Amazon has gradually and quietly been setting non-free prices for many of the Kindle Store’s most popular previously-free “public domain” titles, so that the overall count of free Kindle titles has fallen to about 16,700 after hovering around 20,000 for the past year or so. So today we’ll focus on several of these listings that remain free — for now — with a word to the wise: pick them up now if you are interested, for they may not last forever!
“If you read Lolita or A Clockwork Orange without drop-kicking the book out into the garden on a rainy day, this novel is for you.” Tessa Dick, author of The Owl in Daylight, widow of Philip K. Dick
The American Book of the Dead
by Henry Baum
Eugene Myers is working on a novel about the end of the world. Meanwhile, he discovers his daughter doing porn online and his marriage is coming to an end. When he begins dreaming about people who turn out to be real, he wonders if his novel is real as well. Which isn’t good news: the radical and demented President Winchell is bent on bringing about worldwide destruction. Eugene Myers may just be the one to stop the apocalypse.
This history of the future covers every conspiracy imaginable: UFOs, secret societies, and World War III, as well as theories on life after death and human evolution. In the tradition of Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson, The American Book of the Dead explores the nature of reality and the human race’s potential to either disintegrate or evolve.
“Reminiscent of Philip K. Dick and Haruki Murakami, a book that boldly explores the future and defies genre.” –Largehearted Boy
Winner: Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival
Winner: The Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction
Click here to download The American Book of the Dead (or a free sample) from the UK Kindle Store
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Free Listings in the US Kindle Store!
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Pre-Order Now and the Preview will be delivered free to your Kindle on September 14.
The full book, Reckless
, is priced at $11.99 and can be pre-ordered here for download on Sept. 14. 
The 1-2-3 Money Plan: The Three Most Important Steps to Saving and Spending Smart – Gregory Karp
Fire Your Stock Analyst!: Analyzing Stocks On Your Own – Harry Domash
How to Design a Great Customer Experience – Fred Wiersema
Pre-Order Now and the Preview will be delivered free to your Kindle on September 7.
Set against the backdrop of Winter Carnival in Quebec City….
The full book, Bury Your Dead, is priced at $11.99 and can be pre-ordered here for download on September 28.
Pre-Order Now and the Preview will be delivered free to your Kindle on September 7.
The full book, ME, MYSELF AND WHY?, is priced at $11.99 and can be pre-ordered here
for download on September 28. 
Here’s the author’s description: “Finding the perfect hero and heroine for a romance novel can turn a writer’s hair gray–that’s why I advertise for them. Interviewing characters can be exhausting, and getting them to stick to the plot? Well, it doesn’t always work that way. And then you find out they’re talking about you behind your back–Meet Randy and Sarah, the hero and heroine of Finding Sarah and Hidden Fire, in a funny and illuminating look at what goes on behind the scenes of the romance writing process.” Sounds a little meta, but lots of fun.
I Thought It Was You: Grimm’s Circle, Book 2.5 – Romance Short Story – Shiloh Walker
- Hour of the Hunter: With Bonus Material – by J. A. Jance Pre-Order, August 24, 2010
- The Girl on the Beach: A Bess Crawford Mystery – Charles Todd (Pre-Order, August 31, 2010)
- The Static of the Spheres – Eric Kraft
- The Wild’s Call – Jeri Smith-Ready
- The Hunters – Jason Pinter
- Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition)
– Paramhansa Yogananda
- More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
– Tom Reynolds
- Seducing Jane Porter
– Dominique Adair
- All in Time
– Ciana Stone
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- Shaken (Teaser Chapters) (Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels Mysteries)
– J.A. Konrath
- The Lost Hero Chapter Sneak Peek
– Rick Riordan
- The Reincarnationist Series
– M.J. Rose
- The Last Song: Exclusive Free Kindle Content
– Nicholas Sparks and Touchstone Pictures