Month: November 2012
Daily Deals: Freeman, Promises to the Dead and Hidden Differences
Today Amazon offers Freeman by Leonard Pitts just for $1.99. Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination…
Send to Kindle Becomes Browser Staple
For the most part Amazon’s “Send to Kindle” program has worked out extremely well for them. It creates a convenient means to send just about any readable content you have…
Daily Deals: No Mark upon Her, Chalk and 9 Innings
Today Amazon offers No Mark upon Her (Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James) by Deborah Crombie just for $1.99. New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued…
Amazon Expands Android Game Development With “Air Patriots”
It’s clear that Amazon has an interest in building popularity for their gaming features through the site’s Appstore for Android. Social gaming is a huge attraction for customers as evidenced…
Daily Deals: Freedom from Fear, Potty and Jellyflop!
Today Amazon offers Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) by David M. Kennedy just for $2.99. Between 1929 and 1945, two…
Daily Deals: Lit, The Elephant’s Child and Kids Trucks
Today Amazon offers Lit (P.S.) by Mary Karr just for $1.99 The Liars’ Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, “continued to set the…
Kindle Paperwhite Hands-On Review
Having used the Kindle Keyboard for quite some time and enjoyed it to the point of returning my Kindle Touch when it didn’t quite meet the same standards (it was…
Daily Deals: Robert Kroese’s Hilarious Mercury Trilogy, The Named and Trainyard
Today Amazon offers By turns epic and explosive, Robert Kroese’s Mercury trilogy draws inspiration from the impertinent, side-splitting, and madcap adventures of Douglas Adams’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” The books…
Daily Deals: Books to Commemorate Veterans Day, Hero Dad and Stunt Bunnies Circus
From the voyages and raids of the Viking tribes in the 10th century to the healing sought by Vietnam War soldiers decades after the conflict, today’s deal presents a collection…
DC Comes to Kindle Store & More, Ending Comixology Exclusivity
While DC Entertainment is insisting that the move is not necessarily a switch away from Comixology, the publisher has now made the transition to offering its weekly content directly through…