Independent authors and publishers can also now use Kindle Direct Publishing to make their books available in Amazon.fr's Kindle Store.

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This book walks you through, screen by screen, how to get going with Kindle Direct Publishing, in addition to explaining the myriad of file formats.

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And thanks to Kindle Direct Publishing, thousands of self-published authors have also been given an outlet to share their work with the millions of Kindle readers worldwide.

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Under the proposed new rules, councils would be banned from publishing newspapers in direct competition to the local press.

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One thing it will give Google is a direct competitive offering to personal Web-publishing services such as Yahoo!

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Direct to the customer is the new mantra in publishing.

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Launching of KASAYSAYAN: THE STORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, by the Asia Publishing Co. (Reader's Digest and A-Z Direct Marketing).

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Self-publishing is on the rampage and its effect is to force publishers to think in terms of direct sales to customers.

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