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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 [...]
Kindle For Blackberry Now Available
Thursday, February 18th, 2010If you have a Blackberry phone, the Kindle For Blackberry App is now available for download. You can read the 400,000 plus Kindle books on your phone without having to own a Kindle. If you do own a Kindle you can access all of your Kindle books, notes, and marks via Whispersync.
This app [...]
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 [...]
Free Kindles?
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010I’m sure a lot of you have maybe heard this news already but for those of you who didn’t, Amazon is apparently considering giving away free Kindles. Of course, they’re not completely free but if you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber they want to give you a Kindle, according to TechCrunch.
The cost of Amazon Prime [...]
British Library To Offer Free Kindle Downloads For 19th Century Authors
Friday, February 12th, 2010Here’s some good news for Kindle owners that like the old classics. The British Library is going to release more than 65,000 rare first editions of 19th century fiction. This is another Kindle Exclusive as you will only be able to download these books from the Kindle Storestarting sometime in the spring or [...]
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 Exclusives
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Amazon has announced that best selling author Gavin De Becker has made some of his books exclusive to the Amazon Kindle Store. The new Kindle exclusive books are The Gift Of Fearavailable for $7.99 and Just 2 Secondswhich is available for $25. Both are very highly rated.
From the Amazon news release:
“The nationally bestselling [...]
Amazon Job Postings Hint At New Kindle
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010We’re pretty sure that a new Kindle will be coming out sometime this year and there’s now some more news that hints towards this. Checking out the Amazon job postings board there are some job postings that would indicate that Amazon is up to something – most likely the new Kindle. For example, [...]
Another Publisher Decides To Stop Low Cost Ebooks
Monday, February 8th, 2010Hachette Book Group has joined Macmillan in fighting against the $9.99 ebook. They said that they would join the agency pricing model which would put ebooks in the $12.99 to $14.99 price range. It also seems like the other big publishers are going to be using the same pricing model in the near [...]
Kindle 3 Predictions
Friday, February 5th, 2010I’ve been running across some Kindle 3 predictions the past few days or so. This isn’t too surprising especially with the unveiling of the iPad and the latest news of Amazon purchasing Touchco, a company that creates touchscreen technology.
Over at Ireaderreview they made a post about their Kindle 3 predictions. They predict that [...]