“We are truly excited to have collaborated with Amazon to launch Kindle Editions with audio/video,” Peter Balis, Director, Digital Content Sales, Wiley, said in a statement. “Innovations like these represent the advantages that digital can offer. Advancing our content in this manner is important for our authors and our readers and it will raise the bar on what digital reading can offer for years to come.”
The list of books (with TMO affiliate links) offering embedded video and audio clips:
- Rick Steves: Paris 2010 – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Rick Steves’: Rome 2010 – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Rick Steves’: Florence & Tuscany 2010 – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Rick Steves’: London 2010 – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Rick Steves’: Venice 2010 – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Knitting for Dummies 2e – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Best of the Beatles for Acoustic Guitar – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Lie Down in Darkness – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Lullaby Baby – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Rose’s Heavenly Cakes – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Les Miserables Vol 9 – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
- Together We Cannot Fail – (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
Each of the above-listed books is priced at US$9.99. The Kindle app itself is free.
We would also point out that the new video features go unnoted in the Kindle app’s patch notes on the App Store — the company announced the feature in a press release.