Free Kindle books

greencat · 12-29-2009, 06:22 AM

I've been playing around with Amazon and Feedburner trying to see if there's an easy way to see new freebies on the Kindle and came up with this. I thought it might be of interest to a few of you.

List of new freebies
http://feeds.feedburner.com/freekindlebooks

Badge of freebies

Get emailed when new free ebooks are available:
http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/ma...reekindlebooks

Dr. Drib · 12-29-2009, 03:00 PM

These appear to be public domain titles, rather than promotional titles.

Don

greencat · 12-29-2009, 05:12 PM

The promotional titles should also appear as they are added to Amazon's store and tagged as "kindle freebie" by readers. There hasn't been any for a few days though - I guess even Amazon's elves get Christmas off.

Come the new year any promotional titles should start appearing in it.

I've put a bit of testing in to avoid picking up stuff that isn't kindle or free even if it's tagged as such.

daffy4u · 12-29-2009, 05:21 PM

Cool, thanks!

greencat · 12-31-2009, 03:51 AM

Well it definitely works with promotional titles. 3 have appeared in the last day.

I did notice there was a glitch where titles that were free but not any more had slipped through because used & new copies(!) were $0.00 - but hopefully I've fixed that now.

Interestingly all 3 of the titles that appeared in the last day were only free for a few hours.

greencat · 01-04-2010, 03:10 PM

I've now produced a version of this which mashes (smashes?) up Amazon's latest free kindle books with Smashwords latest free offerings:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/latestfreebooksonkindle

You can also subscribe to this by email here:

http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/ma...ebooksonkindle

greencat · 01-05-2010, 03:47 AM

Sorry for the bump. The peeps at Smashwords have very kindly added a few new features to their RSS feeds so they now include much more information about the book including link to author's page, picture of the book cover and categories. It should be much easier to tell whether you're going to like the book from the RSS feed now.

12-29-2009, 06:22 AM	#1
greencat Freebie finder Posts: 907 Karma: 2046472 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony, Kindle	Free Kindle books I've been playing around with Amazon and Feedburner trying to see if there's an easy way to see new freebies on the Kindle and came up with this. I thought it might be of interest to a few of you. List of new freebies http://feeds.feedburner.com/freekindlebooks Badge of freebies Get emailed when new free ebooks are available: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/ma...reekindlebooks Last edited by greencat; 12-29-2009 at 06:27 AM.

12-29-2009, 05:12 PM	#3
greencat Freebie finder Posts: 907 Karma: 2046472 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony, Kindle	The promotional titles should also appear as they are added to Amazon's store and tagged as "kindle freebie" by readers. There hasn't been any for a few days though - I guess even Amazon's elves get Christmas off. Come the new year any promotional titles should start appearing in it. I've put a bit of testing in to avoid picking up stuff that isn't kindle or free even if it's tagged as such. Last edited by greencat; 12-29-2009 at 05:18 PM.

12-31-2009, 03:51 AM	#5
greencat Freebie finder Posts: 907 Karma: 2046472 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony, Kindle	Well it definitely works with promotional titles. 3 have appeared in the last day. I did notice there was a glitch where titles that were free but not any more had slipped through because used & new copies(!) were $0.00 - but hopefully I've fixed that now. Interestingly all 3 of the titles that appeared in the last day were only free for a few hours. Last edited by greencat; 12-31-2009 at 04:41 AM. Reason: glitch

01-04-2010, 03:10 PM	#6
greencat Freebie finder Posts: 907 Karma: 2046472 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony, Kindle	I've now produced a version of this which mashes (smashes?) up Amazon's latest free kindle books with Smashwords latest free offerings: http://feeds.feedburner.com/latestfreebooksonkindle You can also subscribe to this by email here: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/ma...ebooksonkindle Last edited by greencat; 01-04-2010 at 03:14 PM.

01-05-2010, 03:47 AM	#7
greencat Freebie finder Posts: 907 Karma: 2046472 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony, Kindle	Sorry for the bump. The peeps at Smashwords have very kindly added a few new features to their RSS feeds so they now include much more information about the book including link to author's page, picture of the book cover and categories. It should be much easier to tell whether you're going to like the book from the RSS feed now. Last edited by greencat; 01-05-2010 at 03:51 AM.

12-29-2009, 03:00 PM	#2
Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 44,878 Karma: 55647515 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: Kindle: Oasis 3, Voyage WiFi; Kobo: Libra 2, Aura One	These appear to be public domain titles, rather than promotional titles. Don

12-29-2009, 05:21 PM	#4
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,734 Karma: 2434103 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: KDXG, KT, Oasis	Cool, thanks!

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