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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert: From the mind that brought you Plague Year and The Frozen Sky … Sixteen stories about strange worlds, biotech, commandos, and the girl next door.

Long Eyes and Other Stories: the first complete collection from international bestseller Jeff Carlson.

“Striking.”
—Locus Online

“Exciting. “
—SF Revu

“Chilling and dangerous. “
—HorrorAddicts.net

Long Eyes

by Jeff Carlson
4.3 stars – 7 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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First published in top venues such as Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and cult ‘zines like The Vampire’s Crypt, these stories have been translated into fourteen languages worldwide. Several received honorable mentions in Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction or in Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. As part of the Fast Forward 2 anthology, “Long Eyes” was also a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award.

His work includes the apocalyptic thriller Plague Year, which was hailed by New York Times bestseller James Rollins as “Harrowing, heartfelt, and rock-hard realistic.”
Jeff also wrote the 99 cent sci fi novella The Frozen Sky, which became a Top 150 Kindle Bestseller and has sold 30,000 copies to date, earning praise from Publishers Weekly and Sci Fi Catholic.
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Publetariat Dispatch: The Next 10 Ebook Trends

Publetariat: For People Who Publish!

In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, the Online Colleges site shares the latest trends in ebooks.

This post originally appeared on the Online Colleges site and is reprinted here in its entirety with that site’s permission.

No matter one’s opinion of ebooks and ebook readers, it’s highly doubtful they’re going to just up and disappear anytime soon. Since they’ve already started infiltrating bookstores, libraries and schools, now makes for a great opportunity to start evolving and better meeting various consumer needs. Exactly how this comes about remains to be seen, obviously, but gadget gurus and digital enthusiasts certainly have some interesting ideas about what ebook trends might start cropping up soon.

1. Bundles
Whether packaging a print edition along with the ebook, blending digital versions of an author’s entire oeuvre or organizing reads thematically, many ebook enthusiasts think bundles will inspire quite the popularity surge. The added incentives might very well sway individuals and institutions unsure about whether or not they want to embrace the admittedly expensive technology.

2. Social reading sessions
Online book clubs are actually quite common these days, but ebooks have yet to really seize upon their potential. Beyond offering up discussion questions, readers themselves could include ways for members to communicate with one another via audio or video, or promote even better integration with some of the technologies and organizations already available.

3. Greater interactivity
Ebook users don’t have to set up a book club to enjoy a greatly enhanced reading experience! The digital format allows a far higher degree of interactivity than the traditional paperback, and the potential is limited only by an author’s or programmer’s imagination. Books aimed at young children might especially benefit from this trend — think of how the audience might respond to animations of their favorite illustrations!

4. Authors go straight to ebook publishers
Rather than waiting on their publishing houses to transfer their works over to ebook format, more and more authors are bypassing the traditional system altogether and submitting straight to the producers themselves. And for those looking into self-publishing, pursuing such opportunities may very well mean the difference between floundering in obscurity and hitting the ebook bestseller list.

5. Monetized content
Not everyone will necessarily dig embedded ads in their ebooks, even unobtrusive ones, but that doesn’t mean publishers and companies won’t try to cash in on the technology. All the same, though, monetized content doesn’t have to mean staring down “CLICK HERE!” in the middle of Cat’s Cradle. It could be anything from downloadable content — along the lines of many video games — to subscription services.

6. Different formats for different genres
As ebook readers gain popularity and become more sophisticated, it may come to pass that different genres might end up housed in different technologies. The computerized equivalent of hardcovers versus softcovers, in other words. Kindles and Nooks are excellent for converted novels and nonfiction, but prove a bit too small for textbooks. Larger, more specialized devices could easily come about in order to house “heavier” content.

7. More indie epublishers
With plenty of authors heading straight for ebook publishers and bypassing the usual mainstream channels, now’s an incredible time to be (or even launch) an independent “label.” So many talented individuals have excellent stories to tell and research to share, tech-savvy entrepreneurs and editors probably won’t have a difficult time finding viable content. Because if this, it makes perfect sense that more and more digital publishing — and even self-publishing — houses will start springing up.

8. A greater decline in traditional bookstores
Even those without a business degree see Borders’ recent bankruptcy and closing as the death knell for traditional bookstores. Although it may be a bit premature to declare such a thing, the format certainly needs to adapt and change if it hopes to survive. So while the familiar setup might not “die” like Borders, over time it’s going to start looking a lot different. Barnes and Noble, for example, released the Nook in order to compete with the evolving market. As ebooks continue climbing, it and other book carries will have to find new ways to pick up the slack.

