Amazon Publishing is a leading trade publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books with a mission to empower outstanding storytellers and connect them with readers worldwide. We publish emerging, bestselling and critically-acclaimed authors in digital, print, and audio formats. With Amazon’s drive for innovation and passion for books, we merge technology and art to support our authors and help their stories change the world.
42
countries represented by our authors
256
Amazon Charts hits for our titles
465
award nominations for our authors
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dogs in our Seattle office
Amazon Publishing was founded in 2009 and since day one, our goal has been to make authors happy, connect writers with a global audience, and innovate on behalf of authors and readers.
In our first two years, we launched five imprints, including Montlake, Thomas & Mercer, and 47North, as well as our world literature imprint, Amazon Crossing. In 2014, Little A author Shawn Vestal won the PEN/Bingham Prize for debut fiction for Godforsaken Idaho. In 2015, Two Lions author Anna Kang and illustrator Christopher Weyant won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for You Are (Not) Small, and Amazon Crossing was named the largest publisher of translated fiction in the United States. Little A author Viet Dinh was recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for After Disasters in 2017. A year later, 47North author Meg Elison’s The Book of Etta was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2021, Montlake author Melinda Leigh became our first author to reach more than 10 million readers, and we’ve helped over eighty authors (and counting) reach more than one million readers.
Amazon Publishing is home to experts in a broad range of disciplines: editorial, marketing, publicity, design, book and video production, user research, product innovation, translation, author services, and software engineering. Together, we are readers with a passion for storytelling.
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Julia Sommerfeld
PUBLISHER OF AMAZON
PUBLISHING & BRILLIANCE
PUBLISHING, US
Eoin Purcell
HEAD OF AMAZON
PUBLISHING, UK, DE
Courtney Dodson
HEAD OF OPERATIONS
& DESIGN
Grace Doyle
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, US
Carmen Johnson
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, US
Anh Schluep
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, US
Chris Werner
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER,
BRILLIANCE PUBLISHING
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HEAD OF MARKETING
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HEAD OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS
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HEAD OF SALES,
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HEAD OF BOOKS PUBLICITY