Update: Amazon to acquire Goodreads

Amazon.com announced today via their KDP Forum that they have purchased independent book review website Goodreads.

We’re happy to announce that Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Goodreads, a leading site for readers and book recommendations that helps people find and share books they love.

Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading, a love of books, and an appreciation for the authors who write them. We both work every day to help authors like you reach a wider audience and make a better living at your craft, and together with Goodreads we intend to build many new ways to delight authors and readers alike.

We’re excited to help create an even more powerful offering for all of our authors, and we hope you are too. You can read more in the press release here and the blog post from Goodreads here.

Best,
The Kindle Direct Publishing Team

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In The News: Article About Kimberly

Chino High grad is now author

By Matt Santos. Published 12/19/12 in the Chino Valley Review.

From spooky campfire stories to cookbooks and travel guides, local author Kimberly Eldredge does it all.

Kim Eldredge, a Chino Valley High School and U of A graduate, has eight e-books online as well as a three-part paperback series, “Scary & Silly Campfire Stories.”

The 1999 Chino Valley High school graduate spent this past Saturday at Kathi’s Books in Chino Valley, signing copies of her paperbacks “Scary & Silly Campfire Stories,” a three-part series based on part fiction and real life adventures.

“Not everybody is interested in the traditional scary campfire stories, so my books are about half scary and half silly,” said Eldredge. “The scary ones have that urban legend feel to them, but some of the silly ones are definitely based on real experiences that I’ve had.”

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Amazon Opens Kindle Publishing in Brazil

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Amazon.com announced today via their KDP Forum that authors may now publish their books in Brazil.

 

Hello,

We are excited to announce Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is now available in Brazil! Your KDP published books, where you have indicated publication rights, are available in the new Brazil Kindle Store. To review your preferences for your titles sold in Brazil, simply visit your KDP Bookshelf.

Take advantage of these great benefits:

• Publish in Brazil in Portuguese – You can now quickly and easily publish your Portuguese-language books in Brazil at kdp.amazon.com.br.
• Reach More Readers Worldwide – Make your books available in your native country of Brazil and in more than 175 countries worldwide.
• Earn up to 70% Royalties – Adjust your list pricing in Brazilian Real and be eligible to earn up to 70% royalty for book sales in Brazil. You’ll only be eligible if your titles are enrolled in KDP Select which helps readers discover your books through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr.
• Get paid in Brazilian Real – Receive payment in your local currency for book sales in Brazil. Simply update your KDP Account Page and save your payment preferences.

Visit KDP Brazil today.

Kind Regards,

The Kindle Direct Publishing Team

KDP Select Global Fund has $1.5 Million in Bonuses

Amazon.com has announced that they are adding a bonus of $1.5 million to the global fund for Kindle Publishers. The bonus is only available to titles participating in KDP Select.

Announced Via Email

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KDP Select is adding a bonus of $1.5 million to the global fund for the holidays and we don’t want you to miss out! The bonus is on top of the regular monthly fund during the three-month period from December 2012-February 2013. In December, the global fund will be $1,400,000 in total.

You will earn a share of the global fund amount every time your book is borrowed from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr. Enrollment requires that the book be exclusive to Kindle for 90 days, and can be done on a title by title basis. Plus, you can reach more readers worldwide than ever before with millions of new Kindles being opened this holiday season.

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In The News: Prescott Daily Courier

Local couple dives into online publishing

By DIXIE EDDY
Special to the Courier

Pam Clark went looking for her father, only to find herself immersed in a different world altogether.

A retired bank fraud investigator, Pam’s search resulted in the writing of her father’s biography, “…but they call me Sonny.”

Not to be outdone, her husband Norm retired from running the couple’s small business and wrote a CIA spy adventure, “Resurrected.”

Writing the books was one thing, getting them published – and sold – was quite another. At first, Pam worked through an online publishing company, spent $2,000 in the process and received no editing help.

Copyright Les Stukenberg/The Daily Courier
Prescott Valley’s Pam and Norm Clark, both retired, are supplementing their income by writing and self-publishing books. They use social media platforms to promote and discuss their books with readers.

Norm went a different route.

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In The News: Chino Valley Review

Congratulations Kris! Kris was one of my students who completed my class, “Easy Secrets To Self-Publishing for Kindle & Nook: Make Extra Money From Your Creativity & Passion” in September of this year. Kris had her cookbook ready to go but was unsure how to publish it for Kindle and Nook.

Just FIVE HOURS after completing the course, Kris was hitting “Publish” on her eBook!

She cooks from scratch for health

Diane DeHamer
Feature Writer

Busy is not the word for Kris Mazy of Chino Valley. She is the mother of seven children aged 5 to 14, four of whom she home schools. The other three are in public school. Besides being a wife and mother, canning all her own food from her large garden, and cooking all her food from scratch, she has managed during those years to work at her father’s gun store each day, worked to get an art degree from Yavapai college, and this fall, she received her BA in Education from Liberty University.

“People ask me ‘how do you do all this,’ and I say, well, I have 14 little extra hands that help me, as all the kids help out in the kitchen,” Kris said.

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Kris Mazy

Seven and a half years ago Kris and husband Larry found out their third born daughter Elwyn, who seemed to always be sick, was allergic to red dyes.

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Barnes & Noble in the UK

In an email today to all publishers, Barnes & Noble announced that authors can now sell in the UK for Nook!

Great news! NOOK is now available in the United Kingdom and that means you can reach even more readers when you publish your eBooks through PubIt! We have added new features to PubIt! so that your eBooks will be available for sale in the UK on NOOK.co.uk (if you have indicated that you have Worldwide Rights to your titles).

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