(NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Authors that would like to create a print version of their book for free can visit About Ī, Inc. KDP authors who have a corresponding print book on can enroll their titles in the program now at. Read anywhere capabilities: In addition to Amazon's best-selling Kindle devices, customers can download a free Kindle reading app for iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, PC or Mac and start building their Kindle library today. Popular Kindle-only features: As with regular purchases, Kindle MatchBook titles have unique features such as Whispersync, Popular Highlights and X-Ray. Kindle editions at a great price: Amazon customers who purchase or have purchased qualifying print books can get the Kindle edition for prices that are $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.įor book purchases dating back to 1995: Print purchases all the way back to 1995-when Amazon first opened its online bookstore-will qualify once a publisher enrolls a title in Kindle MatchBook.Įasy discovery: Readers can easily look up their entire print book order history to discover which of their past purchases are enrolled in Kindle MatchBook. "MatchBook enrollment has grown from 10,000 to 70,000 titles in just a few weeks and we expect it will keep expanding rapidly in the months ahead." "It's been great to see the positive response to MatchBook from both readers and publishers," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. Since then, thousands of popular books like Heaven is for Real, The Things They Carried and The Way of Kings have been added from major publishers such as HarperCollins, Macmillan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Amazon Publishing, Wiley, Chronicle Books, and Marvel, as well as thousands of titles from Kindle Direct Publishing authors like The Walk by Lee Goldberg and Falling Into You by Jasinda Wilder. The program was announced on September 3 with over 10,000 titles. Customers can also see when a book is eligible for Kindle MatchBook on the book's detail page. Now customers can visit to see all of their print books that are eligible for the Kindle MatchBook edition. ![]() Over 70,000 books are enrolled in Kindle MatchBook, with more being added every day. 29, 2013- (NASDAQ: AMZN)-Today, Amazon launched Kindle MatchBook, a new benefit that gives customers the option to buy-for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free-the Kindle edition of print books they have purchased new from Amazon. Kindle MatchBook offers customers the ability to buy the Kindle editions of print books purchased from Amazon for $2.99 or lessĮnrolled titles include Life of Pi, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Johnny Carson, WOOL, The Alchemist, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site and All-New X-MEN Vol. While a $3.00 e-book from "major publishers" sounds pretty cheap, it's not much cheaper than buying the e-book alone - at least most of the time.Kindle MatchBook Now Available – Over 70,000 Books Enrolled, and Counting The press release touts "10,000 books already enrolled from authors such as Ray Bradbury, Michael Crichton, Blake Crouch, James Rollins, Jodi Picoult, Neil Gaiman, Marcus Sakey, Wally Lamb, Jo Nesbo, Neal Stephenson, and J.A. ![]() The program is limited in scope: Amazon currently only has agreements from a couple of major publishers, according to The New York Times's Nick Wingfield. In general, those who buy brand new print copies of books will have the option to get the e-version for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free, per Amazon's press release this morning. Īmazon is now offering a discount to customers who want to buy both the digital and paper versions of the same book, with its new Kindle MatchBook program - which it turns out, is only a good deal for certain types of books. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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