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How to read Amazon’s Kindle Books without owning a Kindle

Maybe you’ve seen the preview links next to your favorite books and wished you could have a preview sent to you even though you don’t own a Kindle. Or maybe you want to take advantage of one of the many free books available on right now for the Kindle, many of which are new releases [...]

On the iPad being the Kindle killer. . .

Maybe I missed something but let me just put this out in the open.
People are calling the new iPad tablet from Apple the Kindle killer. But they also said its going to run all the apps that the iPod Touch and iPhone run.
There is a free Kindle App for the iPod and iPhone. It [...]

Amazon ups the royalty rate for Kindle publishers to 70%

This goes out to all those people who sit there on the Amazon forums and complain about how expensive Kindle books are.
Previously, Amazon was only giving the publisher (which can also mean the author if it is a self-published book) 35% of the sales price. So if your book was, say, $1, the profits [...]

Publishing on the Amazon Kindle: easier and faster than I could have ever imagined

While I have done some coverage about publishing on the Amazon Kindle before, I had very little personal experience with it as I neither own a Kindle nor had I published anything on their platform.
Well I had to take the plunge recently with my newest book and I am pleased to say that publishing on [...]