Amazon Publishing to expand to Europe

30 November 2012 Books+Publishing

Amazon is expanding its original publishing operation to Europe, reports Paid Content. In a letter to literary agents on 28 November, Amazon publishing vice president Jeff Belle said the company would operate publishing headquarters in Luxembourg. The company is also reorganising its publishing division’s structure with Larry Kirshbaum, publisher of Amazon publishing New York, assuming ‘editorial leadership for our Seattle and New York adult imprints, as well as Amazon Children’s Publishing’, wrote Belle. Victoria Griffith, who headed Amazon Publishing in Seattle, will move to Luxembourg in early 2013.

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