Find Free Books For Your Amazon Kindle
The Amazon Kindle ebook reader family has made an enormous impact on the book scene in a very short space of time. The original Kindle was released in November 2007. The Kindle 2 was unveiled in February of 2009 and the larger format Kindle DX, targeted at readers of newspapers, magazines and textbooks followed rapidly in June of 2009.
Despite the fact that both the Kindle 2 and the DX were released during a fairly gloomy economic downturn, they still sold well. Of course, there has been some criticism regarding the relatively high ticket price for both the Kindle 2 and the DX, but it seems as if Amazon’s target market are content to pay $359 and $489 for the Kindle 2 and the DX respectively.
One of the advantages of the Kindle series is the fact that there is no monthly fee payable for the ability to download ebooks. Amazon use a 3G connection – called Whispernet – which means Kindle owners can download books from the Amazon store in less than a minute – without the need for a notebook or a WiFi connection.
Another perceived benefit is the possibility to get cheaper books. As there are no printing, paper or distribution charges associated with the electronic version of any given volume, it can be offered at a lower price than the equivalent hardback edition.
Not just that, it’s even possible to get free Kindle books directly from the Amazon store. All you need to do is log onto Amazon, open up their Kindle store and do a search for books for the Kindle. If you then select the option “order by price – lowest to highest” you’ll be presented with a catalogue of books starting at $0.
There is a fair number of classics available – Treasure Island, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Sherlock Holmes etc. – but there are also quite a few more modern books on offer. Many of these are from publishers wanting to showcase authors and the list changes fairly often, so it’s worth checking back from time to time.
In addition to books which are one hundred percent free, there are a good number of volumes which are available for purely nominal fees, $0.01 for example.
So, if you are a fan of classics – or any book which was printed long enough ago to have entered the public domain – you could pretty quickly recover the price of your Amazon Kindle.
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