Where To Find Free Kindle Books
The Amazon Kindle ebook reader family has made a huge impact on the book scene in a very short timespan. The original Kindle was released in November 2007. The Kindle 2 was unveiled in February of 2009 and the bigger Kindle DX, targeted at readers of newspapers, magazines and textbooks followed hard on it’s heels in June of 2009.
Despite the fact that both the Kindle 2 and the DX were released during a fairly gloomy economic downturn, they still enjoyed good sales figures. Certainly, there has been some criticism of the fairly high ticket price for both the Kindle 2 and the DX, but it seems as if Amazon’s target market are content to pay $359 and $489 for the Kindle 2 and the DX respectively.
One of the advantages of the Kindle series is the fact that there is no monthly fee payable for the ability to download ebooks. Amazon use a 3G connection – named Whispernet – which means Kindle owners can download books from the Amazon store in less than a minute – without requiring the use of a notebook or a WiFi connection.
Another perceived benefit is the availability of cheaper books. As there are no printing, paper or distribution costs associated with the electronic version of any given book, it can be offered at a lower price when compared to the hardback equivalent.
Not only that, it’s even possible to get free Kindle books directly from the Amazon store. All you have to do is log onto Amazon, open up their Kindle store and do a search for books for the Kindle. If you then choose the option “order by price – lowest to highest” you’ll be presented with a catalogue of books with prices starting at $0.
There is a selection of classics available – Treasure Island, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Sherlock Holmes etc. – but there are also quite a few more modern books to be had. Some of these are from publishers wanting to showcase authors and the list changes quite often, so it’s worth checking back from every now and again.
In addition to books which are totally free, there are a good number of volumes which are available for purely nominal fees, $0.01 for example.
So, if you enjoy classics – or any book which was printed long enough ago to have entered the public domain – you could pretty quickly recoup the money spent on your Amazon Kindle.
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