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It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children’s Novels by Laura Lee Hope
It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out The Bobbsey Twins MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Children’s Novels by Laura Lee Hope
Are they able to save their parents’ shop? The Chocolate Lab by Eric Luper
Are they able to save their parents’ shop? The Chocolate Lab by Eric Luper
Will they be able to find the spy among them? Spies Among Us (An Alex Boyd Thriller Book 5) by Mel Harrison
Will they be able to find the spy among them? Spies Among Us (An Alex Boyd Thriller Book 5) by Mel Harrison
Grab it now with a 75% price cut! THINK BIG: A 10-Step Guide to Aspiring to Greatness, Pursuing Your Dreams, and Unleashing Your Full Potential by Damon Zahariades
Grab it now with a 75% price cut! THINK BIG: A 10-Step Guide to Aspiring to Greatness, Pursuing Your Dreams, and Unleashing Your Full Potential by Damon Zahariades
If you enjoyed steamy romances with forbidden love and characters who must choose between duty and desire, you’ll love The Weight of Love by Emily Anne James
If you enjoyed steamy romances with forbidden love and characters who must choose between duty and desire, you’ll love The Weight of Love by Emily Anne James
Either justice will prevail or the body count will grow… A Law Unto Itself (The Tony Valenti Thrillers Book 8) by Neil Turner
Either justice will prevail or the body count will grow… A Law Unto Itself (The Tony Valenti Thrillers Book 8) by Neil Turner
A geological disaster triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions… Tides of Fire: A Sigma Force Novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins
A geological disaster triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions… Tides of Fire: A Sigma Force Novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins
Can the idealistic lawyer prove he’s the man to save an entire city? The Laureate: An Italian Renaissance Historical Mystery by Ken Tentarelli
Can the idealistic lawyer prove he’s the man to save an entire city? The Laureate: An Italian Renaissance Historical Mystery by Ken Tentarelli
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing! Within and Without Time: A Christian Mystery Thriller by D. I. Hennessey
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing! Within and Without Time: A Christian Mystery Thriller by D. I. Hennessey
It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
Accessible for beginners and stimulating for more experienced chess players! Winning Chess Exercises for Kids: Practice Moves, Tactics, and Strategies to Outsmart Your Opponent by Viktoria Ni
Accessible for beginners and stimulating for more experienced chess players! Winning Chess Exercises for Kids: Practice Moves, Tactics, and Strategies to Outsmart Your Opponent by Viktoria Ni
A shocking thriller with a ‘didn’t see that coming’ twist… The Therapist by S.A. Falk
A shocking thriller with a ‘didn’t see that coming’ twist… The Therapist by S.A. Falk
If you happen to have Notepad, Converter, Flip It, or Tic Tac Toe on your Kindle, then you may not know it, but there is a good chance that you are a fan of the amazing Seven Dragons app development team, which happens to be led by my colleague Abhi Singh, who is an occasional Kindle Nation sponsor. I’ll admit that although 99% of my Kindle use is involved with reading, I really appreciate how easy the Seven Dragons tools make it to get the most out of my Kindle in other ways.
Here are the main features as described by the Seven Dragons team, and some hidden functionality that I would never have expected in a Kindle Calculator app!
Easy to Use.
Fast. No images so it loads in a few seconds on all Kindles. Moving around in the app and moving the cursor around are also very fast.
User Friendly. There’s an Undo feature that lets you ‘undo’ steps. Use DEL key to delete digits one at a time. Use the history page to refer to your last 10 calculations and the last 10 numbers you saved in Memory.
Flexible. Choose from 3 font sizes and two themes. There are shortcuts displayed next to the buttons to help you – you can choose to hide them.
Clear & Easy to Understand. Help in the Calculator App (Menu > Help and Menu > Shortcuts List) explains each function and lists the shortcuts available to you. The Kindle Calculator help documents listed below walk you through how to best use Calculator for Kindle.
It’s a simple and fast app that lets you do all your calculations on the Kindle.
Please Note: Kindle lets you do calculations by typing in 5 * 6 and pressing Enter/Search. The first search result is the answer of the calculation. Having a dedicated Calculator app lets you do things in an easier way and it provides various additional benefits described below and in the Help Videos. If you don’t want to spend $1 on a Calculator app you can perhaps get by with the in-built Kindle method.
