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The London Book Fair announces Korea as Market Focus for 2014

The London Book Fair and The Korean Publishers Association have announced Korea as the Market Focus of The London Book Fair 2014.
The launch event at Asia House today was attended by The London Book Fair, The Korean Publishers Association and LBF Market Focus strategic partners, the British Council and The Publishers Association of the UK, alongside representatives from UK and Korean publishing industries.

The London Book Fair Market Focus is a key opportunity for UK and international publishers to liaise with their foreign counterparts, and seek out and capitalise on new business partnerships. As such, the Korea Market Focus will have an extensive professional programme of events and publisher meetings, organised by The London Book Fair, in association with The Publishers Association. These events will highlight business opportunities with Korea and its importance to the business of international publishing.

As in past years, the Market Focus programme will be supported by an exciting series of cultural events across the UK, both within the book fair and outside, featuring visiting Korean authors, curated by the British Council, the UK’s leading cultural relations organisation. This associated cultural programme, which runs in partnership between The London Book Fair and the British Council, will place a spotlight on contemporary Korean authors and literature.

Eric Yang, The Korean Publishers Association, said:
“We are very excited and honored that Korea has been invited to London Book Fair 2014 as the Market Focus Country. The London Book Fair is a prominent international trade fair providing the publishers around the globe with an arena to get together, exchange ideas, and friendship, as well as to be actively engaged in business activities between the East and the West and also many different kinds of languages. Copyright deals happen every minutes.

KPA members and staff preparing for the Korea Market Focus at London Book Fair 2014 are sparing no efforts to make it a great opportunity for the publishers from across the world to experience and explore Korea through a variety of cultural events, seminars and special programs. KPA will support and prepare well during next two years with the Publishers Association (UK) and British Council and the Korean Culture Council in London and Seoul.

I hope 2014 Korea Market Focus will be a successful one and London Book Fair to continue to establish its status as the world’s most renowned book fair.”

Amy Webster, Market Focus Director, The London Book Fair, said:
“The London Book Fair is delighted that Korea will participate as the Market Focus country in 2014. Korea is a fascinating part of the world with a thriving literary scene and, as a top 10 publishing market, it is increasingly important for the international publishing community. We look forward to delivering an exciting professional and cultural programme around Korea Market Focus, in partnership with The Korean Publishers Association and UK partners The British Council and the Publishers Association (UK).”

Susie Nicklin, Director Literature, British Council, commented:
“With the winning of the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011 by Kyung-sook Shin and the longlisting this year of Young-Ha Kim, Korean literature is now firmly on the international stage. British authors are enjoying increasing success in Korea; the London Book Fair Market Focus in 2014 will be an ideal opportunity for writers and literary professionals from both countries to forge closer connections and to exchange ideas and inspiration.”

Emma House, Trade and International Director, The Publishers Association, said:

“Korea is an important market for translational rights sales for UK publishers as well as for export sales, with a 15% growth of UK book exports over the last three years. We are pleased that it will be the London Book Fair’s Market Focus country in 2014 as this will present a valuable opportunity for both British and Korean publishers to develop trade links and increase their understanding of each other’s business environments. We look forward to welcoming Korea at the London Book Fair in 2014.”

Korea has a population of almost 50m and 98% literacy rate. It has one of the top ten publishing markets in the world with a minimum retail market size of UK £2.5 billion. In 2010, over 10,500 translated titles were published in Korea, some UK £218 million, with Japan, US and UK make up 77% of the total translated titles. The education publishing market is worth at least £0.69m. The Korean Publishers Association organised Korea’s guest of honour programme at Frankfurt Book Fair in 2005 and also at Bologna Children’s Fair in 2009.

Elsevier Foundation Awards 2012

The Elsevier Foundation announced today the 2012 grant recipients for the Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries and New Scholars award programs. In total, $650,000 has been committed to eight institutions around the world in addition to five ongoing multiyear grants and the Nurse Faculty program. The Elsevier Foundation is funded by Elsevier, a global provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.

