I couldn’t help but notice, the morning after the Academy Awards show, that large enough numbers of Kindle owners were paying $14.85 to purchase and download Sandra Novack’s novel Precious to drive it temporarily into the top 200 in the Kindle Store sales rankings despite its price. It’s probably a terrific read — after all, it has 21 5-star ratings among its 28 reviews — but I suspect that it is also getting a lot of attention because, like one of the reviewers, some people are confusing it with the novel from which the Oscar-nominated film Precious was adapted. So I did a little checking on Oscar-related Kindle editions and unfortunately found slim pickings, which I supplemented below with Amazon’s listings of associated novels, scripts, and video.
Kindle Editions
The Blind Side (Kindle Edition) by Michael Lewis
Up in the Air: A Novel (Kindle Edition) by Walter Kirn
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Kindle Edition) by Julie Powell
Other Books, Scripts, and Movies
The Hurt Locker: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script)
The Hurt Locker Video on Demand – $3.99
Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Precious Video on Demand – $3
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire DVD
An Education Video on Demand – $3.99
The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Books)
The Blind Side DVD
Up in the Air DVD
District 9 (Single-Disc Edition)
District 9 Video on Demand – $3.99
Inglourious Basterds (Single-Disc Edition)
Inglourious Basterds Video on Demand – $3.99
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