Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that Christian book
publishers Augsburg Fortress, Crossway Books & Bibles, David C. Cook,
Gospel Light, Group Publishing, NavPress, Strang Communications, Thomas
Nelson, Tyndale, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Zondervan have
committed to making the majority of their catalogs of books available to
Kindle owners by the end of 2008. Anywhere they happen to be, and in
less than 60 seconds, Kindle customers will be able to download and
start reading favorite Christian titles such as “Boundaries,”
“Walking With God,”
and “When the Game Is Over.”
Kindle is Amazon’s portable reader that
wirelessly downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers to a crisp,
high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real
paper. For more information on Kindle, or to order a Kindle for $359,
visit http://amazon.com/kindle.
“Of the 135,000 books available on Amazon.com
as a physical book and on Kindle, Kindle books already account for over
12 percent of units sold,” said Ian Freed,
Vice President of Amazon Kindle. “We’re
pleased that so many publishers are seeing this success with their
Kindle titles, and that more publishers like the Christian book
publishers are getting on board.”
“The response to our Kindle editions has been
remarkable,” said Alan Huizenga, Director of
Digital Publishing at Tyndale House Publishers. “We
are excited to know that for readers who own a Kindle, they can download
and begin reading bestselling Tyndale authors such as Joel Rosenberg,
Tony Dungy, Francine Rivers, and Tommy Newberry in under a minute!”
“For years Eerdmans readers have enjoyed our
extensive selection of titles from the scholarly to the popular,”
said Sam Eerdmans, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Eerdmans. “Now
Eerdmans is excited to announce that many of our titles will be readily
available on Kindle. Fans of Eugene Peterson or Joan Chittister can
quickly find and access their new books using the extremely easy
interface of Kindle."
“Thomas Nelson is excited to offer our books
in the digital format on Kindle,” said Robert
Edington, Vice President of Internet Channel, Thomas Nelson, Inc. “Our
readers have enjoyed works by Max Lucado, John Maxwell and Ted Dekker
for a long time, and now those who have a Kindle can quickly and easily
download them in 60 seconds.”
Amazon has increased the number of book titles available on Kindle from
90,000 to 135,000 since Kindle was introduced last November, with more
books being added every day. Kindle books are available for wireless
download in less than 60 seconds and The New York Times Best
Sellers and New Releases are $9.99 or less on Kindle, unless marked
otherwise. Dozens of newspapers, magazines and blogs have also been
added. Newspaper subscriptions, such as The New York Times and The
Wall Street Journal, and magazines, such as TIME and
Newsweek, are auto-delivered wirelessly to Kindle overnight so the
latest edition is waiting for customers when they wake up. Blogs, such
as TechCrunch and All Things D, are updated and downloaded wirelessly
throughout the day so Kindle customers can read blogs whenever and
wherever they want.
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 Earth´s
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc., seeks to be Earth´s 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 Amazon’s
developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services
based on Amazon´s own back-end technology platform, which developers can
use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services
offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon
Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service
(Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca, and the Joyo Amazon
websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,”
“we,” “our”
and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless
the context indicates otherwise.
Amazon Kindle is sold through Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management´s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and
taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that
potentially could affect Amazon.com´s financial results is included in
Amazon.com´s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2007, and subsequent filings.
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