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Month: February 2010

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010: When You Need a Miracle: Daily Readings … and more

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When You Need a Miracle: Stories to Give You Faith and Bring You Hope by Ann Spangler
Love Yourself and Let the Other Person Have It Your Way by Lawrence Crane and Lester Levenson  
More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea by Tom Reynolds

  • Originally posted February 13, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 (Scroll down for the fine print!)

and …

  1. Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 (Kindle Edition) by Office of Management and Budget
  2. Economic Report of the President 2011 (Kindle Edition) by Council of Economic Advisors
  3. Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel  (Free Book 1 Preview) by James Patterson
  4. The Equivoque Principle: Book 1 of the Cornelius Quaint Chronicles by Darren Craske 
  5. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon by JOHN JACKSON MILLER   
  6. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn by JOHN JACKSON MILLER  
  7. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice by JOHN JACKSON MILLER
  9. Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus by Michael B Slaughter 
  10. Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview Only (Equivalent of about 35-40 pages despite metadata that indicates longer) by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall 
  11. Devotions for Lent
  12. Serial by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch
  14. The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen (Jan 1, 2009)
  15. Talk of the Town Lisa Wingate (Mar 1, 2008)
  16. Daisy Chain (Defiance Texas Trilogy, Book 1) Mary E. DeMuth (Mar 1, 2009)
  17. Peculiar Treasures (The Katie Weldon Series #1) Robin Jones Gunn (Apr 1, 2008)
  18. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell (Jul 1, 2006)
  19. Icy Heat: A Heat series story by Leigh Wyndfield
  20. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken (Jun 7, 2007)
  21. Kiss Me Deadly (Silhouette Nocturne)
  23. Once A Cowboy (Harlequin American Romance Series)
  24. Homespun Bride (The McKaslin Clan: Historical Series, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #2)
  25. Baby Bonanza, by Maureen Child (Silhouette Desire)
  26. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) 
  27. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
    When Night Falls
  28. The Hunters
  29. My Soul to Take (Harlequin Teen)
  30. The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
  31. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
  32. Treasure Island
  33. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  34. THE ART OF WAR
  35. Dancing In The Moonlight (Silhouette Special Edition)
  36. Crime Scene At Cardwell Ranch (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
  37. The Bride’s Baby (Harlequin Romance)
  38. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  39. Pride and Prejudice
  40. His Lady Mistress
  41. Slow Hands (Harlequin Blaze)
  42. Irresistible Forces (Kimani Romance)
  43. Hide in Plain Sight (The Three Sisters Inn, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #65)
  44. New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forward (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
  45. Atomic Lobster (Serge a. Storms)
  46. Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Friday, February 12, 2010: Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 by Office of Management and Budget and Economic Report of the President 2011 by Council of Economic Advisors

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Back in November, in a special meet-up recording of The Kindle Chronicles, I suggested that it would be a wonderful thing if Amazon were to give Kindles to each member of Congress and then to make all proposed legislation available free for all Kindle users, including members of Congress, as a way of promoting informed citizenship. So rather than stoop to some lame joke about how today’s free Kindle books are going to cost us all money sooner or later, I’ll just say that Amazon’s announcement that it would provide free Kindle editions of the budget and the President’s Economic Report is a great first step.

  • Originally posted February 12, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 (Scroll down for the fine print!)
  1. Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 (Kindle Edition) by Office of Management and Budget
  2. Economic Report of the President 2011 (Kindle Edition) by Council of Economic Advisors
  3. Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel  (Free Book 1 Preview) by James Patterson
  4. The Equivoque Principle: Book 1 of the Cornelius Quaint Chronicles by Darren Craske 
  5. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon by JOHN JACKSON MILLER   
  6. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn by JOHN JACKSON MILLER  
  7. Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice by JOHN JACKSON MILLER
  9. Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus by Michael B Slaughter 
  10. Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview Only (Equivalent of about 35-40 pages despite metadata that indicates longer) by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall 
  11. Devotions for Lent
  12. Serial by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch
  14. The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen (Jan 1, 2009)
  15. Talk of the Town Lisa Wingate (Mar 1, 2008)
  16. Daisy Chain (Defiance Texas Trilogy, Book 1) Mary E. DeMuth (Mar 1, 2009)
  17. Peculiar Treasures (The Katie Weldon Series #1) Robin Jones Gunn (Apr 1, 2008)
  18. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell (Jul 1, 2006)
  19. Icy Heat: A Heat series story by Leigh Wyndfield
  20. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken (Jun 7, 2007)
  21. Kiss Me Deadly (Silhouette Nocturne)
  23. Once A Cowboy (Harlequin American Romance Series)
  24. Homespun Bride (The McKaslin Clan: Historical Series, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #2)
  25. Baby Bonanza, by Maureen Child (Silhouette Desire)
  26. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) 
  27. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
    When Night Falls
  28. The Hunters
  29. My Soul to Take (Harlequin Teen)
  30. The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
  31. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
  32. Treasure Island
  33. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  34. THE ART OF WAR
  35. Dancing In The Moonlight (Silhouette Special Edition)
  36. Crime Scene At Cardwell Ranch (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
  37. The Bride’s Baby (Harlequin Romance)
  38. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  39. Pride and Prejudice
  40. His Lady Mistress
  41. Slow Hands (Harlequin Blaze)
  42. Irresistible Forces (Kimani Romance)
  43. Hide in Plain Sight (The Three Sisters Inn, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #65)
  44. New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forward (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
  45. Atomic Lobster (Serge a. Storms)
  46. Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)