9. Increased royalties from ebook sales
Since ebooks are becoming more profitable, authors (not to mention their agents!) will probably want to see more royalties coming in from their availability. Understandably so! If publishers wish to retain their talent — not to mention attract some awesome new names — they’ll have to start paying up for more than just the bound books.

10. Free ereaders?!
It probably sounds insane right now, but the declining cost of ebook readers mean more can be handed out for promotional purposes. Book clubs, publishers and other businesses or organizations might charge consumers a membership or subscription fee, providing the device completely gratis. No different than cell providers receiving money in exchange for air time and comping the phone as an added incentive to sign up, really.

 

 

KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Tuesday, October 25: Kindle Nation Fave Monique Martin’s WHEN THE WALLS FELL tops SIX (6) BRAND NEW FREEBIES in the last 24 hours added to Our 1,117 FREE TITLES Sorted by Category, Date Added, Bestselling or Review Rating! plus … Christina Dudley’s EVERLIVING (Today’s Sponsor – $2.99)

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Everliving
by Christina Dudley
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For generations Daphne has haunted the men of one family, driving them to obsession and disaster. When she appears to Ben, he must decide whether to answer her call for help, and at what cost.
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Daphne Lindstrom, the beautiful young wife of Red Gap's most prominent citizen, vanished mysteriously not long after her unhappy marriage. More than a century later, botany student Ben Platt finds himself laid up in the former redwood logging town, now reborn as a tourist destination, thanks to a novel based on Daphne's story. But theories on her fate are not the only things to survive.
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One woman curses the men of a family, and it may be Ben's turn to be cursed. "Everliving" tells the story of Ben Platt as he returns home to a small logging town. The legend of Daphne Lindstrom is strong in the town, and Ben finds that the legend has more reality than myth to it. He may be the only one who can help her move on to the next world, but it won't be easy. "Everliving" is an exciting work of fiction, highly recommended.
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Christina Dudley Christina Dudley's latest novel EVERLIVING has been called "spooky and romantic" and chosen as a Staff Favorite by the University of Washington Bookstore. Her debut novel MOURNING BECOMES CASSANDRA was a LoveWebRadio Book-of-the-Month and chosen Top Four of 2010 by DailyCheapReads.com. At the urging of her readers, she penned MOURNING's sequel THE LITTLEST DOUBTS. For the younger readers, her MIA AND THE MAGIC CUPCAKES garnered a 2010 Zola Award for Best Children's Picture Book. When not writing, Dudley can be found crashing local books clubs, acting in Sunday school skits, and speaking for love or money to any large group that will have her. She also blogs for the Bellevue (WA) Farmers Market as the UrbanFarmJunkie. More than you ever wanted to know about her can be found at her eponymous website. She and her family live in Bellevue, Washington.
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“Pure, sensual fun!” Bella Andre’s THE LOOK OF LOVE is our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day at just $4.99 with 4.3 Stars on 61 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample!

Here’s the set-up for Bella Andre’s The Look of Love, just $4.99 on Kindle:

Chloe Peterson is having a bad night. A really bad night. The large bruise on her cheek can attest to that. And when her car skids off the side of a wet country road straight into a ditch, she’s convinced even the gorgeous guy who rescues her in the middle of the rain storm must be too good to be true. Or is he?

As a successful photographer who frequently travels around the world, Chase Sullivan has his pick of beautiful women, and whenever he’s home in San Francisco, one of his seven siblings is usually up for causing a little fun trouble. Chase thinks his life is great just as it is—until the night he finds Chloe and her totaled car on the side of the road in Napa Valley. Not only has he never met anyone so lovely, both inside and out, but he quickly realizes she has much bigger problems than her damaged car. Soon, he is willing to move mountains to love—and protect—her, but will she let him?

Chloe vows never to make the mistake of trusting a man again. Only, with every loving look Chase gives her—and every sinfully sweet caress—as the attraction between them sparks and sizzles, she can’t help but wonder if she’s met the only exception. And although Chase didn’t realize his life was going to change forever in an instant, amazingly, he isn’t the least bit interested in fighting that change. Instead, he’s gearing up for a different fight altogether…for Chloe’s heart.

