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Amazon Releases the Beta Version of Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign(R)

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*Publishers can now install Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign(R)for their Adobe InDesign(R) software to create Kindle books directly from InDesign(R) files.*

SEATTLE, Oct 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the Beta Version of Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign(R), a new tool that allows publishers to more easily make titles available for Kindle by converting Adobe InDesign(R) files directly into Kindle books. This is a free download, and allows publishers and content creators to take existing print-ready files and create Kindle books with a couple of clicks. (more…)

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New Kindle Exclusive: David Morrell, New York Times Bestselling Author, Makes Electronic Editions of 10 Books, Including a New Thriller, “The Naked Edge,” and the Classic “First Blood”Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store

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*Kindle and Kindle app customers can now download and start reading 10 books — 6 of them previously out of print–including one new novel, in less than 60 seconds*

SEATTLE, Sep 14, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that internationally bestselling author David Morrell is releasing a new, never-before-published, full-length thriller, “The Naked Edge,” along with nine of his previously published books, in electronic book format exclusively in the Kindle Store.

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Stieg Larsson Passes 1 Million Kindle Books Sold

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*Larsson is the first author to join the new “Kindle Million Club”*

SEATTLE, Jul 27, 2010 — Amazon.com, Inc., today announced that Stieg Larsson, author of the internationally bestselling Millennium Trilogy, has become the first author to sell over 1 million Kindle books and is the first member of the new “Kindle Million Club.”

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Iconic Books, Such as John Updike’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Rabbit Series and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” Now Available Electronically for the First Time Ever, Exclusively in the Kindle Store

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*Amazon’s Kindle Store now exclusively offering 20 books from The Wylie Agency’s new Odyssey Editions imprint*


SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature’s most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint (www.odysseyeditions.com) and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).  

This is the first time any of the titles–which include Norman Mailer’s “The Naked and the Dead,” Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”–have been available electronically, and all of the books are exclusive to the Kindle Store for two years.

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70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform Now Available

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*Starting today, authors and publishers can earn more royalties from every Kindle book sold*

Amazon.com today announced that the 70 percent royalty option that enables authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell is now available.

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