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What is Amazon Prime, and Why It Matters to You as a Kindle Owner

By Stephen Windwalker
Posted November 5, 2011

We’ve been planning for a while to devote some serious space to introducing (or re-introducing) you to a nifty little Amazon program called Amazon Prime and how it can help you get the most out of your Kindle, and this week’s events elevated that plan to the level of top priority.

One of the things about which I constantly have to remind myself — especially when I am writing for the citizens of Kindle Nation — is that a lot of things that may be clear to me about Amazon and how it works may be worth some additional explaining for others. And, of course, on some things, I may just arrive at different conclusions than those at which many of our loyal, highly valued readers arrive. That, as they say, is what makes a horse race.

After all, I’ve been a very active Amazon customer for the past fifteen years, an Amazon Prime member since 2006, a Kindle owner since the Kindle first launched, and a participant in Amazon Marketplace, zShops, Amazon Advantage, and the Kindle and CreateSpace digital publishing platforms. When it comes to Amazon, I’ve been to night school.

Amazon Prime
Prime: It Keeps Getting Better

So, after five years of saving tons of money on free shipping (along with millions of other Amazon Prime members), I was pleased several months ago when Amazon began offering me — for the same $79 a year — a free “Prime Instant Video” library of thousands of movies of TV shows. And Thursday I was thrilled to learn of a new program where that same $79 would allow me one free download each month from among over 5,000 Kindle ebook titles including many current or former bestsellers and plenty of books priced at $9 or $10 and above.

But when Amazon issued a middle-of-the-night press release and reorganized much of its Kindle ebook database to launch its new Kindle Owners’ Lending Library program, there were plenty of Kindle owners who were not thrilled. For some people this was due to the fact that several websites including our own experienced a glitch for a few hours when titles from the new program were commingled with free titles, leading to bad customer experiences ranging from people being charged for books they thought were free to feeling like they were the victims of bait-and-switch tactics. (None of this was intentional, of course, but I am very sorry that it happened. It resulted from the perhaps unavoidable fact that Amazon rolled out the program without warning to affiliate websites, but the good news is that for any readers who were charged for a book today due to confusion between free books and the new Kindle lending library program for Amazon Prime members, Amazon’s Kindle customer support is always glad to provide a no-hassle return and refund within 7 days of your purchase. You can contact them via email or phone at http://amzn.to/tL7YwJ.)

But I will have to admit that it took me by surprise that, even after everything was going smoothly and seamlessly on everybody’s websites, there were still a vocal group of our Kindle Nation readers who felt the new program was confusing at best, and a rip-off at worst:

Jo wrote: “Some ‘lending library’ … you can only borrow one a month, that’s 12 a year. You have to be a Prime member to borrow books, that’s 80 bucks a year. 80 divided by 12 is 6.67 per book! Cheaper to buy some and be able to loan them to friends for free! Thanks for nothing Amazon…”

Elizabeth chimed in: “So much for the ‘library’ idea. Easier (and much cheaper) just to head to my local library. This is a rip off!”

“It is a bad idea Amazon…and you saw what happened with the banks,” said Sam.

Sandi asked “is that how so many customers that bought into the Kindle will now be treated? Are big businesses just not getting it? Follow the news on BOA and Netflix? I hope it ain’t so.”

Confusing? Yes, I’ll grant you that. Amazon could have executed a smoother program launch if:

  • it had avoided branding the new program with the “lending library” label in which it suffers by comparison with public libraries that do not charge dues and do not limit borrowers to a single title per month;
  • it had resisted the temptation to use a much larger font size for the “program” price so that customers’ attention would be drawn away from the details until they had already purchased and been charged for the book; and
  • it had shared details about the program with websites such as Kindle Nation Daily so that we could have played a helpful role in clarifying — and, yes, promoting — the program to our readers rather than scrambling to re-write bargain-searching code after the fact while, unfortunately, also posting some phrasing that contributed to the confusion. (Following Amazon’s lead, we made the mistake of referring to the program as Amazon’s “new approach to free books,” and we apologize for that.)

But, all that being said, I strongly resist the notion that either Amazon Prime or the new (and perhaps poorly named) Kindle Owners’ Lending Library program is a rip-off. In order to illuminate the benefits of Amazon prime, we’ll focus on the following:

No Worries for Now, But Holiday Shipping Delays Ahead for Kindle Fire?

