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Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert: Top Five Fiction Titles for $2.99 or Less in the Kindle Store, and More

Here are some samplings of popular bargain books that are much easier to find with the new organization scheme for the Kindle Store bestseller lists:

Fiction
The Surgeon
2.   
4.5 out of 5 stars (173)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $1.99
Heat of the Moment
37.   
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $2.00
Containment
39.   
4.4 out of 5 stars (25)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $0.99
Heat of the Storm
55.   
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $2.50
Moon Dance
66.   
4.8 out of 5 stars (13)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $2.99

Literary Criticism & Essay

The Complete
3.   
5.0 out of 5 stars (2)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $1.99
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
4.   
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $1.56
BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY
 

5. BULFINCH’S MYTHOLOGY:THE AGE OF FABLE

(Kindle’s Newest TOC Format))
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
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 $1.00
Michel de
8.   
4.7 out of 5 stars (20)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $0.99
Classic American Literature
9.   
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $0.99
Lady Chatterley's Lover
20.   
Auto-delivered wirelessly
 $0.99

 

 

Mystery & Thriller
The List
41.
4.2 out of 5 stars (60)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$1.99
Space Prison
43.
Space Prison, The Survivors (The science fiction thriller classic!)
4.8 out of 5 stars (6)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
KillCure
59.
4.4 out of 5 stars (16)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Sherlock Holmes
62.
4.1 out of 5 stars (17)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Crocodile on
72.
4.3 out of 5 stars (145)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$1.99
The Shot
77.
4.6 out of 5 stars (9)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Thin Blood
80.
4.8 out of 5 stars (6)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Fiction Classics 

 

Wuthering Heights
6.
4.0 out of 5 stars (637)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.80
The Complete
7.
5.0 out of 5 stars (2)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Complete Works
8.
2.9 out of 5 stars (12)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
The Complete
10.
4.6 out of 5 stars (5)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.95
Great Expectations
11.
4.1 out of 5 stars (71)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.95
Pride and
17.
4.5 out of 5 stars (1,011)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$2.96
The Jane Austen Collection
18.

The Jane Austen Collection: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,…

5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
The Divine
19.
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
The Complete
22.
4.0 out of 5 stars (1)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$1.00
Jane Eyre
26.
4.4 out of 5 stars (892)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.95
Whose Body
32.
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Works of
33.
5.0 out of 5 stars (3)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.95
The Plague
34.
4.3 out of 5 stars (166)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Don Quixote
38.
4.3 out of 5 stars (3)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.95
Classic American Literature
41.
4.0 out of 5 stars (2)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
Les Misérables
45.
4.9 out of 5 stars (9)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$0.99
The Complete
46.
2.3 out of 5 stars (3)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$2.99
The Complete
49.
4.5 out of 5 stars (2)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
$1.49

Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert for Saturday, May 22: How to Use the New Kindle Bestseller Lists to Find Great Books at Great Prices

The re-organization of the Kindle Store bestseller lists into “paid” and “free” that we discussed several days ago is now a reality, and it’s a wonderful advance that makes it much, much easier to find great books at bargain prices.

Of course, if you are a citizen of Kindle Nation, you are already well aware of the free books that we share with you several times a week, and it’s nice to find them in well-organized lists, overall and by category.

But the real revelation is that the list bifurcation makes it that much easier to find nicely priced books among the paid listings in any category that appeals to you. And as you can see with the Fiction Bestseller Lists, the agency price-fixing model and some big publishers’ concomitant agenda to raise bestseller prices by 30 to 50 percent is laying a big egg with Kindle readers: only 7 of the top 25 Kindle fiction bestsellers are priced above $9.99.

