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Month: March 2010

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Saturday, March 13, 2010: Three New Pre-Orders, and Millions More!

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  • Originally posted March 13, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 
  • “Free” in the Kindle Store refers, for now, to the price for download to US-based Kindles. Amazon adds various charges for Kindles based beyond US borders. However, you can scroll down to Free Book Collections for over 1.8 million titles that can be downloaded free from the internet to Kindles anywhere in the world (use USB connection to avoid wireless charges.)

 

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The Dark Tide (Free for a Limited Time – With Bonus Material) by Andrew Gross (Kindle Edition – Mar. 23, 2010) – Kindle Book
Buy: $0.00
Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on Mar. 23, 2010.

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Rides a Dread Legion Free with Bonus Material by Raymond E. Feist (Kindle Edition – Mar. 23, 2010) – Kindle Book
Buy: $0.00
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Stopping Time, Part 1 by Melissa Marr (Kindle Edition – Mar. 16, 2010) – Kindle Book
Buy: $0.00

Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on Mar. 16, 2010.

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In addition to the several dozen free promotion books listed below, Amazon has just created a new direct gateway to over 2 million other free books that you can download easily to your Kindle. Here’s what you’ll find there:

With over 420,000 titles, the Kindle Store contains the largest selection of the books people want to read including New York Times® Best Sellers and most new releases at $9.99, unless otherwise marked. And Amazon provides thousands of the most popular classics for free including titles like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and Treasure Island with more coming.
But of course, the Internet is huge and there are lots of older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books online. We wanted to make it easier to find these collections, which today represent nearly 2 million titles. See the sites and instructions below to download free classic and other out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books and transfer via USB to your Kindle device or read on Kindle for PC.
Note that these large collections of older free books are typically created from scanned copies of physical books and can have variable quality.
Amazon Kindle Store – Thousands of the most popular classics for free
The Amazon Kindle Store lets you choose from thousands of popular classics all available for free wireless delivery in under 60 seconds with Whispernet.
  1. Visit Kindle Popular Classics
  2. Search or browse for a title just like a normal Kindle book.
Internet Archive – Over 1.8 million free titles
Internet Archive is a non-profit dedicated to offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. Provides over 1.8 million free books to read, download, and enjoy.
  1. Visit archive.org 
  2. Search for a title or browse one of the sub-collections like ‘American Libraries’
  3. When viewing a title, click the link on the left labeled “Kindle (beta)” to download the file to your computer
  4. Attach your Kindle to your computer using your USB cable and drag the file to the “Documents” folder on your Kindle. You can also e-mail the file to your Kindle using Whispernet for wireless delivery (charges apply).
  5. Open the book from your Kindle’s home screen and enjoy.
Project Gutenberg – Over 30,000 free titles
Project Gutenberg, one of the original sources of free electronic books, is dedicated to the creation and distribution of eBooks.
  1. Visit gutenberg.org 
  2. Search for a title or browse the ‘Book shelves by topic’
  3. When viewing a title, scroll down to the ‘Download this ebook for free’ section and click the download link for ‘Mobipocket’ or ‘Mobipocket with images’ format.
  4. Attach your Kindle to your computer using your USB cable and drag the file to the “Documents” folder on your Kindle. You can also e-mail the file to your Kindle using Whispernet for wireless delivery (charges apply).
  5. Open the book from your Kindle’s home screen and enjoy.
Have you seen another great collection of free Kindle books on the web? Drop us a line.

©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

Now Live: The Latest Edition of Kindle Nation’s Weekly Digest

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  • Kindle Nation: The Free Weekly Email Newsletter & Digest of Kindle Nation Daily Posts – March 9, 2010 – Vol 2, Issue 10  (3/9/2010)

  • Here’s a Way for Kindle Lovers to Help Give Support To Men and Women Deployed in Afghanistan – Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert: How to Download 2 Million Free Books from the Internet Archive – From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: What Do I Do if I Lose My Kindle? – The Math of Publishing a Book in Print or Electronic Format – About eBook Prices and Author Royalties: Price Elasticity and the Demand for Books – From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: Kindle Samples, Deleting Titles, and Kindle Book Archives – Kudos to Publisher MacMillan for Speaking Up, Even if…. – Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert: Sushi for One … and Latest Free Promotional Titles – A Dozen for a Buck and Under, and a Sizzling New Release for $2.99 – The Kindle and the Academy Awards – A Brief Sampler

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  • Not $14.99! Not $12.99! Not Even $9.99!
    Click here for a sizzling new-release page turner at just $2.99 and a dozen popular buck-and-under reads In the Kindle Store

    • ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

    From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: A Thank You from Bestselling "Girl on Fire" Author Rena Diane Walmsley

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    Related post:

    One of the real pleasures of my work in building Kindle Nation Daily and related efforts over the past couple of years has been the opportunity it has provided me to help identify writing of distinction, in some cases to help publish it, and in all cases to help connect the authors with Kindle readers. So there was no need for author (and Kindle Nation citizen) Rena Diane Walmsley to send in this note with a request that we share it with everyone in Kindle Nation:

    Dear Steve,


    I just wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude both to you and to all of your readers for the interest shown in my novel Girl on Fire this week.


    In just three days since your nice mention of my book in Tuesday’s Kindle Nation newsletter, readers have downloaded hundreds of copies sent it soaring into the top 500 on the Kindle Store bestsellers list. Thank you all so much!

    Girl on Fire will be out in paperback before the end of month, but the interest shown by Kindle readers would be a really great start for any author’s first novel.


    Sincerely,
    Rena

    But you’re very welcome, Rena. You’ve written a terrific first novel, as I said when I first posted about it earlier this week, and I am proud that you chose Harvard Perspectives Press to be your publishers and Kindle Nation Daily to help you spread the word. And since you didn’t say it, let me add that you not only cracked the top 500, but you’re #3 on the Erotica bestsellers list and in the top 10 on the Romantic Suspense list!

