All eBooks entering the contest will be available on Kindle as well as the free Kindle app for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, PC and Mac as well as Kindle E-readers. To participate in the contest, authors need to visit to self-publish their book on Amazon India while enrolling it in KDP Select program. Right now, on Amazon India Kindle Store almost 20% of the Top 100 books are self-published through Kindle Direct Publishing. Kindle Direct Publishing is a free, fast and easy to use service that lets authors self-publish their books in digital format and receive up to 70% royalties on the sale of their eBooks.

The judge’s panel for the contest includes best-selling authors Ashwin Sanghi, Rashmi Bansal, Divya Prakash Dubey, and Sundari Venkatraman. Up to five finalists will be short-listed for each language and content form combination, and one winner will be selected from each segment. To judge the entries, customer feedback will be taken into consideration along with creativity, originality and quality of writing. Between that period, authors need to publish their original and new work through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon India. The contest starts on November 10, 2018, and will go on up to February 9, 2019. 50,000 each and all the shortlisted finalists in all forms of the contest will win a Kindle E-reader. In the short-form segment, winners, one for each language, will win Rs.

However, the Pen to Publish contest is also accepting entries for short-form content (between 2000 to 10,000 words) in Hindi, Tamil and English languages.

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