The series by Jeff Kinney is the best-selling children’s series this year. Starting on Monday, you can order the first six books in the series from the Kindle Store. The books will be delivered on Oct. 30, and are also available for regular purchase on that date.
“It was important to Jeff and to Abrams (the publisher) that our Wimpy Kid e-books offer the same visual experience as the print books,” Michael Jacobs, president and CEO of Abrams, said in a statement. “We are pleased that our respective digital teams worked together to faithfully reproduce the print books’ familiar diary layout and illustrations in e-book format. We know readers will also enjoy the additional digital enhancements.”
If your kid is a fan of the series, you can also pre-order the upcoming “The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7)” on Monday and it will be delivered when it’s published on Nov. 13.
“We took care to faithfully reproduce the diary entries and illustrations in Jeff Kinney’s outstanding series, and they look great on both our Kindle e-readers and our new Kindle Fires,” Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle Content said in a statement. “This is a perfect example of why we built FreeTime on Kindle Fire – kids are going to love reading these books.”
Like all Kindle books, once you download it, you can read it on any Kindle device. And the “page” you’re on in the book will be saved across devices because of Amazon’s Whispersync technology.
Amazon’s been bumping-up its selection of e-books for children. In December, the company put 450 children’s books on the Kindle Fire, and this past June the Kindle became more kid friendly when it updated its apps to support children’s books, graphic novels and comics. Some smart app-makers turned several beloved children’s books into interactive stories through the use of the touch screen on the iPad.
What do you think of these children’s books coming to the digital screen? Tell us in the comments.
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" E-Book Series Goes on Pre-Order for Kindle
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