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Amazon's growing free Kindle book biz

From a note from Morris Rosenthal, who had done good research on Amazon Kindle sales; “One of the things that you might find interesting is the large number of free Kindle books that are flying off the shelves, classic out-of-copyright books that Amazon has provided, plus the number of 1 cent novels, uploaded by small publishers and self publisher in hopes of generating buzz for the print versions. Amazon has over 7,000 free classic titles for the device, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (free Kindle version) is currently the 38th most popular Kindle title.”