Kindle Fire HD Sold At Cost – Jeff Bezos
People have generally assumed that Amazon was subsidizing the Kindle Fire to some degree. Analysts have estimated that the cost of materials and manufacturing was roughly equal to the asking…
Daily Deals: Miracle Boy Grows Up, Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! and The Mordis – Ad-free
Today Amazon offers Miracle Boy Grows Up by Ben Mattlin just for $1.99. Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy,…
Daily Deals: Heart of Ice, Shifting and Kids Animal Piano Pro
Today Amazon offers Heart of Ice (A Triple Threat Novel) by Lis Wiehl and April Henry just for $1.99. Elizabeth Avery could easily be the girl next door. But what she has planned…
Basics Info About the Kindle Paperwhite Display & Why It’s Useful
One of the questions I’ve been asked frequently lately is what the point of a Kindle eReader could possibly be now that it’s lit up. Obviously this has been addressed before, but…
Daily Deals: Six Days of War, Little Hoot and Total Pool
Today Amazon offers Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren just for $1.99. This is the most complete history to date of the Six Day War of 1967, in which Israel…
Daily Deals: 13 Compelling Nonfiction Singles by TED Books, Larklight and Manic Math
Today Amazon offers 13 Compelling Nonfiction Singles by TED Books. From Gever Tulley’s insightful “Beware Dangerism!” to Nic Marks’s uplifting essay “The Happiness Manifesto,” this collection of essays is designed to deliver…
Nook HD Profile Feature Capitalizes on Common Kindle Fire Privacy Complaints
There were few things about the Kindle Fire’s release that sparked more attention than the Carrousel home screen. This approach set the Kindle Fire apart from other Android tablets by…
Daily Deals: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box, Chicken Big and Final Freeway
Today Amazon offers Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute just for $1.99. Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story about an executive facing challenges at work and at…
Barnes & Noble’s Response to Kindle HD Keeps Them in the Tablet Market
Obviously the Nook Tablet hasn’t done quite as well as Barnes & Noble hoped it would. While the hardware was a definite step up from the Kindle Fire from the…
Daily Deals: Dawn, Sean Griswold’s Head and Tumble Eggs
Today Amazon offers Dawn (Xenogenesis Trilogy) by Octavia E. Butler just for $1.99. Rescued from Earth’s destruction, one woman is called upon to revive mankind. Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband…