Bangalore : Amazon India today launched the fifth edition of its annual Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) flagship event, Pen to Publish Contest. With this contest, Amazon invites writers to submit original and previously unpublished entries in English,
Number of new authors self-publishing on Kindle Direct Publishing service doubled in 2020: Amazon
February 04, 2021
× Amazon on Thursday announced that the number of new authors in India who have self-published their e-books using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has doubled in 2020 as compared to 2019.
KDP is a platform that helps authors self-publish e-books and get up to 70 per cent of the royalties. However, the tech-giant did not provide the exact number of authors who have leveraged the self-publishing service in 2020.
In 2020, Indian writers who used KDP published works across genres such as Literature and Fiction, Society, Politics and Philosophy, Mystery and Thrillers, Amazon said.