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Hi, I'm Charles Harbin, I publish e books on Amazon's kindle. I've got about a hundred titles for sale, none of which I wrote. Whether we like it so much or not the electronic reading device is the read of the future...and it's here now. Kindle or no, some electronic reading device or another is going to become the read of the future. It's good and bad, pro and con, upside and downside, regardless, it's here now and there's no getting away from it. Purchase a book on Kindle and who owns it? Amazon does. You can neither sell it, trade it nor give it away, unless you sell trade or gift your kindle to someone along with all the titles you've purchased. I suppose you could keep the chip with all your titles on in and just sell the device.

Amazon recently proved that they own the books you purchase. I published many public domain works when they allowed us to do that. (They've since stopped us from doing that once they realized they have way too many copies of popular titles like 'Moby Dick' and 'Pride and Prejudice'). During that time someone published George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' on Kindle and then lots of other people and a book company published it too. Animal Farm is still under copy write. " “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers,” "Amazon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
So... if they decide you've purchased a title you shouldn't have they can remove it from your Kindle - there were a lot of angry customers!

One upside is that books are forever preserved in digital format and do not need to be reprinted which ought to make books cheaper to purchase. While I was working on a collection of books to publish on Kindle my wife noticed the titles and remarked "oh, I've never read any of those, I'd like to read them." So for Christmas last year I went to Barns and Noble and purchased all eight of them for her to read. Two of them were only available in hard cover. I spent $89.00. The price for the collection on Kindle - $5.99.

Every day I see elementary school children loaded down with back packs full of books. Those days will soon be over. The chip in Amazon's Kindle holds up to 1,500 titles and if that's not enough you can get another chip.

For the novice novelist Amazon's Kindle might be one consideration for publishing your first work. You set the price and Amazon pays you 35%. Not so bad when you consider a publishing company most likely will set the price and pay you 15% if you can get a company interested in your work without having to spend your own money.

Right now there are roughly a million plus kindle owners in the US. No one knows for sure because Amazon keeps it a secret. The Projection for 2010 is three million. Right now - Whisper net - the cell phone technology used to deliver text to the reading device is only available in the US. However, anyone in the world with an internet connection can purchase a book, download it to their computer and upload it to their kindle. Presently Amazon is working on similar cell phone technology in Europe. Soon Kindle titles will be easily purchased around the world.

For anyone interested here is the video instruction I purchased to learn how to publish books on Kindle:
http://428587lohzgrct1gv2lho0p70i.hop.clickbank.net/
It's maybe the best $50.00 I've ever spent, I've made thousands so far this year. Now I didn't have anyone to help me with it and even with the video I still had a lot to learn. You can't get any help from Amazon! So if you decide to purchase it I will make myself available to help you, thanks, to your success and all the best, Charles.

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