Books and authors

• Amazon.com Announces Best-Selling Books of 2012

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  December 14, 2012

• Amazon Announces Sixth Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

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  December 04, 2012

• Kindle Direct Publishing Adds $1.5 Million Holiday Bonus for KDP Select Authors

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  November 29, 2012

• Amazon Unveils Best Books of 2012 List, and Names Louise Erdrich’s “The Round House” Best Book of the Year

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  November 12, 2012

• Announcing Whispercast for Kindle–A Free Self-Service Tool for Schools and Businesses to Manage Large Deployments of Kindles and Support Purchase and Distribution of Kindle Books and Documents Across Kindle E-Readers, Kindle Fires and Free Kindle Reading Apps

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  October 17, 2012

• Best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series Coming to Kindle

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  October 15, 2012

• Audible and Amazon Introduce “Immersion Reading” and “Whispersync for Voice”—Two Momentous Steps Forward for Reading

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  September 06, 2012

• Amazon Publishing Introduces Kindle Serials—Great Stories, One Episode at a Time

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  September 06, 2012

• Kindle-Exclusive Books Have Been Downloaded Over 100 Million Times

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  August 28, 2012

• Amazon.com Books Announces Amazon Election Heat Map 2012

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  August 21, 2012

• The Hunger Games Trilogy is now the Best-Selling Book Series of All Time on Amazon.com

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  August 17, 2012

• Amazon Launches Textbook Rental

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  August 06, 2012