IN THIS ISSUE – CLICK ON THE TITLES TO READ: The Kindle Revolution and the Bottom Line: Amazon to Announce 2010 Corporate Earnings After Stock Market Close Today, January 27, 2011 Kindle’s New Lending Program May Not Be for Everyone, But It’s Definitely for Some: Lending & Borrowing Grow By Leaps and Bounds Through New “Kindle Lending Club” From...
Free Kindle Nation Shorts – January 27, 2011 Free Your Inner Novelist With D.D. Scott’s MUSE THERAPY: Unleashing Your Inner Sybil ————- A Free Excerpt By Stephen Windwalker Editor, Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2011 About a year ago, acting on a recommendation by Seth Godin, I read a remarkable book entitled The War of Art: Winning the...
Loved The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, but you wish Dan Brown could lose his fixation with all the arty esoterica? Terrence O’Brien’s The Templar Concordat could be the book that hits your sweet spot…. Here’s the set-up: When the truth is your greatest danger, and the enemy knows the truth, things can only go downhill when...
A stirring memoir from the edge of the Holocaust and a fictional broadcast from the Spinward Fringe are this morning’s latest additions to 200+ Free Book Alert listings…. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor At seven, Dave survived a gruesome mountainside car accident that left the rest of his family savaged and dead – but now, twenty-three...
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2010 financial results on January 27, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET. The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir. It will be interesting, as always, to see how much...
In some ways, it wasn’t really fair of us to include a question about the new Kindle lending program in our Winter 2011 Kindle Nation Citizen Survey. After all, the program is even newer and shinier than the Kindles that millions of happy campers opened on the morning of December 25, since Amazon waited until the penultimate day of...
Behind the veneer of manicured yards, designer furniture and vacations, fast-paced careers and super-children lurks envy, greed and materialism. Beneath that? Fear. Suburban Noir – where the mundane is menacing. Here’s the set-up for Cathryn Grant’s Demise of the Soccer Moms: A seemingly quiet suburban neighborhood is upended when a provocative single mother saunters onto the school playground for...
Our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day is a novel of humor, warmth, Christmas tree farming, dressing up like it was 1904, and selling your small town to a theme park conglomerate. Here’s the set-up for Meet Me In Nuthatch by Jacqueline T. Lynch: Party like its 1904, in Nuthatch A publicity stunt to attract tourists to a small...
Honeymooning! Is it a yarn? a short story? a preview? a brand new Cypress Hollow offering with bonus material from HarperCollins? Apparently it is all of these, and it is also free today and sits atop this morning’s freshly updated presentation of over 200 Free Book Alert listings…. But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor A loyal brother,...
INCOMING! IDENTIFY! IDENTIFY! Yes, It’s the Kindle Revolution
We have dispatches from all over this week, and they all bear the same identifying marks. Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s vice-president for Kindle Content, addressed a Digital Book World panel yesterday and summed up the changes that are taking place in the world of publishing and reading like this: “However fast you think this change is happening, it’s probably happening...
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