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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Saturday, April 3, 2010: Kindle Free Book Bonanza with Lemony Snicket, Tony Buzan, and Over 50 Others

    Update: Dozens of Free Kindle Books Removed from Website

    In an uncharacteristic move that may be a temporary glitch, numerous titles that have been offered free in the Kindle Store for the past couple of days have been unceremoniously removed as of early Saturday evening. These include many of the titles that were announced in Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alerts this weekend. We will continue to monitor the situation and update when possible. 



    Amazon and HarperCollins appear to be celebrating the launch of the Kindle for iPad app today with a free book bonanza including over a dozen new free bestsellers.

    I doubt these will last, so get them while you can. They include a bunch of titles from Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Titles, and it will be fun to see how they render on the big, color iPad screen.

    Other new freebies include three popular brain-motivating books by Tony Buzan and four other bestsellers.

    Robin and Ruby

    Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein

    (1 review at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

    From the Amazon Product Description:

    In his award-winning bestseller The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In Robin and Ruby, he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s–and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood, when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend.At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he’s back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he’ll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real.
    Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who’s vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, his friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin’s life. But lately there are glimpses of another George, someone Robin barely knows and can no longer take for granted.
    Ruby is on an adventure of her own, dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist, pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn’t love–not the way she loves the bands whose fractured songs are the soundtrack to her life. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy who might be the key to her happiness, or a disaster waiting to happen.
    As their paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the sadness of their shared past and rebuild the bonds that still run deep. In prose that is lyrical, compulsively readable, and exquisitely honest, K.M. Soehnlein brilliantly captures a family redefining itself and explores those moments common to us all–when freedom bumps up against responsibility, when sex blurs the line between friendship and love, and when what you stand for becomes more important than who you were raised to be.

    One Night in Boston

    One Night in Boston by Allie Boniface

    (2 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance General & Other
    The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1)
    (25 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
    Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1)
    (36 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subject: Fiction
    Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy
    (4 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Public Policy, Government, Spiritual & Religion

     

    Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Friday, April 2, 2010: K.M. Soehnlein’s "Robin and Rudy," and Over 50 Others

    Here’s a new addition to “Free” at the Kindle Store today, from Kensington Books:

    Robin and Ruby

    Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein

    (1 review at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

    From the Amazon Product Description:

    In his award-winning bestseller The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In Robin and Ruby, he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s–and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood, when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend.At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he’s back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he’ll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real.
    Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who’s vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, his friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin’s life. But lately there are glimpses of another George, someone Robin barely knows and can no longer take for granted.
    Ruby is on an adventure of her own, dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist, pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn’t love–not the way she loves the bands whose fractured songs are the soundtrack to her life. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy who might be the key to her happiness, or a disaster waiting to happen.
    As their paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the sadness of their shared past and rebuild the bonds that still run deep. In prose that is lyrical, compulsively readable, and exquisitely honest, K.M. Soehnlein brilliantly captures a family redefining itself and explores those moments common to us all–when freedom bumps up against responsibility, when sex blurs the line between friendship and love, and when what you stand for becomes more important than who you were raised to be.

    One Night in Boston

    One Night in Boston by Allie Boniface

    (2 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance General & Other
    The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1)
    (25 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
    Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1)
    (36 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subject: Fiction
    Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy
    (4 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Public Policy, Government, Spiritual & Religion

    Grace Notes: April 1-30

    by Philip Yancey 

    Digital List Price:     $ 1.00  
    Kindle Price:           $ 0.00                                                               

    From the Back Cover

    ‘ ‘There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more.’ – Billy Graham 

    Philip Yancey’s words—captured in his many bestselling books—have influenced the lives of millions of readers by strengthening their faith, building their hope, sparking their creativity, and challenging their comfort zones. If you’re one of those readers, you know personally how his insights have affected your mind and heart. And if you’re new to Yancey, you’re in for a life-altering experience. These meditations—all drawn from the beloved and bestselling writings of the author—will take you through an entire year of Yancey’s insight and imagination, covering a broad range of topics: 
    •  How to rediscover God through the wonders of nature, music, and romantic love 
    •  Why grace means you can’t do anything to make God love you more or less 
    •  What happens when you cut through preconceptions to encounter the ‘real’ Jesus 
    •  How to renew your understanding and practice of prayer 
    •  Where you can see God in unexpected people and places 
    •  How to cope when life crashes in around you Every day, experience the best from a beloved author who, with freshness, clarity, and energy, has so brilliantly articulated God’s wonderful but mysterious relationship with you. ‘                                                                                          

     

    Updated Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Thursday, April 1, 2010: Let’s add four new books to that earlier alert!

