Citing violations of Kindle Direct Publishing terms and conditions, Amazon has filed arbitration complaints against five individuals who it says offered services to KDP author and publishers aimed at ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon announced today its Second Annual Indie Literary Prize Contest for Spanish-language authors. Independent authors can submit their previously unpublished works through ...

Starting on January 20th, 2026, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors can allow DRM-free EPUB/PDF downloads from the Kindle store. Only verified purchasers can download DRM-free files; Kindle ...

Amazon is rolling out digital payments for authors who self-publish under Kindle Direct Publishing. The company announced today that Amazon KDP EU and UK Authors can now be paid electronically. This ...

With concerns mounting over the impact AI-generated books are having on the e-book market, Amazon has created some new guidelines. Specifically, in a post late yesterday in the KDP Community Forum, ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now requiring self-publishers on its Kindle platform to disclose whether their uploads are AI-generated. This new requirement unveiled as AWS’s "Addition of AI Questions ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Hundreds of thousands of independent authors are finding their audiences through self-publishing with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). More than ever before, ...

Amazon is introducing a new system that completely upends the way authors and publishers make money from their books. Starting next month, the company will pay authors based on the number of pages ...

For most of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sales bonanza, an unfamiliar face topped the site’s Author Rank page: Mike Omer, a 39-year-old Israeli computer engineer and self-published author whose profile ...