I know I am not required to disclose Bookwi.se income and expenses. But I want to be transparent (and be clear that this isn’t a money making venture.) This past year (as of Dec 28th) Bookwi.se had 1328 posts. On the revenue side, Bookwi.se recieved $100 advertising from Google (it took 21 months to actually … Read more
It looks like I am off to the hospital with my wife for the birth of our daughter Henley Grace. I have three weeks worth of book reviews already scheduled so those will keep posting each morning. But I am not sure when I will get back to daily Free Christian Kindle Books and sale … Read more
There are three giveaways the I thought readers of Bookwi.se might be interested in. Sarah Beesley one of the bloggers at a Deeper Story is giving away five copies of her new book Jesus Feminist. I have a copy and will review it later this year. It has had very good reviews so far. GoodEreader, … Read more
I just picked up NT Wright’s new The Case for the Psalms. It is a fairly short book about why the Psalms are important to Christian worship and theology. While the Kindle version has dropped from its initial $12.99 starting price (it is $11.04 right now), it is still cheaper for me to get the … Read more
Because it slows cognitive decline as we age.
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I thought I would get a couple more posts in buy I ran out of time. I am now on vacation until April 13. I have some ‘best of’ reviews set to auto-post during the week but no deal or free kindle post because those are time sensitive. See you soon!
It appears that Amazon is concerned that free Kindle book promotion blogs are becoming too successful. A few days ago Amazon made a change to their affiliate program that is going to shut down several of the larger free Kindle book blogs (or at least radically change them).
The rule change now will make it so that any blog that has more than 20,000 free kindle books a month and less than 5% of books sold are paid books will no longer receive any Amazon Affiliate income for the month.
I do not believe that will affect Bookwi.se because I am not that big. But I am not sure because Amazon does not currently share how many free books are purchased through my Affiliate links. I assume that Amazon will have to start publicly showing this information so that we can know what is going on. 20,000 books seems like a lot, but it is only an average of 667 free books purchased a day. If every visitor or RSS or email subscribers gets one free book a day I could be very close to the threshold.
According to a Scholastic press release and a gawker article, Harry Potter is getting new covers to celebrate its 15th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The Anniversary Box Set with all new covers will be released in September. As far as I can tell, only the one cover has been released.