For the first time, as of today, Amazon’s website and ordering process is not guaranteeing November 15 Order a Kindle Fireshipment of newly pre-ordered Kindle Fire units.

As of Friday morning, Amazon’s Kindle Fire ordering page says “Expected to ship in 3 to 5 days” for the Fire tablet, which of course could still mean a November 15 shipment, but does not guarantee that ship date.

For a Kindle Fire that I ordered this morning with overnight 1-day shipping, the Order Confirmation provided by Amazon says “Delivery estimate: Nov. 16, 2011 – Nov. 18, 2011.”

Please note: If you pre-ordered a Kindle Fire before November 11, no worries, because Amazon has been very clear that it will ship by November 15.

So, what remains to be seen is whether this is a temporary hiccup in Amazon’s supply chain for the Kindle Fire, a hedge, a bit of stress marketing to accelerate pre-holiday orders, or — worst case here — some sort of sad repeat of the 2007 and 2008 holidays seasons when the vast majority of pre-holiday Kindle orders were not shipped until February or March.

Nobody knows exactly how many orders Amazon has received for the Kindle Fire in the six and a half weeks since it began accepting pre-orders on September 28, but we’d guess that it is very close to the point where Jeff Bezos could, in passing, casually drop the word “millions” without stretching the point. But what has changed in the last few days is that in a press release on Tuesday Amazon “announced that over 16,000 stores across the U.S. will be selling the new Kindle family starting November 15. Customers will be able to visit any Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Staples, Sam’s Club, RadioShack, Office Depot, as well as several other retailers, to experience and purchase the $79 Kindle, the $99 Kindle Touch, the $149 Kindle 3G and the $199 Kindle Fire.” Even with the most efficient possible just-in-time inventory management by those retailers, those distribution channels will require at least two million additional Kindle Fire units at or very near the November 15 release date.

We’ve been impressed with Amazon’s ability to stay ahead of heavy demand for all its Kindle models since March of 2009, so we’re not predicting doom and gloom here. But I will say that this morning’s slight hint of the possibility that the demand might edge ahead of supply has us going over our Kindle Fire orders again just to make sure that we’re in a strong position to deliver the tablets to all of our winners in our Kindle Nation weekly giveaway sweepstakes.

Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert: Joan Hall Hovey’s THE ABDUCTION OF MARY ROSE – 5 Stars, Just $2.99 on Kindle!

Joan Hall Hovey’s

The Abduction of Mary Rose

5 Stars, Just $2.99 on Kindle!

by Joan Hall Hovey
5.0 stars – 4 Reviews
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Here’s the set-up:

A suspense novel interwoven with threads of romance and paranormal.

Imagine discovering everything you believe about yourself to be a lie. And that the truth could stir a killer from his lair.

Following the death of the woman she believed to be her mother, 28-year-old Naomi Waters learns from a malicious aunt that she is not only adopted, but the product of a brutal rape that left her birth mother, Mary Rose Francis, a teenager of Micmac ancestry, in a coma for 8 months.

Dealing with a sense of betrayal and loss, but with new purpose in her life, Naomi vows to track down Mary Rose’s attackers and bring them to justice. She places her story in the local paper, asking for information from residents who might remember something of the case that has been cold for nearly three decades.

She is about to lose hope that her efforts will bear fruit, when she gets an anonymous phone call. Naomi has attracted the attention of one who remembers the case well.

But someone else has also read the article in the paper. The man whose DNA she carries.

And he has Naomi in his sights.

Review quotes

“…Ms. Hovey’s talent in creating characters is so real, you feel their emotions and their fears. You want to yell at them to warn of the danger . . . and you do! Your shouts fall on deaf ears . . . and you cry! The best suspense writer I’ve ever read! Beth Anderson, Author of Raven Talks back

“…Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King come to mind, but JOAN HALL HOVEY is in a Class by herself!…“J.D. Michael Phelps, Author of My Fugitive, David Janssen

“…CANADIAN MISTRESS OF SUSPENSE…The author has a remarkable ability to turn up the heat on the suspense… great characterizations and dialogue…” James Anderson, author of Deadline ”

…Can compete with any mystery,suspense novel on the shelves…” Linda Hersey, Fredericton Gleaner, NB

Also by Joan Hall Hovey:

