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Amazon Changes To Free Kindle Book Promotion

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English: Amazon Kindle wordmark.
English: Amazon Kindle wordmark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

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New Harry Potter Covers

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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.

RSS Feed

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It seems the last week that most RSS subscribers have not received any updates.  I believe that it is now fixed.  Please glace back at the last week and see if there are any posts that you would like to read. https://bookwi.se

Kindle Paperwhite Available in Canada

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The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, and regular Amazon Kindle are now both available in Canada.  Both are available for immediate shipping. The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is $139 CDN and the Amazon Kindle (4th Generation Kindle) is $89 CDN. Earlier Bookwi.se gave initial impressions and then a full review of the Paperwhite. Also a review of a … Read more

Amazon Bought Text-To-Speech Software Company

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Lilliputing (a great little tech website) is reporting that Amazon has purchased Ivona Software, which specializes in text to speech software.  Currently it offers 44 voices in 17 different languages. I am surprised that Amazon is expanding its reaching into text to speech after it removed the feature from its e-ink kindles.  The newest Kindle … Read more

Amazon is not Renting Kindle Books

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It is always odd to me how little people pay attention to blog posts past the initial headline and first paragraph or two.  I have seen about a dozen variation of “Amazon is Testing Kindle Book Rentals” over the past couple days.  They all link back to this post, which does show a kindle book … Read more

Bookwi.se Stats for 2012

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In 2012 Bookwi.se posted 1009 posts (so far) from seven different contributors.  Today’s review was the 600th overall book review. There were about 110,000 page views at the blog.  And another 120,000 views in the full post RSS or Email. Also there were about 105,000 spam comments. As of right now there are 33 people … Read more