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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 .
Hugh C. Howey (born 1975, [1] Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series Silo, part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct Publishing system; [2] [3] he later signed distribution deals, with large publishing houses in different countries, but maintains the publishing rights and all e-book publishing.
Locke was the first self-published author in history to sell one million eBooks, making him one of only eight authors to sell this number of eBooks.(The other seven authors are Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins, and Michael Connelly.) [2] He releases his novels as eBooks via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing.
To those who view the Amazon's digital reader device the Kindle as a plague sweeping through the book world, the publishing industry would like you to know it isn't dead yet. In fact, Amazon CEO ...
When Amazon launched its ebook reader, the Kindle, in Britain in 2010, Edwards joined an emerging group of writers who had success self-publishing their work. Edwards and Voss released their first novel, Killing Cupid , on Kindle Direct Publishing, which eventually climbed to the top 100 on the Kindle charts.
The "Silo Saga" was one of the first settings licensed in 2013 for the Kindle Worlds platform for self-publishing fanfiction. [22] By the time Kindle Worlds shuttered in 2018, 122 novels, novellas, and short stories set in the Silo universe had been published via the platform — the third most for any of the licensed series. [23]