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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Friday, July 9: How to Send Thousands of Free Books to Your Kindle, Plus The Harvard Man (Today’s Sponsor) and Over a Hundred Free Promotional Kindle Store Titles

In addition to our regular listing of free promotional books, today we’ll focus on the easy steps involved in sending tens of thousands of free books to your Kindle …

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Step-by-Step Tip: Amazon & Open Library Collaborate So You Can Send Tens of Thousands of Free eBooks Directly to Your Kindle via Whispernet

The process of sending any of tens of thousands of free classic books directly to your Kindle is easier and more seamless than ever thanks to a terrific new collaboration between Amazon and the Internet Archive’s “Open Library” project. As Kindle Nation readers know from this post last year, we were already able to download about two million Internet Archives titles to our computers for transfer via USB connection.

Now you can find any of tens of thousands of free ebooks on the “Open Library” website and send them directly and wirelessly to your Kindle. There are nearly half a million ebooks in the Open Library archive, but not all are available free).

The process is simple:

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That click will take you directly to Amazon where, after you sign into your account (if necessary), Amazon will show you a screen like the one below to inform you about its Whispernet personal document policies and fees and prompt you to select the Kindle to which you want to send the title. Once you click “continue,” the free book should be visible on your Kindle home screen within 60 seconds.

Here are our updated free promotional listings in the Kindle Store as of July 9:
 

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 Sam Walton’s Way (FT Press Business Short)

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, July 8: Crime and Suspense, Christian Spirituality and Erotica, Plus Grand Canyon Guide (Today’s Sponsor) and Over a Hundred Free Promotional Kindle Store Titles

Thursday morning finds a new crime and suspense title plus an interesting juxtaposition of erotica and Christian spirituality titles added to our list of over a hundred free promotional titles in the Kindle Store, sorted by category….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

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Publish on Amazon Kindle with the DigitalText Platform
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The Lost Hero Chapter Sneak Peek

by Rick Riordan
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What I Learned from Peter Drucker (FT Press Business Short)

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What Is the Gospel?
Highland Blessings
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Free Kindle Nation Shorts – July 6, 2010: An Excerpt from CLAWS 2, a new adventure thriller by Stacey Cochran … “Think JAWS in the forest” …

By Stephen Windwalker
Editor of Kindle Nation Daily ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010
“Down on her luck and bankrupt, embattled wildlife biologist Dr. Angie Rippard accepts a long-shot assignment from the governor of Colorado to determine once and for all if grizzly bears are completely extinct in the southwest corner of the state.
“No one has seen a grizzly north of Durango since 1979, but the governor needs proof to halt development of a 6,000-acre ski resort that will devastate the natural resources of the region.
“What Angie finds will forever disrupt construction of the 500-million-dollar resort, and pits her against powerful political forces that will stop at nothing to see that her research never sees the light of day… even if it means hunting her to her death through the worst snowstorm ever seen in the mountains near Telluride.”

That’s how the cover copy reads for Stacey Cochran’s new thriller CLAWS 2. And it’s

Cochran with fellow thriller author James Patterson
Stacey Cochran with James Patterson

also true that “Jaws in the forest” does high-concept justice to the novel’s premise.

But there are plenty of writers capable of coming up with a great premise. But the more of Cochran’s work that I read, the more I am finding that what sets him apart from many other authors is his mastery not only of narrative but of place, of characterization, and, of course, of the particularities of real human terror.

Stacey Cochran has been kind of enough to share with us the prologue and first five chapters of CLAWS 2.


The full-length novel is available for just $2.99 in the Kindle Store, along with the first book in his series about the all too believable adventures of wildlife biologist Dr. Angie Rippard, CLAWS, which for now is available for just 99 cents.

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Stacey Cochran is the author of CLAWS, The Colorado Sequence, Amber Page, The Kiribati Test, and now CLAWS 2. Visit him on the web at http://staceycochran.com
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Kindle Readers’ Reviews of CLAWS
“Like Jaws in the forest.” – Jason Hess

“CLAWS was one of the first books that I downloaded for my Kindle and I couldn’t stop reading. Makes you think twice about going camping.” – Holly Christine, author of Tuesday Tells It Slant

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An Excerpt from
CLAWS 2


A Novel by STACEY COCHRAN
Copyright © 2010 Stacey Cochran and reprinted here with his permission


Prologue



Rain hammered the tent.


