Another Kindle Unlimited promotion has turned up at Amazon to subscribe to Amazon’s ebook subscription service for cheap. This time around you can get 2 months of Kindle Unlimited for $0.99. It’s for new members and for those that have ended a subscription in the past. It’s not as good as the 3 months for […]
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Microsoft Closing eBook Store, Refunding all Past Purchases
Today Microsoft announced that they will be closing their ebook store for good as of April 2nd, 2019. Considering how unpopular it was that’s not surprising, but what is surprising is the fact that they’ve decided to delete all ebooks from user accounts and issue refunds for past purchases and pre-orders. It sounds like another […]
Best eBook Readers for Reading Public Library eBooks
Someone sent an email yesterday asking what’s the best ebook reader for reading ebooks from public libraries and I thought that would be a good topic for a blog post. There are a few different library ebook services, including OverDrive, CloudLibrary, and Axis 360, but the most popular one is OverDrive. Personally I’ve only used […]
Prime Members Get $3 Amazon Credit to Borrow First Prime eBook
Here’s an unusual promotion. If you’re an Amazon Prime member you can get a $3 Amazon credit just for borrowing an ebook or magazine through Prime Reading, which takes about 5 seconds and doesn’t cost extra so it’s an easy way to make $3. More specifically, the promotion states that you have to “Borrow your […]
Get 3 Months of Kindle Unlimited for $0.99
Once again Amazon has brought back their Kindle Unlimited promotion that’s basically an extended trial where you can get 3 months of Kindle Unlimited for $0.99. A Kindle Unlimited subscription normally costs $9.99 per month so it’s a good deal if you want to test the waters, so to speak. Kindle Unlimited members get access […]
Best Alternative iOS Reading Apps to Apple Books
Ever since Apple updated the iBooks app with the release of iOS 12, a lot of people have been voicing their complete and utter dislike of the new app, which is now called “Books” instead of iBooks. The main purpose of the update was clearly to try and sell people more ebooks—and Apple didn’t make […]
Why Can’t Kindles and Other eReaders Sort eBooks by Genre?
Why is that when you go to buy ebooks everything is separated into different genres, but then after you buy ebooks there’s no way to sort them by genre? Sure, you can use collections on ereaders like Kindles and Kobos but you have to go through and manually create a bunch of collections and then […]
Get $5 eBook Credit When Purchasing $20 Worth of Kindle eBooks
Amazon has rolled out a new promotional offer where you can get a $5 ebook credit when you spend $20 on Kindle ebooks. It’s a limited time deal that’s valid until January 28th, 2019. Here’s the page at Amazon where you can activate the offer. You have to active the promotion to get the $5 […]