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All 7 Harry Potter eBooks Now Available in Kindle Owners Lending Library via @amazon





Amazon.com has added a news release to its Media Room website.

Title: All 7 Harry Potter eBooks Now Available in Kindle Owners Lending Library

Date(s): 19-Jun-2012 2:52 AM




All 7 Harry Potter eBooks Now Available in Kindle Owners' Lending Library


Starting today, read all of J.K. Rowling's iconic Harry Potter series for free on your Kindle

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 19, 2012-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Starting today, Amazon.com customers can now borrow all seven Harry Potter books in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL). The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is a benefit of Amazon Prime membership where Kindle owners can choose from over 145,000 books to borrow for free as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates. Prime members also enjoy free two-day shipping on millions of items and unlimited streaming of more than 18,000 movies and TV episodes.


"Nowhere else can customers borrow any of the seven Harry Potter books for free, with an unlimited supply of each title and no waiting list," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. "A $79 Prime membership was already the best deal in retail, and now it's become even more valuable."


Harry Potter is the all-time best-selling book series in history, and Amazon has purchased an exclusive license from J.K. Rowling's Pottermore to make the addition of these titles possible. The Kindle Owners' Lending Library now features over 145,000 books for US customers to borrow for free, including over 100 current and former New York Times Best Sellers. With the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, there are no due dates and books can be borrowed as frequently as once a month. Unlike traditional library lending, there are no limits on the number of copies available, and how many people can simultaneously borrow the same title. Readers never have to wait in line for the book they want.


Just as with any other Kindle book, customer notes, highlights and bookmarks in borrowed books will be saved, so they'll have them later if customers purchase or re-borrow the book. Books are borrowed from a Kindle device, and customers can have one book out at a time. When customers want to borrow a new book, any borrowed book can easily be returned right from their device. To learn more about the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, visit www.amazon.com/kindleownerslendinglibrary. To learn about all the additional benefits included with Amazon Prime, or to start an Amazon Prime free trial, visit www.amazon.com/kindleprime.


About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages, search, shop, and take notes – still with all the benefits of the most advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch, with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core processor.

Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.it, and www.amazon.es. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

Source: Amazon.com

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Everything you need to know about self-publishing &how the Amazon algorithm update affects you via @thecreativepenn



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Dear Sylvia

Welcome to the new look newsletter from The Creative Penn. I will be making some changes and bringing you more original content that you haven't already read on the blog. It will also become more regular. As always, I love to hear your feedback and any questions. You can email: joanna@TheCreativePenn.com or leave a question on the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheCreativePenn
Writing: What is your why?
Carcassonne Old City
I have just returned from 9 days holiday in the Languedoc area of the South of France with my husband. It's an area famous for its Cathar castles, as well as its wine, of which I may have drunk a fair bit! The Cathars were a religious sect, Christians who were persecuted by the Catholic church and wiped out for their different beliefs. I studied them as part of my theology degree so it was fascinating to be there. It was also a good time for reflection.  

My big 'aha' moment was this:
My job is create a body of work that I am proud of and that resonates with people.

That's it. Anything that stops me moving towards this goal needs to be evaluated. This is going to be guiding what I do going forward.

Do you have a driving 'why' behind what you are doing with your writing career?
Everything you need to know about self-publishing
Self Publishing Roadmap
There is one site I recommend over and over again and that is TheBookDesigner.com. Joel Friedlander is the most knowledgable person I know about everything to do with self-publishing and he shares so much of it freely on his blog.

Joel has just launched The Self-Publishing Roadmap which includes everything you need to know about self-publishing in one super course. It is only for those people who are taking this seriously as a business because there is an investment of time and money. If you want to be proud of your finished products, then this will give you the tools to make it happen. It will help you create that quality body of work.

It's a multi-media course with video, audio and PDF resources as well as a stack of valuable bonuses. The course is open now for a short time and then closes to new participants.
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Amazon algorithm update
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I was fascinated to read this article about how Amazon has changed its recommendation algorithms in the last few months. We can never know exactly how things work but author Edward W Robertson has done a lot of the hard work. Click here to read the whole article

The conclusions: Free books AND books under $2.99 are not getting the same weighting in terms of ranking as they used to do. So what worked in January with KDP Select no longer brings the sales after the promo period. Presumably the aim is to stop the free and cheap books dominating the charts.

This article may shape your decision to use KDP Select or even change your pricing. Well worth a read. If you prefer audio, check out the Self-Publishing Podcast team who interview Edward here http://selfpublishingpodcast.com/5/

(Fantastic podcast but language warning - adult listening only)
Tips for your website design
Men with Pens
MenWithPens.ca is one of the most influential copywriting sites on the web and my interview with James Chartrand has been one of the most popular podcasts.

We went through website design for authors and how the psychology of color can help with branding which you might find useful for your own site. You can listen/read here =>  
http://bit.ly/ME5gPH

We also talked about gender in publishing. I now use the gender neutral initials J.F.Penn for my action-adventure fiction and James is actually a woman. Our experiences were also picked up by a reporter and showcased on Forbes - check out the article here
OK, that's it for now. I hope you found this information useful. If you want to keep up with the latest information on the site, you can subscribe by email here. You can also subscribe to The Creative Penn podcast on iTunes here (129 episodes and counting!)
Joanna Penn
As ever, Happy Writing!

Joanna


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