Kindle Nation Daily Readers’ Alert for Saturday, May 22: The Editor’s Pick of the Week from Paul K. Biba at Teleread

For all who enjoy keeping up with the Kindle revolution and its various offshoots and tributaries, here’s our weekly portion of the top posts and insights as chosen by colleague Paul K. Biba, editor over at Teleread:

Kindle Nation Daily Readers’ Alert for Friday, May 21: New York Times Bestseller List for Paperback Trade Fiction – May 23, 2010

New York Times Bestseller List for Paperback Trade Fiction – May 23, 2010

This Week Weeks on List
1 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $14.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress. $7.16 in paperback; $5.50 in the Kindle Store; unavailable in the iBooks Store. 47
2 SAVOR THE MOMENT, by Nora Roberts. (Berkley, $16.) A founder of the wedding-planning company Vows has a crush on the brother of one of her partners; Book 3 in the Bride Quartet. $9.36 in paperback; unavailable in the Kindle Store; $9.99 in the iBooks Store. 3
3 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $15.95.) A Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect. $8.57 in paperback; $7.99 in the Kindle Store; unavailable in the iBooks Store. Excerpt  8
4 LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave. (Simon & Schuster, $14.) The lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl collide. $7.97 in paperback; $9.99 in the Kindle Store; $9.99 in the iBooks Store. 13
5 BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, by Jennifer Weiner. (Washington Square, $15.) Childhood friends, estranged in high school, reunite years later when one needs help. $8.49 in paperback; $9.99 in the Kindle Store; $9.99 in the iBooks Store. 2
6 SOUTH OF BROAD, by Pat Conroy. (Dial, $16.) An unlikely group’s friendship from the ’60s to the ’80s, by the author of “The Prince of Tides.” $9.36 in paperback; $8.42 in the Kindle Store; unavailable in the iBooks Store. 2
7 A RELIABLE WIFE, by Robert Goolrick. (Algonquin, $14.95.) Complications $7.99 in paperback; $7.19 in the Kindle Store; $7.99  in the iBooks Store. 19
8 THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $16.99.) Aliens control the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender. $9.93 in paperback; $9.99 in the Kindle Store; $9.99  in the iBooks Store. 5
9 SARAH’S KEY, by Tatiana de Rosnay. (St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95.) A contemporary American journalist investigates what happened to a little girl and her family during the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942. $8.37 in paperback; $9.99 in the Kindle Store; $9.99 in the iBooks Store. 66
10* CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese. (Vintage, $15.95.) Twin brothers, conjoined and then separated, grow up amid the political turmoil of Ethiopia. $8.73 in paperback; $8.43 in the Kindle Store; unavailable in the iBooks Store. Excerpt 16

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Friday, May 21: Konrath, Sheldon, Martini, and Dozens More

Here’s a quick free read (or text-to-speech listen) for your commute, just a little something to whet your appetite for the full release of J.A. Konrath’s latest Jack Daniels mystery, Shaken, which will be published initially in a Kindle exclusive by AmazonEncore this Fall and is available, at least for now, at a pre-order price of $2.99. I don’t ordinarily include many “free samples” in the Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alerts because many of them are just trying to game the bestseller lists through the redundancy of offering something that is already free as a Kindle Store free sample. But when a teaser like Konrath’s comes out while the full ebook is still in its unreleased pre-order state, as in this case, a worthwhile purpose is served.

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Rage of Angels (Kindle Edition)

by Sidney Sheldon (Author)

4.7 out of 5 stars  (81 customer reviews)


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Steve Martini’s Shadow of Power Free with Bonus Material

by Steve Martini – Pre-order for May 25, 2010 Release

Kindle Price: $0.00 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
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The Truth About Negotiations by Leigh L. Thompson

by Jerusha Clark

Here are our other updated free promotional listings in the Kindle Store as of May 21:

Product Description

On the road to forever, anything goes-
An Out of Uniform story.
Carson Scott is the king of one-night stands, so a naughty encounter with a sexy brunette in a nightclub supply closet is right up his alley. When his mysterious seductress disappears, he-s blindsided by an unfamiliar emotion-disappointment. One thing-s for sure-if he ever encounters his lady of the evening again, he won-t let her slip away so easily.
Between her catering business, family issues, and her broken heart, Holly Lawson has too much on her plate to think about committing to a serious relationship. Hot, sweaty, anonymous sex with a Navy SEAL-now that sounds like the perfect appetizer to take the edge off. With no plans to ever see him again, she indulges in a fling. Only to come face to face with him weeks later while working a wedding.
Worse, Carson is hell-bent on the one thing she doesn-t want. The R word. She has no intention of falling for him, but in the face of his seductive, mind-changing methods, her resistance is crumbling-
Warning: This title contains a ridiculously hot Navy SEAL, a sassy heroine, and sex in a supply closet. Read only if you have time to take a cold shower afterwards. Graphic sex, explicit language.

