Both readers and writers in Mexico have a reason to rejoice today, as Amazon has just launched the Kindle Store and Kindle Direct Publishing in their country. The ebookstore will feature over 70,000 Spanish-language titles, as well as ebooks in indigenous tongues like Nahuatl. To help fill up those new e-readers, Amazon will also be offering upwards of 1,500 free books among the store's 2 million titles. The availability of KDP is especially significant, as it offers both unknown authors and big name writers like Paulo Coelho (who's using it to release his books El Alquimista and Once Minutos) an alternative path to publishing. Additionally, Gandhi, one of the largest bookstore chains in Mexico, will now sell the basic Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite in its brick and mortar shops for MXN$1,399 (USD$105) and MXN$2,399 (USD$180) respectively. For more info, check out the source links below or the press releases after the break. Filed under: Internet, Software, Amazon Comments Via: The Verge Source: Amazon (Kindle Store), Amazon (Kindle Direct Publishing) Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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Science fiction publisher Tor UK has announced it will stop using the technology that restricts copying from all of its ebooks, in a possible precedent for the industry. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Fast Company | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cambridge University Press’ Education publishing arm has been renamed International... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The New York Times | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Works that will be available for perusal will include Gutenberg's Bible, believed to be the first text ever printed. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ AllThingsD | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ PC World | 2012-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers over alleged ebook price fixing means that the publishers have to... Continue reading at PC World
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April 27th is nearly upon us, heralding the arrival of the Kindle Touch in Europe. Before that happens, Amazon's pushed out a software update packed with language support for the continent, landscape mode and text-to-speech, amongst others. You can manually download version 5.1.0 now or wait for... Continue reading at Engadget
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