Kindle Content

Made To Stick Intro Free for Kindle

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This is a great book for educators, full of stories about how to get your message across in ways that people will remember. The book is full of terrific examples from the classroom, and offers a great discussion starter for teacher book groups or professional development through books, something that Education Week recently reported as…

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The Power of the Kindle Book Sample

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I love this tweet because it expresses my experience exactly: “Started Pillars of the Earth, as a sample on Kindle. At 11:30p end of sample so without taking head off pillow downloaded rest of book WOW!” From Twitter. What’s magical about a Kindle “sample” is that it gives you quite a bit to read, so…

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Princeton U Press to Publish for Kindle

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Here it comes, another segment of the publishing industry looking at the Kindle as a promising option. “The experimentation with Kindle comes at a time that many experts are urging university presses to try new business models,” says Inside Higher Ed. And The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do…

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Study Grammar on Your Kindle

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Jan at The Kindle Reader has a great review on a book that educators might want to put on the Kindle right away, or maybe even share with students: Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. You can get it right now from Amazon. (Apparently the Kindle version posted at Amazon early by…

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Students Buying Books on School’s Kindle

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Kathy Schrock has a great solution for the “credit card enabled” aspect of the Kindle: …since any user of the Kindle can purchase a new title from the Kindle store from the Kindle itself, we did not know how we were going to control students from purchasing books on a whim. We are solving the…

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