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Announcement: Publishing Public Domain Titles


Announcement: Publishing Public Domain Titles
Posted By: dtpadmin
Created in: System: Global Announcement
Posted: Sep 22, 2009 7:14 PM
Dear Publishers,

We are working on improving the buying experience for customers who browse the public domain selection in our catalog.

Our vision is to have high-quality editions of every public domain title in the world available on Kindle, including a free edition of each. What we don't want is a large number of non-differentiated (or barely differentiated) versions of each. For example, if a customer searches for "Pride and Prejudice" in the Kindle Store, they will find approximately 16 versions of "Pride and Prejudice," creating a confusing and difficult experience.

For this reason, we are no longer accepting additional versions of public domain titles that are among the top 200 bestsellers -- these titles are already extremely well covered, including in each case a free edition.

Thanks!

DTP Support