Amazon on Thursday expanded its Kindle Store to yet another country — Mexico.
The Mexico Kindle Store offers more than 2 million titles, hundreds of thousands of which are exclusives, Amazon said. The store is home to “the most Spanish-language best-sellers,” including titles from authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Isabel Allende, and Paulo Coelho.
Overall, the store offers more than 70,000 Spanish-language titles, including books written in Nahuatl and other Mexican indigenous languages. For the launch, Amazon is offering more than 1,000 e-books with special prices starting at MXN$9 (less than $1). There’s also more than 1,500 free books in Spanish.
“The vast majority of Mexicans do not have access to a bookstore in their town, so we’re happy to launch the Mexico Kindle Store today and bring a huge bookstore with over 2 million titles to anyone with an Internet connection,” Pedro Huerta, director of Kindle content for Latin America, said in a statement.
Besides the Kindle Store launch, Amazon also announced that its Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite devices are now on sale locally in Mexico at Gandhi stores. The Kindle is priced at MXN$1,399 ($105) while the Kindle Paperwhite will set you back MXN$2,399 ($180) and the Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi + 3G runs MXN$3,499 ($263).
In addition, independent authors and publishers can now make their books available in the Mexico e-book store using Kindle Direct Publishing.
Meanwhile, Amazon last year launched a Spanish-language Kindle Store. The store, “eBooks Kindle en Español” was designed for U.S. Spanish-speaking users and includes more than 30,000 titles. U.S. users can set their Kindle store to Spanish on any Kindle device.
Amazon Launches Mexico Kindle Store
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