Category: E-Books
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
A while ago I heard a piece on NPR on this book about books, and it really grabbed my attention. I even spent 10 minutes sitting in my car in…
Free Kindle Book: Murder in the Marais
Just a heads up on current amazon promotion running until March 9, 2009. I’ll mak a habbit of regularly updating on this topic which I have recently neglected. If you…
March 2009 One Dollar Kindle Book – Empress By Karen Miller
While this is technically not free, costing $1 comes pretty close to it. Book publisher Orbit is running a promotion allowing Kindle owners to download one of their books per…
23K+ Free Kindle Books at munseys.com
Another good place to download free books for your Amazon Kindle is http://www.munseys.com/. Main website itself is a bit heavy for Kindle Basic Web to render so you can use…
Project Gutenberg Books for Kindle
This post commences series on absolutely free books available for Amazon Kindle. There are many places on the web that have very good literature available for Kindle for free legally…
Princeton University to publish Kindle textbooks
Princeton University Press has announced that it will start publishing Kindle edition textbook this fall, according to Inside Higher Education, Princeton will follow other prominent educational establishments like Yale, Oxford…
30 benefits of e-books
Lurking around various e-book blogs and websites I stumbled upon Epublishers Weekly, where I found this informative 30 benefits of reading an e-book. Here are the first 7; 1. Ebooks…
The Kindle effect? Has the Kindle effected US e-book sales?
Whilst tracking Kindle sales is like guess work, tracking US e-book sales is a bit easier, the above graphic shows US e-book sales from Q1 2002 – Q1 2008. Whilst…
New York Times Best Sellers: 6 June 2008
Welcome to the New York Times Best Sellers list for June 6, 2008. Each week we go through the top sellers on the list and give you our top 3…
Tor: A social fanzine for science fiction and fantasy readers
Tor Books is a major hardcover and paperback science fiction and fantasy publisher, one of the largest in the English-speaking world, it announced recently that it was working on a…