“The Elsevier Foundation supports projects for their potential to serve as a model with lasting impact on our health and science communities,” said David Ruth, Executive Director of the Elsevier Foundation and Senior Vice President Global Communications, Elsevier. “This year, we’ve chosen compelling proposals which address information literacy, research capacity building, women scientists’ professional development and stemming postdoc attrition.”

Innovative Libraries
The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program awards grants to libraries for innovation in improving access and use of scientific, technical and medical information. The 2012 library grant recipients address real developing world issues through the use of STM information resources and include:

E-Library Training Initiative in Latin America & Asia, MLA/Librarians Without Borders
Enhancing Access to Research in Central and West Africa, Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa, ITOCA
Strengthening evidenced based healthcare in Tanzania, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania
Nepal Knowledge Nexus, Dhulikhel Hospital

“The Elsevier Foundation grant will enable us to address the critical need for capacity building and information literacy to boost Africa’s participation in the global research community,” said Gracian Chimwaza, Executive Director, Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA), “Making research available is one step—another vital step is ensuring that we help build researchers’ information literacy skills. This will ensure that this critical knowledge-sharing process is ultimately sustainable. Our project will empower the research community from this region to also contribute and share their innovations and research with the rest of the world.”

New Scholars
The New Scholars Program supports projects to help early- to mid-career women scientists balance family responsibilities with demanding academic careers and addresses the attrition rate of talented women scientists. The 2012 grants include:

The National Postdoc-Societies Collaboration to Boost Retention of Women Postdocs National Postdoctoral Association

National Assessments in Gender and Science, Technology and Innovation, Women in Global Science and Technology (WISAT)
The Appalachian Women Scientists program, Appalachian State University
The Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World, TWAS and OWSD
“The postdoctoral position is a critical transition point when the numbers of women researchers decline significantly,” noted Cathee Johnson Phillips, Executive Director of the National Postdoctoral Association. “The National Postdoctoral Association has been working to provide resources that foster the academic career advancement of women postdocs, and with the generous support of the Elsevier Foundation, we will be able to build on that effort with professional societies and associations.”

In 2012, the Elsevier Foundation’s Nurse Faculty Program continued to support a multiyear grant to Sigma Theta Tau International Foundation for Nursing to develop an 18 month leadership academy and alleviate the nursing faculty shortage through retaining and transitioning new nurse educators to the faculty role.

Springer will collaborate with the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and BiologyS

Springer and the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB) have agreed to a five-year partnership to publish the Journal of Ultrasound, starting in 2013 with Volume 16. Appearing quarterly, the Journal of Ultrasound is the official journal of SIUMB. It will be available exclusively in electronic format on SpringerLink (link.springer.com). It was formerly published by Elsevier.

The Journal of Ultrasound deals with significant advances in the physics, engineering and technology of ultrasound in medicine and biology. The peer-reviewed articles are relevant for clinical diagnostic, interventional and therapeutic applications and clinical techniques in particular. The journal publishes original contributions such as research and review articles, case reports, technical reports and letters to the editor. All articles are published in English while the abstracts are written in both English and Italian.

Ferdinando Draghi, Editor in Chief of the journal, said “The Journal of Ultrasound has become an educational tool and a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas between the society members and the international community. Working with Springer will help to promote the journal by increasing its global visibility and support the society in its mission.”

Carlotta d’Imporzano, Executive Editor of Medicine Journals in Italy, said “We are proud to welcome the Journal of Ultrasound to the Springer Clinical Medicine journals portfolio, that further enriches our Imaging publishing program. The Journal offers a relevant additional scientific resource to all clinical practitioners and scientists working in this interdisciplinary field. The Journal of Ultrasound will join many established publications in the Radiology area and will have a global exposure via the SpringerLink platform. We are especially pleased to have the opportunity to partner with the SIUMB Society on this challenging project, being furthermore honored to collaborate to the development of this estimated journal.”