Beth Jansen and her eight-year-old son Ethan lay inside in the darkness and dampness, feeling cold and wet. The air smelled of mildew and insect repellent. Ethan coughed.


“Can’t sleep.”


“Everything is fine,” she said. “Settle down. Go to sleep.”


Rain pooled on top of their tent, seeping through in drops that fell on the sleeping bags.


Beth had wanted this trip to Colorado to work for months, was desperate for it to work. Ethan was her youngest of three boys, and his growing up unsettled her. Her oldest boy was eighteen, and he had dropped out of high school the year before, moved a thousand miles from home, and worked at a pizza joint. He lived in a dive that Beth couldn’t block from her thoughts at night.


The middle boy was sixteen and had flunked the ninth grade. He threatened her daily that he would leave, and Beth knew it was just a matter of time before he took off to join his older brother. She wouldn’t be surprised to find him gone when she got home from this trip.


This wasn’t how she’d pictured motherhood when she was a girl growing up on a farm in Gilbert, Arizona, and it ate her up inside to think that she was failing as a parent. Women around her neighborhood talked about her behind her back. They talked about her outbursts and about her husband’s walking out on her when the youngest was still in diapers.


But maybe the third boy Ethan would turn out alright. Maybe. He still had some time before he’d hit his teen years, and if she gave him quality time now, she thought, he might not turn on her as badly when he became a teenager.


She started humming Amazing Grace.


Ethan flicked on his flashlight.


“Turn it off,” she said.


Ethan shined the light at the tent’s ceiling. They could see where the weight of the water pressed down on the fabric.


“I thought I heard something,” he said.


“Off.”


Ethan clicked off his flashlight.


“I’m cold,” he said.


His mom said nothing.


“I hate camping,” he said.


“Hush,” she said. “Be still.”


Ethan looked at the water dripping down on top of his sleeping bag. Lightning flashed across the sky, followed by an enormous rumble of thunder. Their campsite was going to get washed away.


Beth sat up in her sleeping bag. The rain continued to pound the tent. She unzipped her bag and leaned toward the front tent flap.


“What’re you doing?” Ethan asked.


“Shhh,” Beth said. “Sleep.”


She stepped outside and swept her hand over the rain cover. Water poured down the sides. She thought about walking back down the mountain to her car. She and Ethan would be drier in the hatchback, but they probably wouldn’t get any sleep.


She could carry the tent and rain cover to a Laundromat in Durango in the morning. They could wash it and dry it, but the walk back down the mountain to her car was over three miles. It would take them at least an hour, provided they didn’t get lost. And it was pitch black out.


Beth saw something move out of the corner of her eye, and adrenaline hit her. She swung around. Her hair was soaked, and she rubbed water from her brow. She squinted into the darkness and rain.


Another bolt of lightning ripped from the sky, brightening the forest. Thunder crackled and enveloped them.


“God,” she gasped.


“Mom?” Ethan called from inside the tent.


“Hush,” she said. “Hand me the flashlight.”


“I’m scared.”


Beth knelt down and looked inside the tent. “The flashlight, Ethan.”


He sat up in his sleeping bag and handed the flashlight to her. She took it and let the tent flap close.


Ethan saw the flashlight turn on through the fabric of the tent. His mom stepped a few feet away, and she shined the light from right to left across the far end of the campsite. Ethan waited for some response, and the rain continued to pour.


The light went out, and Ethan heard growling.


“Mom?” he called.


No reply. She’d been standing about ten feet away when the flashlight vanished, and Ethan leaned forward and pulled the tent flap back. Rainwater spattered up off the ground, and he saw the flashlight was still on. It had fallen down among thick grass at the edge of their site. Ethan didn’t see his-


“Mom!” he shouted into the rain.


Again, no reply. The rain poured down on him. He scanned the darkness at the edge of the site, and terror took hold.


Oh, my God, he thought. Oh, my God!


The fear was paralyzing. He lay down flat in the middle of the tent, his eyes looking out to the left. He didn’t want to move. He couldn’t move. He was afraid to call out.


Then, he heard something large moving outside the tent. He knew it wasn’t his mom. He knew it was a wild animal. It sniffed at the tent, and Ethan saw its nose pressing down against the fabric. His eyes went wide, the adrenaline so intense that he was in shock.