    Plus, I’ll admit it: it’s not every day I get to rub shoulders with a Miss America contestant!

    ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

    Kindle Store Bargains **Over** $9.99? What’s Up with That?!

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    If you’ve gotten into the habit of avoiding all Kindle titles that are priced above $9.99, you may be missing out on some bargains. Really, I’m serious….


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    Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set by Charlaine Harris (Kindle Edition – Sept. 29, 2009) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $31.96
    Auto-delivered wirelessly
    4.7 out of 5 stars   (151)
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    The Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer (Kindle Edition – Oct. 27, 2009) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $33.20
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    4.7 out of 5 stars   (2,191)
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    The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien (Kindle Edition – Apr. 19, 2009) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $12.24
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    4.6 out of 5 stars   (1,346)
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    One-Click Buy: March 2010 Harlequin Presents by Trish Morey (Kindle Edition – Mar. 1, 2010) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $16.50
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    One-Click Buy: March 2010 Silhouette Desire by Jules Bennett (Kindle Edition – Mar. 1, 2010) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $11.99
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    One-Click Buy: March 2010 Harlequin Blaze by Bonnie Edwards (Kindle Edition – Mar. 1, 2010) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $11.99
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    One-Click Buy: February 2010 Harlequin Presents by Caitlin Crews (Kindle Edition – Feb. 1, 2010) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $18.50
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    One-Click Buy: February 2010 Harlequin Blaze by Lori Borrill (Kindle Edition – Feb. 1, 2010) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $11.99
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    One-Click Buy: February 2010 Silhouette Desire by Rachel Bailey (Kindle Edition – Feb. 1, 2010) – Kindle Book
    Buy: $11.99
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    ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

    Some Indications of Rising Kindle Store Prices and Tentative Willingness Among Kindle Owners to Pay More Than $9.99 for New Releases

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    A little over two weeks ago, on February 25, I shared a post here with a breakdown of Kindle Store books by price range. The breakdown of the 447,000 titles in the Kindle Store at the time was as follows, as of February 25, 2010:

    • 19,795 Kindle Books Priced “Free” (4.42%) 
    • 3,023 Titles Priced from a Penny to 98 Cents (0.67%) 
    • 36,370 Kindle Books Priced at 99 Cents (8.12%) 
    • 62,275 Kindle Books Priced from $1 to $2.99 (13.9%) 
    • 87,722 Kindle Books Priced from $3 to $4.99 (19.58%) 
    • 81,230 Titles Priced from $5 to $9.98 (18.13%) 
    • 55,269 Titles Priced at $9.99 (12.34%) 
    • 5,139 Titles Priced from $10 to $12.99 (1.15%) 
    • 9,331 Titles Priced from $13 to $14.99 (2.08%) 
    • 87,771 Titles Priced at $15 and Up (19.59%)

    Since then, as we approach the advent of the so-called agency model by which some of the major publishers intend to mandate (rather than “suggest”) retail ebook prices to Amazon and other ebook retailers, we are beginning to see some small trends of change. There have been no real signs of change under the $9.99 price point, other than a decrease in the number of titles priced between a penny and 98 cents, which is probably a result of Amazon exercising some quality control over pubic domain titles and pushing small publishers toward the Kindle Digital Text Platform and away from MobiPocket as a publishing platform. Here’s the first part of the breakdown of the 463,000 ebooks in the Kindle Store as of today, March 10, 2010:

    But the percentage of books listed at $9.99 has slipped from 12.34% to 11.59%, and the percentage of books listed between $10 and $14.99 has increased from 3.23% to 4.21%. Nothing huge, but probably a significant trend in this balance of the breakdown as of today, March 10, 2010:

    There may also be the beginning of a trend if change in the composition of the Kindle Store top 100 list. As of today, we see the following breakdown of the top 100 bestselling ebooks in the Kindle Store:
    • 50 priced at $0.00 
    • 1 priced from $0.01 to $0.98
    • 0 priced at $0.99
    • 1 priced from $1 to $2.99
    • 10 priced from $3 to $4.99
    • 15 priced from $5 to $9.98
    • 18 priced at $9.99
    • 2 priced from $10 to $12.99
    • 2 priced from $13 to $14.99
    • 1 priced at $15 and up
    Although the number of free titles in the top 100 has declined from late December and early January, this seems less a matter of changed behavior than the clearly observable pattern that shows a higher preponderance of free books among the bestsellers in periods immediately following a high-volume shipping period for new Kindles, as we witnessed with the 2009 holiday season.
    The more significant pattern may be the fact that there are 5 titles priced between $12.61 and $15.37 in the top 100. Although we have reported in the past on our survey results that show strong resistance among Kindle owners to paying more than $9.99 for new release bestsellers, there are growing indications that this resistance is far from absolute. Regardless of my own editorial views here, I will continue to report objectively on what is actually happening in the ebook price wars. I don’t have enough in the way of past datapoints to conclude too much here, but this does look to me like the beginning of a trend. 
    Stay tuned.
    ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

    From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: How Can We Tell if the Kindle is Mainstream?

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    Thanks to Kindle Nation citizen Gary S. for tipping us off to a great cartoon by award-winning editorial cartoonist Jeff Stahler in Monday’s Moderately Confused cartoon.

    Thought you might enjoy this comic I came across recently…  Thanks for the great service you are providing to the members of the Kindle community!   Best regards   
    Gary

    I’ve just pasted a fair-use snippet here so as not to violate copyright, but you can see the full cartoon if you go to the United Features sample page at http://bit.ly/Stahler. Stahler is editorial cartoonist for The Columbus Dispatch.

    ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010
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