Since I’m still new to the Kindle world (thanks to the Kindle for iPhone app), I’m constantly searching for new books to read at the Kindle store. I’m spending a lot of time reading the free first chapters to get a feel of the books, and to decide which books I want to buy. The best thing about the Kindle store is really the price, and Amazon usually has ebooks on special offer.

There are a few ebooks which are given away for free — these are usually the first books of a series to get you hooked. I have a recent list of free ebooks from Amazon here. There are also a few books each month which are sold for a dollarPleasure Unbound: A Demonica Novel by Larissa Ione and . For example for this month (April 2009), you can get Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley.

There are also some ebooks sold at $2, like
Afraid by Jack Kilborn. Jack Kilborn is a pseudonym of novelist J.A. Konrath. Afraid is a thriller that sounds quite interesting — a government helicopter crashes near a peaceful remote town and things start to go wrong.

A surprising fact is that most ebooks sold tend to be from the romance category. Hard to believe? Fictionwise CTO Steve Pendergrast says that half of the ebooks they sell are romance ebooks. Amazon must know that, because they are giving away over a dozen romance ebooks. These include titles like Stranded with a Spy by Merline Lovelace and Snowbound by Janice Kay Johnson.

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