Kindle Review – Kindle 3 Review, iPad Review

Amazon does not disappoint. Here are some more free kindle books -

1. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins is free. It’s from MIT Press and #88 on the bestsellers list.
2. MetaGame by Sam Landstrom is Free. It’s 4.5 stars on 47 customer reviews. Someone give him a contract - he’s #7 on the Kindle Bestsellers list.  

Two Audible free books (via MobileRead)-

1. One of my favorite books – Ringworld by Larry Niven. This link is the free offer Audible advertise on Twitter – there might be a new title even after the Ringworld offer expires.  
2. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. This is free until December 15th, 2009.

A buy one get one free offer from Vook -

For this week, if you buy the Sherlock Holmes Experience and send us your receipt, we’ll send you free access to the browser version of one other vook of your choice.

Just get Sherlock.

Email your receipt to Matthew@vook.com and we’ll respond promptly.

Here are some 1 cent Kindle books –  

1. The Caliphate by Jack Stewart is 1 cent.
2. Thaw by Jordan Castillo Price is a PsyCop Short (guess that means short story) and 1 cent. Love the cover so here we go -
   

   1 cent for a short story

3. The Kiribati Test by Stacey Cochran. Have mentioned this before – However, it just got a bad review and needs some good reviews.

Internet Archive’s Million Plus Books now in Kindle Format

TeleRead has the news that the majority of the Internet Archive’s 1.8 million books are now available in MobiPocket/Kindle format.

Please choose the MOBI format. When you go to a book’s page the link is on the top left below the image that shows the book’s pages.

This is really good news for a few reasons -

1. 1.8 million free kindle books. 
2. A counter to commercial initiatives to exploit public domain books and orphan works. 
3. Great to see Brewster Kahle making progress in his grand endeavor.

Here’s a little on Brewster Kahle -

He was an early member of the Thinking Machines team, where he invented the WAIS system.

He later started WAIS, Inc. (sold to AOL), the nonprofit library Internet Archive, and the related for-profit Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon.com).

He continues as Director of the Internet Archive as of 2007. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a key supporter of the Open Content Alliance.

His stated goal is “Universal Access to all Knowledge”.

In Founders at Work he talks about how Marvin Misky taught him to pick a really big project – something that you could work on for 20 years. That motivated him to start the Internet Archive.

It’s sad that a reality TV participant will get longer Wikipedia entries and more publicity than someone who’s doing something as hugely important as the Internet Archive.

Some other things via Teleread -

1. eReader.com is now selling the Foxit Slick eReader and giving you a $100 in credits for ebooks when you buy the $259 Slick. 
2. Perdido Street Station (which used to be free and is now $6.39) got voted one of the best 20 science fiction books of the decade and is highly recommended by TeleRead.