What is ‘Stuff Your Kindle’ Day? Book Lovers Can Stock Up During Event

What’s New

Thursday and Friday mark the “Stuff Your Kindle” Days throughout which e-book readers can replenish on a whole lot of books totally free—with a catch.

Why It Issues

Everyone seems to be looking out for a very good deal, and readers aren’t any completely different. Amazon, which began as a web based bookseller, continues to dominate the e-book market.

PC Journal‘s assessment of e-readers for 2025 named the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, which is the evolution of the unique Kindle product line, as the very best general product and finest for youngsters. Different Kindle merchandise ranked atop the “low cost” and “coloration” classes.

However these will not be Kindle-specific gross sales, regardless of the identify and development.

Newsweek reached out to Amazon by electronic mail on Thursday evening for remark.

What To Know

“Stuff Your Kindle” Day is at a primary stage one other sale: Consumers merely go on Amazon.com and kind “stuff your kindle” and choices pop up as outcomes. Nevertheless, even a cursory look exhibits that just about the entire e-books on provide are from the romance style as of Thursday, and that can change going into Friday when “Darkish Fiction” will pop up as an alternative.

That is as a result of the “Stuff Your Kindle” sale isn’t truly an Amazon-driven occasion. It’s truly two completely different gross sales selling impartial authors of particular subgenres: The primary sale is run by romance writer Zoe York, who compiles lists of romance novels for the sale, which she began in 2014—making this 12 months the occasion’s tenth anniversary.

The sale can also be obtainable for readers who use the Kindle app or different e-readers, like Barnes & Noble Nook or Kobo e-readers.

Romance novels proceed to be excessive sellers with a cross-genre enchantment: Some of the well-liked and bestselling collection within the fantasy style, for instance, is A Court docket of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Hulu in 2021 optioned the collection with Ronald D. Moore of Outlander fame to adapt it.

A lot of the books within the Kindle occasion are by impartial authors; due to this fact, the gross sales goal to advertise such writers and their works. On RomanceBookworms.com, the FAQ in regards to the occasion says that York began the occasion after she ran out of promotional alternatives.

York scoured Amazon for authors to take part and put them onto a listing for keen readers. The Thursday occasion had 35 others who every put in two books for the promotion.

The “Stuff Your Kindle” Day on Friday shall be run by Darkish Mode Books to advertise “darkish fiction,” which is one other cross-genre label for books with grittier tones and extra deconstructive components.

The Darkish Mode Books web site says the sale covers genres “starting from Grimdark Fantasy to Splatterpunk, and No Romance to Erotica.”

Not like the romance “Stuff Your Kindle” occasion, Darkish Mode Books holds its sale biannually, stacking the second day of its occasion across the identical time because the romance sale.

Jinapher J. Hoffman, writer of epic darkish romantic fantasy, began the occasion.

Whereas it is not clear if she was impressed by the “Stuff Your Kindle” occasion, the movies and web site point out that 2024 would be the first 12 months for the darkish fiction model.

The web site stuffyourkindle.org, which says it’s owned and copyrighted by York, has promoted the darkish fiction occasion.

What Folks Are Saying

RomanceBookworms.com says: “All books included in OUR lists are submitted by indie authors who contribute to lifting up this neighborhood occasion. This can be a labor of affection, a celebration of studying, and an incredible alternative to discover a new-to-you writer who will preserve sharing free reads for years to return.”

What’s Subsequent

The “Stuff Your Kindle” sale for love novels will finish at midnight December 26 and will not return till the identical day in 2025. The following “Stuff Your Kindle” sale for Darkish Mode Books after Friday is about for the summer time—probably round June—based mostly on the 2024 summer time sale.