Amazon Opens Kindle Publishing Platform to English, German and French
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 8:58AM Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use the self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Until today, DTP was only available to authors and publishers based in the United States. Now, authors and publishers outside the United States can take advantage of this same opportunity and start offering their books to Kindle customers at http://dtp.amazon.com.
"We are excited to make the self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform available to authors and publishers around the world," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. "Now any content owner can offer English, German or French-language books to the fast-growing audience of Kindle owners around the globe."
Additional language options with DTP will be added in the coming months. Great news for Kindle readers and potential authors worldwide.
Reader Comments (1)
Unfortunately because Amazon was eager to supply ebooks on Kindle they opened the doors to PLR books and Public Domain books. Now Amazon is swamped with plr books which can confuse the consumer. Roll on when they delete some of their stuff.