Kindle Free Books - A Free eBook a week from Whiskey Creek Press to celebrate their Free Anniversary

Whiskey Creek Press is giving away a different Free Ebook novel (which you can read on your Kindle) every week during March, and this free ebook is available to ALL customers. We are also sponsoring a huge Scavenger Hunt featuring dozens of WCP authors and prizes during our March Anniversary.
Here’s the schedule of Free Ebook [...]

CNet does a product spolight video on the Kindle

CNet’s product spotlight on the Amazon Kindle. I think there’s a slightly different apporach which I like.

Self Published Book Achieves Top 1 Percent Sales Rank at Amazon.com’s Kindle Book StoreSelf Published Book Achieves Top 1 Percent Sales Rank at Amazon.com’s Kindle Book Store

This is really interesting - The author actually credits the Kindle i.e. “I am very pleased to see my book reach the top Sales ranks,” said author Kalpanik S. “I decided to use self publishing because I wanted to focus my time and energy on writing, not on trying to contact book agents and publishers. [...]

Publish through WordClay and get on Amazon’s CreateSpace and Kindle Bookstore for free

Tangential - however, interesting to see that the Kindle is being considered an important sales/ marketing channel. Which makes me wonder on using ebooks as simple promotional materials.  
Authors seeking to expand their reach in the book market can now access millions of Amazon.com customers when they “claim their space” through Wordclay - the quick, fast and [...]

Blogs on the Kindle, FeedJournal, and Kazutomo Hori

At interface - a technology centric blog focused on great design, there’s a great post (the link before) about using FeedJournal and Amazon’s mailing service to get blogs over to your Kindle for free. Now, I did post the list of blogs with direct URLs and bloglines previews - however if that doesn’t work for [...]

Free Steven Brust novel set in the Firefly universe

Elevating a comment to a post (mostly ‘cos i love Serenity the movie). Thanks to Jeff for pointing this out.

Jeffery Davidson, on February 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pm Said:
You may have already seen this - Steven Brust, the author of the Taltos series, has written a fanfic novel set in the Firefly universe. Normally, I [...]

Harvard Research to be free online

Courtesy NYTimes > Books section (as was the previous article),
Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by its faculty on the Internet free of charge. On Tuesday the arts and sciences faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that would commit Harvard to open access — the movement to speed the [...]