The animal moved around to the front of the tent.


Ethan heard a deep burbling noise, followed by three breathy “whoofing” sounds. The animal exhaled and padded around outside in the rain. It was huge.


And then, everything became silent. It sounded like the animal had walked away. Ethan lay on the floor of the tent, terrified beyond any other fear he’d ever known.


Ten seconds passed. The rain continued to hammer the tent. The floor was wet, and Ethan’s shirt had soaked through. It was cold, and his breath steamed. He lay there another ten seconds willing the animal to go away.


Please go away. Please go away. Please go away.


He didn’t hear it at all, and slowly, he raised himself up off of the floor. He sat on his knees, as though in prayer, and he stared at the tent flap hanging loosely in front of him.


If he just looked and saw that the animal was gone, he would be alright. He just needed to know that it was gone. He didn’t want to die, and so he started to reach forward to pull the tent flap back.


His hand was one inch away from the flap.


He reached forward and touched it. Ethan started to pull the flap to the right.


All of a sudden he heard a roar so loud it ripped apart his world.


A giant bear’s head emerged through the flap.


Ethan screamed and fell back into the tent. The bear swung right and left, cords and stakes ripping up from the earth. Ethan screamed and screamed, but then the bear’s head came forward and its mouth bit his right leg.


Ethan screamed!


The tent fell on top of him, and he batted wildly at it. The bear pulled him from the tent, but Ethan managed to turn over and clawed at the ground.


He felt mud and earth, and he swung around. The bear did not let go of his leg. Tears streamed down the sides of his face. His mouth was wide, screaming like no other scream he’d ever screamed in his life. Then the bear let go.


Ethan had a quarter of a second to try and roll over. He saw the flashlight in the grass. He could smell wet animal fur. The ground was wet, grainy and cold. He had mud on his hands, and he could taste a granola bar he’d eaten an hour ago.


He saw something lying in the grass at the edge of the site. It looked like a shoe sticking up from the weeds.


Then the bear was over him. Enormous.


He screamed, “Please, God, help me!”


The bear’s mouth came down towards his face, and everything faded to black.




One



Frank Dalton glared across his desk at Angie Rippard with unconcealed hatred. He was a backwoods political man who wielded his Telluride mayorship like some sort of mafia kingpin. Angie had read up on his back story and found he’d been divorced four times, but she held that information in quiet reserve.


“There are no grizzly bears in southwest Colorado,” Dalton barked. “None. Do you hear me, Ms. Rippard? And frankly, I don’t have time to waste on a woman like you. With ski season getting underway, there are issues far more important in Telluride than a desperate biologist and a governor who believes in ghosts.”


Dalton wore a black cowboy hat cocked back on his head at an angle, and he kept pushing his glasses up on his nose. The lenses were as thick as Coke bottle bottoms, and they made his blue eyes look like fish eyes.


Angie said, “The governor believes that the San Juan grizzly may not be a gho-”


“And her obvious mental lapse in funding a woman like you as some sort of half-assed maverick research biologist is a total waste of tax-payer dollars.”


The misogynistic undercurrent of Dalton’s statement was so palpable that Angie thought she had misunderstood him. Her brow furrowed, not believing that any twenty-first century human being could be so transparently hateful. She was about to ask him what he meant, but Dalton made it plenty clear.


“Women are not meant to be researchers, Ms. Rippard,” he said. “And maybe it seems a tad bit out of step to you, but I don’t believe they’re meant to hold elected office either. There was a time in the great state of Colorado when women knew their place. After all, the constitution of the United States clearly says ‘All men are created equal.’ Women, on the other hand, are nothing more than housewives and whores.”


Angie stared at him. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing.


Finally she said, “Are you insane?”


“Excuse me, Ms. Rippard?”


“First off,” she said, “it’s Doctor Rippard. Secondly, I don’t know what Cro-Magnon universe you fell out of, but I was asked to be here. The governor of Colorado believes you have the last remnant of Colorado grizzlies up here in these mountains.” She looked out Dalton’s office window at snow-capped La Junta and Palmyra Peaks to the southeast. “Now whether she’s right or whether she’s wrong remains to be seen. But that’s why I’m here, ’cause if there’s a pocket of Colorado grizzlies in the San Juan Mountains, they’d be the most endangered mammal in North America.”


Dalton smirked but said nothing. Angie could smell his body odor across the desk.


