Amazon Launches Italian & Spanish Kindle
Dec 01, 2011
Dec 01, 2011
Amazon has launched Kindle stores in Italy and Spain, and has also released Italian-language and Spanish-language Kindles. The Italian Kindle store has over 16,000 Italian-language Kindle books; the Spanish Kindle store boasts 22,000 Spanish-language books, including over 1,000 free classics in Spanish. On both the Amazon.it and Amazon.es Kindle storefronts, there are over 900,000 titles available, and the new Kindle is available for 99€ from both outlets. Amazon has also announced that authors can now use Kindle Direct Publishing on both sites.
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