Not exact matches
I would just like to make sure everyone knows that you do NOT need a
kindle to
purchase and view the
ebook on Amazon.
The Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc., a leading publisher based in San Francisco, is running a
kindle ebook promotion that is the first of its kind — they are giving everyone who
purchases the
Kindle edition of the Amazon memoir Inside the Giant Machine: An Amazon.com Story the print version of the book for free.
Ebook preference has pushed me into Amazon's camp due to the amazingly cheap and functional
kindle combined with the simple search and
purchasing ability.
If you are planning additional titles or different versions (like hardcover,
kindle eBook, i Pad
eBook or audio book) you might want to
purchase a block of 10 or more.
However, the introduction of
Kindles has been so successful and has been one of the factors that led to an overall improvement in our reading scores that the underwriting company provided the grant again the following year in order to
purchase additional ereader units and the
ebooks to go with them.
I believe that their price point for
ebooks is aimed towards the fact that ease of
purchase on the
kindle tends to make
kindle owners buy more books than they would otherwise IF those books are safely below a comfort threshold.
I'm getting a message that I can't convert my
purchased kindle ebooks because it is drm'd.
Based on the types of books you prefer, it may make sense to get one of the cheaper
ebook readers (
Kindles are currently going cheap), as many of the books you
purchase will be cheaper on that platform.
If you really want to share Kindle
ebooks instead of having a family member choose the method in which they want to read the book (i.e.
purchase a hard copy or use the library), you can either (1)
purchase additional
Kindles for your family members and share the
ebooks that way, or (2) physically lend them your Kindle (which I notice critics never accept as a real possibility).
At any rate, with limited
eBook titles available — and even more limited
Kindles — even Print is Dead author Jeff Gomez suggests holding off on
purchasing an eReader for the time being.
It's interesting, I have been buying
ebooks ever since the first edition of the
kindle came out and my
purchase of physical books has gradually dwindled down to zero.
I just took a quick glance at my
kindle purchases and the most I've spent on an
eBook was $ 12.99 but I was averaging around $ 6 - 8 for novels which is basically why I think capping at $ 9.99 is silly.
When you
purchase ebook from amazon.com,
kindle ebook file has DRM protection which NOT support by Kobo ereader, that is
ebook DRM limitation, you can't read in any device, this is solution.
Also, the
kindle app for Android lets you
purchase eBooks from Amazon: the functionality is there, right inside the app.