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Amazon.com’s e-book self-publishing platform, Amazon KDP, debuted in November 2007 alongside the first Amazon Kindle reader. For writers and publishers to freely publish their books directly to the Kindle Store, Amazon created Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), formerly known as Digital Text Platform.