My sweetie and I are off for a little holiday — and birthday! — break for a few days beginning this afternoon, but I first wanted to say a very warm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of the citizens of Kindle Nation. I believe very strongly in the values of community, and this community has been a special one throughout the past year.

As a small measure of gratitude and a welcoming gesture to the many who will be opening the gift of a Kindle for the first time in the next 24 hours or so, I am reducing the price of the Kindle edition of my bestselling Kindle guide to 99 cents — the lowest price that Amazon will allow — from now through January 6.

If you are one of the tens of thousands of Kindle Nation citizens who has already downloaded the book for a slightly higher price, I hope you will forgive me for making this price available to others, and I hope you have found the guide to be worth the price you paid for it. In fact, I hope you will join me in sharing the news about this new lower price with someone who is just opening a Kindle for the first time, via email, Twitter, Facebook, or Pony Express. Here’s a link to the 99-cent price for  you to share with new recruits to the greatest nation in the Kindlesphere: Kindle Nation, and another link to a 99-cent-a-month subscription to Kindle Nation Daily.

PS: And not to worry, I’ve loaded up the queue with daily posts for Kindle Nation Daily during my brief time away!