Kindle Calculator – Help Documents
Please choose ‘Kindle Format’ if you want to read on your Kindle. PDF and Word formats are the ones to choose if you want to read Help on your PC.
Please feel free to email us at booksummit@ymail.com (or to leave a comment below) if you have any further questions.
Kindle Calculator – Help Videos
Please check the Kindle Calculator Videos page which covers various features of the Calculator Kindle App.
That page misbehaves sometimes. Tomorrow I’ll add video links to another site that’s more stable (Vimeo).
Kindle Calculator – Availability
Kindle Calculator Works with: Kindle 2, Kindle 3, Kindle WiFi, Kindle DX, Kindle DX 2. Basically, every Kindle except the Kindle 1 (original model).
Kindle Calculator does not work with: Kindle Reading Apps such as Kindle for PC. It does not work with Kindle 1. It is not available if you live outside the US (right now Kindle Apps are not available internationally).
I promise: it is not a goal of mine in life to become known as Crazy Eddie, or Crazy Steve, or Crazy Anybody.
But you may have noticed that we’re really getting a kick out of these Kindle give-away sweepstakes that we have been having. So far during the month of May we have given away two Kindle 3Gs and two Kindle gift certificates ($100 and $50), and we’re just getting warmed up.
We’ve just opened up a new Kindle Nation Sweepstakes in which we will be giving away a brand new Kindle Tablet when it is launched … sometime this year!
That’s right: Amazon hasn’t even announced or launched the Kindle Tablet yet, and we are giving one away — as soon as Amazon announces it (or when our Sweepstakes closes on June 21, 2011, whichever comes later). You can enter and read all the rules by clicking on this link — http://bit.ly/Win-a-Kindle-Tablet. (There’s a screenshot of the entry form at the right, but to actually fill out the entry form you will have to click on it or on http://bit.ly/Win-a-Kindle-Tablet and check to make sure that you “Like” our Kindle Nation Facebook page.)
And just in case you don’t win, every entrant will also be added to a notification list so we can alert you when the new Kindle Tablet is officially announced and available for order.
And one more thing – please share this news on your Facebook page and tell your friends, family, colleagues, and the guy sitting next to you on the train and trying to read your Kindle book over your shoulder, because we promise to hold another Kindle Tablet giveaway if we reach 5,000 entries in this one!
Here’s the small print in which we discuss tiny little details like what we will do if Amazon doesn’t actually launch a new Kindle Tablet device by the week before Christmas.
Official Rules: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. MANY WILL ENTER, ONE WILL WIN.
1. How to Enter: This is an online sweepstakes only, sponsored by Kindle Nation. The Sweepstakes is open to new or existing fans of Kindle Nation’s page and is administered entirely within an appropriate App created for this purpose. To become (or verify your status as) a fan of Kindle Nation, go to www.Facebook.com/KindleNation and “like” the page if you have not already done so. To enter the sweepstakes, submit your name, email address and birthday as indicated on the entry form. Merely liking or becoming a fan of Kindle Nation, commenting on its page, or sending an email message of your interest does not constitute entry into or participation in this sweepstakes. Sweepstakes entry is limited to one entry per person and no more than one entry per email address. Submission of multiple entries may result in disqualification from the sweepstakes. Sponsor will not verify receipt of entries. Automated entries are prohibited, and any use of such automated devices or programs in association with this Sweepstakes will cause disqualification. Sponsor and its advertising and promotion agencies are not responsible for lost, late, illegible, misdirected or stolen entries or transmissions, or problems of any kind whether mechanical, human or electronic.
2. Eligibility: Open to residents of all countries except: Belgium, Norway, Sweden, India, Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. If you win and you reside in a country where Amazon does not ship the base Kindle Tablet Device, you will receive an Amazon Gift Card in lieu of the base Kindle Tablet Device. Participants must be 18 years of age or older. Employees of Kindle Nation and its affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, the judging organization, and immediate families in the same household are not eligible. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. This promotion shall only be construed and evaluated according to United States law. You are not authorized to participate in the Sweepstakes if you are located within and a legal resident of Belgium, Norway, Sweden, India, Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Puerto Rico or any other place where the Sweepstakes is prohibited or restricted by law.
