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Amazon announced this afternoon that it will be expanding its kindle direct publishing business to support the needs of childrens books authors through a new program its calling kdp kids. Enter the required title information your book title, author name etc. This article was originally published in july 2014. Diggypod is a trusted name in children s book printing for self publishers. Self publish childrens books amazon kindle direct publishing. If youve written a childrens book, youre probably eager to get it.
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