Comments on: 16 of Top 25 Kindle Bestsellers are free

By: Phyllis Murray

Phyllis Murray — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:44:27 +0000

I just purchased my kindle when i was on holidays in Florida . I am now home and have been able to download several free books. This is real nice as I am a senior on a fixed income, thanks to all the Amazon people.
Phyllis Murray

By: Jim Brown

Jim Brown — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:34:23 +0000

I bought my Kindle 2 in order to access and read Project Gutenberg books comfortably. I haven’t bought many books from Amazon, but I’ve been reading Dickens and Wilkie Collins … I ditched a lot of unwieldy old paperbacks in the process.

By: switch11

switch11 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:40:27 +0000

yes, my stance is exactly that – free books aren’t really costing users anything.

By: Jason Block

Jason Block — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:15:48 +0000

I noticed the same thing. What occurs to me is that they aren’t bestsellers if they are free – becuase they aren’t selling. Also, with free books, you never know if people really want to read them or not. They could just download them because they are free. So the bestseller list as it stands isn’t accurate in any way. If your point was that there needs to be a seperate list, I agree.

By: switch11

switch11 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:06:07 +0000

thanks. corrected.

well, there are 44 authors whose books are losing out to free books.

a compromise would be expanding bestsellers to Top 200.

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:28:31 +0000

Great article — very interesting to see how the free stuff is surging.

I hope they don’t separate the lists. When Harry Potter took over the NYTimes list for so long they created a children’s best seller list, which only conceals what is actually the best selling books.

BTW: The link for the Kindle Daily Post returns an error.