Where To Locate Free Kindle Books

Assuming that you haven't been in hiding for the last ten months or so, you must surely be aware of the Amazon Kindle reader. The Kindle 2 launched in February 2009 and Amazon followed up with the large screen Kindle DX just a few months later.

The Kindle has now, in a very short time, become Amazon's number one selling product. At the moment it is lapping up an incredible 60% share of the American e-book reader market. Amazon have now launched the Kindle 2 on the international stage - selling to more than 100 countries worldwide. A similar high level of success in the global market seems very likely.

Amazon's Kindle is now virtually synonymous with e-book readers - but it is far from the only show in town. Consumer electronics manufacturers such as Apple, Microsoft, Sony and Barnes and Noble - to cite just a few examples from a very long list - all have their own e-book readers due for release in the immediate future. There is going to be cut-throat competition in the e-book market. In a way, it's a compliment to Amazon that virtually any e-book reader in development which shows the slightest promise is immediately named the "Kindle Killer".

Currently the Kindle 2 has a sales price of $ 259. Tha may be $ 100 lower than the launch price of $ 359 - but it's still a fairly high price tag. Many analysts seem to think that a retail price of $ 150, or thereabouts, would be the magic number which would let e-book readers move from the high tech gadget arena into the mainstream marketplace. Higher levels of competition will surely force prices lower and 2010 could very well be the year that we see that $150 price tag.

In the meantime, if you've been hankering after a Kindle of your own but feel a little put off by the high price, maybe you could justify your purchase by looking at the bigger picture in terms of cost. As a rule, e-books tend to be quite a bit cheaper than conventional paper volumes. It makes sense - they don't use paper, ink or bindings and there are none of the transportation costs associated with shipping a physical product. If you read a book a week then you could pretty quickly offset the purchase price of the Kindle device.

Better even than cheap e-books, there is a large selection of free books available for the Kindle on Amazon's website. A lot of these are out of copyright classics such as Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, Gullivers Travels etc. - but you can also choose from recent releases which are being promoted by publishers. There are also a great many books for the Kindle which are available for a purely nominal charge - as low as $ 0.01. So, by taking advantage of free and low cost e-books for your Kindle, you could pretty quickly recover the purchase price of the device.

Learn how easy it is to quickly and legally download free Kindle ebooks and your Amazon Kindle will pay for itself before you know it.