There’s a third book category for your kindle in addition to paid books and public domain free books – a book that its author is sharing for free or as a trial. This Kindle book list focuses on authors that give away an entire book for the kindle (or in general) for free. Also, thanks [...]
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The Kindle Store just added 7,000 public domain books. Quite an interesting change. Update: Aug 28th 2009. There are some problems with Amazon’s API. Instead – Check out the new free kindle books list. Use the link above to find public domain books. Update: June 11th, 2009. I’ve coded a site at BookMonk dot com [...]
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Len will be covering this in a future Kindle Chronicles podcast – However, I couldn’t resist writing about it. Tim (via Kindle Chronicles) suggested a really interesting topic for discussion. How the Kindle might affect literary forms in general … Netflix and DVDs have changed my viewing habits considerably (shows rather than movies)… how then [...]
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The $9.99 figure has been something of a gold standard for books in the Kindle Store. There’s a rather interesting article at the Consumerist about how 30% of books in the Kindle Store are priced above the magical $9.99 figure. This obviously piqued my interest – firstly, because at a time when there are 55 [...]
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You can now get a Kindle Gift Card for yourself (to set a monthly budget) or for the Kindle owners in your life. The Kindle Store lets you buy Kindle Gift Certificates. The Kindle Gift Card seems to operate exactly like a normal gift card. Also I notice that when you try to buy Kindle Books you [...]
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