Amazon has opened up the platform to publish your blog on Kindle. The sign up process is really easy. It takes about 5 minutes to get it up and running. It provides a nice preview tool to let you see how does you blog look like on a Kindle device.

Originally, I just want to make my blog free through Kindle. However, they do not let you set your own price. They want to charge $1.99 monthly.  It’s not a bad price, but I’d appreciate they can let me publish for free. Here is the link to my blog’s page on Amazon.

Interested? The link to sign up an account is here.

Amazon has thousands of free Kindle books. How do you know what are the popular ones among those free books? To save your work, I compiled a list of the free books in the bestseller section.

• Tales of the Jazz Age

• Divine Comedy, Cary’s Translation, Hell

• The First Men in the Moon

• Anna Karenina

• Heart of Darkness

• Gulliver’s Travels

• The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Short Stories Old and New

• The Island of Doctor Moreau

• Divine Comedy, Cary’s Translation, Paradise

• The Mysterious Island

• Divine Comedy, Cary’s Translation, Purgatory

• Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

• The Velveteen Rabbit

• The Jungle Book

• 365 Foreign Dishes

• The Prince

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

• The Art of War

• Crime and Punishment

These are mostly classics and they are always free. The following are the books for free for a limited time. They might not be free by the time you read this post.

• Red Mars

• Blood Engines

• Assassin’s Apprentice

• His Lady Mistress

• Irresistible Forces

• Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch

• Hide in Plain Sight

• His Majesty’s Dragon

• Summer’s Path

• Kiss Me Deadly

• Price of Passion

• Snowbound

• Stranded with a Spy

• The Bride’s Baby

• A Very Special Delivery

• Speed Dating

Amazon has just published Kindle for iPhone. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get the free Kindle books on your iPhone. You’ll need a valid Amazon account to proceed.

1. On your iPhone, invoke App Store. Search for Kindle for iPhone and install the application.
   
2. Invoke Kindle for iPhone and register using your Amazon account.
   
3. Now switch to your computer and visit this link: Kindle Books. This link lists the Kindle books sorted by price from low to high. Select the books you want and check out. You can see your iPhone’s name during the checkout process.
4. Back to Kindle for iPhone, tap the refresh button on the lower left corner and you can see the books you purchased.
   

Now sit back and enjoy the free books anywhere you go.

[Update: 3/5/2009] I have compiled a list of popular free Kindle books. Please click on this link to go to the list.