
Amazon is not the only book store in the world. Of course, if you want to waste money, you can still pay $4 for your digital version of Pride and Prejudice instead there is absolutely no logical reason-legal or moral-to pay for a digital copy of something out of copyright.įor copyrighted works, there are still cheaper options. You can then sideload those files onto your Kindle without much effort.


Websites like Project Gutenberg offer classic works as a free download. The copyright on books, novels, and journals expires 70 years after an author’s death, so thousands of works are available for free. The Kindle is a fantastic range of eReaders, and sideloading means you can still use a Kindle with any digital books you happen to own.Ĭlassic novels are a good example.

You may not want to pay Amazon $140 a year or pay what they’re charging to buy books outright and think you can find a better deal elsewhere.
