Kindle MatchBook will launch with books from Ray Bradbury, Michael Crichton, Blake Crouch, James Rollins, Jodi Picoult, Neil Gaiman, Marcus Sakey, Wally Lamb, Jo Nesbo, Neal Stephenson, and J.A. Here are some of the big-name authors, according to Amazon: What’s the catch? Well, aside from having to pay upwards of $3, the current selection of MatchBook-compatible books only hovers at around 10,000 titles. This includes books you’ve purchased from Amazon “all the way back to 1995-when Amazon first opened its online bookstore,” according to the company’s press release. The premise is simple: Buy a paper book from Amazon, and you can have the Kindle version for $3, $2, $1 or free, depending on the title. Relief may soon be in sight, however, as Amazon is rolling out a service called Kindle MatchBook in October. I need to read the book before October 15, so I find myself in enough of a rhubarb of a pickle of a jam that, for the first time in a long, long time, I bought a paper book. ![]() However, the Kindle version of this particular book is slated for release on October 15, whereas the paper version comes out October 1. Follow night, I pre-ordered a paper book from Amazon.
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