NIGHT CORRIDOR

CHILL WATERS

NOWHERE TO HIDE

LISTEN TO THE SHADOWS

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2011 EPIC Ebook Award FinalistThey've been coming here for thousands of years, using Earth as a sanctuary to escape threats from their own kind. Mankind knows them as angels, and one of them left a child upon her death to be raised as a human. Raea is now a high school senior and her life as a human is about to end. The crystal shard she bears is not a pretty pendant; it's a collective of powerful entities who chose her as their Keeper, a protector of one of the four shards that power a machine capable of destroying whole worlds. Those who desire the Starfire's power have sent an agent to find her, but she's too busy evading a nosy reporter ready to exploit her secret and dating a hot new foreign student to notice. Nevermind learning what she really is.Only one person on Earth can help her, the last person she ever expected. But he's not from Earth. Life as a human would be so much easier.
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Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: Terry Tracy’s A GREAT PLACE FOR A SEIZURE is our eBook of the Day with 4.3 Stars on 14 Reviews – Now Just 99 cents!

Here’s the set-up for Terry Tracy’s A Great Place for a Seizure, just marked down to 99 cents on Kindle:

Mischa Dunn’s family flees Chile in the wake of the 1973 coup d’etat that installs a military dictatorship. She settles comfortably in her newly adopted country, the United States, until one day, an unexplained seizure in a library signals the beginning of her life with epilepsy.
With an engaging balance of humor, insight, and sensitivity Mischa draws the reader into a vivid tale that travels across three continents over thirty years.

“A Great Place for a Seizure” is not the only, but it is the first of its kind to be identified as a novelory*.

Says the author:

[no * ve * lor * y ] noun  (1) A fusion of the terms  “novel”and “short story” to describe a series of linked stories that may stand by themselves as individual tales and/or come together as a novel, when read in sequence.  (2) A term, coined by Terry Tracy, to identify aspecies of literature that reflects the 21st century IT-induced mind-set of tight schedules, rapid communication, and the desire to have all things at once.  (3)  a gimmick.

From the reviewers:

Heartwarming, Funny, Human, Uplifting.  I thoroughly enjoyed Terry Tracy’s “A Great Place for a Seizure”. As my review title indicates it makes you feel good about people in general and those with epilepsy in particular.  –  Serrano
This book should be translated into every single language in the world and given in schools,distributed in clinics, handed around, so that people could understand conditions and disabilities…Thank you Terry. Thank you for writing this book.  May ArendBrazilianbookworm.blogspot.com

This book will make you laugh out loud, cry and even, at one stage, be left feeling a little shocked and if I’m honest the ending is incredible on so many different levels and literally made my jaw drop…you will understand when you read it.  Leanne Bell,
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Mischa may have epilepsy but epilepsy does not have her. It is a part of her life but doesn’t even begin to define her life. And, I promise not to give it away, the ending is totally unexpected, heart wrenching and beautiful. Great job Terry Tracy!!   –  Dana

An incredible book…full of compassion and wisdom.  This is a book that is so compelling, you won’t want to put it down for an instant. (I was up until 3:00 AM.) Whether you have epilepsy or you don’t, it’s a story rich with possibilities and hope that will touch your heart and soul.  –  Phylis F. Johnson

A great place to start.  As a person with epilepsy, I have wanted to explain how my life has been interrupted by epilepsy. Ms. Tracy’s main character, Mischa, explains the disruption very well.  –  Bryan Farley

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Terry Tracy, has worked as a human rights activist, journalist, and U.S. diplomat. She has epilepsy and in 2007 wrote the charter for an association of disabled employees at the U.S. State Department.

Terry Tracy was born in Virginia, but moved around Latin America in her childhood as an army brat. She is an Asian-Irish American and currently resides in London with her German husband and their Asian-Irish-German-American daughter (who tries desperately to teach her mother German).

After college Terry worked as a receptionist, then left to work for free in Honduras at an orphanage. She returned to work in a human rights organization in Washington DC, then left for Guatemala to work as a free-lance journalist. By this point, it was clear that she had developed an addiction to wanderlust. In denial, she flew across the Atlantic to Cambridge, England to get a Master’s degree in an irrelevant, impractical, but nevertheless intriguing subject: 16th century Spanish colonial judicial systems.

Upon her return to the US she joined the establishment and began working for the government. In 2007 she left the State Department to take turns as a stay-at-home parent.

Terry has had epilepsy for more than 25 years and with her extra time (between 12am and 2am) she decided to write a funny, sad, strange, and moving tale about a sarcastic epileptic.

And here, in the comfort of your own browser, is your free sample of A GREAT PLACE FOR A SEIZURE by Terry Tracy: