Amazon Publishing Archives

Cost-cutting at Amazon affects Devices division and possibly Amazon Publishing

During the pandemic, Amazon hired more than 800,000 employees, mostly at its warehouses. Now there is a hiring freeze.

Mindy’s Book Studio will be housed under Amazon Publishing and Amazon Studios.

Amazon Publishing, with a catalog of about 10,000 titles, made it possible for US public libraries to purchase ebook and audiobook licenses.

Amazon Publishing, which releases more than 1,000 titles per year, is in talks with the Digital Public Library of America.

On the 10-year anniversary of Amazon Publishing, Amazon shared a list of its bestselling AP books of all time.

Agents tell us that a contract with an Amazon Publishing imprint can be good for both debut and established authors.

At a recent writers conference, an agent-editor-author panel offered rare discussion and insight about an Amazon Publishing success story.

Here at Hot Sheet, we particularly enjoy looking through a year’s worth of issues to see what themes recur.

Amazon Publishing—the company’s trade publishing arm, not the self-publishing platform—is creating new imprint called Amazon Original Stories

Amazon now has 13 imprints and is the largest publisher of works in translation. In 2016, It could release more than 2,000 titles.