Reprints Desk Again Ranks as Top Supplier in 2012 Document Delivery Vendor Scorecard Report

Reprints Desk, Inc., announced today that it was ranked first in overall satisfaction and each category – breadth and depth of coverage, fair pricing and ease of doing business – in the Document Delivery: Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard – 2012 Update published by media, information and technology analyst and research advisory firm Outsell Inc. A free copy of the report can be viewed online at: http://info.reprintsdesk.com/Portals/28841/docs/outselldocdel-rd.pdf

The Document Delivery: Best Practices and Vendor Scorecard report updates the document delivery landscape that was last reviewed in Outsell’s 2008 report – vendor performance, the evolution of vendor offerings, and current document delivery practices and issues in the marketplace, The vendor scorecard was created using results from a September 2012 survey, which drew 156 respondents: 68% from the corporate sector, 14% from government, 13% from education, and 5% from healthcare.

Document delivery services are commonly used by corporations, academic institutions, and government organizations as a legal method for retrieving single copies of full-text papers from scholarly peer-reviewed journals that they do not subscribe to. Academic institutions are increasingly using document delivery when a quicker alternative to interlibrary loan (ILL) sharing networks are needed. Also relied on heavily for making ad-hoc decisions about adding new journal subscriptions throughout the year, the 2012 Outsell report states that document delivery is widely considered “still a bedrock service” for information professionals that help their organizations fuel innovation through more efficient information acquisition and access.
Outsell Inc. is the world’s only research and advisory firm focused solely on media, information and technology. Elite information industry executives from all over the world look to Outsell for trusted advice, bold insights, and confidential access to exclusive intelligence and decision support.

Reprints Desk’s Article Galaxy system improves scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature spending and processes, from monitoring and acquisition to management, re-use, and medical writing. Reprints Desk also earned top honors in 2012 for its all-in-one literature and reference management system Bibliogo, winning the ‘Best Online Science or Technology Service’ 2012 CODiE award from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and the top technology award from the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). Reprints Desk was founded by Peter Derycz, a pioneer in the document delivery business since 1987 when he originally founded Infotrieve, Inc.

Lost Island Labs, in association with Academic Concept Knowledge release 2.2 of Utopia Documents

Lost Island Labs Ltd (LIL) have, in association with Academic Concept Knowledge Ltd (AQnowledge), released version 2.2 of the Utopia Documents web-enabled PDF-reader for scientific content.

In addition to the previously released features for exploring an article’s content, PDFs from eLife, Springer, PLOS, BMC and the open access articles in PubMed Central are now dynamically enriched with ‘active references’, enabling users to see the details of in-text citations at a glance, and to retrieve the cited articles (where access rights permit) with a single click. The convenience for researchers and students of this feature alone makes Utopia Documents a ‘must-have’.

Among Utopia Documents’ standard features are the following:

  • A format style-customizable citation, provided by CrossRef
  • The Altmetric score, which is an indication of article impact via blogs, social networking sites, and the media
  • Links to related articles, provided by Mendeley
  • Copyright information, provided by Sherpa/RoMEO
  • Related data from an international repository, provided by Dryad
  • Drug Discovery information, provided by SciBite
  • Relevant laboratory materials, provided by AQnowledge
  • ‘Highlight-and-explore’, providing links to other relevant resources.

Utopia Documents is freely available for Mac, Windows and Linux and can be downloaded from http://utopiadocs.com

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Elsevier Starts Collaboration with Newly Established Far Eastern Consortium in Russia

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced its collaboration with the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), the leading University of Russia’s Far Eastern Consortium, through a 5-year collaboration agreement including access to ScienceDirect and Scopus for all Consortium members from January 2013 onwards.

Russia’s Far Eastern Federal district has grown to become a key social and political focus for the Russian Government. Since the APEC Summit held in September of this year, a Ministry for Far Eastern Affairs has been founded and the region is designated to become Russia’s growing economic, commercial and research hub in Asia Pacific.

