How Publishers Can Kill the Kindle by Trusting Customers
There is no avoiding the fact that the Big 6 publishers created their own problem in the Kindle. Amazon provided them with an easy way to start making a move…
Daily Deals: A Kiss Before Dying and The Treasure of Mystery Island
Today Amazon offers A Kiss Before Dying (Pegasus Crime) by Ira Levin (Author) and Otto Penzler (Introduction) as just for $1.99 A modern classic, this novel set a new standard in the art of mystery and…
$.99 Sale on Children’s Books for Kindle
For a limited time, there are almost 50 children’s books on sale for .99, usually around $7. All of these are for the Kindle Fire. How fitting that they are…
Daily Deals: The File on H. and Spelling Bee
Today Amazon offers The File on H. by Ismail Kadare just for $0.99 In the mid 1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands with an early model…
Kindle Fire Review – Half A Year Later
We can acknowledge that the Kindle Fire has already had a profound effect on the tablet industry at this point. From the moment it was officially announced prices have been…
Daily Deals: Maps and Legends and Icon Calendar
Today Amazon offers Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon just for $1.99 In these lively critical and personal essays, Chabon asserts his literary manifesto: “I read…
Kindle Fire Not Amazon’s Only Instant Video Focus Now With XBox 360 App
Amazon is getting a bit more bold with every passing day, it seems, as they step ever-further into Netflix’s domain. The most recent such intrusion is their creation of an…
The Importance of Page Turn Styles
Before the Kindle debuted in 2007, and even now, with e-readers becoming the norm, there is something about the ability to flip through pages in a book. In used book…
Daily Deals: Postcards From Nam and The Enchanted Kingdom: Elisa’s Adventure
Today Amazon offers Postcards From Nam by Uyen Nicole Duong just for $0.99. This book is Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Multicultural category of the 2012 International Book Awards. Mimi (the protagonist of Mimi…
Hay Festival Highlights Anti-Kindle Sentiment
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, taking place now through June 10th in Wales, has been one of the largest growing literary gatherings since its inception in 1988. From…