Amazon Kindle Matchbook lets you buy discounted e-books of printed titles

We have to agree with author Marcus Sakey when he says he finds it ridiculous that readers usually have to pay full price twice if they want to buy both a printed and digital copies of books. That’s why Amazon’s new offer can be considered godsend for bibliophiles out there. The Kindle Matchbook will give Amazon customers who have bought print books the option to buy Kindle editions of those purchases for $2.99 or less (some are even free!).

This offer extends to purchases made back when Amazon opened its online bookstore in 1995 as long as the publisher enrolls the title in Kindle Matchbook. The service will be launching in October and expect over 10,000 books to be available from authors like Sakey, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Michael Crichton, and many more.