From the reviewers:

“The Look of Love is an emotionally compelling, thoroughly sexy, lovely read. I can’t wait for more Sullivan brothers!” Carly Phillips, NYT Bestselling Author

“The Look of Love is the perfect combination of sexy heat and tender heart. This character driven romance has brains, brawn and the perfect bad boy to launch a whole family’s worth of fun.” Barbara Freethy, #1 NYT Bestselling Author

“Pure sensual fun! I couldn’t read fast enough. I loved everything about Chase and Chloe’s story. I’m hooked on the Sullivans!” Marie Force, Bestselling Author

“No one does sexy like Bella Andre.” Sarah MacLean, NYT Bestselling Author

THE LOOK OF LOVE is a contemporary romance of approximately 65,000 words / 300 pages. This book also contains the following bonus material: excerpts from FROM THIS MOMENT ON (The Sullivans, Book 2), GAME FOR LOVELOVE ME & CANDY STORE by Bella Andre, plus an excerpt from TAKEN BY THE COWBOY, a time travel romance by USA Today bestseller, Julianne MacLean

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Bella Andre has always been a writer. Songs came first, and then non-fiction books, but as soon as she started writing her first romancenovel, she knew she’d found her perfect career. Known for “sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance” (Publisher’s Weekly) about sizzling alpha heroes and the strong women they’ll love forever, many of her 20+ titles have appeared on Top 50 bestseller lists, including THE LOOK OF LOVE, GAME FOR LOVE, ECSTASY, CANDY STORE and LOVE ME.

Her books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine Red Hot Reads twice (GAME FOR ANYTHING and WILD HEAT) and have been translated into German, Thai, Japanese and Ukrainian. NEVER TOO HOT won the Award of Excellence in 2011. The Washington Post has called her, “One of the top digital writers in America.”

Bella also writes fun young adult novels as Lucy Kevin (http://lucykevin.blogspot.com/) and heartwarming, small town romances as Bella Riley.

Bella lives with her fabulous husband and children in both Northern California and a ninety-year-old lakefront log cabin in New York’s Adirondacks.

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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal – Tuesday Oct. 25 – Save 75% on a deeply affecting novel by Deborah Reed, who signed an AmazonEncore contract just months after her first appearance as a Kindle Nation sponsor, plus … George Berger’s coming-of-age novel MENDACITIES is “cool in so many different ways, you can’t classify it.” (Today’s Sponsor)

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

It’s cool in so many different ways, you can’t classify it. … And the whole thing is couched in prose that is both beautiful and endlessly surprising. The simplest scene may cause you to spray coffee on your Kindle, or just sit back and stare in sheer disbelief at the originality of it all.” – Brent Nichols

Mendacities

Mendacities

by George Berger
4 stars
Lending and Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:
The truth really is out there. Finding it, however, can be hazardous to your health.When a high-school student inadvertently discovers the truth behind the “accident” that killed his father, he and his two best friends–a quiet tomboy and an eccentric with dark secrets in her past–are forced to expose the government’s lies in a desperate bid to avoid becoming victims of an “accident” of their own.A 70,000-word first novel, Mendacities is an entertainingly dystopian coming-of-age story of love, lies, and casual nudity, which defies genre conventions like a Mideast dictator thumbing his over-sized nose at the United Nations…but in a good way.

 

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Under the pen name Audrey Braun she was one of Kindle Nation’s first sponsors over a year ago with A Small Fortune – and now she’s back with an AmazonEncore contract and a Kindle Daily Deal!


Carry Yourself Back to MeKindle Daily Deal: Carry Yourself Back to Me

Deborah Reed’s deeply affecting novel, Carry Yourself Back to Me, cultivates an always tender, sometimes tart portrait of one family’s regret and redemption. Inflected with melancholy and redeemed by melody, the story is certain to strike a resonant chord with music fans and fiction fans alike.

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Kindle Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (75% off)

Kindle Nation Daily Digest – Brief Tips, Freebies and Bargain Updates – Oct. 24, 2011

Kindle Nation Daily Digest

October 24, 2011
Today’s Briefs:

