Amazon.com Introduces eBooks Kindle en Español, a Kindle Store with the Largest Selection of Spanish-Language Bestsellers Available Anywhere in the U.S.
(NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a new Spanish-language
eBook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store, eBooks Kindle en
Español (www.amazon.com/tiendakindle),
along with additional features specially implemented for U.S.
Spanish-speaking customers like extensive help pages, and phone and
email customer support in Spanish. U.S. customers can now shop for
Spanish-language books in the new store on Amazon.com, or set any Kindle
device to access a customized shopping experience designed for books in
Spanish. eBooks Kindle en Español offers customers the most
Spanish-language bestsellers, as measured by Nielsen, including El
Alquimista by Paulo Coelho, Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García
Márquez and Juegos del Hambre by Suzanne Collins. The store has over
30,000 titles in total, including the exclusive nonfiction work, El
Libro de los Manuales, from iconic Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, the
best-selling Spanish-language author of all time on Amazon.com. The
store also includes books from Nobel Prize winners Gabriel García
Márquez, Camilo Jose Cela and Mario Vargas Llosa, popular titles from
best-selling authors such as Julia Navarro, Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Isabel
Allende, over a thousand free classics in Spanish, and exclusive Kindle
Singles in Spanish. In addition to the new Spanish-language eBook store,
the new $79 Kindle and many free Kindle reading apps can be easily
customized for complete Spanish-language reading and navigation,
including popular highlights and other social features.
Were excited to introduce Spanish language storefronts on all Kindles,
as well as a dedicated store for our Spanish-speaking customers in the
U.S., said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. We expect
our Spanish-speaking customers to enjoy both the newly-added books in
Spanish, and the improved shopping and reading experienceincluding
dedicated customer service in Spanishthat weve added to eBooks Kindle
en Español. And were looking forward to continued expansion of our
store for Spanish language readers around the world.
eBooks Kindle en Español includes:
As one of the first authors to make my work available digitally, and an
author whose entire catalog is available digitally, Im very excited
that my Spanish-speaking audience will now be able to buy my books in
the Kindle Store with this improved experience, said Paulo Coelho. I
believe that many more people will have access to great stories from
diverse authors with this improved digital experience, and Kindle
readers will also now get to read my new work, El Libro de los
Manuales, available exclusively in Spanish from the Kindle Store. I am
grateful to all of my Hispanic readers in the United States for their
ongoing support to my entire canon.
Humankind needs stories the way it needs oxygen and the impact of
ebooks is formidable and is transforming the entire book industry, as
well as readers, said internationally best-selling author Isabel
Allende.
Independent authors and publishers can also use the KDP website (http://kdp.amazon.com)
and select Spanish to make their books available in the eBooks Kindle
en Español store, as well as more than 100 countries worldwide, while
continuing to own the rights to their books.
Kindle books are Buy Once, Read Everywhere with free Kindle reading
apps available for the most popular devices and platforms, including
iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac and Android-based devices. Amazon
Whispersync automatically syncs your place across all devices, so you
can pick up reading where you left off. Plus, with Kindle Worry-Free
Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store, and any notes or
annotations you create, are automatically backed up online in your
Kindle library on Amazon.com where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly
for free, anytime.
In order to set their Kindle store experience to Spanish, U.S. customers
simply change their language to Spanish under Store Language
Preference in Manage Your Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/myk).
Customers can start shopping eBooks Kindle en Español at www.amazon.com/tiendakindle.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earths
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earths most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazons developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazons own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most
compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced
electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright
sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an
easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages,
search, shop, and take notes still with all the benefits of the most
advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line
e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch,
with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the
Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and
web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud,
Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazons new revolutionary cloud-accelerated
web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core
processor.
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