Kindle Store

Amazon has launched a French-language  Kindle on Oct. 14, and an accompanying  Kindle Store .

The E Ink ereader, which is the French-language equivalent of the recently announced, $79  Kindle, is available for pre-order at amazon.fr/kindle for 99 euros.

Kindle Store

The French Kindle Store contains 825,000 books, of which more than 30,000 are written in French, and another 4,000 are free, French-language classics.

Kindle Store

Popular French newspapers and magazines, including Le Monde, Les Echos and Le Figaro are available by single purchase or subscription.

Kindle Store

Independent authors can now also sell their ebooks directly to the Amazon.fr  Kindle Store through the Direct Publish Program