3. Prizes: See section 4 for prize details and value of the prize being offered. Odds of winning the prize depend on number of eligible entries received. Value of the prize is estimated at between $200 and $750. The prize cannot be transferred or substituted except at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor will pay any sales tax due for domestic delivery in the United States, not to exceed 10 percent of the value of the prize; otherwise prize winners are responsible for all taxes and import duties. Neither Sponsor nor its affiliates or subsidiaries will be responsible for any loss, liability or damages arising out of the winner’s acceptance or use of the prize.
4. Drawing and Awarding of Prizes: Winner will be determined by a random drawing from all eligible entries received online per the drawing schedule outlined. The winners will be notified by email from kindlenation@gmail.com and must respond directly via email to kindlenation@gmail.com within 24 hours to receive the winning prize. If a potential winner cannot be contacted within 24 hours of first attempt, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected. There is one prize, total value estimated at between $200 and $750, consisting of a base model Kindle Tablet electronic device, which the sponsor expects to be manufactured and offered for sale by Amazon.com at some unknown time in 2011. If a base model Kindle Tablet electronic device is not manufactured and offered for sale by Amazon.com by December 18, 2011, the sponsor will allow the winner to substitute any existing Kindle product valued at $400 or less, or an Amazon.com gift certificate for $400. The phrase “base model Kindle Tablet electronic device” herein refers to the lowest-priced Kindle Tablet electronic device offered by Amazon at time of the device’s launch announcement. The winning prize will be shipped to the winner directly from Amazon.com at the sponsor’s expense, and the winner will have sole discretion as to whether she wishes to return the prize either for an account credit or for an upgrade to a higher-priced model.
5. Notification of Winners. Winners will be notified by email using the email address with which they have entered the sweepstakes. Email notification will come from kindlenation@gmail.com.
It is the sole responsibility of each participant to ensure that they will be able to receive, read, and respond to email notifications from kindlenation@gmail.com in a timely fashion.
6. Waiver of Responsibility or Liability. As a condition of entry and participation each entrant or participant releases Facebook and Kindle Nation from any and all responsibility or liability in association with the sweepstakes promotion and acknowledges that this sweepstakes promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. Entrants or participants are providing contact and entry information only to the sponsor, Kindle Nation, and to the company administering the sweepstakes, and not to Facebook.
DISCLOSURE: All entries will receive a special notification email from Kindle Nation when the Kindle Tablet electronic device is announced and available for order from Amazon.com. All entries will also receive a free subscription to the Kindle Nation email newsletter and/or the BookLending.com email newsletter, from which they may opt out at any time. No other use will be made of participants’ contact and entry information, which will be held confidentially by the sponsor and the company administering the sweepstakes.
What’s the Woot deal all about? Well, if Amazon were announcing a new Kindle-compatible product sometime in the next three or four months, it would be natural to want to clear out the “refurbished”inventory of everything but the latest-generation Kindle. Not only do we think that Amazon will announce a Kindle tablet in June or July (for shipment sometime before Labor Day), but we’re set up to send you a personal email alert when the K-Tab is ready for order — all you have to do to get on the list is send an email to kindlenation+KTab@gmail.com.
Meanwhile, don’t forget to check today’s Free Book Alert to make sure you have plenty of good reading to look forward to any or all of your present and future KIndles!
The book business in 2011 is a complicated world, and there’s no single proposition that explains Kindle Store pricing. Big Six publishers and indie authors are going to opposite extremes, and our latest analysis of Kindle pricing shows a tale of two very different pricing strategies.
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At the lower end of the pricing spectrum, the number of Kindle titles priced below $3 has grown by a very substantial 4.5% in the past 10 weeks, led by a doubling of both free contemporary tiles and free public domain titles. There are now over 253,000 books in the Kindle Store that are priced between 0 and $2.99, inclusive, for over a quarter of the overall selection, and these titles — the vast majority of them by indie authors publishing directly on the Kindle platform without traditional intermediaries — hold 37 of the top 100 spots on the Kindle Store paid bestseller list.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Big Six agency model publishers seem to be learning the hard way that most of their offerings will fail to thrive at prices over $9.99. The overall proportion of Kindle books priced at $10 and up continues to fall, with a steep decline of 5.33% between March 7 and May 17. However, at the same time, these same big publishers and their highest selling elite authors may be cheered by the fact that they seem to have gained a countervailing foothold with 35 books priced at $10 or more in the same Top 100 Kindle bestsellers list.
