Amazon.com said Friday that publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. will make 5,000 more books available for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles users can download and read.
Later in the day, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos appeared at the BookExpo America convention in Los Angeles and touted the benefits of electronic book offerings.
He said Amazon had temporarily sold out of hard copies of “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” the new tell-all book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
It’s still available, however, for electronic downloading, Bezos said.
What Happened
The book “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” is out of stock on Amazon. A note on the page says that they will have it on June. 11. BN.com is also out of stock but they say it will be in stock June. 6.
Amazon is selling the book for $15.39 plus $3.99 shipping. The Kindle edition is $9.99 and there is no shipping.