Kindle Publishing

Amazon Adds New Languages To The Kindle's Digital Text Platform

February 19, 2010

Here’s some good news for our international readers. Kindle has just expanded it’s digital text platform to authors and publishers who publish Spanish, Portuguese and Italian books. These new languages are in addition to the currently available languages of English, German, and French. Amazon had this to say: “A month ago we made the self-service [...]

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Another Publisher Decides To Stop Low Cost Ebooks

February 8, 2010

Hachette Book Group has joined Macmillan in fighting against the $9.99 ebook. They said that they would join the agency pricing model which would put ebooks in the $12.99 to $14.99 price range. It also seems like the other big publishers are going to be using the same pricing model in the near future. So, [...]

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Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books From Kindle – Now They're Back

February 1, 2010

On Friday, Amazon announced they were pulling all of Macmillan’s books from their Kindle Store. This is because of a dispute about the pricing of e-books. Amazon wants to sell the books for $9.99 but Macmillan, as the publisher, would like the books to sell for a higher price – up to $15. The negotiations [...]

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Kindle Authors To Receive Bigger Cut Of Sales

January 20, 2010

Amazon announced today that it will be giving authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) a 70% cut of sales on their books. The 70% is after delivery costs which come out to be about only 6 cents per book. This means that if a Kindle book is sold for $8.99 [...]

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