(NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon.fr today launched the French Kindle Store
offering customers a vast selection of over 35,000 French-language
Kindle books, all 28 L'Express best sellers available in digital—the
most in France—hundreds of popular graphic novels and over 4,000 free
classics in French. The new store offers customers over 825,000
titles—including thousands of global best sellers—in English and other
languages. Amazon also announced the first French-language Kindle—the
smallest, lightest and most affordable Kindle ever—is available on
Amazon.fr for only 99€. Amazon.fr customers can pre-order Kindle today
on www.amazon.fr/kindle
with a release date of October 14.
"French customers are passionate about books and reading, and just as
we've seen in the US, UK and Germany, we believe they will love reading
on Kindle. We are excited to bring our first French-language Kindle and
our new Kindle store to millions of Amazon.fr customers," said Greg
Greeley, vice president, Amazon European Retail. "Kindle is already the
best-selling e-reader in the world. We kept everything readers love
about Kindle—the electronic ink display that reads like real paper, with
no glare, even in bright daylight, the convenience of downloading books
in less than 60 seconds and Kindle's ability to disappear in your hands
so you can get lost in the author's words—and made it lighter, smaller,
faster, and more affordable than ever."
The French Kindle Store's vast selection of content includes popular
titles from best-selling authors such as Katherine Pancol, Delphine de
Vigan, Harlan Coben, Stéphane Hessel, Haruki Murakami, Françoise Bourdin
and Michel Houellebecq in a wide range of categories. Customers will
also find the largest selection of popular graphic novels available for
download including titles from The Largo Winch Series of Francq and Van
Hamme, Julia and Roem from Bilal and Walking Dead. Customers can also
find top French newspapers and magazines such as Le Monde, Les Echos,
Le Figaro, Libération and Aujourd'hui en France/Le Parisien available
for single purchase or subscription. Independent authors and
publishers can also now use Kindle Direct Publishing to make their books
available in Amazon.fr's Kindle Store.
Kindle books are "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" with free Kindle reading
apps available for the most popular devices, including iPad, iPod touch,
iPhone, PC, Mac and Android-based devices. Amazon Whispersync
automatically syncs your place across all devices, so you can pick up
reading where you left off.