7 April 2014
When Amazon started its Kindle business in Germany in Spring 2011, it launched the new e-reader together with the Kindle Direct Publishing program (KDP). While the Kindle was far better than other e-readers that were on the German market - especially with its built in ebookstore and wireless access to ebooks in the cloud at a time in Germany when every other e-reader required a PC with Adobe DRM software to buy electronic books - Amazon basically sold the same ebooks as every other retailer.