Kindle
6 Sites Where You Can Find Non-English Kindle Books
If you can’t find books in your mother tongue at Kindle Store, you can try other legal sources. Here’s a list I’ve prepared for Ebook Friendly – with tips how to find books, if search by language is unavailable. Two sites, Smashwords and Feedbooks, can be a great source of contemporary books from self-published authors [...]
2 Great Ebook Price Comparison Tools
Buying ebooks is different from buying print books. You are much more tied with the ebookstore as it’s also giving you the access to your virtual bookshelf with all the titles you’ve bought. Does comparing ebook prices between different sources make sense, then? Definitely yes. There are at least three instances you may want to [...]
Get Updates of Kindle Daily Deal via RSS or E-mail
Recently Amazon introduced Kindle Daily Deal. Every day one Kindle book is offered at a discounted price. For new deals you can check the official page, follow Amazon Kindle on Twitter and Facebook or subscribe to Kindle Daily Post. The only disadvantage is that you won’t get updates exclusively for Kindle Daily Deal. After reading [...]
“Look Inside” for Kindle Books – 3 Tips for Authors
Recently Amazon added to Kindle Store a new, very useful feature – Look Inside. It is the same feature as Look Inside for printed editions but it’s showing the content of the relevant Kindle book. More details about the this functionality you can find in this post and now I’d like to focus on how [...]
Now “Look Inside” Feature Is Available for Kindle Ebooks!
Recently, somewhere around the launch of Kindle Cloud Reader, I’ve noticed another new functionality for Kindle users – and in my opinion this is big. Now Look Inside, the feature you well know from printed editions of books sold on Amazon, works also for Kindle ebooks! Already in late May some Kindle authors were reporting [...]
How to Preview Kindle Ebooks in a Web Browser
Sometimes, if you are on your computer and visit Kindle Store, you’d like to start reading a book immediately – before making a decision to buy. You can obviously send a free sample to a device connected with your account, but some people just don’t want to clutter their Kindles or Kindle apps with too [...]
Use Readability to Add Web Content to Your Kindle
Readability, a great service which turns web pages into a reading-friendly mode, announced a cool feature many Kindle owners were waiting for. Now you can send web content directly to your Kindle e-reader. How to set up your Kindle device 1. Visit your Amazon Kindle settings page and add to your approved e-mail list a [...]
6 Tips and Tricks to Use Kindle for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
Kindle for iOS has just been updated to version 2.8 (iTunes link), which complies with Apple’s new in-app purchase rules. Kindle Store button was removed from home page – it was obvious. I’ve also checked endings of free samples to see what Amazon did with their Buy Now link, which in older versions was switching [...]
Add Books to Kindle for iOS via Mobile Safari
Anyone who used Kindle for iOS application knows that a Kindle Store button at the top right of the home screen pushes to quick Kindle and open mobile Safari. Why don’t you use Safari in a first place? Here are a couple of tips how to optimize the experience.
Pirating $.99 E-books – Is It Worth the Effort?
Two e-books, priced $9.99 and $0.99, start two completely different purchase processes. The price level is affecting how eager we are to get a pirated copy. In case of e-books it’s combined with, in my opinion, the biggest solution to piracy – convenience. Digital goods (especially the ones under a magical level of 1 dollar) [...]
Simple Tip to Embed All Readability Buttons on Your Blog
Recently Readability introduced support for Kindle. Web content publishers can install on their sites a special Send to Kindle button. It’s a good addition to already existing Read Now/Later. Readability provides all available codes at Free Publisher Tools page. Some bloggers would like to have both buttons in one panel. How to do it? Now, [...]
Readability Adds Kindle Support – Great News for Readers and Writers
A few days ago Readability added support for Kindle devices. This is another big addition to already the most powerful tool designed to reduce web clutter and help you focus on reading. There are a couple of web-to-Kindle tools available already, naming only Instapaper, Delivereads or SendToReader, but I’m really glad my favorite distraction-removing service [...]
How to Effectively Publish and Promote Books to iPad and iPhone Users
Users of devices with Apple’s iOS mobile operating system (iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch) are a very attractive group of potential readers. There are two major reasons: 1. iOS is a very versatile system, allowing the author to distribute books via different sets of tools and channels. 2. iOS users are more willing to buy [...]
Get Ready, Sunday Kindle Book Giveaway Starts on June 5!
Get ready, Kindle readers! A new, exciting weekend book event is coming. Make sure you won’t miss it. It’s a Sunday Kindle Book Giveaway. Every weekend you’ll have a chance to win a free copy of Kindle e-book from a featured author. How can I take part? It’s very easy. All what you have to [...]
Sunday Kindle Book Giveaway – co niedziela do wygrania książka na Kindle
Chciałbym gorąco zachęcić użytkowników Kindle do zainteresowania się ciekawą inicjatywą. Jest to Sunday Kindle Book Giveaway i oficjalnie rusza 5 czerwca. Większość promocji ma datę zakończenia. Tutaj będzie inaczej. Książkę będzie można wygrać co niedziela. Co ważne – za każdym razem będzie to nowy tytuł od nowego autora. Mimo, że promocja odbywa się na anglojęzycznym [...]
Which Links Shared on Twitter Are Mobile Friendly?
Recently Mashable published interesting numbers showing that Twitter users are likely to share a story without actually reading it. In my opinion, one of the major reasons is that users are afraid of opening links on their mobile phones. And as much as 37% of users access Twitter via mobile devices as this infographic shows. [...]
Promocja! E-opowiadania za darmo do końca maja
Tak to już jest z self-publisherami – nie dość, że sprzedają swoje książki po dolarze, to jeszcze robią promocje. Nie chcę być gorszy i dlatego trzy tomy z mojej nowej serii E-opowiadania możesz pobrać za darmo do końca maja! Każdy z tomów zawiera 15 opowiadań współczesnych, nieco kąśliwych i ironicznych, a przeznaczonych do rozbrajania codziennych [...]
Kindle for the Web – How It Can Be Used by Authors
In September last year Amazon introduced a new tool, Kindle for the Web, which allows users to read and share first chapters of books without leaving a web browser. In addition to a good-looking preview interface, there are two useful features: sharing and embedding. The latter one is a very good, yet underestimated tool which [...]
Opowiadania na iPada, iPhona, Kindle i nie tylko
Nowa seria moich opowiadań, E-opowiadania, mimo że pisanych kilka lat temu, stanowi rozwinięcie idei czytania książek w wolnej chwili – do czego wręcz stworzone są e-książki. Można zgromadzić ich na czytniku, tablecie lub smartfonie setki, jeśli nie tysiące. Dzięki temu mamy bardzo komfortową sytuację – możemy sięgnąć po taką książkę, na którą właśnie w danej [...]
Free Tools for Authors Offered by Ebook Friendly: First Chapter Previews and Book Directory
You may already know that I founded Ebook Friendly – a very special e-bookstore addressed to those readers who are aware of distractions the web brings and want to avoid them at the stage of browsing for books. Why did I choose such a positioning? Because reading is all about being focused, opposite to Internet [...]
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