Vella was an extension of the Kindle Direct Publishing platform for independent ... but not on the web. When the service closes, Amazon says it will automatically credit users’ account balances ...

The mobile-first self-publishing service for serialized stories, available through the Kindle app, will close down in ...

Amazon isn't just an online retailer. It started as an online bookstore and, building on those roots, is a book publisher as well. Unlike a traditional book publisher, though, where you need to ...