Archive for October, 2010

A new free offering in the Lancaster County Secrets series, Nancy Moser’s highly rated inspirational romance Mozart’s Sister, and several other new leadership, business and inspirational titles lead the fresh new additions our listing of free contemporary titles in the Kindle Store this morning…. But first … a word from our sponsor…. If you’ve been reading along with us...

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By Stephen WindwalkerEditor of Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010 There are all kinds of suspense novels, but I discovered my own favorite kind in the mid-80s, long before I ever heard of Paul Levine. The same month I opened a bookstore in Boston I read Carl Hiaasen’s first novel, Tourist Season. Call me shallow, but I was...

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Red Jade, Henry Chang’s latest and third novel in the Detective Jack Yu crime series is in the process of being released (hopefully for the Kindle, although there doesn’t currently appear to be a pre-order page), so the series’ debut novel leads our listing of free contemporary titles in the Kindle Store this morning…. But first … a word...

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Up until about 1980, the only person I had ever seen playing solitaire was my grandmother. She used to sit at the counter in her and my grandfather’s East Dixfield General Store and Filling Station for an hour every day during Gramps’ afternoon nap and play solitaire for an hour straight. Then Gramps would come back to work and...

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Don’t miss today’s Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Friday, October 15: The Bite Before Christmas, An Unwanted Hunger, Emotions, and Minesweeper, a new (or newly outed) game for your Kindle! – plus a highly original 99-cent undiscovered gem in J.M. Pierce’s Failing Test (Today’s Sponsor), and over 100 more fully updated and category-sorted free Kindle ebook listings Related...

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The newest game app for the Kindle — a strategic town-building game called Triple Town — has just been launched by Spry Fox, a startup gaming software company co-founded by David Edery, former worldwide portfolio manager of XBox LIVE Arcade, and Daniel Cook, author of Lost Garden, the popular game design blog. I want to say “Minesweeper” meets “Sim...

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http://bit.ly/ShakenCentral SHAKEN IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIRECT DOWNLOAD TO YOUR KINDLE! ORDER IT HERE! Related posts:  Exclusive: Amazon and Author Joe Konrath Select Kindle Nation for Pre-Publication Showcase of the Next 40,000 Words of Shaken  Bestselling Kindle Nation Featured Author J.A. Konrath Jumps Traditional Publisher’s Ship to Bring His Next Novel Directly to Kindle Through AmazonEncore As reported here...

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We first told Kindle owners back in 2008 about the stripped down, bare-bones version of Minesweeper that you could bring up by pressing ALT+M on your Kindle, but we’re happy to report that Amazon has brought the game out of the closet with a much more graphically realized and user-friendly version of the game that now joins Shuffled Row...

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By Stephen Windwalker Consider us stirred, not Shaken. Back on May 17, when Kindle Nation covered Amazon’s announcement that suspense author Joe Konrath had decided to jump ship on traditional publishers and take the seventh book in his Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels series direct to the Kindle via the AmazonEncore publishing imprint, we had no idea that Amazon would reach...

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