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We’re Giving Away a Free Kindle Tablet! Here’s All the Information You Need to Enter!

May 26, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

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.

Would you like Kindle Nation to send you an email alert when the Kindle Tablet is announced and ready for pre-order?

May 20, 2011May 20, 2011 by KND

It’s no surprise that there’s intense interest in the forthcoming Kindle Tablet. In fact, we’ve already had emails from readers who want to make sure that they are among the first to know when the new Kindle Tablet is available for pre-order.

Well, there may not be an app for that, but we can certainly help. If you’d like to be notified when the Kindle Tablet is announced, we’ve got your back.

Just send an email to kindlenation+KTab@gmail.com and we’ll do the rest, with an email alert that tells you all you need to know about price, features, and projected shipping date. Nuf sed.

Kindle Pricing: Listings Over $9.99 Down 5.3% in the Kindle Store! 4.5% Gain in Titles Under $3! 253,000 Kindle Books Priced Below $3, and They Account for 37% of the Top 100 Kindle Bestsellers, But Big Publishers Still Getting Top Dollar for a Handful of Big Names

July 7, 2019May 20, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

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.

How’s that goal of slowing the migration to ebooks working out for publishers? Amazon announced this week that its Kindle ebook sales had tripled over 2010 levels and had surpassed its print sales, despite the fact that Amazon’s own print sales continue to grow. How long will publishers continue to posture as if they have an adversarial relationship with a company that is marching inexorably toward having a 50 percent market share for all books sold in all formats in the United States by the end of 2012?

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?

A7. Don’t look now, but the number of Kindle freebies are surging. Both public domain titles and free contemporary titles have doubled, and Amazon has finally cracked open the door to allow indie authors to offer their titles free … even if it is not the front door.

Kindle eBook Sales Surpass All Combined Print Book Sales For The First Time At Amazon

May 19, 2011 by KND

By Tom Dulaney, Contributing Reporter

Amazon eBook sales now exceed total sales of print books–both hardcover and paperback combined–the company announced today.

The explosion in eBook sales–up three times or 300% from the same period last year–does not come at the expense of print book sales within Amazon. Amazon says that print book sales continue to grow, and that the company’s overall book business is growing “in the fastest year-over-year growth rate for Amazon’s U.S. books business, in both units and dollars, in over 10 years.” the company said in today’s announcement.

“Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly – we’ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,” said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com.

Since April 1, for every 100 print books in any format sold, Amazon sells 105 eBooks in its Kindle Store. With sales of the Kindle reading devices continuing strong, and the proliferation of other devices on which Kindle eBooks are being read, eBook sales will most likely keep increasing the ratio of ebooks to print sold.

Amazon has been quick to develop apps for the most popular gadgets: iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android-based devices, and soon HP TouchPads and BlackBerry PlayBooks.

The “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” system not only lets users choose whatever ebook reader they prefer, but lets readers with multiple devices skip from one to the next as they read. For example, readers in mid-chapter on the Kindle can pick up where they left off during a work break on their computers if corporate policy permits. If not, they can call up the book on their smartphone.

Here’s the full text of Amazon’s press release this morning:

Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com.

Today, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books – hardcover and paperback – combined.

“Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly – we’ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years,” said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com.

“In addition, we’re excited by the response to Kindle with Special Offers for only $114, which has quickly become the bestselling member of the Kindle family. We continue to receive positive comments from customers on the low $114 price and the money-saving special offers. We’re grateful to our customers for continuing to make Kindle the bestselling e-reader in the world and the Kindle Store the most popular e-bookstore in the world.”

Recent milestones for Kindle include:

Since April 1, for every 100 print books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle books. This includes sales of hardcover and paperback books by Amazon where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher.

So far in 2011, the tremendous growth of Kindle book sales, combined with the continued growth in Amazon’s print book sales, have resulted in the fastest year-over-year growth rate for Amazon’s U.S. books business, in both units and dollars, in over 10 years. This includes books in all formats, print and digital. Free books are excluded in the calculation of growth rates.

In the five weeks since its introduction, Kindle with Special Offers for only $114 is already the bestselling member of the Kindle family in the U.S.

Amazon sold more than 3x as many Kindle books so far in 2011 as it did during the same period in 2010.

Less than one year after introducing the UK Kindle Store, Amazon.co.uk is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books, even as hardcover sales continue to grow. Since April 1, Amazon.co.uk customers are purchasing Kindle books over hardcover books at a rate of more than 2 to 1.

Kindle offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read. The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 950,000 books, including New Releases and 109 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 790,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 69 New York Times Best Sellers. Millions of free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle devices. More than 175,000 books have been added to the Kindle Store in just the last 5 months.

All Kindle Books let you “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” – on all generation Kindles, as well as on the largest number of devices and platforms, including iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Android-based devices, and soon HP TouchPads and BlackBerry PlayBooks. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

Will Amazon Announce a $299 Color, Touch Kindle Tablet in Late July? “Stay Tuned”

May 13, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

Lately we’ve tried to stay out of the raw speculation game, saving our predictions for matters where we have great sources or great information, but for the past year it has been clear to us that Amazon would eventually launch a color touch tablet version of the Kindle. Of course calling it a “version of the Kindle” is kind of silly, because it is equally clear that an Android-based color touch tablet will never replace the Kindle. It’s far more likely that such a new device would merely “allow” the purchase and reading of Kindle reading content

Last Fall we said the Kindle tablet would probably come in March or April, and all we got in March and April was the $114 Kindeal, so Nostradamus can sleep soundly knowing that his job is not in danger. I do think that Amazon would like to have introduced a K-Tab in March or April, but they also know the importance of getting it right the first time around in the snarky world of tech product launches, so I’m not going to speculate about whether might see such a launch in June or July or any other specific month. Would I be shocked if we don’t see it well in advance of this year’s holiday season? Yes.

