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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010: Two Romantic Suspense Novels by Elizabeth White

Off the Record by Elizabeth White

Fireworks by Elizabeth White

Zondervan, the religious publisher, is offering free promotions on these two romantic suspense novels by Elizabeth White with the hope that you’ll enjoy them enough to try several other of her novels that are available for the Kindle including Redeeming Gabriel, Tour de Force, Controlling Interest, Fair Game, Sounds of Silence and On Wings of Deliverance.

  • Originally posted February 14, 2010 – © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 (Scroll down for the fine print!)

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

    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
    8. Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus by Michael B Slaughter 
    9. Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview Only (Equivalent of about 35-40 pages despite metadata that indicates longer) by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall 
    10. Devotions for Lent
    11. Serial by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch
    12. The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen (Jan 1, 2009)
    13. Talk of the Town Lisa Wingate (Mar 1, 2008)
    14. Daisy Chain (Defiance Texas Trilogy, Book 1) Mary E. DeMuth (Mar 1, 2009)
    15. Peculiar Treasures (The Katie Weldon Series #1) Robin Jones Gunn (Apr 1, 2008)
    16. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell (Jul 1, 2006)
    17. Icy Heat: A Heat series story by Leigh Wyndfield
    18. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken (Jun 7, 2007)
    19. Kiss Me Deadly (Silhouette Nocturne)
    20. Once A Cowboy (Harlequin American Romance Series)
    21. Homespun Bride (The McKaslin Clan: Historical Series, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #2)
    22. Baby Bonanza, by Maureen Child (Silhouette Desire)
    23. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) 
    24. 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
    25. The Hunters
    26. My Soul to Take (Harlequin Teen)
    27. The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
    28. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
    29. Treasure Island
    30. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
    31. THE ART OF WAR
    32. Dancing In The Moonlight (Silhouette Special Edition)
    33. Crime Scene At Cardwell Ranch (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
    34. The Bride’s Baby (Harlequin Romance)
    35. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    36. Pride and Prejudice
    37. His Lady Mistress
    38. Slow Hands (Harlequin Blaze)
    39. Irresistible Forces (Kimani Romance)
    40. Hide in Plain Sight (The Three Sisters Inn, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #65)
    41. 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)
    42. Atomic Lobster (Serge a. Storms)
    43. 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 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

    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
    8. Change the World: Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus by Michael B Slaughter 
    9. Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview Only (Equivalent of about 35-40 pages despite metadata that indicates longer) by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall 
    10. Devotions for Lent
    11. Serial by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch
    12. The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen (Jan 1, 2009)
    13. Talk of the Town Lisa Wingate (Mar 1, 2008)
    14. Daisy Chain (Defiance Texas Trilogy, Book 1) Mary E. DeMuth (Mar 1, 2009)
    15. Peculiar Treasures (The Katie Weldon Series #1) Robin Jones Gunn (Apr 1, 2008)
    16. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith Rob Bell (Jul 1, 2006)
    17. Icy Heat: A Heat series story by Leigh Wyndfield
    18. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken (Jun 7, 2007)
    19. Kiss Me Deadly (Silhouette Nocturne)
    20. Once A Cowboy (Harlequin American Romance Series)
    21. Homespun Bride (The McKaslin Clan: Historical Series, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #2)
    22. Baby Bonanza, by Maureen Child (Silhouette Desire)
    23. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning) 
    24. 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
    25. The Hunters
    26. My Soul to Take (Harlequin Teen)
    27. The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
    28. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
    29. Treasure Island
    30. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
    31. THE ART OF WAR
    32. Dancing In The Moonlight (Silhouette Special Edition)
    33. Crime Scene At Cardwell Ranch (Harlequin Intrigue Series)
    34. The Bride’s Baby (Harlequin Romance)
    35. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    36. Pride and Prejudice
    37. His Lady Mistress
    38. Slow Hands (Harlequin Blaze)
    39. Irresistible Forces (Kimani Romance)
    40. Hide in Plain Sight (The Three Sisters Inn, Book 1) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense #65)
    41. 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)
    42. Atomic Lobster (Serge a. Storms)
    43. 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 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

    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)

     

    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

    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 ReincarnationistThe 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 Free Book Alert for Wednesday, February 10, 2010: James Patterson, Tom Reynolds, Darren Craske, and More

    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  


    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)

     

    Senior Executive Indicates Random House Could Steer Clear of Price-Fixing Cabal

    Thanks to Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle for turning my attention to some fascinating remarks last week by Madeline McIntosh, who returned to Random House in early November in the newly created position of President, Sales, Operations, and Digital. Speaking in San Jose at the Winter Institute of the American Booksellers Association, McIntosh separated herself and Random House dramatically from what had previously seemed like lockstep among Big Six publishers around issues of pricing control over ebooks.

    According to a report at Publishers Lunch:

    McIntosh took on pricing control directly as one of the reasons Random House has “not acted quite as quickly as others.” She expressed a series of concerns that publishers “have no real experience at setting retail prices….”

    She cited a recent visit to Powell’s, where with used books and new books sitting on the same shelves “they set the prices on every single unit in a unique, demand-based way.” But more importantly from her perspective, up until now “our authors have not been at risk if you make a different decision about how to price a given book, so it didn’t actually affect our author if a given retailer decided to aggressively discount a certain segment of books. The benefit…is that we have been able to sustain a great variety of different authors at different levels.”

    On the windowing of releases, McIntosh expressed a personal opinion and noted “there are a lot of divergent opinions at Random House,” but she is “not convinced that delaying an ebook will be to the benefit of either the author or the consumer.” She prefers not to lose a potential sale because an ebook version is not available and also does not want to “create an adversarial relationship” with ebook readers or “train those readers that instead the best way to get that digital copy is to download it for free.”

    Instead of through changed pricing models, McIntosh said “the best value we can offer in the digital world will be about embracing what we already know how to do well…. Our best asset is our editors.” She spoke about “allowing digital to force us to reinvent ourselves as editors” as Random looks at ways “to contract and deliver content that is a whole range of different lengths, and bring ideas to market in a much faster way than we can when its print.” For the future, she is less excited about “just about creating a digital version of a book or adding bells and whistles” but wonders instead “do we need to push ourselves into an area we really don’t know anything about, which is thinking about developing applications.” She sees the process as taking a brand and conceiving of “what would be compelling to a consumer…that would make us still relevant as a content producer” in a new way, admitting that they don’t have the answers yet–just the question.

    It’s good to see some engaged, intelligent, independent thinking by someone in a position to influence how the ebook pricing saga may actually play out.