Every few weeks lately Amazon has been offering a list of discounted Kindle ebooks for their Gold Box Deal of the Day. Today they are doing it again. Like usual it’s a 1-day sale only so it’s only valid for today, September 18th. This time around the deal centers around books that were made into […]
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How the Kindle First Program Works (Free eBooks for Prime Members)
I had pretty much entirely forgotten about Amazon’s Kindle First program until I saw the newsletter sign-up option for it while putting together the Kindle email subscriptions article the other day. Basically Kindle First gives readers early access to a free or discounted ebook each month. The ebooks in Kindle First are brand new; the […]
Sign-up to Kindle eMail Subscriptions for Deal Alerts
A lot of folks don’t know about Amazon’s email subscriptions for Kindle content where you can sign up to get alerts about deals and new content that gets added to the Kindle store. They have email subscriptions for a bunch of different things. Here’s the page with the list of subscriptions that you can choose […]
Amazon Announces Kindle Singles Classics
Today Amazon (actually Kindle) announced the launch of new “Singles Classics”, an add-on to the Kindle Singles section of the Kindle store with shorter-length titles. Kindle Singles Classics are essays and stories written by iconic authors curated from popular magazines and periodicals. Most Singles Classics are priced at $0.99 and they are available for free […]
Get New Release Alerts by Following Your Favorite Authors
Amazon offers a feature a number of people don’t know about that lets you follow your favorite authors to receive alerts when new books are released. It’s called Amazon Follow. It works with other things too, like you can follow specific brands of products or customers that post reviews or articles. The way it works […]
How to Manage Your Kindle Book Activities Online
Amazon has a special website dedicated to Kindle users that most people still don’t know about. I wasn’t even aware of all the stuff that can be done from the website; I thought it was mostly just for notes and highlights but it’s designed for other things as well. You can find the website at […]
Amazon’s List of Top 100 Best Books of 2015
Earlier this week Amazon released a list of their editors’ picks for the best 100 books of 2015. You can find the complete list of titles on this 100 best books page at Amazon. Below I’ve listed the top 10 picks, with a brief description of each. The number one book seems like an odd […]
Kindle eBooks with Enhanced Typesetting Use New KFX Kindle Format
Yesterday Amazon released a major software update for their line of Kindle ebook readers. The update includes a new Bookerly font custom made for Kindles and a new typesetting and layout engine that adds things like hyphens, ligatures, and improved word spacing. One interesting detail to come out about the new layout engine is that […]