SEATTLE—December 6, 2012—Amazon today launched the
Brazil Kindle Store with the largest selection of the most popular books, including the most Veja best sellers and lowest prices of any eBookstore in Brazil. The Brazil Kindle Store offers over 1.4 million books, now available to Brazilian customers priced in Brazilian Reais (R$), including more than 13,000 Portuguese-language books, 49 of 60 Veja best sellers—the most of any digital bookstore—and the most free books in Portuguese. In addition, Amazon announced that Kindle—the world’s #1 best-selling e-reader for five years running—will go on sale in Brazil in the coming weeks with a suggested retail price of R$299.
“We are excited to launch this new Kindle Store for Brazilian customers, offering the most popular best-selling books from many great Brazilian authors, all priced in Reais,” said
Alexandre Szapiro, Vice President of Kindle, Amazon.com.br. “We’re also bringing our latest generation Kindle—the best-selling e-reader in the world—to Brazilian customers at a suggested retail price of R$299 in the coming weeks. With the launch of free Kindle reading apps in Portuguese, anyone who has an Android phone, Android tablet, iPhone or iPad, PC or Mac, can start reading Kindle books today.”
New Brazil Kindle StoreThe Brazil Kindle Store features over 1.4 million titles, including the most best sellers and the lowest prices of any eBookstore in Brazil. The Brazil Kindle Store sells works from a range of Brazilian authors like Jorge Amado, Lya Luft and Martha Medeiros. Readers will also find eBooks that are only available in the Kindle Store such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and 13 titles by the best-selling and iconic Paulo Coelho, as well as his never-before-published short non-fiction piece “O Livro dos Manuais.” Other exclusive titles include books by poet Vinícius de Moraes—whose work has never been available digitally before—screenplay writer and journalist Nelson Rodrigues and a free book by the cartoonist Ziraldo. The store also has over 1,500 free Portuguese-language books available to download and read on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps.
Amazon.com.br also today announced that independent authors and publishers are now able to make their books available in the new Brazil Kindle Store using
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Brazilian independent authors and publishers can utilize the new Portuguese-language KDP website to make their books available in Brazil, and more than 175 countries worldwide. They can also price their books and receive payments in Brazilian Reais for their sales in Brazil, all while retaining control of their content and copyrights.
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