After having already penetrated the united kingdom’s e-book market last year, Amazon has now launched the German Kindle Store , bringing greater than 650,000 titles to Europe’s most populous country. With today’s launch, the German Kindle Store instantly becomes Germany’s biggest e-bookstore, with some 25,000 German-language titles, thousands of free classics, and a similarly bountiful selection of independent newspapers and magazines. Customers can also be capable of purchase the most recent Kindle and Kindle 3G models directly from Amazon.de, which includes an entire new suite of free, German-language Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, PC and Android platforms. Germany’s writers and publishers, meanwhile, can use the Kindle Direct Publishing service to make their works instantly available at the new store, where, in the event that they’re lucky, they’ll get to pocket some handsome royalties, in addition. Full press release after the break.
WITH THE MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE OF ANY E-BOOKSTORE IN GERMANY
Amazon’s Free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle Apps Now Available in German
Thousands of Free German Classics Available on Kindle
LUXEMBOURG, 21 April 2011 – (NASDAQ: AMZN)-Amazon.de today launched the Kindle Store (www.amazon.de/kindlebuecher), the largest e-bookstore in Germany, with the most important choice of ebooks including greater than 650,000 titles, 71 of 100 Spiegel bestsellers, and over 25,000 German-language titles with thousands of German classics downloadable totally free only on Kindle. Amazon also announced that its series of free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” apps for the most well-liked devices, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac and Android-based devices, at the moment are available in German-language versions. Further, based on customer demand, Amazon is now offering the newest-generation Kindle and Kindle 3G with an English user interface directly from Amazon.de.
“After 12 years of promoting print books on Amazon.de, we’re excited today to provide the millions of Amazon.de customers access to the most important e-bookstore in Germany,” said Greg Greeley, vice chairman, European Retail. “German customers are smitten by books and reading, and just as we’ve seen within the U.S. and the U.K., we believe they’ll quickly embrace the benefits of reading on Kindle.”
The German Kindle Store’s vast selection includes titles from German-language authors including Arno Geiger, Kerstin Gier and Charlotte Link, plus 71 of 100 Spiegel bestsellers and thousands of German classics downloadable at no cost only on Kindle. Additionally, the Kindle Store features thousands of independently-published German-language titles through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing service. Top German and international newspapers and magazines also are available for single purchase or subscription including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt and Die Zeit. New subscriptions are auto-delivered wirelessly to Kindle and begin with a free 14-day trial.
Free Kindle reading apps are actually available in German language for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac and Android-based devices. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your house across all devices, so that you can pick up reading where you left off. Plus, with Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you buy from the Kindle Store, and any notes or annotations you create, are automatically backed up online to your Kindle library on Amazon.de where they are often re-downloaded wirelessly for free of charge, anytime.
Kindle is the bestselling product in Amazon’s history and gives the most recent electronic-ink technology with 50 percent better contrast, a swish design with a 6-inch screen, light weight of just 8.5 ounces, readable in bright sunlight with out a glare, and as much as one-month battery life. Kindle has an English keyboard and English-language menus that permit customers find, discover and skim a big number of German and English books. Kindle is obtainable for just 139€ and Kindle 3G is solely 189€. Both Kindle devices at the moment are available with free two-day shipping from Amazon.de.
“Customers were asking us to make our latest-generation Kindle available from Germany and we’re pleased to try this today,” Greeley continued. “Plus, any German customer with a smartphone, tablet or PC and a free Kindle reading app should purchase and browse ebooks from the Kindle Store today.”
Customers can start shopping our new German ebookstore at www.amazon.de/kindlebuecher, and might learn more about our Kindle and Kindle 3G devices at www.amazon.de/kindleWi-Fi and www.amazon.de/kindle3G.
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