However, a Prime subscription also gives you access to Prime Reading.
Most people know Amazon Prime for its free shipping features. Prime Reading features new books all the time.
Tap on any book to open it and follow the steps to download it for free.
This list will include free books and those that fall under the Prime and Unlimited subscriptions as well.
You can also manually type "Free" in the search bar at the top, which will automatically populate search results such as "Free Kindle Books for Kids." The Deals page organizes books into daily, monthly, and exclusive deals where you can often find free or reduced-price books.
On the homepage alone you'll find the Deals category, along with Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading options. To find these books on an actual Kindle device, unlock your screen and tap the shopping cart to access the store. You'll be shown a host of free books, many of which are temporarily on sale. In addition to free books, this section also includes Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading books, which you can read more about in their sections below.įinally, you can simply search for "free kindle books" on Amazon's website. You can also find many of these same titles in the Cheap Reads section of the store. They'll have a button that says "Buy for Free" on their individual payment pages. Many of these books are classics in the public domain, and feature similar cover art. You'll find books organized into categories that you can browse through at your leisure. On the Amazon website, you can navigate to the Free Kindle eBooks section to find free books. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon eventually adopts stricter rules about price matching to free.You can find hundreds of Kindle books for free. There's been a lot of pushback in the market as a whole for example on erotica titles, and also ebooks which are less than 20 pages can bring a frustrating experience for Amazon customers. Using price match to free to force your Amazon title to be free might not last forever. That's why by the way a lot of the free titles tend to be by the bigger publishers and that a lot of the "Free ebook announcements sites/blogs" are secretly promotional vehicles run by the independent publicists of the major publishers.Īnother thing. I'm sure the bigger publishers didn't need to try the price-matching technique mentioned above.
For example, lots of Harlequin novels and first volume of a sci fi series are free. I just want to add that the Big 6 probably have separate side agreements with Amazon to allow a certain number of titles to be free. I agree with the main answer - and in fact I have done it to make one of my books for free permanently.
I have one title that I published under a pseudonym that has been free for months, in spite of the fact that I have raised the price on all other sites and tried repeatedly to get Amazon to raise the price. Also, if you think you may want to raise the price back up after a while, I would not recommend doing this. There is no way to control how quickly or when Amazon will respond, so you won't be able to determine the specific date(s). If you want to make your book free for a limited time or on a specific date, I would definitely NOT recommend this approach. The process may take a week or two, so if you can get others to click that link and share the news, it will help speed things up. Again, this seems to be more effective with Apple and Sony. You can click that link and provide them a link to the product page for your free book at one of the other sites, and eventually they will match it. If you go to your e-book's details page on Amazon, you will see a link that says "tell us about a lower price". The advantage of Smashwords is in distributing to Apple and Sony. Amazon does still do the price matching, and that is the only way to get your book listed as free on their site.