Let’s start off with the 7 kindle free books -
- Amazon added Ulysses by James Joyce and it’s predictably shooting up the charts. Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are right below it in the ‘Customers who Bought This’ section.
- Free PDF download of Seth Godin’s new book – What Matters Now. Courtesy Lone Wolf Librarian. It’s quite interesting – 70 big thinkers (Tom Peters, Tim O’Reilly, and more) each with an idea to think about in 2010.
- Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias is $6.39 in the Kindle Store – Random House had a promotion a while back (which was mentioned here) and forgot to remove the Free PDF version. It helps promote the latest version so perhaps they should leave it as is.
- Abingdon Press has a free book in the Kindle Store – The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow by Joyce Magnin. 4.5 stars on 8 reviews (found via MobileRead).
- Whores of the Court by Margaret A. Hagen, Ph.D. is a free PDF download and a critique of the way psychology is used in American courts.
- No Bugs - Free in Kindle and PDF formats. The author says the first two chapters are still very relevant for programmers although this is a 1995 C, C++ book.
- George Washington University might still have a free copy of Kalooki Nights for you.
6:27 pm Update: Free Audible Book – The Book of the Shepherd by Joann Davis.
4 free white papers from MIT Press. These are all short i.e. 70-80 pages.
- The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg.
- The Civic Potential of Video Games by Joseph Kahne, Ellen Middaugh, and Chris Evans.
- Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project by Mizuko Ito et al.
- Young People, Ethics, and New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project by Carrie James.
There’s also a free pre-order which isn’t showing up for purchase yet.
Also interesting is Zagg’s 50% off, one day only sale on Invisible Shield for the Kindle -
- $12.50 for a scratch proof screen protector.
- $17.50 for a scratch proof full body protector.
They say it also improves your grip and doesn’t add bulk.
Free Books are a BIG, undocumented benefit of eReaders
There must be some value to all the new, free eBooks you can read on eReaders.
- How do you factor in the 10-20 free book offers the Kindle Store sees every month?
- For that matter how do you factor in all the free offers from Simon & Schuster and Indie authors and all the offers around the Net?
Perhaps you can put a monetary value to it – $10 a month? $20?
The Monstrumologist is perhaps the best book I’ve read this year and it was free – Unfortunately there is no follow-up book to read. Perdido Street Station got voted one of the best 20 sci-fi books of the decade and it was free for a while.
There’s just a lot that can be done to better sell eReaders - highlighting Kindle Store free book offers is one obvious opportunity.
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