Amazon today is marking the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking by offering Walter Lord’s classic, A Night to Remember, as the Daily Deal, for $1.99. Lord’s minute-by-minute account of the Titanic disaster was published in 1955, when I was five years old. I vaguely remember reading this book when I was a boy, but [...]
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I just pre-ordered a Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight and can’t wait to see how it looks under the covers for night-time reading. TechCrunch has reported that Amazon is planning an E Ink Kindle with this clever technology, but Barnes & Noble appears to have beat Bezos and company to market with a glowing screen. [...]
Click here for the 36-page complaint filed today by the Department of Justice against Apple and five major publishers charged with conspiring to fix e-book prices. It’s a PDF file that you can email to your Kindle(s) for a close read. I will be studying it this week as I prepare TKC 193, but at [...]
News - 1) Devin Coldewey of TechCrunch has the Kindle scoop of the week, with his first-person description of a new e Ink Kindle with a front-lit screen, apparently coming to the market later this year. 2) Amazon announces “eBooks Kindle en Espagñol Español.” 3) CNET UK reports the Kindle Fire is coming to the U.K. and [...]
News – 1) Suzanne Collins is the all-time top Kindle author, Amazon announces. To celebrate, they’re giving away 12 Kindle Fires and 12 copies of her Hunger Games trilogy in a sweepstakes that ends March 25. And there’s also a movie opening based on the first of the trilogy, getting good reviews. 2) Amazon updates Kindle [...]
Kindle Book Deals – Romance (Lots of Historical and Christian Romances Today) **To Win Her Heart by Karen Witemeyer. Price: $2.99. Genre: Historical Romance, Christian Living, Religious, Texas. Rated 4.5 stars on 101 reviews. 347 pages. A charming read with a lovely romance. *The Measure of a Lady: A Novel by Deeanne Gist. Price: $2.99. Genre: Historical [...]
Intro – Omar L. Gallaga reports that South by Southwest Interactive registration this year was up nearly 27 percent compared to last year, to a total of 24,569. News – 1) Amazon updates Kindle for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch just in time for the arrival of the iPad – 3rd generation. Is the screen better [...]
News – 1) James McQuivey of Forrester Research, in a video interview at Digital Book World, reported on a drop in optimism among book publishers and forecasts a big drop in print revenue late this year or next. 2) Amazon reports fast growth in number of titles available at Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. 3) Via [...]
