Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Creator
January 22 2015 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
Kindle Textbook Creator makes it easy to
create eTextbooks and other educational content that enhances
the learning experience with features like flashcards,
highlighting, and note-taking
Educators and educational content authors can
easily prepare, publish, and promote eTextbooks and other
educational content that students can access on Fire tablets, iPad,
iPhone, Android tablets and smartphones, Mac, and PC
(NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon.com today announced KDP EDU, a new
segment of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) designed to help
educators and authors easily prepare, publish, and promote
eTextbooks and other educational content for students to access on
a broad range of devices, including Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone,
Android smartphones and tablets, Mac, and PC. Educators and authors
can use the public beta of Amazon’s new Kindle Textbook Creator
tool to easily turn PDFs of their textbooks and course materials
into Kindle books. Once the book is ready, authors can upload it to
KDP in just a few simple steps to reach students worldwide. Get
started today at kdp.amazon.com/edu.
“Kindle Textbook Creator makes it easy for anyone to take any
PDF and create a richly featured and widely available eTextbook,”
said Chuck Kronbach, Director, Kindle Direct Publishing. “We look
forward to seeing how authors use the new tool and getting their
feedback to guide us in adding more features to KDP EDU over
time.”
Books created with Kindle Textbook Creator offer features for
students and other readers that enhance the learning experience,
including:
- Multi-Color
Highlighting—Highlight and categorize key concepts for easy
reference.
- Notebook—Capture key passages,
images and bookmarks and automatically add them to the notebook.
Students can add their own notes and easily access them from one
location.
- Flashcards—Create flashcards and
study important terms, concepts, and definitions in each chapter
with a simple, easy-to-use interface.
- Dictionary—Find definitions and
Wikipedia information for difficult terms to improve
retention.
- Buy Once, Read Everywhere—Read
eTextbooks on the most popular devices students use, including Fire
tablets, iPad, iPhone, Android tablets and smartphones, Mac, and
PC.
“I’m in love with Kindle Textbook Creator! It’s a great solution
for the issues I had with converting many of my math-intensive
print books to Kindle format,” said Chris McMullen, author of Full
Color Illustrations of the Fourth Dimension. “Educational content
often includes many equations, graphs, and tables. Kindle Textbook
Creator made it easy for me to convert the print version of my
geometry book to Kindle and reach even more readers.”
With KDP, authors can earn royalties of up to 70%, while keeping
their rights and maintaining control of their content. They can
also choose to enroll their books in KDP Select for additional
royalty opportunities like Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’
Lending Library, and access to marketing tools like Kindle
Countdown Deals and Free Book Promotions.
To learn more about publishing textbooks through KDP, or to
download Kindle Textbook Creator, visit kdp.amazon.com/edu.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995.
The company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire
phone, Fire tablets, and Fire TV are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon.
Amazon.com, Inc.Media Hotline,
206-266-7180Amazon-pr@amazon.comwww.amazon.com/pr
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Feb 2024 to Mar 2024
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2023 to Mar 2024