Archive for November, 2010

From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: Whither The Kindle Movers & Shakers List?

November 16, 2010
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From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: Whither The Kindle Movers & Shakers List?

Thanks to longtime Kindle Nation reader Abby Sthaang who wrote in with this question: Dear Steve, Thanks for all you do for Kindle owners. You definitely have one of the two best Kindle blogs! But I read recently on another Kindle blog that Amazon has done away with the Kindle Movers & Shakers list. Why would they do that?...

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Read a free sample of our eBook of the Day, The Artist’s Model,  without leaving your browser!

November 16, 2010
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Read a free sample of our eBook of the Day, The Artist’s Model,  without leaving your browser!

Tom Laurence knows that he has it all. A successful lawyer, he is set to marry his childhood sweetheart and come into his inheritance. Feeling increasingly as if some important element is missing from his life, he returns to his old passion, painting, in the hope that he will feel more fulfilled. Instead, new conflicts arise when he encounters...

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Tuesday, November 16: Writing Fiction For Dummies, Hustlin’ Divas, Rebel, Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold, and Armistead Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives lead FIFTEEN (15) new free listings, plus … Douglas Clark’s The Lake That Stole Children (Today’s Sponsor)

November 16, 2010
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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Tuesday, November 16: Writing  Fiction For Dummies, Hustlin’ Divas, Rebel, Shrimp: The Endless Quest  for Pink Gold, and Armistead Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives  lead FIFTEEN (15) new free  listings, plus … Douglas Clark’s The Lake That Stole Children (Today’s Sponsor)

 There are 15 new additions to our 100+ Free Book Alert listings this morning, and I personally found several of them extremely download-worthy, including Writing Fiction For Dummies, Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold, and Armistead Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives…. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor The magic of Disney’s Pinocchio blends with the magnificent quest...

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Around the Kindlesphere: Times E-Bestseller List; Ebook Lending; Appy Eat Print World; Amazon Elf-Hunt; iPad v Galaxy

November 15, 2010
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Around the Kindlesphere: Times E-Bestseller List; Ebook Lending; Appy Eat Print World; Amazon Elf-Hunt; iPad v Galaxy

Don’t Miss Today’s Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert plus P.A. Seasholt’s Heart of Hauden (Today’s Sponsor) New York Times Launching E-Bestseller List Early Next Year The New York Times will list bestsellers in ebooks, beginning early next year, according to a report in the Times, itself.  The paper, which has published its much-respected book bestseller list since 1935,...

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Monday, November 15: A devastating look at what could bring the end of life as we know it with Out of Water, plus … the Darkening approaches in P.A. Seasholtz’ Heart of Hauden (Today’s Sponsor)

November 15, 2010
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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Monday, November 15: A devastating look at what could bring the end of life as we know it with Out of Water, plus … the Darkening approaches in P.A. Seasholtz’ Heart of Hauden (Today’s Sponsor)

The world of ebooks is, on one level, a world without shortages (although there are some agency model publishers who would love to figure out a way to create some ebook scarcity in order to wring some final profits out of their dying hardcover businesses). But today’s latest addition to our 100+ Free Book Alert listings offers a frightening...

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Free Kindle Nation Shorts, November 14, 2010 – An Excerpt from I Serve: A Novel of the Black Prince by Rosanne E. Lortz

November 15, 2010
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Free Kindle Nation Shorts, November 14, 2010 – An Excerpt from I Serve: A Novel of the Black Prince by Rosanne E. Lortz

By Stephen WindwalkerEditor of Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010 Rosanne E. Lortz is a talented, highly imaginative author with the kind of gift for weaving detailed research into a tale entirely of her own making that must be essential if one is to create the sort of majestic historical fiction with which she presents us in her...

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How To Sample Terrific Kindle Reads Right In Your Browser: Blank Slate by Zack Hamric — plus a chance to win a new Kindle!

November 14, 2010
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How To Sample Terrific Kindle Reads Right In Your Browser: Blank Slate by Zack Hamric — plus a chance to win a new Kindle!

Did you know you can read a free sampleof a great book like Blank SlateWithout Leaving Your Browser?   Here’s one more chance to win a free Kindle wi-fi just for purchasing and downloading a copy of great new release page-turner of a suspense novel, Blank Slate, from one of our favorite authors, Zack Hamric!   Details of the giveaway are...

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Sunday, November 14: Macmillan introduces readers to Stephen Jay Schwartz’ Hayden Glass novels with a short story, Crossing the Line, plus … Time may not heal all wounds for Rio Laraquette in Sandra Edwards’ Broken Wings (Today’s Sponsor)

November 14, 2010
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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Sunday, November 14: Macmillan introduces readers to Stephen Jay Schwartz’ Hayden Glass novels with a short story, Crossing the Line, plus … Time may not heal all wounds for Rio Laraquette in Sandra Edwards’ Broken Wings (Today’s Sponsor)

Hayden Glass is on the fast track to making detective with the LAPD, but first he’s got to work his way through Vice. But as any cop can attest, you can’t leave your work at the office, and with Hayden’s cursed and troubled past, his soul is not in the best shape. His marriage is on the rocks and...

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Saturday, November 13: There’s Nothing Stupid About Downloading Stupid History and Over 120 Other Free Listings with our Automatically Updated Free Book Tool! plus … Hearts broken, then restored and sustained by love in Alexis Harrington’s Home by Morning (Today’s Sponsor)

November 13, 2010
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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Saturday, November 13: There’s Nothing Stupid About Downloading Stupid History and Over 120 Other Free Listings with our Automatically Updated Free Book Tool! plus … Hearts broken, then restored and sustained by love in Alexis Harrington’s Home by Morning (Today’s Sponsor)

Why shouldn’t your Kindle give you a good laugh now and then? With today’s latest addition to our Free Book listings, you may just get the greatest ratio of LOLs to money spent in the history of humor…. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor The futility of war . . . An invisible, indiscriminate enemy, striking without...

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Money Well Spent for the Greatest Readers in the World: Rose on Arizona, Acuff on Work, Bush on Bush, and a Galaxy Far From Our Own Kindle Nation and Planet iPad

November 13, 2010
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Money Well Spent for the Greatest Readers in the World: Rose on Arizona, Acuff on Work, Bush on Bush, and a Galaxy Far From Our Own Kindle Nation and Planet iPad

By Steve Windwalker We invest a fair amount of our time on free book listings here at Kindle Nation, but every now and then we also like to share some suggestions that might lead our readers down the path to money well spent. After all, the greatest readers in the world cannot subsist on free books alone. Here are...

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