The question that will eventually by answered — perhaps by the number of headstones in the publishers’ cemetery or by the number of authors who jump the publishers’ sinking ships for the world of direct publishing — is how quickly these publishers are losing overall marketshare due to their insistence on what are, for the vast majority of ebooks, unsustainable prices.
Perhaps most importantly, Amazon’s own pricing strategy is very clearly tilted toward offering many quality titles from its own relatively new and expanding group of publishing imprints in the price range from $1.99 to $4.99. Since Amazon knows more about its customers’ behavior on pricing matters than anyone in the world, it is clear that Amazon doesn’t think that the Big Six are hitting the sweet spot when they price books at $12.99 to $14.99.
As Kindle owners who have been known to buy and read vast quantities of ebooks, we pay attention to price. We’re savvy consumers, and when we decide that we want to read something it’s a very natural process for us to look at how its price compares both to the actual prices of other ebooks and to our theories about what we believe prices should be, and to make a purchasing decision accordingly.
So, in order to help keep our readers well informed, every few months here at Kindle Nation we conduct an analysis of Kindle ebook prices and share the results. We look both at the actual prices of all ebooks in the Kindle Store and also at the prices of the ebooks that populate the list of the Top 100 Paid Bestsellers in the Kindle Store. Our most recent survey took place on the evening of Tuesday, May 17, which allowed us to compare Kindle prices that we found in our last survey about 10 weeks ago on March 7.
Beyond the headlines above, here are the questions we always try to answer with these price breakdown posts, and here’s what we found:
Q1. What’s the overall size of the Kindle catalog and how does it compare with that of other ebook retailers?
A1. The overall count of Kindle books has been continued to grow by about 1,000 books a day over the past 10 weeks and currently stands at about 989,000, up from just above 898,000 titles on March 7. Since that figure includes only about 36,300 public domain books, that means there’s no other ebook retailer that comes close to that count for commercially offered ebooks. Barnes and Noble inflates its Nook count with over a million public domain titles, and Apple is rumored to be preparing a TV commercial with a voice-over that says “If you don’t have an iPad, then you don’t have access to the world’s smallest ebook catalog, with fewer than 150,000 commercial titles.”
Q2. How successful has Amazon been in herding prices into its preferred corral between $2.99 and $9.99, inclusive?
A2. The number of titles priced in this range is at 66.01 percent, so that it has actually fallen slightly in the past 10 weeks, from 66.13%. But the percentage of books at $2.99 is up 17% during this period, so in keeping with the headlines above, there’s a somewhat more marked decline in the percentage of titles priced from $3 to $9.99, an entire percentage point (about 10,000 books in raw numbers) from 61.06% to 60.04%.
As a percentage of the overall catalog, titles in the $2.99-$9.99 range are up 3.25% since we checked in December, while there are proportionally 10.2% fewer titles priced under $2.99 and 1.5% fewer titles priced at $10 and up. The growth of titles in the $2.99-$9.99 range has been supported both by the fact that Kindle pays indie authors who conform to this pricing range almost twice the royalty rate that is otherwise available to them and by the frequently stated resistance of many Kindle customers to prices above $9.99. Again, the largest area of growth has been for titles priced at exactly $2.99. After growing from 18,804 to 29,042 between September 5 and December 2, this group expanded to 45,528 in our latest look-in.
Q3. How successful have the big agency model publishers and their Black Knight, anti-reading crusader Steve Jobs, been in raising Kindle Store prices above $10?
A3. The Agency Model, if you’ve come a little late to this party, is a baldly anti-consumer price-fixing conspiracy (I wish I didn’t have to use that word, but sometimes a conspiracy is just that, a conspiracy) that was hatched at the beginning of 2010 by some combination of Steve Jobs and executives of five of the Big Six publishers, with Random House abstaining at first and finally going over to the dark side in February of this year. The stated goal was to mandate retail prices for Kindle books, and all other ebooks under the agency model publishers’ control, at levels that would be 30 to 50 percent higher than the $9.99 price that Amazon had previously set for Kindle Store new releases. The more important obvious but unstated goal was to slow the migration of readers from print books to ebooks. (Retailers had always had the freedom to discount as they saw fit from the publishers’ suggested retail prices in the past, and Amazon had in fact been selling many Kindle titles as loss leaders.) Since the Agency Model went into effect on April Fool’s Day 2010, the percentage of the Kindle Store catalog priced in agency-model heaven at $10 and up has fallen from 21.7% to 19.2% on May 22, 18.8% on June 14, 18.1% on July 18, 16% on September 5, 15.3% on December 2, 15.04% March 7, and 14.3% this week.
