If you have owned your Kindle for a while, you are probably well familiar with the Kindle store. The store has grown dramatically in the past few months and now has over 250,000 titles available for Kindle owners to purchase. What we didn’t have till a couple of days ago was a special page for Amazon Kindle bargains. Amazon has the tendency to create a bargain page for most categories on its site. These pages are designed to let shoppers know about the latest price drops and special offers. Now, you can get the very same features on Amazon Kindle’s page.You get book recommendations, Kindle price drops, and one dollar books.

I personally love the one dollar books section. Now, I don’t just buy any books, but there are many interesting books that you can buy for $1 and this time around you won’t be paying more for shipping than you do for the book itself, thanks to Amazon Kindle. I wouldn’t be the first one to tell you that all the deals on this page are not great deals. Nevertheless, if you are looking to save money on your Kindle content, Amazon Kindle Deals page is a good place to start.

So you finally decided to part ways with $360 of your hard earned money and buy an Amazon Kindle. Now what? Do you know where to find content for your Kindle? Even though there are 250,000 books available in Amazon Kindle store, people still complain about not having access to more content for the Kindle platform. In reality, there are plenty of places you can find books for your gadget.

Here are a few places that you can find content online (not counting P2P networks):

• AZW: the chances are you have already tried the Kindle store and are looking for another source of AZW content for your Kindle. You can always try manybooks.net for more books. They have over 20K titles for the platform and worth a try.
• PDF: there are many place you can find PDF works on the Web. I am not going to suggest any P2P methods here (torrents) as there are plenty of legal ways to get content for your gadget:
  • http://www.pdfbooks.co.za
  • http://www.worldlibrary.net
  • http://www.wowio.com
  • http://www.zinepal.com
  • http://www.munseys.com
• MOBI: I am not a fan of MOBI books, but these books are compatible with Kindle 1.0 and Kindle 2.0. Here are a few places to find .MOBI books:
  • http://www.fictionwise.com
  • http://www.mobipocket.com
  • http://www.freekindlebooks.org
• Text: you’d be surprised how many interesting books you find in this format. Here are a few places you can look for .TXT books:
  • http://www.fictionpress.com
  • http://www.gutenberg.org
• PRC: finally, if you are still looking for content after trying the above sites, you may want to look at:
  • http://www.webscriptions.net
  • http://www.mnybks.net
• Audio: it’s surprising how many people don’t use their Kindle for audio-books. But there are lots of good titles available for your Kindle:
  • http://www.audible.com
  • http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com
  • http://www.audiobooks.com/

There you have it. There are lots of other places that you can look for Kindle content, but the above sites are those that I have used in the past and have decent books available for download. Having said that, if you know any other place for Kindle content, please comment below.

Oprah endorsing Amazon Kindle was a big thing. At least that was the logical expectations when a heavyweight such as Oprah calls Kindle one the “best gadgets” she has ever had. But analysts are claiming that Oprah’s endorsement may not matter to Amazon until 2010!

Oprah’s endorsement has had some effect. And I think the effects will be more significant than some of the naysayers expect them to be. I have been a big fan of Amazon Kindle since day one, but I see two fundamental challenges for Amazon in the upcoming month:

• Economy
• Culture

The economy has hit and has hit companies hard. The tech companies are now feeling the effects (Sun Microsystems is cutting force and more companies will follow suit). Folks simply do not have money to spend on Kindle (possible solution: offering free interest financing for 12 months, lowering the price, an alternative monthly fee structure).

Many folks simply do not take Kindle seriously. We have gotten used to paper books, and sometimes it is hard to breakaway from old habits. Amazon needs to find ways to encourage folks to adopt Kindle. That could be done with major book promotions, early book releases, exclusive content, free starter content packs, and content distribution promotions.

Amazon Kindle is a wonderful device, but if people fail to justify paying $350 for it, then Amazon’s got a big problem. In these tough times, Amazon needs to bring its innovative ways to product management and content distribution. If not, even the mighty Oprah can’t turn the tide.