She continued, “And, Mayor Dalton, I’m aware of the amount of money paid to cede the 550 land to Abraham Foxwell. I’m aware of his plans with W.D.A. Corp. That’s why I’m here; because if, and again I say if, there is a remnant population of Colorado grizzlies up there, he’ll be forced to suspend construction, and he’ll have to move his slash-and-burn development elsewhere.”


Frank Dalton stared emotionlessly at her. The silence in the room was hot enough to fry an egg on. Outside his office window a gentle snow fell silently, and trucks and SUVs crawled slowly up the two-lane downtown street. Local weathermen were predicting eight to ten inches for the coming twenty-four hours.


“Are you done?” Dalton said.


Angie stared.


“Are you quite finished, Ms. Rippard? Because I was going to offer you my help. A number of my associates are connected with the proposed resort. Five hundred million dollars is an amount of money that a woman of your experience simply cannot understand. I might as well be talking Swahili.”


Angie leaned forward to say something, but Dalton plowed through her.


“That kind of money is just a glimpse of what Abraham Foxwell would do with full access to those mountains. His resort would create a new economy for an economically depressed section of the state around Silverton, south to Durango-hundreds of jobs in construction alone. And once the resort was up and running? Revenue from construction alone would be enough to put food on the table of a lot of out-of-work laborers from Durango to Ridgeway, and that’s not mentioning the resort itself with a proposed six thousand skiable acres. We would rival Aspen-Snowmass to the north. And if he connects his resort over the mountains to Telluride, we would be the largest ski resort in the world, Ms. Rippard. The largest. In the world. Do you understand what that means?”


Angie had not heard these actual numbers before. “Six thousand acres,” she said. “That’s nearly half of San Juan County.”


“Now, I’m obliged to introduce you to the power surrounding that resort, but you’re going to need to show some respect to these billionaires or they’ll laugh at you like a fart in the wind. And if you think my attitude is unflattering, you haven’t seen anything. The kind of money associated with the proposed resort, the kind of money that builds ski resorts, it’d think nothing of cutting your throat and leaving you in the woods to die. And they’ll do the same to any grizzly bear they find living up there. To them, the government’s position was made crystal clear when it said the last San Juan grizzly was shot and killed by Ed Wiseman in 1979. To them, there are no grizzlies in the San Juan Mountains, and they’d like to keep it that way.”


“But that may not, in fact, be the c-”


“Now, if you’d like to play like a nice little girl, I’ll show you around town. Reluctantly. But if you insist on treating me with a lack of respect, I’ll throw you to the wolves.”


Angie was speechless. Her mind raced at light speed. Her breathing was shallow, her palms clammy and cold.


I’m going to kill this son of a bitch, she thought. I swear to God, I’m going to kill him.


“Now,” Frank Dalton said, “I have more important things to attend to in my day, and I’m certain your feminine needs require a transitional period while you move into town. It’s my understanding you’re living alone. Ain’t right for a woman to live alone. If you ask me, it’s strange.”


Angie bit her lip and sat forward in her seat; her hands gripped the chair’s armrests.


“So,” he continued, “I will allow you three days to establish yourself in town. You’re moving into a home out past Matterhorn Road, I understand. Not a very safe location considering the gun-owning citizens that far south in the county. I’d wear bright orange if I was you. Or, better yet, camouflage might be best considering your position.”


Angie stared at him.


He grinned. “Most folks think people like you are nuts, like the wackos who say they’ve been abducted by space aliens. Believing in Colorado grizzly bears is tantamount to believing in ghosts. This new ski resort, on the other hand, is real and could create a stable economy. Many of the working class folks outside of town are going to want to see you hung up, Dr. Rippard. It’s just a word of caution.”


Angie sat silently, staring at him. Dalton gazed across the landscape of his desk at her. Slowly, Angie’s blue eyes rose up to meet his gaze. Her brown hair was back in a ponytail, but several strands hung down on either side. She was beautiful in a rugged self-reliant kind of way, yet she was sophisticated enough to move from three weeks in the backcountry to a Denver boardroom arguing conservation agendas to real estate developers. Angie moistened her rosy lips, and an index finger came up and tapped his desk. She looked into Dalton’s eyes.


“Tell me one thing,” she said.


Dalton frowned.


