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Amazon has rolled its digital text platform to the UK, allowing publishers and authors to make their books available for sale through its recently launched UK Kindle store.
Publishers with rights for the UK and related territories will earn a 35% royalty for books sold through amazon.co.uk. For sales made in the United States through Amazon.com's Kindle store, publishers will be offered the 70% royalty. Amazon said it intends to extend that option to the UK, although did not specify when.
Publishers and authors can set the digital list price for their titles on amazon.co.uk in sterling. The retailer said it has made the submission process more simple and have offered authors and publishers the chance to make their books available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
Greg Greeley, Amazon vice-president for European retail, said: "Publishers and authors can now take advantage of the Kindle Digital Text Platform and make their books available to the millions of customers that visit amazon.co.uk. Sales of Kindle books in the US continue to rise and we are now selling more Kindle books than hardcovers. We expect to see a similar pattern in the UK with publishers and authors benefitting from greatly increased sales as a result of adding their titles to the new Kindle Store via the Kindle Digital Text Platform."