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Amazon just announced that publishers will be soon be eligible to earn a 70 percent royalty of the retail price (net of delivery costs) of newspaper and magazine sold.  The new terms are set to become available on Dec. 1, 2010.

To qualify for the 70-percent royalty terms, newspapers and magazines must satisfy several customer experience requirements, including:

• Customers can read the title on all Kindle devices and applications.
• Customers can read the title in all geographies for which the publisher has rights.

These new terms do not apply to blog publishers because existing terms are generally more advantageous for them.

Amazon also announced the Beta release of the Kindle Publishing for Periodicals tool, which allows publishers to more easily add their newspaper or magazine to the Kindle Store. Publishers can quickly create their account, add content and preview Kindle formatting prior to making their titles available for the fast-growing base of Kindle customers.

More information can be had at Amazon’s Kindle Publishing for Periodicals page.

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Just one day after NewspaperDirect announced availability for Sony ereaders the company is announcing the same for Kindlers. 

The Kindle ereaders until now have had access to 80 newspapers in 6 languages.  NewspaperDirect brings 1,400 full-content newspapers and magazines from 93 countries in 44 languages to Amazon’s ereader.

To access the new content,  you will need to subscribe to PressDisplay.com and install their PressReader application on your computer.  Your selected newspapers will then need to be sideloaded onto your ereader.  Not as convenient as Whispernet,  but this does make a lot more content available.  Newspapers from NewspaperDirect should also have most of (if not all) of the graphics of the original,  which in many cases are MIA in the current Kindle editions.

PressDisplay subscriptions for personal use are $9.95 per month for 31 credits (1 credit = 1 newspaper issue), and $29.95 per month for unlimited use.  This is definitely a welcome addition to the Kindle; it would be nice if access to OverDrive were to come next!

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