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Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure
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Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from theDigital Youth Project
The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and ReassuringCompanion for Parents-to-Be
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
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Hide in Plain Sight
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Kindle Nation Daily Readers’ Alert for Thursday, May 20: Fresh From Appearances on Today, The Early Show, Bonnie Hunt, and Letterman, a Bevy of Kindle Authors!

Today our Readers’ Alert series will shine a fresh light on some recent Kindle titles whose authors have been in the media this week:

Psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser appeared on the Today show to discuss How to Be a Grown Up: The Ten Secret Skills Everyone Needs to Know.
 
Former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes, also on the Today show, with Unforgettable You: Master the Elements of Style, Spirituality, and True Beauty.
  
Jennifer Baggett and Holly C. Corbett were on The Early Show with The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World
 

My s.o. Betty reported to me that she’d enjoyed Bonnie Hunt’s chat with Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, but I was pretty sure it had nothing to do with me.

 
New Yorker contributing writer Patricia Marx appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about her novel Him Her Him Again The End of Him, which according to reviewer Claudia Deane chronicles its protagonist’s involvement with one of those “caddishly bad college boyfriends you somehow can’t quit.”
 
Other Kindle titles in the media in the past few days:

How Hungry is Japan for the Kindle? Perhaps There’s a Clue Here

By Stephen Windwalker, Editor of Kindle Nation – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010

File this one under “Go figure.”

This is a story about a traditional paperback version of a book about an ebook reader … translated into a language that does not even render on the ebook reader … by an author with zero name recognition in the country where the translated book is to be sold … at a time when the company that manufactures and sells the ebook reader has not even committed publicly to a Japanese version of the ebook reader. 

I’m no Joe Konrath, but it is a story that is turning out well in its own way.

One Friday morning in December I awoke and checked my email inbox to find an unsolicited message from Kaori Shibayama, a literary agent with The English Agency (Japan) Ltd. in Tokyo. He was contacting me on behalf of Nikkei Business Publications to offer me a nice advance for the paperback rights to a Japanese translation of my book, The Complete User’s Guide To the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2.

Or, to put it another away, it was as if I had been walking down the street and Michael Anthony had stepped out from behind a building to offer me, not a million dollars to be sure, but a perfectly nice advance for a project that (1) I had never thought about, and (2) would require no effort on my part beyond sending digital and print copies of the book and signing my name a few times. After all, I had already written the book in English and my sales had already topped 100,000 copies in various formats and editions.

Suffice it to say that Mr. Shibayama is now my Japanese agent, and Nikkei Business Publications is my Japanese publisher. Over the course of several months of very pleasant communications between Mr. Shibayama and his colleagues and myself and my excellent Japanese translator Dr. Akira Kurahone, I have been paid the advance and the project has come to fruition. The book is available for pre-orders at the Nikkei Business Publications website and on Amazon’s website in Japan, and is supposed to be released next Monday, May 24 (although the Amazon.co.jp website says May 20, which is tomorrow).

I first noticed the pre-order sites four days ago, on Sunday. By Monday, the book’s sales ranking was in the top 2,000 in Amazon’s Japanese sales rankings, and today it has mostly been in the top 1,000.

Somewhat more astonishingly, if I may hazard to rely on Google Translate, the Nikkei BP website now says that the book has sold out of its first printing “because of the flood of orders,” and will be back in stock on June 1.

I don’t wish to overstate the significance of any of this; after all, Nikkei BP’s print run was modest, only about 4,000 copies to start with. A good chunk of those copies have presumably been ordered by Japanese retailers who have full return rights, so we won’t count our chickens here.

But as I said: This is a story about a traditional paperback version of a book about an ebook reader … translated into a language that does not even render on the ebook reader … by an author with zero name recognition in the country where the translated book is to be sold … at a time when the company that manufactures and sells the ebook reader has not even committed publicly to a Japanese version of the ebook reader.

It’s nice news for me and my publisher, but even better news for Amazon and its Kindle team, if they are listening.