Stuff Your Kindle Day (i.e. Free Kindle Books!)
Have you heard about Stuff Your Kindle Day?
It’s an event for romance readers that happens four times a year and on that day THOUSANDS of ebooks are free.
And this isn’t a lending type of situation – on Stuff Your Kindle Day, you can buy them exactly like a normal Kindle book except that they cost zero dollars and then you own them forever and can read them at your leisure.
Even better, you don’t need a Kindle e-reader to buy or read them, so whether you’re waiting for a smoking Prime Day deal on a Kindle or prefer reading on your phone or tablet, you can still take advantage.
This is not an Amazon sponsored event, so you don’t need to be a Prime member or have a Kindle Unlimited membership to take advantage of these free books. And there aren’t limits on the number of books that can be sold because they’re digital copies and the more that “sell” the better for the author when it comes to moving their books up the Amazon charts.
The reason Stuff Your Kindle Day happens is that indie authors and small romance authors and publishers work together to put this on in order to get attention on their books (with, of course, the hope that you’ll go on to read/buy/recommend their books).
This also means that you’re not likely to see big-name best selling titles on this list (Emily Henry has zero incentive to give her books away for free when they’re selling like hot cakes), but it IS a great way to take a chance on new authors or titles you might not pick up at $9.99 but are interesting looking enough to grab for free!
Romance Bookworms has put together a massive categorized list of the romance titles that are included in the Stuff Your Kindle Day sale (seriously, it is THOUSANDS), so you can easily navigate to the romance categories you like, whether that’s sweet romances (which means no open door scenes) or fantasy romance or romantic suspense.
AND they’ve included keywords for each title so you can search (use command or control + F to search) for books that include favorite sub-genres/tropes like “forced proximity” or “fairy tale retelling.”
You may notice as you look up the Stuff Your Kindle books on Amazon that many of them are included in Kindle Unlimited – you can still go ahead and “buy” them for free and then if and when you cancel your Kindle Unlimited subscription, you’ll still have access to them because you own them, rather than just reading them through your subscription membership.
(By the way, if romance isn’t your thing, there is a similar event coming up in July for cozy mystery books and you may find the occasional non-romance book included for free today as other indie writers and publishers try to take advantage of all the buzz around Stuff Your Kindle Day).
Any questions about Stuff Your Kindle day? Happy to help you stuff your e-reader by snagging some books for free! And I’d love to know what free e-books you picked up!
Wow! I had no idea about this. I will be checking out the list today for sure!
where is the list???????????????????????????????
The one I linked above from Romance Bookworms!
When I click that link it asks for a password. Do you know what it is or how to join that site?
You can get daily free Kindle books also from freebooksy.com if you’re interested in daily free reads 😁
So, do you have to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited to have access to these books and then cancel the subscription after the free trial?
No, Kindle Unlimited is not required to get these books. Just make sure you choose the buy the book option, rather than signing up for Kindle Unlimited.
Are there dates for Action or Sci-Fi or How To books?
No this is a romance promotion. Authors who write other genres are free to organize their own version of this!
I’m confused. I search stuff your kindle on the kindle store and it comes up with titles. It will say Buy for $price. So do you press buy and it will not actually charge the price it shows?
Search “free kindle books” instead and make sure they say $0. If they show a price, it’ll charge you that price!
How many books can you stuff for your kindle app? Mine Is saying that I have a max amount at 20. Is there something I have to do in order to select other books?
It sounds like you’re grabbing them through Kindle Unlimited which maxes out at 20 checkouts. You need to make sure you actually “purchase” them for $0.00 so you’ll own them forever and there will be no max. I have directions in my IG stories today about how to buy them, rather than check them out through KU: https://www.instagram.com/everydayreading/
Where’s the Link to the free Kindle stuff day
Romancebookworms.com The event is over but will happen again in the dates in the article 🙂
This list needs more urban romance novels, more urban e everything…
It’s actually not just Amazon books—readers on all the other major platforms can claim 100s of free books as well. So many ppl calling it “stuff your kindle” seems to be leading wide readers to believe theyre excluded & causing some discord. Just fyi. 🖤
How about fantasy, as in swords, elves, fairies, kings, queens, magic, sorcery, etc? Historical fiction?
And the person who deserves all the credit is Zoe York, author. She has been organizing this event for years. Amazon and publishers are not involved. Authors arrange it so you can download their free books through a number of platforms – Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and more. It is easy.
What are the 2024 dates? I’m seeing this just a few days after June 30th, bummer!
Do other categories (ie, children’s, historical fiction, etc) also do this? How can I find out about them ahead of time?
I’m one of the participating authors. Many of us authors love doing joint promo ventures and giveaways for our readers. Normally if you are part of your fave author’s newsletter list, you can get a heads-up when sales and freebies happen.
Zoe York has been organizing the Bookworm giveaways and deserves a giant THANK YOU! The next one is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept 20, 2023.
Thank you for this great opportunity! I look forward to September 20.