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Common Craft Kindle Books: Better on the iPhone
Posted by: leelefever on March 8, 2009- 5:00pm
Categories: amazon, ebook, Explanation, iphone, kindle
As you may have seen, Amazon recently published the Kindle for iPhone App that allows iPhone users to purchase and read Kindle books on the phone. Of course, one of the first things we did was to see how our Kindle Books look. We were excited to see that our Kindle Books are in color look better on the iPhone than on the Kindle, thanks to the nice iPhone screen.
Compared to:
Another shot of the color:
Sometimes we think about our videos not as videos, but little lessons. Whether you watch them in a video, or read the script with visuals, the messaging should be just as effective. This is where we got the idea for our Common Craft Kindle books. If someone has a Kindle wireless reading device and wants to learn about Twitter or the basics of Investing money, they should be able to spend a couple of bucks and get up to speed in a few minutes. More about our Kindle Books here.
As of today we have 11 Kindle Books, all $1.99 per book.
Here's what a page looks like:
Our current titles include... (Click to visit the Amazon Kindle Store)
We're big fans of Amazon's Kindle. It makes reading easier and we're convinced it could become an iPod-like device in the future in terms of ubiquity. We've been working to make our videos into Kindle books so people have another way to learn, in Plain English.
I previously wrote about the Kindle here and here.
The basic idea with the Kindle is that you can purchase and download books, magazines, newspapers and articles and have them delivered wirelessly to the Kindle. We see an opportunity for our content to be available just like any other book or article.
So, we've found a way to make our videos into "Kindle Books" that can be purchased and downloaded to the Kindle. Our Kindle Books have the same script as the videos, but in book form. The video content appears across 30-40 pages, each with a passage of script and a visual from the video. We plan to publish Kindle Books along with future videos.
We currently have 8 videos available as Kindle Books for $1.99 (Links go to the Amazon Kindle Store):
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