http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...ing-plans.html
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At present Amazon has 15 publishing imprints and, according to Belle, it ranks #3 on Kindle in the U.S. for paid units, and #1 on copies sold per new release.
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It is growing too judging by how it plan to hire 70 more staff members:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/am...tles-year.html
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Amazon Publishing plans to release more than 500 titles in the UK this year, the company's vice president Jeff Belle has said, in a memo to agents.
The 500 books mentioned in Belle’s memo are to include titles acquired by the UK business, “combined with US-acquired books which will be simultaneously published in the UK”.
The memo, which has been released to The Bookseller, also outlines the company’s plans to hire 70 more staff members in London, Munich, Seattle, New York and Luxembourg, with the jobs “spanning editorial, marketing, operations, and business development”.
Amazon Publishing's goal in Germany, where it recently launched a German-language publishing programme, was to publish more than 200 German-language books in 2014.
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Hugh Howey's Authorearnings back up this factoid:
http://authorearnings.com/reports/the-50k-report/
Not a lot of titles (3%)
But pretty good market share (9%)
