Here’s yet another sign of how far Amazon has come in the past few months as a book publisher: one of the new AmazonEncore titles that we mentioned here a while back has just scored a full-scale book review from USA Today:
“It’s a story as suspenseful as it is rich in detail about the evolving relationships between blacks and whites and men and women in the rural south,” says USA Today reviewer Carol Memmott. With an average rating of 4.6 stars from 19 Amazon customer reviewers, Page from a Tennessee Journal is currently #73 on the Kindle Store’s Literary Fiction bestseller list and is also selling reasonably well in hardcover.
Although USA Today was among the first keepers of book bestseller lists to factor Kindle sales into its rankings, this particular review points readers to the hardcover edition (discounted from $19.95 to $13.57 by Amazon) rather than the $7.99 Kindle edition, which can be read on the Kindle or, with a free Kindle app, on a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, or iPod Touch. Both editions were released on March 16 of this year.