As the largest university in the region, FEFU plays a key role in this development plan and has established the Far Eastern Consortium, a consortium of more than 50 regional universities and academic institutes. Together, these universities and institutes aim to increase research output for the region, strengthen local academic relations, and drive international collaboration within the scientific arena.

Dr. Igor Protsenko, Vice-Rector for Science & Innovation at the Far Eastern Federal University said of the collaboration with Elsevier, “Supporting innovation and research development is essential for effective economic growth, not only in this region but also nationally, and globally. By providing the Consortium members with access to high quality scholarly resources and information, we are building regional capacity and embracing knowledge sharing and innovation in the Asia-Pacific scientific community. We look forward to strengthen our collaboration with Elsevier with this long-term project.”

Dr. Igor Osipov, Regional Director of Elsevier in Russia and Belarus said, “We are confident that this collaboration will enable FEFU to successfully fulfill its key role in the development of the region. We particularly welcome the University’s social function within the Consortium, helping other, smaller research institutes with fewer resources by providing them with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus. Elsevier and FEFU share the strategic goal to drive innovation across research and academic institutions.”

CengageBrain Accepting College Scholarship Applications from Science and Engineering Students

CengageBrain, the premier destination for purchasing textbooks and learning solutions, today announced that it is accepting college scholarship applications from science and engineering students. The new scholarship is named after Dan Coiro, winner of America’s Top TA Competition by CengageBrain.

In May of this year, CengageBrain introduced their national competition, America’s Top TA. College students from across the U.S. were given the opportunity to recognize the teaching assistants (TAs) who have had the greatest impact on their education. After public nominations and voting, Dan Coiro, an Organic Chemistry TA at Rutgers University, won the first ever America’s Top TA Competition. In his honor, The Dan Coiro Scholarship by CengageBrain was created in which three students will be awarded $2,500 to put towards college expenses.

The Dan Coiro Scholarship by CengageBrain is open to students pursuing a degree in science or engineering. To apply, students must submit a full application and a personal statement. CengageBrain is accepting applications now through January 31st. Following the submission period, Dan Coiro will be selecting the three lucky scholarship winners. Please visit the CengageBrain blog for complete scholarship details and further information on submitting an application.

CengageBrain knows that the best way to honor an educator is to help make education more accessible to those eager to learn. Chelsea Viscosi, who took Dan’s Organic Chemistry class, submitted the winning Top TA nomination:

Dan is an enthusiastic teaching assistant who goes above and beyond to help students. Despite a heavy schoolwork load, he cuts into his free time to come up with new teaching methods and hold extra review sessions. He allows students to email him at all hours; his answers are always thorough and instantaneous. In addition to providing help for Organic Chemistry, Dan would offer assistance in any other subject he could.

“After I read what the students wrote on the comments for this competition, I learned a lot about myself and it has helped me to know that I was meant to teach,” stated Coiro. “I feel great to know that I made a difference in students’ lives in a positive way.” CengageBrain has elected to sponsor this scholarship to help illustrate the importance of the hard-working teaching assistants that facilitate higher learning.

High school seniors and college students are encouraged to apply for consideration for one of the three Dan Coiro Scholarships through the CengageBrain blog.

BioMed Central unveils semantically enriched search tool, Cases Database

BioMed Central has launched a new semantically-enriched search tool, Cases Database, which aims to enhance the discovery, filtering and aggregation of medical case reports from many journals. Open access to journal articles published under with Creative Commons licenses which permit text mining enable the literature to be reused as a resource for scientific discovery. We are seeking collaborations with other publishers to facilitate text mining and help make case reports a more valuable part of the literature. More than 11,000 cases are available to be freely searched with Cases Database.

Open access publishing continues to grow, and at a rate faster than the overall rate of growth of science publishing. Aside from the increasing support from funders and institutions for open access to publicly funded research, open access journals are proliferating partly because of the comparatively low costs associated with launching an online-only publication. But a question sometimes asked of publishers is how, with the rapid expansion of the literature, particularly in medicine (figure), is how readers can be expected to keep up with and find what they want to read.

