Month: May 2012
Daily Deals: A Small Furry Prayer and Factbook
Today Amazon offers A Small Furry Prayer by Steven Kotler just for $1.99 Steven Kotler was forty years old, single, and facing an existential crisis when he met Lila, a woman devoted…
Tis the Season for Beach Reads
When I have a lot going on, I tend to go for lighter reading. Several books I’ve read lately make great beach reads. If you’re looking for some mostly inexpensive…
Daily Deals: The Mongoliad and Farm Mess Pro
Today Amazon offers The Mongoliad: Book One (The Foreworld Saga) by Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo and E.D. deBirmingham just for $0.99 The first novel to be released in The Foreworld…
Kindle Fire Welcome Screen Ads to Sell For $600,000+
Bringing advertisements to the Kindle line changed the way that eReaders were priced. The competition has only recently been able to begin matching Amazon’s listings. Interestingly, Amazon has also surprised…
Daily Deals: Those Who Save Us and 6 Games: Hybrid Mind
Today Amazon offers Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum just for $1.99 For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her…
Is the Kindle a Good Choice for Early Education Classrooms?
We’ve been seeing a great deal of interest in the potential savings provided by the Kindle in educational settings lately. Now that some of the initial antagonism is out of…
Daily Deals: Seven Ox Seven and ColorBook
Today Amazon offers Seven Ox Seven; Part One: Escondido Bound by P. A. Ritzer just for $1.99 Seven souls risk everything to seek a home on the West Texas frontier. Will they…
Front-lit Kindle Coming Soon; Amazon Not Waiting On Color
Well, only hours after my speculation that Amazon might intend to make a huge impact by being the first company to make the next obvious step in eReader innovation by…
Daily Deals: Identity: Lost and Fragger
Today Amazon offers Identity: Lost by Pascal Marco just for $0.99 It’s July, 1975 and an overworked Chicago police force receives a call that an 85-year-old white man has been attacked by…
Daily Deals: Daughters for a Time and Gunman Clive
Today Amazon offers Daughters for a Time by Jennifer Handford just for $1.99 When Helen Francis was a child, her mother died and her father walked out, leaving her to be raised…