“If there are no grizzlies up there,” she said, “if you feel so emphatically, so unequivocally certain that there are none-no grizzlies at all-in the San Juan mountains, why did you vote just four years ago toward a resolution making it illegal to hunt and kill grizzlies in San Juan County? If there are none, why would you need to do that?”


Frank Dalton stared at her. He stuttered feebly a moment and then fell silent. He could think of no answer that wouldn’t compromise his position.




Two



Abraham Foxwell had silver hair and ice-blue eyes that peered out from the eighty-second floor of Makalu Tower. The building was the highest in Denver and the third tallest in North America behind the Sears Tower and the Empire State Building. It had initially been named Makalu Tower after the fifth highest mountain in the world to correlate with its being the fifth highest building in North America. That status had changed after the terrorist attacks of 2001, when Foxwell’s fifth highest building became the third highest.


The view from the eighty-second floor was astounding.


Twelve hundred feet above the Denver city streets and three hundred and sixty degrees around the boardroom, the view had astonished the most powerful people on earth. To the east, Colorado was a flat sea that stretched two hundred miles to Kansas. Foxwell liked to hear his people say that on a clear day, they could see all the way to the Atlantic. To the west, the snowcapped Front Range loomed over the city.


Twelve men sat around the boardroom table. There were three women. Everyone was dressed in business attire. Everyone watched Abraham standing by the window. He gazed out at the Front Range.


“What do we hear from our man in Telluride?” he said.


One of the suits spoke. “He briefed the biologist this morning.”


Abraham’s head pivoted around, and his blue eyes caught the eyes of the suit who had spoken. He was the youngest member on the board, a brown-haired Ivy Leaguer with a Southern accent who was destined for Congress in ten years. Maybe less.


“You have her file?”


“Angie Rippard,” Ivy League said. “Doctor Angie Rippard. If you ask me, Governor’s graspin’ at straws.”


He opened a manila folder atop the boardroom table. The table was forty feet long. Each board member looked at Ivy League. Abraham waited for the kid to capitulate and just gazed into his brown eyes. Eventually, the kid shrugged and looked at the fellow board members. Abraham stared a moment more, then turned calmly back toward the view of the Front Range.


“Governor Janet Creed wants you to think she’s grasping at straws. Never underestimate a woman in a position of power.”


He glanced over his shoulder at the three female board members. Two nodded. The third stared without comment at the varnished mahogany shine on the boardroom table.


“And our ground team?” Abraham said.


One of the women, an almond-eyed redhead in an ivory Carolina Herrera skirt suit with four cognac-colored buttons on the front, said: “We have mobile surveillance on the ground.”


“Of course we have mobile surveillance on the ground,” Abraham said. “What do they tell us?”


“It’s the same thing,” she said. “There are no grizzly bears in southwest Colorado. No one has seen a grizzly bear in southwest Colorado since 1979. They’re extinct.”


“That may well be,” Abraham said. “I want a dozen more men in the San Juan mountains. There can’t be so much as a paw print in those mountains. Do you understand what I’m saying?”


“Yes, sir.”


“If this biologist finds a grizzly bear in San Juan County, you know what that’d make it?” He stepped over to the boardroom table; every board member had heard this drill before, but no one answered. His eyes moved from one pair to the next. “It’d make it the most endangered species in North America.”


No one said a word. Abraham continued to look around at each pair of eyes. Everyone stared at him.


“Now our position is perfectly

Outfitting and Protecting Your New Kindle – A Crowd-Sourcing Approach

It’s clear that Amazon’s Kindle sales have been very strong since the recent price cuts, and also that many new Kindle owners have made their way to Kindle Nation. So, as a way of welcoming new and recent citizens of Kindle Nation, I thought it might be helpful to give you a quick list of what have been the most popular Kindle accessories among visitors to Kindle Nation daily during the past few months.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, July 6: Two New Business Shorts, Plus Today’s Sponsor and Over a Hundred Free Promotional Kindle Store Titles

Whether you’re just coming back from your holiday weekend just beginning a July vacation, you’ll need some things to read, no? So we’ll lead with a couple of business shorts but also maintain some of the recent additions to our list of over a hundred free promotional titles in the Kindle Store, sorted by category….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

