Amazon launch Kindle in Spain

 

Amazon yesterday launched it´s Kindle store for Spain as well as it´s first Spanish-language Kindle hardware.

The Italian language service was launched at the same time and joins the French and German language service in Europe.

Visitors to Amazon.es will now be able to buy the Kindle Touch, measuring 15cm and weighing 170 gram, in Spanish from just 99 Euros, and choose from a catalog of 900,000 titles in both Castillian, Catalan, Basque and Galician.

Many of these titles were already available from the newly-launched Spanish Amazon, but the English-language Kindles needed to read them had to be ordered from overseas.

In addition to regular books there is also short-form content from national Spanish newspapers El País and La Vanguardia.

With an estimated 403 million native Spanish speakers in the world compare to 371 million English speakers, it is understandable that Amazon have latched onto the potential of this market.