Month: June 2012
Daily Deals: A Gay and Melancholy Sound and World Cricket Championship – Pro
Today Amazon offers A Gay and Melancholy Sound (Book Lust Rediscoveries) by Merle Miller and Nancy Pearl just for $0.99 The first book in nationally renowned librarian Nancy Pearl’s new Book Lust Rediscoveries…
Amazon Brings HBO GO to Kindle Fire
Beginning immediately, Kindle Fire owners are able to take advantage of the new HBO GO app. This app, downloadable from the Amazon Appstore for Android, lets HBO subscribers watch their…
Daily Deals: Twisted Justice and Daisy’s Crazy Day
Amazon offers Twisted Justice by Patricia Gussin just for $0.99 For better…Laura Nelson has it all – a successful career as a surgeon, five well-adjusted kids, and a gorgeous, prominent husband Steve,…
Thoughts on the Future of the Kindle eReader
In most of the ways that matter we can safely say that the eBook war is over. Owning a Kindle is no longer strange or a sign that one is…
Daily Deals: More Sweet Tea and Voltage Premium
Today Amazon offers More Sweet Tea by Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis, Deborah Dixon, Maureen Hardegree just for $1.99. Settle back into that comfortable chair and enjoy a second helping of poignant, humorous and nostalgic…
Kindle Fire Sales Decline is Worth Noting, but Only Part of the Story
Recent data out of ChangeWave Research indicates that the Kindle Fire is still idling at a much lower level of consumer interest than was the case in the fourth quarter…
Daily Deals: Carbs & Cadavers and Ninja Chicken
Today Amazon offers Carbs & Cadavers (The Supper Club Mysteries) by J.B. Stanley just for $1.99 James “Professor Puff” Henry may as well have “loser” stamped on his forehead. Divorced, overweight, shy,…
$79 Kindle Gets a Tune Up
The basic, non touchscreen version of the Kindle just got a new update. The update includes improved readability, parental controls, and better support for graphics. Good to know that this…
Daily Deals: The Search for Major Plagge and Rocket Weasel
Today Amazon offers The Search for Major Plagge:The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition by Michael Good just for $1.99 When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned…
Kindle vs Nook Competition Gets Absurd With Tolstoy “Nookd” Gaffe
Obviously the last thing that a company like Barnes & Noble wants to do is inadvertently promote their competition by including the name Kindle in eBooks that are converted from…