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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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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Amazon Expands Kindle Self-Publishing To Authors Outside The US

January 17, 2010

Amazon has announced that authors outside the United States can now publish their books to Kindle. They have also announced that their Digital Text Platform will now support books written in French and German. Amazon has said that additional languages will be supported in upcoming months. Are you an author that has already published a [...]

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Offer Your Blog As A Kindle Subscription

January 5, 2010

If you own a blog and would like it to get more exposure and also earn some extra money for it, you should think about offering it as a Kindle Subscription. You probably won’t get rich from the subscription revenue but the extra readers that you’ll get could help you make money if you have [...]

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