Amazon has said I am a "serial returner" of kindle books. What can I do?
Amazon has said that I can't return any more books for refunds. Has this ever happened to you? Can I somehow get them to allow me to return books for refund again?
I want to buy Amazon's Kindle ebook reader. But I want to know do we have to buy (pay prices) the books from its library or they are available free of cost?
If you buy a Kindle from Amazon you have a wide variety of choices for books at a wide range of prices.The easiest way to get books is to buy them from Amazon. Here you have a couple of choices.Buy commercially priced books for your Kindle. This will range in price from the cost of a new paperback, perhaps $6.99 or so (with rare exceptions for sale items) up to $14.99 for new releases. (Which Amazon would like to push down to $9.99.) Use Amazon's store to read free books. This includes a wide variety of material that has gone out of copyright, often scraped from Project Gutenberg, along with self-published and promotional material.I would suggest you go to the Kindle store and look at the list of best-selling free titles to get an idea of what is available there. Your Kindle can also read just about anything that is in PDF or TXT format, but you will have a hard time finding popular material in this format.Some US libraries are lending books to Kindle users, but because there is no legal requirement that publishers offer books this way, the number of books is currently very limited.If all you are concerned about is price, the best way to buy books is via the resale market. If you made a list of books you wanted to read, the odds are you could find 50% of them for sale at a total cost of under $5 each on half.com.eReaders from Amazon or others offer a lot of nice things: convenience, impulse purchase capability, large storage capacity, web access, and so on. But at this time, they are not going to win over the frugal shopper.Update 4/3/2014:After moving across country, I am happy to say that my new public library has a good selection of electronic books available for checkout. It appears that the backend support for all this comes from Overdrive.The books that I check out are usually available in Kindle format. When I borrow a book in Kindle format, Overdrive has to get some sort of DRM handshake from Amazon, and the book appears in my Kindle library.Overdrive also supports other formats, and they can be read on the Kindle with Adobe's app.I've made heavy use of the system, and as the library adds more books, I am finding that I use it more and more.- Mark
Amazon Kindle or regular college textbooks?
I've mentioned quite a lot about college textbooks on the Kindle here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090720135726AAUiQMG I love my Kindle very much. If you are thinking of buying a Kindle, I'll say get it and you won't regret. Since Amazon provide books for the Kindle cheaper than actual books, it has saved me quite a lot of money. Right now I've read over 10 books with the Kindle, and I really like the idea that I can bring and store all the books with the handy device. Besides, it uses the e-ink technology, so even I read with the device for long hours, I don't feel tired. My only complaint is the white case, right now all the Kindles are in white color... I think it will be cool if I can have a black or deep blue color Kindle ;) I'll suggest you to read this review from a top reviewer, it outlines quite a lot of benefits of the Kindle and also why it is worth especially at the end of the review: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR9J54TZ1541OR%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=more_info-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 Hope this helps.