Welcome to Scary Saturday for July 24, 2010 For the past year our Free Kindle Nation Shorts program has been connecting thousands of Kindle readers with emerging and established writers, and we’re proud to have helped many writers of distinction climb the Kindle Store bestseller lists. One of those authors has been Joe Konrath, and it has been a...
By Stephen WindwalkerEditor of Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010 Traditional publishing industry insiders may be giving a thumbs down to the new Kindle Exclusives of 20 contemporary classics published by Andrew Wylie’s Odyssey Editions, but the serious readers of Kindle Nation are giving them a huge thumbs up. After just a day of exposure, 17 of the...
We call ‘em as we find ‘em, and three sexy new erotica titles await you in today’s Free Book Alert …. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor THE HARVARD MAN. He is brilliant, possessing intelligence most would classify as genius, and he has always believed he was destined for Harvard University. However, there is a flaw. He...
Amazon has disappointed Wall Street with the release of its quarterly earnings report moments ago. The company reported earnings of 45 cents per share on revenues of $6.57 billion. Consensus expectations were for 54-55 cents a share on revenues of $6.54 billion. The company badly missed earnings per share expectations, met revenue expectations, and offered third-quarter guidance of $6.9...
Free Kindle Nation Shorts – July 22, 2010 An Excerpt from Past Tense a new paranormal thriller by Harlequin authorSamantha Hunter By Stephen Windwalker Editor of Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010 By the end of 2010 Samantha Hunter will have put her name on 16 Harlequin novels with more to come, so she could very easily have continued...
By Stephen WindwalkerEditor of Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010 Update: Apparently Random House does feel strongly that it has legal arrows in its quiver to fight this development, and Random House spokesman Stuart Applebaum told Publisher’s Marketplace this morning, “We are disappointed by Mr. Wylie’s actions, which we dispute. Last night, we sent a letter to Amazon...
By Stephen WindwalkerEditor of Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010 Here’s wonderful news for serious Kindle readers, and another stunner for the publishing industry! Amazon has just announced a hugely significant deal to publish $9.99 Kindle exclusives of, for now, 20 of the great classics of contemporary literature from, mostly, the second half of the 20th century, and...
Thanks to Glitrbug who wrote in with a concern that we might be disappearing from the Kindlesphere based on an email that arrived in her mailbox today! I got a note from Amazon Blogs saying your blog wasn’t going to be offered anymore and that I would get a refund. What’s up? Well, thank you, but au contraire!!! Kindle...
If you’re a James Patterson fan — which would make you one of the readers who has downloaded over 867,881 Kindle copies of his books — you’re likely to be pleased with this afternoon’s latest addition to our Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert listings …. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor Let’s apply the Lay’s potato...
© Kindle Nation Daily 2010 – Originally posted to Kindle Nation Daily 7.21.2010. By Stephen Windwalker, Editor of Kindle Nation Apple (AAPL) put out a press release Tuesday to announce that they shipped over 12 million more Kindle-compatible devices during the fiscal quarter that ended in June, bring the worldwide total of Kindle-compatible devices to over 2 billion. Okay,...