 
©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Thursday, February 11, 2010: New Today: The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Companion for Parents-to-Be by Tori Kroop

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Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel  (Free Book 1 Preview) by James Patterson

Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon by JOHN JACKSON MILLER  (We’re glad to see that Amazon has added its Sales Rankings to this title, which is listed this morning at #16).


Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn by JOHN JACKSON MILLER 


Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice by JOHN JACKSON MILLER

Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus 
by Michael B Slaughter

Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview Only (Equivalent of about 35-40 pages despite metadata that indicates longer) by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall

Devotions for Lent

  
The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen (Jan 1, 2009)

Talk of the Town Lisa Wingate (Mar 1, 2008)

Daisy Chain (Defiance Texas Trilogy, Book 1) Mary E. DeMuth (Mar 1, 2009)

Peculiar Treasures (The Katie Weldon Series #1) Robin Jones Gunn (Apr 1, 2008)

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell (Jul 1, 2006)

Icy Heat: A Heat series story by Leigh Wyndfield

John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken (Jun 7, 2007)

His Lady Mistress
Slow Hands (Harlequin Blaze)

 
©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

Anne Rice to Bundle Text and Multimedia "Vook" Story for iPhone, iPad, and Other Devices … Including the Kindle "Multi"?

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Well, well, well.

Just when we were thinking that Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles and other bestselling novels, might be seriously considering bringing out her next book as a Kindle exclusive, she’s thrown us a bit of a curveball with the announcement by her literary agency that she’ll be releasing, through Vook, a multimedia edition of “The Master of Rampling Gate,” a vampire story published in Redbook magazine in 1984 and set in an England mansion in the 19th century.

Back on December 13, Rice went on an Amazon customer forum and asked:     

What do you think? If regular publishing is having a very hard time marketing and distributing books effectively, should major authors think about making Kindle (if possible) their primary publisher? Kindle would then be the one to introduce and advertise the book, and Kindle could license limited hard cover editions for those addicted to the “real book.” Would this be good for authors? Would it be good for readers? Would Kindle do it?

She may still be exploring the Kindle idea, of course.

But Vook has been producing video books for Simon & Schuster and the HarperCollins imprint HarperStudio and also making works out of public domain texts. At least for the short term, it’s more likely that we’ll see Vook productions on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad than on a Kindle. But for further down the road — perhaps in 2010 — it appears that Amazon is also working on a more expensive Kindle “Multi” model that would be available side-by-side with the popular, current-generation 6-inch Kindle “Uno.” (“Uno” and “Multi” are my placeholder names for the two products, aimed at expressing more simply what they would be all about, but more on that in a later post.)

The Kindle “Multi,” with a color touch screen and faster screen refresh, could accomodate Vook offerings by Anne Rice and other authors, and like th iPad it is bound to generate serious buzz and love.

But it all raises serious questions for me:

  • It’s one thing to change the way we read from words on paper to words on an electronic e-Ink display that emulates paper, but is it really likely that the activity, processes, pleasures and utility of reading are going to transformed from words to words and video and audio for a critical mass of readers?
  • Does the bundling of multimedia with the text of a story or a book add so much value that readers or audience are likely to want to spend significantly more either for the bundled content or for devices on which to play the bundled content?
  • Are authors in any significant numbers likely to transform their own creative processes so that they begin and proceed with the intention to create vooks rather than books?

Don’t get me wrong. I believe there will be cool vooks, and I will occasionally pay to download them. I expect Vook will be a very successful company that will grow dramatically and change in many ways over the next couple of years. I’m convinced that both Amazon and Apple will find ways to deliver vook content on a wide range of different devices, including PCs and Macs.

But I am also skeptical that this will be a mass market any time soon. Of course, that’s basically what Steve Jobs said about the Kindle and ereaders back in January 2008, right?

