From now until March 27, Amazon is offering best-selling Kindle games for only $0.99.
The 12 "customers' favorite" picks include Scrabble, Chess, Texas Hold'em Poker, Soduku Unbound, and four volumes of New York Times' crossword challenges. Originally, the games sold for $1.99-$4.99 each.
Amazon launched Kindle games in August 2010, shortly after releasing the Kindle Development Kit. Most of the games and applications are pretty basic to cater to the Kindle's monochrome, E Ink display.
Like with other app stores, Kindle software developers receive a 70 percent cut of the revenues.
Although Kindle Games' does not have its own category in the Kindle Store, four of them are in the top 10 list of bestselling Kindle items.
In other Amazon news, the company on Wednesday provided some insight on its new "real page number" feature, which lists the page number on your Kindle that corresponds with the page number in the printed edition.
"We had to invent an entirely new way to match the streams of text in a print book to the streams of text in a Kindle book, and assign page numbers in Kindle books," the company said in a blog post.
To do this, Amazon used its Amazon Web Services computing fabric to create algorithms to match the text of print books to Kindle books and organize it in the cloud via AWS.
"The results of this work are stored in Amazon's Simple Storage Service, where we track the complete history of every page matching file we've produced," Amazon said. "We even found a way to deliver page numbers to books that customers had already purchased – without altering those books in any way, so customers' highlights, notes, and reading location are preserved exactly as they were."