Free Kindle Books
There are - and you can download
a book in less than 60 seconds using the Kindle's wireless
connection.
One big bonus that many people
don't know about is the large number of free Kindle books available right
from Amazon's webstore. All you have to do is go to the
Kindle bookstore and do a search for any type of book. In
the field at the top right hand corner select "Price: low to
high" and you should see plenty of books available for
free.
You will probably be
pleasantly surprised at some of the free titles available to
you. A lot of the classics are there - they are now freely
available because it has been a number of years since they were
published - and some more modern books are also on offer. It's
well worth checking what's on offer, the price is right after
all.
Here's a sample of some of the books you can get for
free:
Those are all timeless classics of course - but if you
prefer something more modern then how about these examples:
It's probably worth noting that, whilst the "classic" books
remain fairly static, the more modern books available for free
do vary. This page is updated every week - so it's worth
checking back from time to time as the freebies do vary. If any
of the modern books aren't free at the time you view this page
I do apologise - Amazon are hard to keep up with at times (just
ask Sony).
Apart from these examples, there are plenty titles available
for $0.01. That's not free - but it's pretty close. All things
considered, you could pretty quickly offset the cost of your
Kindle when you consider the savings available on your regular
book purchases.
Update
21/12/09
It seems to be getting harder to find free Kindle books at
Amazon. They are still there but the sorting "Price: Low
to high" doesn't seem to be working as well as it used to. The
list seems to contain huge amounts of Kindle books at $2.30,
which is still pretty cheap to be fair, with the $0.00 books
tucked in amongst them. So, the free books are there, but you
have to look a bit harder for them than previously.
Anyway, just so that you don't have to go trawling through
the list just click on the link to check out a few
more free Kindle
books for you.
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