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Amazon extends deadline for KDP Pen to Publish Contest 5th Edition

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Amazon announced a deadline extension for submission of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Pen to Publish Contest entries by another month to 10th October 2022. The 5th edition of the contest was launched in July this yearwith the aim to encourage enthusiastic writers transform their dream of becoming an author, into reality. This flagship event by Amazon KDP will witness a judging panel consisting of renowned authors including Sudeep Nagarkar, Sudha Nair, Satya Vyas, Vijay Kakwani and Naga Chokkan for the 5th edition of this contest.

The process for registration is quite simple and mentioned in detail on www.amazon.in/pentopublish.  Participants can sign up to the official Amazon KDP page and upload original, unpublished eBooks authored solely by participants in English, Hindi, or Tamil languages, using the KDP service. Entries should include pentopublish5 keyword in the eBook’s information and all eBooks will be available on free Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, PC, and Mac as well as Kindle E-readers.

KDP Pen to Publish contest is a gateway for aspiring authors to follow their literary dreams and hold a chance to win cash prizes. This time, Amazon KDP Pen to Publish will announce 30 winners; top 10 in each language, who will win exciting cash prizes. The winning entry will receive a cash prize of ₹1 lakh, while the first runners-up will be awarded ₹50,000 and the second runners-up will win a cash prize of ₹30,000. The other seven participants from the top 10 will be granted an amount of ₹10,000 each. The prominent criterion for judging the entries includes originality, creativity, quality of writing as well as customer feedback.

Amazon Prime Day 2022 in India drives strong membership growth..enables tens of thousands of small businesses

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Telugu super news.com,Hyderabad, July29th,2022:Prime Day 2022 in India came to a successful close this weekend (July 23 and 24) with members across India discovering joy at the two-day celebration with the best deals, savings, new launches, blockbuster entertainment and more! Prime members from 95% of the pin codes in India purchased during this year’s Prime Day more than 32,000 sellers saw their highest ever sales day.

1.5x more customers signed up for Prime membership compared to last year’s Prime Day, with 2 out of 3 new members joining from outside of Top 10 town/cities like Rourkela, Mokokchung, Kullu, Dholpur, Nagapattinam, Tonk, Sehore, Kanchipuram, Raebareli, Ramgarh, Thanjavur, Sawai Madhopur, Yamuna Nagar. India’s Prime Day entertainment line-up on Prime Video was loved by consumers within and outside the country. Prime members from over 3800 Indian cities and towns, and in over 230 countries and territories have watched India’s Prime Day releases on Prime Video.

Commenting on the success of the event, Akshay Sahi, Director, Prime and Delivery Experience, Amazon India said,“Prime Day is a celebration of our Prime members; Small & medium businesses and we are truly humbled by their participation. We had thousands of deals, 500+ new product launches from brand partners and sellers and exciting blockbuster entertainment which our customers loved. The strong growth of new Prime member sign-up especially from smaller towns and cities across India is a strong testament to Amazon Prime’s commitment to provide unmatched value to our members, every day.”

Customers shopped from 50% more seller’s vs last Prime Day, from 11,738 pincodes during the lead up and on Prime Day this year. 70% of the sellers who received an order are from Tier 2-3-4 cities like Kolhapur, Surat, Ghaziabad, Raipur, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Jalandhar and Cuttack. These sellers include artisans, weavers, women entrepreneurs, start-ups and brands, local offline neighbourhood stores. More than 32,000 sellers saw their highest ever sales day. Nearly 18% more sellers’ grossed sales over INR 1 crore and close to 38% more sellers grossed sales of over 1 lakh vs last Prime Day. Local neighbourhood shops that sell on Amazon.in witnessed a sales growth of 4X. Customers enthusiastically chose to buy genuine Indian handlooms and handicrafts as artisans, weavers and artisanal brands from Amazon Karigar witnessed nearly 4.5X sales uplift. Women Entrepreneurs under the Amazon Saheli doubled their sales.