Willkommen! Amazon launches German Kindle Store, offers 650,000+ ebooks

Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Amazon.de this morning launched the Kindle Store in Germany, offering a large selection of ebooks. Included are more than 650,000 titles and over 25,000 German-language titles, with thousands of German classics available for free.

Top German and international newspapers and magazines are also available for single purchase or subscription including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt and Die Zeit.

In addition, Amazon has announced that its series of free apps for the iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac and Android phones are now available in German-language versions.

To top it off, Amazon now offers the latest-generation Kindle and Kindle 3G with an English user interface, directly from Amazon.de (for 139 euros and 189 euros, respectively).