From the press release:
Amazon.it today launched the Italian Kindle Store offering customers the largest selection of Italian-language titles in digital with over 16,000 Italian-language Kindle books, a wide array of best sellers and hundreds of free Italian classics. In all, the new store offers customers over 900,000 titles–including thousands of global best sellers–in English and other languages. Amazon also announced the new Kindle–the smallest, lightest and most affordable Kindle ever–is now available on Amazon.it for only 99EUR . Amazon.it customers can order the first Italian-language Kindle today on www.amazon.it/kindle.
“We are excited to introduce the new Italian Kindle Store with the largest digital selection of Italian-language titles to millions of Amazon.it customers today. Italian customers are passionate about books and reading and we believe they will love reading great Italian books like Roberto Saviano’s ‘Gomorra,’ Tiziano Terzani’s ‘Un indovino mi disse’ and current best sellers like the new Steve Jobs biography on Kindle,” said Diego Piacentini, senior vice president, Amazon.com. “Kindle is already the best-selling e-reader in the world. It comes with an electronic ink display that reads like real paper, with no glare, even in bright daylight and it offers the convenience of downloading books in less than 60 seconds. Kindle is so small and light that it disappears in your hands, which is great when you are looking for a story in which you can get lost in the author’s words like Umberto Eco’s ‘Il Cimitero di Praga.'”
The Italian Kindle Store’s vast selection of content in a wide range of categories includes popular titles from best-selling authors Roberto Saviano, Tiziano Terzani, Umberto Eco, Susanna Tamaro, Erri De Luca and Marcello Simoni. Independent authors and publishers can also now use Kindle Direct Publishing to make their books available in Amazon.it’s Kindle Store. (For more information on Kindle Direct Publishing, see today’s announcement at www.amazon.com/pr/kindle.)
As to Kindle Direct publishing, from another press release:
Amazon.it today announced that authors and publishers worldwide are now able to make their books available in the Amazon.it Kindle Store (www.amazon.it/kindle) using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) (http://kdp.amazon.it). Authors and publishers can utilize the new Italian-language KDP website to make their books available in Italy and more than 100 countries worldwide, while continuing to own the rights to their books. The popular 70% royalty option, which allows independent authors and publishers to make more money on every book sold to Kindle customers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria, France and Spain, is now also available for books sold in Italy.