Why? Well, there have been plenty of “tea leaves” lately involving the roll-out of tablet-compatible services like the Amazon Cloud Drive and enhancements to Amazon Instant Video, supplier manufacturing orders, new and enhanced Kindle content meant for a tablet, and Amazon hiring for specific job descriptions that strongly suggest a tablet launch. And Amazon has certainly learned from its colossally successful Kindle 3 launch that a July-August timeframe for announcement and delivery can work very, very well.

Screen shot 2011-05-13 at 11.00.30 AM — Will the K-Tab be this big? Stay tuned!

But yesterday Jeff Bezos appeared at the headquarters of Consumer Reports and very carefully cut two little eyeholes in the bag to allow the long-suffering cat to look out at the great wide world.

When will the cat be liberated? He didn’t say. But Jeff Bezos is well-trained by his public relations and legal staff in how to say “I can’t answer that” or, even better, to respond to an unwanted and untimely question by emitting that lovely laugh of his just before changing the subject. Here’s the lead paragraph from CR Electronics Editor Paul Reynolds’ tantalizing report:

Asked today about the possibility of Amazon launching a multipurpose tablet device, the company’s president and CEO Jeff Bezos said to “stay tuned” on the company’s plans. In an interview at Consumer Reports’ offices, Bezos also signaled that any such device, should it come, is more likely to supplement than to supplant the Kindle, which he calls Amazon’s “purpose-built e-reading device.”

Every time anyone from Amazon has ever said “stay tuned” to me, it has been proven to mean that the item in question is coming in months, not years.

So, I’m not going to speculate that a $299 K-Tab — Android compatible with color and touch, manufactured by an Amazon partner like Samsung — will be announced the last week of July. And we’re not going to make a free K-Tab the give-away prize in our next Kindle Nation sweepstakes.

But stay tuned.

A Word on the Current Blogger Outage

May 13, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

Good morning. As you may have heard, Google’s “Blogger” or “Blogspot” service has been in outage mode for most of the past two days, which of course has caused serious problems for hundreds of thousands of blogs and, perhaps, for their readers. It’s not a famine, an earthquake, or an international incident (at least not in the usual sense), but it’s trouble in the blogosphere.

At Kindle Nation, we moved our primary blogging infrastructure from Blogger to WordPress in March, and although we had a few glitches along the way we are happy with the move and relieved that we haven’t had to depend on Blogger for very much these past two days.

However, we were continuing to rely on Blogger for certain back-office processes including some content preparation and editing as well as the RSS feed that provides our content in Kindle-friendly format for our thousands of paid Kindle subscribers. If you are a paid Kindle subscriber, you may be noticing some effects* from the Blogger outage, but we are working hard to minimize any negative impact. We apologize if you miss any posts temporarily, and we have to ask for your patience as we redouble our efforts on your behalf.

Meanwhile, all our posts and content are live at http://kindlenationdaily.com, and our Facebook page is updated each time we post at http://www.facebook.com/KindleNation.

*One such effect may be that the listing of free books in our Daily Free Book alert does not render well on the Kindle. This is a temporary problem, but you will be able to see the complete, automatically updated list at http://kindlenationdaily.com, and our Facebook page is updated each time we post at http://www.facebook.com/KindleNation.

Update on the New KINDEAL: So Far At Least, Kindle Deals Are Like a License to Print Money!

May 1, 2011 by KND

I mentioned in a post on Friday that in the first 24 hours with my new Kindeal, I was up $35.

Forty-eight hours later, the tally is up to $45, because today I responded to my Kindeal’s offer of a $20 Amazon.com gift card for $10.

Here’s the only tally that counts on these Kindle deals, in my view:

Cost of a Kindle Wi-Fi at Time of My Kindeal Purchase: $139
Direct Savings with Kindeal, as of May 11, 2011: $45.00
Number of Times a Kindeal Ad Has Interrupted My Reading: 0

Note to Amazon: I have no plans to buy a Buick or hundreds of dollars worth of Olay products, but keep those deals coming where I get what is essentially currency for half price and I’m your guy! At this rate, the Kindeal may save me $139 and pay for itself before it is one month old!

But that doesn’t mean that the Kindeal is the best deal currently on the table for a new Kindle. It’s strictly up to you, and here are the contenders including special “Mother’s Day” Gft Card deals:

Why should I provide my email address?

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

A shocking thriller with a ‘didn’t see that coming’ twist… The Therapist by S.A. Falk

In the game of love, always expect the unexpected… Tomboy Bride by USA Today Bestselling Author Alicia Street

Discover heroes and heroines in new fantasy worlds! Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery Starter Pack: Six Book Ones for Six Series by Michael Anderle, Aaron D. Schneider, and more!

They called it the Immortality Code… and one Swiss firm just cracked it. Is it real or a fraud? The Immortal: A Medical Thriller by Joshua T. Calvert

It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out The Murder Club by Sam Baron

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

Jasmine Wills doesn’t know it, but her humdrum life is being televised on a reality TV show called Diet Extreme… Ballad of Jasmine Wills by Lee Rozelle

It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out The Stone Monkey: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery Deaver

Can she stop this elusive killer before she and her family become his next victims? The Murder Club: A gripping thriller with a jaw-dropping twist (FBI Agent Susan Parker) by Sam Baron

An Arizona mine owner risks her life—and tests her faith—to find her missing brother in this suspenseful, action-packed adventure: Crevice (Earth Hunters) by Janice Boekhoff