Medical case reports provide detailed information about an individual patient’s diagnosis and treatment but, while often interesting and novel, are likely to be overlooked when competing with evidence-based literature on a busy clinician’s reading list. Indeed, every case can tell a different story and randomised trials do not extend to every clinical situation; patients with co-morbidities are often excluded from treatment guidelines. Moreover, new medical conditions and emergent diseases begin with a single case. Case reports can also help in understanding the mechanisms of disease and in the identification of adverse drug reactions. When intelligently filterable, aggregate-able and discoverable, a large and comprehensive corpus of peer-reviewed cases is a formidable scientific resource. So rather than fighting information overload, we should embrace it – the internet and associated technology can help solve these problems (as well as, arguably, creating them).

Cases Database uses text mining and medical term recognition to filter peer reviewed medical case reports and provide a semantically enriched search experience. The database offers structured search and filtering by condition, symptom, intervention, pathogen, patient demographic and many other data fields, allowing fast identification of relevant case reports to support clinical practice and research. Registered users can save cases, set up email alerts to new cases matching their search terms, and export their results. Cases Database will be free to access and is expected to be of particular interest to practicing clinicians, researchers, lecturers, drug regulators, patients, students and authors.

In the years following the launch of BioMed Central’s Journal of Medical Case Reports, the number of new journals publishing case reports has grown rapidly, with new titles from BMJ Group, Elsevier, Hindawi, Dove Press and others. This suggests a shift in perceptions of the value of case reports in the peer-reviewed literature. With this explosion of new journals dedicated to case reporting – and the thousands of case reports which are published across other clinical medical journals – Cases Database could become an even more powerful tool.

Journals such as Journal of Medical Case Reports help overcome the problem of case reports often being relegated to eviscerated letter formats, or being rejected from journals because of their likelihood to attract few citations, and so potentially damage a journal’s Impact Factor. The more case reports that are included in Cases Database the more useful the database is; the more useful individual cases potentially are; and the more visible publishers become who contribute content to the database. Therefore, we are looking for more journals and publishers who would like to include their authors’ case reports in the database.

Publishers including their content in Cases Database can expect increased visibility and usage of their content, as all cases in Cases Database link to the full text version of the case report on the publisher’s website. Our goal is for Cases Database to be the largest online database of peer-reviewed medical case reports.

The original publisher’s copyright and license information is indexed and displayed by Cases Database and cases from open access and subscription content can be included. Case reports published by open access publishers which use the Creative Commons attribution license permitting commercial use (CC-BY), and deposit their articles in PubMed Central, need do little to ensure their authors’ content included in Cases Database. We may already include it, as CC-BY enables unrestricted reuse provided the original source and authors are attributed.

CC-BY is strongly recommended by OASPA, and for good reasons. Allowing all re-uses of open access content including commercial use helps ensure authors get the most a value out of open access publication, which is often paid for by the authors or their funders. Non-commercial and non-derivative versions of Creative Commons attribution licenses restrict some secondary uses, including text mining by commercial organisations, unless explicit permission from the publisher or rights holder has been obtained. However, Cases Database aims to be inclusive, and the product can support and display virtually any copyright license. Case reports from Springer, BioMed Central’s parent company, and BMJ Case Reports are included in the launch version of the database. And we are working with a number of other publishers, who recognise the importance of enhanced discoverability, to include their case report content which is published under a non-CC-BY license.

Professor Michael Kidd AM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Medical Case Reports said, “Case reports have the potential to improve our understanding of clinical medicine and expand medical knowledge. By bringing similar case reports together, through the Cases Database, researchers and clinicians can start to look for new knowledge – new associations, new side effects, new thoughts about disease processes, new understandings about the impact of disease on our patients and our communities. This is an exciting development and is critical to the advancement of clinical medicine.”

