Browsing the archives for the e-books tag

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 Amazon’s Kindle: Author Gregory Bernard Banks shares his insights & experience

As regular readers of The Whine Seller know, I like to write from personal experience. So, with publishing on Amazon’s Kindle getting a lot of attention lately, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to give this topic the attention it deserved since I have not yet published anything on the platform. Instead, I [...]