©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

Readers Snarl At Patterson’s Free Preview of "Fang"

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By Tom Dulaney 
Even the astoundingly bestselling James Patterson—or his publisher’s marketing experts—are still floundering when it comes to using the Kindle and its bestseller list as a launch pad for a new book.
Fang: Book 1, the latest in Patterson’s Maximum Ride series targeted on young adults, appeared on Amazon on Feb. 10 in three guises: as a hardback available for pre-order at $9.71, as a Kindle book pre-order for a coincidental $9.71, and in a Free Preview. The preview edition jumped quickly into the top 25 on the Kindle Store bestseller list.
But the first two reviews of the preview pounced right on the fact that “it is not the whole book” being given away, followed by comments criticizing the marketing technique.
Awarding the lowest one-star rating, one reviewer warned others off and called the free preview “deceptive advertising.” The second one-star reviewer joined the first in saying such “previews” were much like the standard samples available on any book for the Kindle.
Perhaps author and publisher would have done better to call the Preview a “Free Sample” or some such term more clearly relating the situation?
Time will tell. But thus far the handful of reviews seems to be getting trumped by the obvious fact that having the book displayed near the top of the Kindle Store bestseller list is getting Patterson’s latest the kind of attention that less successful authors would love.
©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

EXTRA – Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Wednesday, February 10, 2010: Sampler for "The Reincarnationist Series" by M.J. Rose, and a Question About Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon

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M.J. Rose is a first-rate novelist and, even before her fiction was brought to dramatic life in the Past Life series that debuted last night on the Fox network, she has long shown that she has a first-rate mind when it comes to thinking in independent and innovative ways about how to connect with readers. She pays plenty of attention to what readers want, a quality that I would love to see become more widespread among today’s bestselling authors.


So it’s not surprising that she has come up with a new and distinctive way to use the Kindle platform to entice us to enter the world of her novels.


She’s just created a nice, free, almost book-length Kindle sampler of the first three chapters of the three novels that compose her series, The Reincarnationist: The Reincarnationist, The Memorist and The Hypnotist.
There have been a number of other “series” novelists who have experienced some success lately with the strategy of offering a previous title or two from a series as a free book on the Kindle platform in an effort to attract readers to the newest installment in a series, and we certainly welcome more of that. But I really like Rose’s approach here, and there’s no indication how long it will last, so I have already downloaded the sampler which is available right here:



Here’s one reader who is quite likely to buy all three Kindle books as a result of this nice welcome.
As Amazon works to find ways to offer more and more distinctive, high-quality Kindle content at prices that will continue to support the decisions of millions of avid readers to invest in Kindles, it is high time for the company to provide all its authors with the opportunity to come up with innovative ideas like this one. The Digital Text Platform for Kindle publishers should allow authors and publisher to choose from several promotional options with the click of a mouse.
In another situation related to free Kindle listings, we’ve noticed in the last day or two that a new free listing that we mentioned here yesterday — Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon — has strangely been excluded so far from Amazon’s Kindle Store Sales Rankings. It is clear to us that the book has been  downloaded by hundreds of Kindle owners already, and if it got the same Sales Rankings treatment that has been accorded to nearly every other title include Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1 and #2, it would be near the top of numerous Kindle Store bestseller lists, including the primary bestseller list. So, we’re just wondering whether this is a glitch or the advance-guard of new policy. Time will tell.

©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

The Kindle Owner’s Beer

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By Stephen Windwalker 

Originally posted February 10, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010

Okay, it’s all well and good that we recently passed 10,000 Kindle Nation subscribers and we were quoted (out of context, of course) this morning on Marketwatch. We’re still not above an occasional whimsical post.

The word is that there is a minor winter storm on its way toward my Arlington, MA neighborhood, so on my way back from my gym-and-swim this morning I stopped at my neighborhood packie to pick up a 12-pack of Sam Adams Light Beer.

What’s that got to do with Kindle Nation?

I don’t want to overstate the connection, but I promise, we’ll get there.

You may not have watched the Super Bowl this past weekend. Indeed, I think that a lot of Kindle owners were reading their Kindles early Sunday evening and may have missed the game, the Who, and the various multi-million dollar Super Bowl commercials. From what I have heard, we didn’t miss that much. I loved The Who in their day, but I think that day may have passed for Pete and Roger.

But it has come to my attention that reading, and specifically the very Kindle-friendly notion of book clubs, played an important role in one of Sunday’s most prominent Super Bowl commercials.

Let’s just say that the commercial wasn’t exactly respectful of book clubs, of reading, or for that matter of women. It was a commercial, after all, for Budweiser beer.

I’m not a crotchety old curmudgeon, and the only thing that bothers me about the commercial is the way it seems to celebrate stupidity. Some men are actually better than that, at least 40 percent of the time. It’s not like I’m going to start boycotting Budweiser beer as a result of one silly commercial.

The fact is that it isn’t a boycott if you just don’t care for the product.

As a reader, a Kindle owner, and a moderately intelligent person of occasionally refined tastes, I prefer a quality beer. And I may have a slight bias toward Sam Adams because its founder Jim Koch and I were college pals and are still good friends more than a few years later. He brought me a celebratory case of his then-fledgling beer company’s finest brew when I opened my brick-and-mortar bookstore in Boston 25 years ago, and Betty and I attended his 60th birthday party last summer. It was a great party with lobster and steamers and great clam chowder, but the best of it all was the beer.

And I have no doubt that if Jim’s company were to make a similar commercial they would, at the very least, be cutting-edge enough to have a Kindle show up somewhere in the 30 seconds of footage.

©Kindle Nation Daily 2010
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