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Self-publishing in Germany

In Germany half of Amazon's top 100 e-books list are self-published.

20 November 2013

Val Skelton

Amazon launched the Kindle Direct Publishing programme in Germany in 2011. Now half of its top 100 e-books in Germany are self-published.

Writing in Publishing Perspectives, Matthias Matting describes how Amazon’s strategy has helped grow self-publishing in Germany. He surveyed self-published authors and discovered:

40% of them use Amazon’s KDP Select – which requires exclusivity
A third of the top 100 e-books in Germany are only available from Amazon
4% earn over €2,000 per month
Eight German authors earned over €100,000 a year

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