They’ve gotta be kidding, right? $139 for a brand new Kindle with more features than ever, other than 3G wireless? “If you don’t need the convenience of 3G wireless, we have an incredible new price point — $139 for Kindle Wi-Fi,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement this evening. “Kindle Wi-Fi has all the same...
Amazon has launched the Kindle 3, and it’s available for pre-order right here and right now as the Kindle 3G! The new model adds performance, improved design, and attractive new features at the same sweet $189 price that tripled the sales of the previous model in recent weeks, and it will ship on August 27. Also, Amazon founder and...
With all the focus in the past week on the new $9.99 Kindle exclusives of 20 contemporary classics from Andrew Wylie’s new Odyssey Editions imprint, some of the voracious readers of Kindle Nation may not have noticed that another innovative publisher, Rosetta Books, has been quietly building an equally impressive and highly attractive catalog of Kindle Books, most of...
I listened to a podcast interview the other day with innovative Smashwords.com founder Mark Coker, and as always I found him to be an interesting, imaginative guy who is attempting to do important things. He mentioned that his company has been experiencing some formatting difficulties getting its titles accepted in the Kindle Store, but that it is continuing to...
For Kindle Nation citizens who are trying to make sense of all the hating and whining that the traditional publishing industry is directing at Amazon these days, Ruth Franklin has a smart, thoughtful piece in The New Republic’s Books and Arts section entitled The READ: In Defense of Amazon – The corporate behemoth isn’t to blame for the book...
We’ve just added a new free thriller by Lis Wiehl and April Henry that resonates with some of the grisly headlines from recent years…. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor Swallow by Tonya Plank Kindle Edition List Price: $0.99Buy Now (Editor’s Note: Ordinarily I don’t say much to embellish the material provided by authors and publishers for...
Two highly rated new novels — one Contemporary Fiction and one a Parent’s Choice nominee — to share with your in today’s Kindle Store Free Book Alert listings…. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor Swallow by Tonya Plank Kindle Edition List Price: $0.99Buy Now (Editor’s Note: Ordinarily I don’t say much to embellish the material provided by...
Scroll down to check out this week’s sponsor! In This Issue: The eBook Score on Stieg Larsson’s Trilogy? Kindle 1 Million, iBooks Zero A New Agency Model for Publishers to Chew On: Amazon Announces Kindle Exclusives of 20 Contemporary Classics from Updike, Roth, Ellison, Mailer, and More Around the Kindlesphere: Two Very Smart People Weigh in on the Idea...
Here’s an interesting tidbit…. Following on items discussed here at Kindle Nation Daily on June 3 and July 16, Amazon announced this morning that the late Stieg Larsson has become the first author to sell a million paid Kindle books. Larsson is The Beatles of eBooks, as the three books in his trilogy currently rank 1-2-3 among paid titles...
Of course you already know that nothing beats a Kindle when it comes to making reading blissful and hassle-free once you arrive at your vacation destination. Now, with today’s addition to our Free Book Alerts as well as our sponsored title, the Kindle can make getting there more fun than ever with quizzes, trivia, and brain-boggling batches of bytes...