If you are an editor or publisher looking to include your case reports in Cases Database, or if you are a reader or author who would like to recommend a journal for inclusion, please get in touch, and embrace information overload with us.

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
Publisher, BioMed Central

Knovel Releases Crude Oil Assay Database

Knovel, a leader in providing a Web-based application that integrates technical information with analytical and search tools, today announced the addition of the Crude Oil Assay Database to its growing Critical Content line. The database is designed to assist engineers designing and upgrading refineries and oil processing equipment in the Engineering Design & Construction, Mechanical & Industrial Equipment and Oil & Gas sectors.

Knovel’s Critical Content line addresses major gaps in technical content that prevent engineers from doing their jobs efficiently. Once Knovel identifies a gap through customer requests, interviews and deep industry knowledge, the company works strategically with credible sources and renowned experts to create the content to meet this critical market need.

The Crude Oil Assay Database was developed by petroleum expert Dr. James G. Speight. The database will launch with assays covering the 200 most common crudes on the market, sourced from seven crude producers, marketers and U.S. Government agencies, and will expand further in 2013 and 2014. Highly relevant, real-world data describing actual crudes commercially available on the market will help engineers in a number of areas including:

• Process and system design
• Equipment, transportation and plant engineering
• Upgrading and optimizing refinery operations

“Engineers need access to relevant and current information on crude oil properties, and finding that information often takes valuable time and resources from other projects,” said Sasha Gurke, Knovel’s senior vice president and co-founder. “With Knovel’s Crude Oil Assay Database, vital information is easily accessible, helping engineers as they improve productivity, reduce errors and decrease project development times.”

For more information about Knovel’s Crude Oil Assay Database, contact your Knovel Account Representative or Knovel Customer Support at +1.866.324.5163.

Bloomberg BNA Selects TEMIS for Content Categorization and Enrichment.

TEMIS announced that it has signed a multi-year license and services agreement with Bloomberg BNA for use of the flagship TEMIS software solution, Luxid® Content Enrichment, to provide a key capability in the management of its multimillion-document database. Bloomberg BNA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomberg and a leading source of legal, regulatory, and business information for professionals.

Bloomberg BNA has chosen to deploy the Luxid® semantic tagging and linking platform as a powerful method for categorizing news articles and other content, consistently indexing unstructured data against a comprehensive legal taxonomy.

“We are honoured that our flagship Luxid® Content Enrichment platform has been selected by an industry leader as highly regarded as Bloomberg BNA”, said Guillaume Mazieres, EVP North American Operations of TEMIS. “TEMIS will help Bloomberg BNA deliver accurate, targeted and always relevant information to its demanding professional customers, offering an unparalleled user experience.”

“Bloomberg BNA strongly believes that powerful content enrichment technology such as Luxid® from TEMIS will enhance subscribers’ interactions with our content, improving the efficiency of search as well as opening up interesting possibilities for connections based on document similarity”, said Audrey Hipkins, Chief Product Officer at Bloomberg BNA.

Semantico to redesign journals platform for Society of Petroleum Engineers

Semantico has won the contract to redesign the OnePetro platform for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). OnePetro is an online library of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. It contains more than 140,000 documents.

SPE is the largest individual member organisation serving engineers, managers, scientists and other professionals worldwide in the oil and gas industry. SPE aims to collect, disseminate, and exchange technical knowledge concerning the exploration, development and production of oil and gas resources, and related technologies for the public benefit; and to provide opportunities for professionals to enhance their technical and professional competence.

The existing OnePetro platform was built in 2004 and has grown and evolved organically since inception. Semantico will redesign and re-engineer the existing platform to enhance current functionality and add specific feature sets. The new platform will be based on a simpler, more elegant content delivery infrastructure, with enhanced discoverability.

Semantico will use their industry-respected products Scolaris and SAMS in the build. Scolaris is the next generation integrated content platform, engineered to manage the complexities of journals, ebooks, reference works and dictionaries. Scolaris promotes discoverability by providing intelligent, full-text search which allows rich taxonomy support for faceted search and browse.