Q4. Has there been a significant change in the title count for Kindle books priced under $2.99 since Amazon began paying a 70 percent royalty for books in the $2.99 to $9.99 range?
A4. The proportional representation of Kindle books at every price point under $2.99 (free, 99 cents, under 99 cents, and $1.00 to $2.98) fell dramatically from December to March, but in the past 10 months the percentage of titles at these price points as indie authors have discovered that pricing books at these levels can, in many cases, create so much attention that it more than makes up for the far lower royalties.
Q5. Overall, are ebook prices going up or down or staying about the same?
A5. Lower prices are clearly winning, for all the reasons described above.
Q6. Are there changes in the price composition of the Kindle Store’s key bestseller list, the Top 100 Paid Books?
A6. With the launch of the $114 Kindeal (the special offers Kindle) that has recently become Amazon’s #1 bestselling product with, probably, over a million units shipped to date, we’re seeing a bit of the usual post-Christmas phenomenon for the Kindle Store, with a swell of new Kindle owners rushing to fill their Kindles with the books they want. This tends to stimulate sales and downloads at both ends of the pricing spectrum, with bestseller-driven customers buying big name books and savvy consumers snatching up the best deals — and there’s nothing to say that these are not the same customers at both ends of the spectrum. The natural consequence of this surge is that the number of Top 100 bestselling titles in the middle, priced over $3 but under $10, has fallen from 40 to 33 since March 7, while the number of titles in the other categories has risen from 30 each to 32 and 35.
One interesting phenomenon that I couldn’t help but notice is that readers already seem to have gone lukewarm on the Kindle wunderkind of late 2010 and early 2011, former indie author turned newly signed St. Martin’s Press property Amanda Hocking. Just a few months ago she had half a dozen of the top 30 titles in the Kindle Store at prices ranging from 99 cents to $2.99, but Kindle readers seem to be anticipating the likelihood that her forthcoming ebooks will have to be priced in the $9 to $15 range to please the St. Martin’s bean counters. They have kicked Hocking to the curb for John Locke and a group of Top 100 bestselling indie authors who just happen to be Kindle Nation faves and past sponsors, including Julie Ortolon, Scott Nicholson, David Lender, Elisa Lorello, Anna Mara, and Michael Wallace. Hocking’s still holding onto Top 100 status, with two titles in the 80s and 90s.
Q7. Are there any noteworthy trends with respect to free books in the Kindle Store?
We’ve been paying some attention lately to the increasing likelihood that Amazon will launch a “Kindle tablet” some time this year. We’ve felt since last fall that it is on the way, but the signals have gotten much stronger lately, as we reported in this post last week. To summarize where we tried to be a little coy last week, I think Amazon will announce in June or July that it will ship a Kindle tablet in July or August, and while there may be more expensive models, I expect there to be a viable base model priced under $300. The new Kindle tablet will be a perfectly good ebook reader for people who don’t prefer e-Ink. Equally important, it will be a great color touch tablet that will not only work almost as well as a laptop for many purposes and serve as an exquisite delivery system for Amazon’s fast-growing MP3 and Instant Video services for music, audiobooks, films, and television programs. It will, in many respects, be defined both by the ways in which it is like the iPad and also by all the ways in which it is the anti-iPad.
More to come on all of that, but today Amazon took an absolutely brilliant step that only it could have taken as a way of preparing the path for the Kindle tablet.
It extended its relatively unknown Buyback program, previously assoicated mostly with textbooks, movies, and video games, to include a wide range of electronics products including the iPad, the iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy, the Motorola Xoom, and all kinds of other devices that might — if you could trade them in for a decent sum — prepare the way for you to buy a Kindle tablet, both in terms of the need to replace functionality and the financial wherewithal to make the purchase. Click here to visit Amazon’s Trade-in site.
