," "The
New York Times" and "Conde Nast Traveler" among many other writers.
With the short feature series Amazon.com is signifying the increasing shift in
publishing toward digital delivery of content spurred by the digital music
revolution. The series is expected to be a precursor to the dawn of direct
download of digital publications that offer publishers the highest possible
profit margins compared to physical items that require inventory, shipping
and handling.
Since taking a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, in 1983, Mbachu has worked as a writer, teacher and journalist.
During 25 years of journalism Mbachu has worked for Nigerian media
houses such as Newswatch magazine and The Guardian newspaper group
as well as international media organisations including Reuters news agency,
The Washington Post newspaper and Associated Press news agency.
To view Paapa's Modernization click here.