Most of the free books currently dominating the Kindle top 10 are mysteries, romances, thrillers and women’s fiction; Christian fiction is doing very well.

Amazon’s self-publishing platform has the Internet’s largest bookseller in hot water again. This time it’s for taking free books from Project Gutenberg and collecting cash for them at the ...

Woman Buys 'Free' Books on Kindle, Then Has Sudden Realization. Published Jun 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM EDT. By . Maria Morava is a Newsweek reporter based in Edinburgh, U.K.

The woman had assumed all books were free with an Unlimited subscription, even if there was a listed price. Instead, Kindle was charging her boyfriend every time she purchased a new title.