Kindle Fire
Just 23 Days Until the Kindle Fire Ships!
  • Did You Win a Kindle Fire Today? If Your Name is Katy Green* You Did! If Not, You Can Enter a Brand New KINDLE FIRE Giveaway Sweepstakes Right Now! http://bit.ly/uwXtrZ  
  • Today’s Kindle Daily Deal – Monday Oct. 24 – Two bestselling thrillers that will be in the Kindle Store Top 100 by the end of the day, and you can have them both now for a total of less than $2.99! Save 75% on a chilling thriller from Ted Dekker, plus … Star Wars meets Transformers in Mainak Dhar’s Vimana: A Science Fiction Thriller (Today’s Sponsor) http://bit.ly/qDKGEO
  • Melodie Campbell’s ROWENA THROUGH THE WALL is our eBook of the Day at just $3.99 with 4.6 Stars on 21 Reviews, and Here’s a Free Sample! http://bit.ly/ROWENA 
  • KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Monday, October 24: THIRTY-ONE (31) BRAND NEW FREEBIES in the last 24 hours brings us to 1,132 FREE TITLES Sorted by Category, Date Added, Bestselling or Review Rating! plus … Deb Wallis’ CHILD’S PLAY (Today’s Sponsor – $1.00) http://bit.ly/pobBBv
Hope you’ve found at least one item of value here, and we’ll check in again tomorrow. Thanks, as always, for being part of Kindle Nation.
Sincerely,
Steve Windwalker

Did You Win a Kindle Fire Today? If Your Name is Katy Green* You Did! If Not, You Can Enter a Brand New KINDLE FIRE Giveaway Sweepstakes Right Now!

Okay, it’s Monday afternoon in Kindle Nation, so we’ve got good news and bad news. And then we’ve got some more good news.

For the past week, master of suspense James Scott Bell — author of a remarkable collection of a novella and three stories entitled One More Lie  — has been helping us all out by sponsoring Week #2 of our Kindle Nation KINDLE FIRE Sweepstakes.

We had 1,881 entries, and we had hundreds of winners.

Well, of course we had one big GRAND PRIZE winner. Long-time Kindle Nation citizen Katy Green of Pleasant Hill, CA was randomly selected from all the entries to win a KINDLE FIRE tablet. We spoke to her on the phone this morning while she was traveling with her family, and she has already posted on Kindle Nation’s Facebook page. The Fire is slated to ship on November 15, and Amazon has confirmed for us that Katy’s will arrive at her home on November 16!

But hundreds of other participants are big winners, too, because they have had a chance to discover author James Scott Bell. After all, it’s all about the reading here at Kindle Nation. (And just in case you are wondering, James paid the full cost of Katy’s new Kindle Fire. Every penny. What’s that? Did you ask me to repeat the links to James Scott Bell’s 22 books in the Kindle Store? Okay then. Thanks for asking!)

Those who haven’t won a Kindle Fire yet — yep, there’s that bad news we mentioned — will not have to wallow in despair for long. Why? Because we have already opened up our Kindle Nation Week #3 KINDLE FIRE Giveaway Sweepstakes. The Week #2 Sweepstakes runs until noon on Sunday October 30, and entry details can be found at the end of this post.

But there’s another changing of the guard that we would be remiss not to mention: we have a brand new sponsor for Week #3, and those who have yet to discover the Scorpio series that begins with Monique Domovitch’s 5-star American saga Scorpio Rising are in for a special retreat at the equally terrific price of just 99 cents!

When the cost of love is the loss of success, which would you choose?

Scorpio Rising

(The Scorpio Series)

by Monique Domovitch
4.8 stars – 6 Reviews
Here’s the set-up:
Some people have ambitions so great that they will trample on anything and anyone to achieve it.
Born in Brooklyn from an embittered mother, Alexander Ivanov climbs his way to a better life in New York. Thousands of miles away, beautiful Brigitte Dartois also has big dreams and raging ambitions.
Scorpio Rising is an American saga, the story of two people whose single-minded obsessions are put to the test when they meet.
Monique Domovitch has created a page-turning drama worthy of becoming a best-seller. The plot is gripping and the characters well developed. You will fall in love with some and hate others. This book will stay with you long after it’s finished.

So … is that it?

Of course not!

Here are the details on the Kindle Nation Week #3 KINDLE FIRE Giveaway Sweepstakes:

There’s no purchase required, but we do need you to go to our Kindle Nation Facebook page and “Like” us. Give the page a few seconds to load, because for some reason it takes a little longer. Then just follow the prompts to enter the sweepstakes, and you’re done! (Of course, if you want to really improve your chances of winning by multiplying your good fortune by your good karma, we hope you’ll pick up both Scorpio Rising and One More Lie. But like we say, there’s no purchase necessary.)

Good luck! And happy reading!

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*Well, actually, you would have to be a very specific Katy Green: Katy Weston Green of Pleasant Hill, CA.