AmazonClassics Edition

tomsem · 02-01-2021, 08:17 PM

One of the frustrations I’ve had with the Kindle Store is the generally low quality of public domain books (poor formatting, typos, no TOC, etc.). And the fact that there are so many for any given title to sift through.

It looks like they started adding these in 2017, and there are now about 216 books in the AmazonClassics Edition collection. These are free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and $2.99 otherwise. Over two hundred of these have audiobook companions (again, free for Prime and KU subscribers). And so far, they all seem to have X-Ray content. It appears they are still adding more, albeit slowly (7 in the last 30 days)

The ones I’ve looked at so far seem well polished, and I’ve already deleted a few of the crappy editions I had in my Library. Most of these were free when I first got my Kindle, and I think are no longer even listed.

The only downside is the possibility that free to all public domain books may be going away from the Kindle Store, and the fact that there are thousands of books that could potentially merit this treatment.

The trick is finding them. Searching the Kindle Store in the Kindle app or on a Kindle device is not very productive, searching for ‘AmazonBasics’ pulls in a lot of junk.

But if you are using a browser, this link appears to list them all:

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-t...e_browse-bin_1

haertig · 02-01-2021, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by tomsem

These are free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and $2.99 otherwise.

Should be "These are free to XXXXX XXX Kindle Unlimited subscribers..."

ngrant · 02-01-2021, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by haertig

Should be "These are free to XXXXX XXX Kindle Unlimited subscribers..."

Agree; NOT free to Prime members who are not Kindle Unlimited subscribers.

SpaceCowboy1964 · 02-01-2021, 11:52 PM

They do occasionally put these up as free I've acquired about 50 of them that way.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomsem

One of the frustrations I’ve had with the Kindle Store is the generally low quality of public domain books (poor formatting, typos, no TOC, etc.). And the fact that there are so many for any given title to sift through.

It looks like they started adding these in 2017, and there are now about 216 books in the AmazonClassics Edition collection. These are free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and $2.99 otherwise. Over two hundred of these have audiobook companions (again, free for Prime and KU subscribers). And so far, they all seem to have X-Ray content. It appears they are still adding more, albeit slowly (7 in the last 30 days)

The ones I’ve looked at so far seem well polished, and I’ve already deleted a few of the crappy editions I had in my Library. Most of these were free when I first got my Kindle, and I think are no longer even listed.

The only downside is the possibility that free to all public domain books may be going away from the Kindle Store, and the fact that there are thousands of books that could potentially merit this treatment.

The trick is finding them. Searching the Kindle Store in the Kindle app or on a Kindle device is not very productive, searching for ‘AmazonBasics’ pulls in a lot of junk.

But if you are using a browser, this link appears to list them all:

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-t...e_browse-bin_1

tomsem · 02-02-2021, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by haertig

Should be "These are free to XXXXX XXX Kindle Unlimited subscribers..."

In the US, they are available in Prime Reading. I have no way to check what the terms are outside of the US.

skinmaan · 02-02-2021, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomsem

In the US, they are available in Prime Reading. I have no way to check what the terms are outside of the US.

In addition a lot of these have free-to-borrow audiobooks attached to them for KU and PR. I've done a couple myself.

02-01-2021, 08:17 PM	#1
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,860 Karma: 27010705 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	AmazonClassics Edition One of the frustrations I’ve had with the Kindle Store is the generally low quality of public domain books (poor formatting, typos, no TOC, etc.). And the fact that there are so many for any given title to sift through. It looks like they started adding these in 2017, and there are now about 216 books in the AmazonClassics Edition collection. These are free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscribers, and $2.99 otherwise. Over two hundred of these have audiobook companions (again, free for Prime and KU subscribers). And so far, they all seem to have X-Ray content. It appears they are still adding more, albeit slowly (7 in the last 30 days) The ones I’ve looked at so far seem well polished, and I’ve already deleted a few of the crappy editions I had in my Library. Most of these were free when I first got my Kindle, and I think are no longer even listed. The only downside is the possibility that free to all public domain books may be going away from the Kindle Store, and the fact that there are thousands of books that could potentially merit this treatment. The trick is finding them. Searching the Kindle Store in the Kindle app or on a Kindle device is not very productive, searching for ‘AmazonBasics’ pulls in a lot of junk. But if you are using a browser, this link appears to list them all: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-t...e_browse-bin_1 Last edited by tomsem; 02-01-2021 at 08:28 PM.

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