Amazon have opened Amazon.nl, expanding now into The Netherlands, and with that comes another KDP channel. The pricing band to receive the 70% royalty is the same for the rest of the Eurozone, namely between €2,60 and €9,70.

According to the fall 2013 edition of Global eBook, the Dutch were slow to embrace the ebook format, but things began to change in 2011. The momentum gained further traction in 2012 when Apple, Google, and Kobo launched localized platforms, with Kobo partnering with Dutch bookseller Libris BLZ. The market has shown steady growth since.

For self-published authors who write in Dutch, another localized platform is welcome news; for authors who write in English, this move will hopefully expand sales of our titles in a country that has already shown an appetite for English-language books. (When I once queried Dutch acquaintances as to why their English was so good, one quipped, “We have to learn English — no one else speaks Dutch!”)

If you have set your foreign currency prices to auto-convert from your USD price, there is no need to make any changes to your KDP titles. If, however, you have set fixed prices in other currencies, you need to go into your dashboard and set a fixed euro price for The Netherlands.