Never Love a Stranger is a new sci-fi romance by one of the most popular and prolific novelists in the Kindle Store, Ellen Fisher, and at a sweet $2.99 price, it’s already climbing the ebook bestseller list. I was reminded of Jeff Bridges’ Starman character as I started reading, but Fisher goes far beyond that with the inventive, imaginative plot that’s described well in this quick description from the book’s Kindle Store page:

A hero like no other…

One seemingly ordinary evening, Annie Simpson finds an extremely gorgeous (and totally nude) man in her kitchen. When James tells her he’s an escaped criminal from the future, she figures he’s crazy. Before long Annie and James are running for their lives, and Annie’s falling for James in a big way. But now they have to find a way to change the future before fifty million people die…

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The Heroes of Olympus Book One: The Lost Hero, by Percy Jackson creator Riordan, is available for pre-order and will be released October 10 at a Kindle price of $9.99, so the usual free sample chapter is not available for another few months, but this is a fairly substantial preview (over 400 locations, or about 60% as long as Stephen King’s novella Blockade Billy).

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Writing and Publishing
Children/Young Adult/Teen
Contemporary Fiction
Nonfiction/Leadership/Change/Reference/Essay

Christian Spirituality and Christian Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

 
 

Gay and Lesbian

 Out of Bounds: Love of Sports Book 1Romance, Erotica, Gay and Lesbian
by T.A. Chase
Erotica


Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, July 5: Two New Freebies, Plus Today’s Sponsor and Over a Hundred Free Promotional Kindle Store Titles

One more day in your holiday weekend (or almost a week left in your vacation), and nothing left to read? There’s good news this morning in the form of two new additions to our list of over a hundred free promotional titles in the Kindle Store!

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

THE HARVARD MAN. He is brilliant, possessing intelligence most would classify as genius, and he has always believed he was destined for Harvard University.  However, there is a flaw.  He is also mentally unstable, a psychopath with violent tendencies.  Harvard has rejected his application.

Now, he is determined to exact revenge in sweeping strokes of violence that will display his brilliance and bring America’s most prestigious university to its academic knees.  If he can’t have Harvard, no one can!

For the month of July, Vellum Publishing Inc. is offering the riveting new thriller, THE HARVARD MAN by John Arthur Long, at a special introductory price of $2.99 for Kindle readers.

Click here to download THE HARVARD MAN (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

All Vellum Publishing Inc. Kindle store offerings are formatted for easier reading and guaranteed to be reasonably priced at $7.99 or less.  Click here to see the entire Kindle catalog from Vellum Publishing.

Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title, and of course, we encourage you to support our sponsors. Some of these paid titles will be from our own Kindle Nation Daily press (an imprint of Harvard Perspectives Press), while others will be paid titles from other authors and publishers.

Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:

Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

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by Rick Riordan
The Heroes of Olympus Book One: The Lost Hero, by Percy Jackson creator Riordan, is available for pre-order and will be released October 10 at a Kindle price of $9.99, so the usual free sample chapter is not available for another few months, but this is a fairly substantial preview (over 400 locations, or about 60% as long as Stephen King’s novella Blockade Billy).

Here’s a list of the categories in today’s Free Book Alert:

Romance 
Erotica
Gay and Lesbian
Samples
Memoir, Biography, Personal Story
Writing and Publishing
Children/Young Adult/Teen
Contemporary Fiction
Nonfiction/Leadership/Change/Reference/Essay

Christian Spirituality and Christian Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

 
 

Gay and Lesbian

 Out of Bounds: Love of Sports Book 1Romance, Erotica, Gay & Lesbian
by T.A. Chase
Erotica


Another Kindle DX Price Cut: New 2nd-Generation Kindle DX with Global 3G Wireless Now $359

Supplies may be limited, but Amazon has just made its remaining inventory of new white 2nd-generation Kindle DX units available for $359 each. This DX model comes with free global 3G, and until last week it was the newest Kindle DX and was selling for $489.

Here’s a link to the $359 price: Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G, 9.7″ Display, White, 3G Works Globally – 2nd Generation

Here’s the tweet I just posted:

Last week it was $489 but Amazon now selling new white 2nd gen Kindle DX units with free global 3G wireless for $359 http://amzn.to/d1DXkq

Just to be clear, this is not a refurbished model. There are refurbished units of the same Kindle DX available now for $299.99 here.

And, of course, the new graphite Kindle DX is now selling for $379, and it is being marketed as having 50% better display contrast than the white 2nd-generation Kindle DX.