Good News for Non-Fiction Lovers (Sorry, H8ers!)

I've bitched and moaned about the absurd padding of non-fiction books via repetition of facts and examples many times including HERE, so I'm glad to hear THIS. Good news.

Amazon is rolling out a separate section of its Kindle store meant for shorter content—meatier than long-form journalism, but shorter than a typical book. Called “Kindle Singles,” the content will be distributed like other Kindle books but will likely fall between 10,000 and 30,000 words, or the equivalent of a few chapters from a novel. The company believes that some of the best ideas don’t need to be stretched to more than 50,000 words in order to get in front of readers, nor do they need to be chopped down to the length of a magazine article. “Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format,” Amazon’s VP of Kindle Content Russ Grandinetti said in a statement.

Hey look, it's my TOP 5 NON-FICTION BOOKS I READ IN 2009 list!!!! Enjoy!