Swedes hoping for an easy ride into the Kindle store will be disappointed. There is no Kindle Sweden store, and it looks unlikely there will be in the future. Amazon’s Kindle programme touting the bold ambition to offer every book in every language sadly fell by the wayside almost eight years ago.
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is now available on Amazon Sweden. But there are some caveats.
First, it’s only for paper books using Amazon’s print-on-demand service (it’s not clear if the books will be printed in Sweden or, more likely, Germany). And the KDP page is not actually available in Swedish. Instead Swedes are sent to the US KDP page in English.
As a some-time EFL teacher that hosted many Swedish students in the UK I can confirm Swedes will have no problem at all with that – most Swedes I’ve met speak better English than the English do.
But Swedes hoping for an easy ride into the Kindle store will be disappointed. There is no Kindle Sweden store, and it looks unlikely there will be in the future. Amazon’s Kindle programme touting the bold ambition to offer every book in every language sadly fell by the wayside almost eight years ago.
Swedes can of course use the US site to upload ebooks – with all the red-tape that involves regarding tax status, and payment options, etc – and Sweden is one of forty or so languages KDP formally supports.
Via Boktugg.
