Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced that the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is extending the 70 percent royalty option to include books sold to Canadian customers. Kindle DTP is also changing its name to Kindle Direct Publishing.
The royalty option is available for books sold to Canadian customers from the Kindle Store for Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, or one of the Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac, Windows Phones and Android-based devices. Authors and publishers worldwide can now receive a 70 percent royalty, net of delivery costs, on the sale of their books to Canadian customers.
Additionally, Amazon announced a name change for the service previously known as Kindle Digital Text Platform, or DTP. The Kindle self-publishing platform will now be known as Kindle Direct Publishing. All former DTP websites will direct rights holders to the new Kindle Direct Publishing homepage at http://kdp.amazon.com.
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