Cheap Kindle Books - How to find them!

There are lots of good value books available for Kindle, but just how the heck can you find them?

One simple way is to use the Jungle-Search advanced Amazon search tool at http://www.jungle-search.com. This lets you search the Amazon US, UK, Canada, German and France stores. You can select a category from a menu (for example click Kindle Store then Kindle eBooks) and search for eBooks within a specific price range, with a certain user rating and containing specified keywords.

So, for example, if you search in the category Kindle eBooks/Fiction with keywords “new romantic mascara” and a price range between 0.99 and 3 you will find my New Romantic Murder Mystery, ‘Killers In Mascara’... Hurrah! you are now (no doubt!) so overjoyed at your discovery that you immediately buy it and spend the next week happily reading it and recommending it to your friends. Well, I can hope, can’t I....?

Let’s suppose you now do the same search by replace the keywords with “dickens”. This time you’ll find various Charles Dickens Collections at bargain prices (he’s a pretty good writer too – though, curiously, he didn’t write much in the way of New Romantic Murder Mysteries).

At any rate, if you are looking for Kindle Books, this search tool may help you find what you are after more efficiently than the default Amazon search.

Amazon Kindle book sales overtake print titles

The digital-reading revolution is more than just a flash in the pan. It really does seem that ever more people prefer to read on the Kindle than on paper...

"Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books," Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement,"We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly," Mr Bezos added. "We've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years."

See: Amazon sales of digital books for Kindle overtake print titles for first time - Telegraph

UK general title digital book sales soar to £16m in 2010

Sales of digital books are soaring in the UK, figures from the Publishers Association show. The association said that in 2010 sales of e-books and audio book downloads in the "general titles" category, which includes novels and consumer titles, shot up from £4m to £16m.

 Full story: BBC News

Kindle Author Interview

David Wisehart interviewed me on the Kindle Author web site this week. Should you be interested in finding out how the experience publishing to paperback (something I'm also doing this year) compares with publishing to Kindle, you may be interested to pop across and read it. David runs a great site and features interviews with all sorts of different writers, so whether you are a writer or a reader you are sure to find something to whet your appetite over on Kindle Author.

E-Publishing, Print Publishing and T. rex

Joe Konrath is one of the best selling Kindle-published novelists in the world. That means he is also one of the best selling novelists in the world. According to his Wikipedia entry he spent twelve years “garnering close to five hundred rejections for nine unpublished novels”.

He is a passionate advocate of self-publishing. He has no time for the inferiority complex from which some self-published authors still suffer. Indeed, on the contrary, he holds the view that self-publishing is where the action is at and that traditional or ‘legacy’ publishing is hanging on the way that the T rex clung on after the meteor hit: “While ebooks may not be an extinction level event, they will become the most popular way to read books.”

Konrath posted a great article on his blog this week explaining is views. If you have any doubts about the merits of self-publishing I recommend you read that post. As one of the big self-publishing successes the man knows what he’s talking about!

New Romantic Murders For Nook Book

Killers In Mascara (part one in my series of 'New Romantic Murders' set in 1980s London) is now available in 'Nook Book' format from Barnes & Noble - you lucky people ;-)

Interview with, well, me...

I've just been interviewed by the novelist, David H Burton on his site, 'Random Musings'. If you want to know who I am, how long I've been writing and why I have made the decision to publish my novel(s) straight-to-Kindle, read on...