Amazon Expands Kindle Digital Text Platform to Enable Authors and Publishers Worldwide to Publish Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Language Books in the Kindle Store
In addition to the ability to upload and sell books in English, French and German languages, authors and publishers now have more options when offering their books to Kindle customers
SEATTLE, Feb 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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) (http://dtp.amazon.com) to
upload and make available their books in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian to
customers worldwide in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Authors
and publishers already have the ability to upload and make available their books
in English, French and German, and now they will have even more options when
offering their books to Kindle customers.
"A month ago we made the self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform available to
authors and publishers around the world," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President,
Kindle Content. "We're now excited to offer even more languages in which content
owners can offer their books to the fast-growing audience of Kindle owners
around the globe."
Additional language options with DTP will be added in the future. To learn more
about the Kindle Digital Text Platform, visit http://dtp.amazon.com.
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