SAMS, Semantico’s renowned access management system will be used to generate greater subscription opportunities for SPE. SAMS is the most widely used access management system in its class and integrates seamlessly with Scolaris to control access across users and institutions, as well as providing a host of flexible options for business models and optimal monetisation of content.

Rebekah Stacha, Senior Manager Technical Publications, said: “The improved site will deliver an enhanced user experience for our existing customers and partners, alongside improved functionality and increased business opportunities. We’re looking forward to a successful partnership with Semantico and a revitalized OnePetro platform.”

Richard Padley, Managing Director, Semantico added: “Semantico is extremely pleased to be working with SPE on the OnePetro project. This new win gives Semantico another great opportunity to further expand into the journals sector.”

Amazon Launches Brazil Kindle Store and Free Portuguese Kindle Reading Apps for Android Phones and Tablets

Amazon today launched the Brazil Kindle Store (www.amazon.com.br) with the largest selection of the most popular books, including the most Veja best sellers and lowest prices of any eBookstore in Brazil. The Brazil Kindle Store offers over 1.4 million books, now available to Brazilian customers priced in Brazilian Reais (R$), including more than 13,000 Portuguese-language books, 49 of 60 Veja best sellers—the most of any digital bookstore—and the most free books in Portuguese. In addition, Amazon announced that Kindle—the world’s #1 best-selling e-reader for five years running—will go on sale in Brazil in the coming weeks with a suggested retail price of R$299. For more information, and to begin shopping in the Kindle Store, visit www.amazon.com.br.

“We are excited to launch this new Kindle Store for Brazilian customers, offering the most popular best-selling books from many great Brazilian authors, all priced in Reais,” said Alexandre Szapiro, Vice President of Kindle, Amazon.com.br. “We’re also bringing our latest generation Kindle—the best-selling e-reader in the world—to Brazilian customers at a suggested retail price of R$299 in the coming weeks. With the launch of free Kindle reading apps in Portuguese, anyone who has an Android phone, Android tablet, iPhone or iPad, PC or Mac, can start reading Kindle books today.”

New Brazil Kindle Store

The Brazil Kindle Store features over 1.4 million titles, including the most best sellers and the lowest prices of any eBookstore in Brazil. The Brazil Kindle Store sells works from a range of Brazilian authors like Jorge Amado, Lya Luft and Martha Medeiros. Readers will also find eBooks that are only available in the Kindle Store such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and 13 titles by the best-selling and iconic Paulo Coelho, as well as his never-before-published short non-fiction piece “O Livro dos Manuais.” Other exclusive titles include books by poet Vinícius de Moraes—whose work has never been available digitally before—screenplay writer and journalist Nelson Rodrigues and a free book by the cartoonist Ziraldo. The store also has over 1,500 free Portuguese-language books available to download and read on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps.

Amazon.com.br also today announced that independent authors and publishers are now able to make their books available in the new Brazil Kindle Store using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) (http://kdp.amazon.com.br). Brazilian independent authors and publishers can utilize the new Portuguese-language KDP website to make their books available in Brazil, and more than 175 countries worldwide. They can also price their books and receive payments in Brazilian Reais for their sales in Brazil, all while retaining control of their content and copyrights.

Free Kindle Reading Apps—“Buy Once, Read Everywhere”

Amazon is also introducing free Kindle reading apps in Portuguese for all of the most popular devices and platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Android phones, Android tablets, PC and Mac. With the free Kindle apps, customers “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”—Amazon’s Whispersync technology automatically synchronizes a customer’s Kindle library, as well as their notes, highlights and last page read across all of their Kindle devices and Kindle apps. Customers can easily access the Kindle Store directly from their phone, tablet or computer web browser, with all of the features customers love about shopping on Amazon, including personalized recommendations, instant one-click buying and customer reviews, and then start reading Kindle books on their iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, PCs and Macs.

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