Saturday, June 29, 2013

The advantages of digital book publishing in twelve hours - eldia.es

Pilar Martin ., Madrid, EFE December 1, 2011 Spain saw Amazon launched its digital publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). After a year and a half, the vice president of this service, American Nader Kabbani, has described as “very positive” evolution in our country.

Kabbani, who is in Spain to finalize the release of new tools in this book publishing service, has had this positive test is due, among other reasons, data as seven of the ten best read from Amazon.es opening in September 2011, are authors of KDP.

“I feel very fortunate to have opened this platform in Spain, because not only is a great opportunity for the authors, but also for readers. not just about making life easier for authors who intend to write but readers will access more and more content at a reasonable price, “said Kabbani.

publish a work on this platform only a matter of twelve hours regardless of the language in which it is written.

In those twelve hours different departments of the U.S. company are in place to detect cases of “plagiarism”, contents are restricted by law, or “roll back” books full of errors, misspellings or poor quality, a fact alleged by the readers themselves.

vice president of the KDP Spain “reminds” the United States does “five or ten years” because at this time in his country also had “many undiscovered books.”

“In the U.S. we were very fortunate, because the recognition of KDP was from the hand of those authors who managed to reach the so-called ‘Club of million downloads’-has expressed, and that generated a lot of brand recognition. yet is happening in Spain, but the evolution that we’re having here hope to get it soon. “

Kabbani, the fact of having the backing of Amazon.es, shop “online” world’s largest, is an “advantage” that gives you peace of mind not to notice what they are doing “competitors” .

One of the most valuable offers that the U.S. gives to the KDP is the possibility that the book is published in a “global” and a “multiplatform”.

“The work of an author is to create content, and the work of Amazon is that it is available on different platforms, not only digitally, but also on paper, because you can print a copy on demand, and this also helps the environment “reported, while in Europe has realized that Amazon has printers in Germany and the UK.

For these reasons, as well as economic, since the author takes 70% of revenue for the work, Kabbani said that “it is a matter of educating the author regarding the advantages”

“If those are successful authors and paper, you help them to be successful in digital: all advantages, it is simply a matter of educating them more,” he remarked.

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readers is also launching an author to stardom, though, for the moment, that the KDP is discovered quality new author “it’s complicated”.

Amazon.es Kindle Store has more than 1.7 million books, with one of the most comprehensive catalogs of books in Spanish (60,000 titles). In addition, readers can enjoy around 1,500 free classics, and the largest selection of titles in Catalan, Basque and Galician.

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