Kindle Vella: One Year Later
What I’ve learned, what’s improved, what still needs work
Amazon’s serial writing platform, Kindle Vella, officially launched in July 2021. As a self-published author on Amazon, they invited me to try this new platform last year. After one month, I wrote a piece on the pros and cons, and how I envisioned myself using Kindle Vella in the future.
I am writing this follow-up review to discuss where the platform is now, what has been fixed, what hasn’t, and whether this platform is worth trying.
What has gotten worse
While Amazon continues to tweak and update the Kindle Vella home page, it’s arguably worse than it was. There is no rhyme or reason to how they select featured stories, although we now suspect those are merely Amazon staff picks. Beyond the featured stories category, they’ve added top faved, stories you may like, trending, completed stories, popular tags, recently added stories, and recently updated stories.