As many of our readers know, I was one of the gazillions of early adopters who forked over about $700 for an iPad last Spring. And I had a lot of company among the citizens of Kindle Nation, judging from the results of our Kindle Nation Citizen Surveys since then. I was certainly interested in what I could do with an iPad, and I also felt that it was important for me to have one in order to do my job. I’ll be trading my iPad in for $245, which means that my cost for using the iPad for 14 months and being an early adopter will have been about $350. But more important, that $245 make up the lion’s share of what I pay for the new Kindle Tablet, whenever it comes out.
Here’s the guts of the Amazon press release:
Amazon Trade-In Program Expands With Thousands of Electronics
Great Trade-In Values on Used Textbooks, Video Games, Movies and now Electronics Ship For Free, All in One Box
SEATTLE, May 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the Electronics Trade-In Store, offering customers a new way to conveniently trade in used electronics for Amazon.com Gift Cards. The Electronics Trade-In Store enhances Amazon’s existing Trade-In program, giving customers great value on everything from video games and DVDs to textbooks and now electronics, without visiting multiple stores. Starting today, customers can trade in electronics, including tablets, cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, GPS devices and more. With Amazon Trade-In, only one box is needed to ship multiple items and shipping is free. Simply visit http://www.amazon.com/tradein and start searching for items to trade in.
“Technology is constantly evolving and newer, better versions of consumer electronics are introduced all the time,” says Paul Ryder, vice president of Electronics for Amazon.com. “We want to give customers the opportunity to get great value from their used electronics. Hundreds of thousands of customers have already received millions of dollars in gift cards from the other products in our program. The Electronics category is a natural extension and we are delighted to offer our customers more trade-in options.”
Regardless of where electronics and other products may have been purchased, customers start by simply searching for items to trade in. If the product is listed as eligible for trade-in, then customers can click the Trade-In button to add items to their trade-in shipment. Amazon’s Trade-In program offers a variety of condition types including “Like New,” “Good” and “Acceptable,” giving customers an easy way to view multiple trade-in values. Once customers have added all the items they would like to trade in to their trade-in shipment, they can print a pre-paid shipping label and ship everything for free. After the product is received and inspected, an Amazon.com Gift Card will be deposited into the customer’s Amazon.com account, generally in less than 48 hours. There are no claim codes or waiting for a check in the mail. Amazon.com Gift Cards can be used on purchases towards millions of items on Amazon.com.
Amazon’s Trade-In program (http://www.amazon.com/tradein) offers great value on used products, and starting today, customers can now trade in used electronics.
We had so much fun with last week’s first-ever Kindle Nation Sweepstakes that we are doing it again!
Just like last time we’re giving away the best of all the Kindle models, a free Kindle 3G+Wi-Fi that retails for $189. And this time we’ll give the winner her choice of colors, graphite or white.
But that’s not all! This time we’re also giving away a second prize ($100 Kindle gift certificate) and a third prize ($50 Kindle gift certificate).
The folks at Seven Dragons keep coming up with great apps for the Kindle, and they’ve done it again with Converter, a cool 99-cent Kindle app that will convert just about any unit of measurement under — or beyond — the sun into the metric medium in which you are working.
You may not know exactly how this app is going to help you over the course of the next year, but spending 99 cents now to get it onto your Kindle will mean that you won’t come up short when you need it. Seven Dragons has come up with four apps so far — Converter, Notepad and two games — and one of the things that distinguishes their work is that they are all very sleek and fast on Kindle.
They also do a great job of presenting their products, and I don’t mind cribbing off their work to share these with you:
Dragons app development team, which happens to be led by my colleague Abhi Singh, who is an occasional Kindle Nation sponsor. I’ll admit that although 99% of my Kindle use is involved with reading, I really appreciate how easy the Seven Dragons tools make it to get the most out of my Kindle in other ways.
. Just a few months ago she had half a dozen of the top 30 titles in the Kindle Store at prices ranging from 99 cents to $2.99, but Kindle readers seem to be anticipating the likelihood that her forthcoming ebooks will have to be priced in the $9 to $15 range to please the St. Martin’s bean counters. They have kicked Hocking to the curb for 
