Amazon Launches SF/Fantasy Imprint: 47North

Amazon.com’s publishing division has announced a new SF/fantasy/horror imprint, 47North.

The imprint has announced their first 15 titles, to be released in late 2011 and early 2012. Upcoming books include Against the Light by Dave Duncan (January 2012); The Mongoliad: Book One by Neal Stephenson & Greg Bear (April 2012); and Further: Beyond the Threshold by Chris Roberson (May 2012).

Titles will be available in Kindle, print, and audio formats at Amazon.com, “as well as at national and independent booksellers.” They plan to publish original work, reprints, and out-of-print titles.

47North is the seventh imprint from Amazon Publishing, and joins other genre lines including Montlake Romance and mystery/thriller imprint Thomas & Mercer. For more details, see www.amazon.com/47North.