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Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon.com's e-book publishing platform launched in November 2007, concurrently with the first Amazon Kindle device. Originally called Digital Text Platform, the platform allows authors and publishers to publish their books to the Amazon Kindle Store .
In self publishing, authors publish their own book. It is possible for an author to single-handedly carry out the whole process. However increasingly, authors are recognizing that to compete effectively, they need to produce a high quality product, and they are engaging professionals for specific services as needed (such as editors or cover designers). [3]
On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon. [3] [4] The company was founded in 2000 in South Carolina as BookSurge and was acquired by Amazon in 2005. [5] CreateSpace published books containing any content at all, other than just placeholder text. [6] It neither edited nor verified.
Self-published books may be printed by a vanity press or a publisher that prints books by only that author. If the author works for a company, and the publisher is the employer, and the author's job is to produce the work (e.g., sales materials or a corporate website), then the author and publisher are the same.
During the 1999 Christmas season, Amazon leased the rights to a defunct imprint called Weathervane. This was Amazon's first attempt at publishing. [27] The titles included Christmas recipe books and others without much market appeal, they were the "creatures from the black lagoon of the remainder table" according to a former employee James Marcus. [27]
On January 25, 2010, Amazon began to accept submissions for that year's contest. Amazon announced that for the 2010 competition they awarding grand prizes in two categories, young adult and general fiction. [11] They would also limit the top finalists to three in each category, with six finalists total for both categories.
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