In what is potentially exciting news for anyone with a library split between the digital and physical realms, Amazon has launched the Kindle
MatchBook service, which aims to provide Kindle ebook copies of your old books.
The Seattle - based online retail titan also announced
a MatchBook service that gives Kindle book buyers the option of getting low - cost digital versions of ink - and - paper Kindle editions they have purchased.
With its new Kindle
MatchBook service, Amazon is looking to offer a carrot to customers who purchase physical books by letting them purchase the Kindle version for free or at a...
This eBook is now FREE * with purchase of the paperback version via Amazon's
MatchBook service!
Amazon's Kindle
Matchbook service will allow you to pick up an e-book version of a physical book you already purchased anywhere between $ 2.99 or completely free, based on the title.
Just make sure you purchased that book through Amazon in the first place, or else the Kindle
Matchbook service will kind of be a complete waste for you anyways.
Bookworms can now raise both their physical books and e-books and cheer as Amazon's
Matchbook service is now available.
At its launch, over 70,000 books are currently available to use the Kindle
Matchbook service with Amazon recognizing purchases that were made as far as 1995, which is when the company started selling books.
If you bought the print version on Amazon.com, you should be able to get a free Kindle ebook of SPIRITS ABROAD via the Kindle
Matchbook service.
Not exact matches
We continue to invest not only in new hardware like the new Kindle Paperwhite, but also in new features and benefits that make Kindle a superior
service: Kindle
MatchBook, Kindle Owners» Lending Library, over 400,000 books that are exclusive to the Kindle Store, Kindle Singles, Kindle Worlds, and many more.
Amazon has so many programs and acronyms — Associates, Advantage, Marketplace,
MatchBook, KDP, FBA, AWS, ACX, etc. — it's difficult to keep track of all the
services, much less specific program features.
One more point about
MatchBook: it's going to drive even more publishers into the arms of CreateSpace, Amazon's POD
service.
Called Kindle
MatchBook, the
service spans more than 70,000 titles, with more being added every day.
Though the Kindle
MatchBook is just being launched in the United States, it is likely that it will expand the
service into other regions in the future, just as it did with AutoRip.
Mirroring its similar AutoRip
service for CDs, Kindle
Matchbook will count for books that appear in customer orders dating back to 1995, as well as for future purchases.
This is because
MatchBook is supposed to be a discounted
service.
This morning the
service known as Amazon Kindle
MatchBook launched with a whopping 70,000 books in its employ.
«We continue to invest not only in new hardware like the new Kindle Paperwhite, but also in new features and benefits that make Kindle a superior
service, Kindle
MatchBook, Kindle Owners» Lending Library and many more.»