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« Previous EntriesAmazon Adds New Languages To The Kindle’s Digital Text Platform
Friday, February 19th, 2010Here’s some good news for our international readers. Kindle has just expanded it’s digital text platform to authors and publishers who publish Spanish, Portuguese and Italian books. These new languages are in addition to the currently available languages of English, German, and French.
Amazon had this to say:
“A month ago we made the self-service [...]
More Free Kindle Books For You
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Here are some free Kindle books for you to download. As always, if you think you might want any of these get them quickly – not all of them will be free for long.
Love Yourself and Let the Other Person Have It Your Way – Save $12.95
More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of [...]
U.S. Government Budget For 2011 Available For Free Download
Thursday, February 11th, 2010For those of you who may be interested, you can get the budget for the U.S. government for 2011. You can download it for free to your Kindle starting today. Here’s the link:
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 by Office of Management and Budget
This free version is by the “Office [...]
More Kindle Freebies
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Here’s a few free books for you to download. Please remember these are only free for a limited time so download asap if you’re interested in them.
The Apothecary’s Daughter – Save $13.99
Daisy Chain: A Novel – Save $14.99
Velvet Elvis – Save $14.99
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace – Save $21.99
KDK – A Developer’s Perspective
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010This is a guest post from Eran at Puzux.com. If you like crosswords and sudoku make sure to check out Puzux.com.
As you all have heard, Amazon recently announced it will be opening up the Kindle to application developers. The Kindle Developer’s Kit (KDK) will allow programmers to author applications and games for the device, [...]
Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books From Kindle – Now They’re Back
Monday, February 1st, 2010On Friday, Amazon announced they were pulling all of Macmillan’s books from their Kindle Store. This is because of a dispute about the pricing of e-books. Amazon wants to sell the books for $9.99 but Macmillan, as the publisher, would like the books to sell for a higher price – up to $15. [...]
Is Apple Tablet a Kindle Killer?
Friday, January 29th, 2010I’m sure you’ve all read about the latest Kindle killer – the Apple Tablet. I just wanted to see what TKW readers think about the latest ereader to become available. I’m writing about this one, as opposed to some of the others (Nook, Sony) because it has generated the greatest amount of interest [...]
More Kindle Exclusives
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Here’s the next set of books that are available in the Atlantic Fiction series from Amazon:
Beast and Bird
A Regular Couple
The Atlantic Fiction Series is a series of short stories from Amazon exclusively for Kindle owners. The price of these two books are $3.99 each.
Instapapers Kindle Feature Improved
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Instapaper has improved their Kindle periodical formatting. If you’re not familiar with Instapaper, it is a program that lets you mark articles that you might not want to read right now and lets you read them later on your Kindle.
This update changes the formatting to make the articles look more like they were made [...]
Amazon Expands Kindle Self-Publishing To Authors Outside The US
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Amazon has announced that authors outside the United States can now publish their books to Kindle. They have also announced that their Digital Text Platform will now support books written in French and German. Amazon has said that additional languages will be supported in upcoming months.
Are you an author that has already published [...]