The United Church of God is offering its booklets in electronic format at the Amazon and Kindle online bookstores. This will allow those who own an Amazon Kindle or use the Kindle App on their smart phone or tablet an easy way to download our e-books from the Kindle Store.

Amazon does not allow us to offer our e-books for free when first uploaded, and so they are initially offered for 99 cents. However, Amazon has a price-matching feature, in which they will match a lower price from another book store. Because many of UCG’s booklets are available for free on the Apple iBookstore and Barnes & Noble Nook store, Amazon has matched the price of free on those booklets that we’ve alerted them to the lower price.

There are currently 10 e-books available at Amazon.com—nine of which are now listed for free. We recently added two more e-books to the store. So far over 6,000 have been downloaded from the Kindle bookstore. The vast majority of these were downloaded for free.

Here are our top three titles and the number of downloads (as of March 7, 2012):

What Happens After Death?—2,209

You Can Understand Bible Prophecy—1,493

Jesus Christ: The Real Story—1,814

It is really exciting to see the number of downloads in such a short amount of time. Some UCG e-booklets are now listed on Amazon’s Best Sellers list for free e-books. For instance, three booklets are listed as “Best Sellers in Christian Education—Top 100 Free” and are in the top five range!

We Need Your Help

When we post a new e-book to Amazon, we need your help to let them know it’s available at other online locations for free. Right now we have one e-book that is still listed for 99 cents—How to Understand the Bible.

We need just a few minutes of your time. All you need to do is have an Amazon.com account and follow the instructions listed on our Amazon volunteer Web page (http://tinyurl.com/ucg-amazon/) or visit our main How Can I Help? volunteer page (under the “I have free time” section at www.ucg.org/volunteer/). Once the e-book is listed for free at Amazon.com, we will remove the request for that particular e-book.

You can also help by submitting a review of any of our e-books and leaving a comment that you feel would be helpful to any potential readers.

Please take a few minutes and help us with this project. It will really help our Web team at the home office!