    It’s already time to add four new books to our earlier Kindle Nation Free Book Alert!

    Related post: Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Thursday, April 1, 2010: A Month Worth of “Grace Notes” from Spiritual Writer Philip Yancey, and Over 50 Others


    One Night in Boston

    One Night in Boston by Allie Boniface

    (2 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance General & Other
    The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1)
    (25 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
    Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1)
    (36 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subject: Fiction
    Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy
    (4 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Public Policy, Government, Spiritual & Religion

     

     

     

    4/1 Price Breakdown on 480,238 Kindle Store eBook Titles: The Agency Model is Here, And Not Much Has Changed … Yet

    It’s April 1, April Fool’s Day, and Day One of Steve Jobs’ grand “Agency Model” experiment to transform the book industry by raising ebooks prices 30 to 50 per cent.

    Do you know where your Kindle Store prices are?

    We do, and there may be a few surprised faces when we share what we have. Long story short: Prices are pretty much the same as they were a few weeks ago, but there have been tiny declines in the percentage of books at the price points to which Apple, the Apple 5 publishers, and the agency model were supposedly driving ebook prices:

    • the percentage of Kindle Store books priced from $10 to $12.99 has fallen from 1.25% to 1.24%
    • the percentage of Kindle Store books priced from $13 to 14.99 has fallen from 2.96% to 2.95%
    • the percentage of Kindle Store books priced at $15 and up has fallen from 19.31% to 18.64%

    Meanwhile, (almost) everybody’s favorite tech critic, the New York Times’ David Pogue, has this to say about the iPad as an ebook reader:

    There’s an e-book reader app, but it’s not going to rescue the newspaper and book industries (sorry, media pundits). The selection is puny (60,000 titles for now). You can’t read well in direct sunlight. At 1.5 pounds, the iPad gets heavy in your hand after awhile (the Kindle is 10 ounces). And you can’t read books from the Apple bookstore on any other machine — not even a Mac or iPhone. 

    Ouch.

    Here’s a price breakdown of the 480,238 book titles in the Kindle Store as of 6 a.m. EDT on April 1, 2010:

    Here’s where we stood with about 463,000 Kindle Store titles on March 10:

    • 20,125 Kindle Books Priced “Free” (4.34%)
    • 2,588 Titles Priced from a Penny to 98 Cents (0.56%)
    • 39,095 Kindle Books Priced at 99 Cents (8.44%)
    • 64,105 Kindle Books Priced from $1 to $2.99 (13.84%)
    • 90,580 Kindle Books Priced from $3 to $4.99 (19.55%)
    • 84,055 Titles Priced from $5 to $9.98 (18.15%)
    • 53,697 Titles Priced at $9.99 (11.56%)
    • 5,793 Titles Priced from $10 to $12.99 (1.25%)
    • 13,731 Titles Priced from $13 to $14.99 (2.96%)
    • 89,448 Titles Priced at $15 and Up (19.31%)

    And were’s where we stood with about 447,000 Kindle Store titles on February 25:

    • 19,795 Kindle Books Priced “Free” (4.42%) 
    • 3,023 Titles Priced from a Penny to 98 Cents (0.67%) 
    • 36,370 Kindle Books Priced at 99 Cents (8.12%) 
    • 62,275 Kindle Books Priced from $1 to $2.99 (13.9%) 
    • 87,722 Kindle Books Priced from $3 to $4.99 (19.58%) 
    • 81,230 Titles Priced from $5 to $9.98 (18.13%) 
    • 55,269 Titles Priced at $9.99 (12.34%) 
    • 5,139 Titles Priced from $10 to $12.99 (1.15%) 
    • 9,331 Titles Priced from $13 to $14.99 (2.08%) 
    • 87,771 Titles Priced at $15 and Up (19.59%)

    Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Thursday, April 1, 2010: A Month Worth of "Grace Notes" from Spiritual Writer Philip Yancey, and Over 50 Others

    Digital List Price:     $ 1.00  
    Kindle Price:           $ 0.00                                                               

    From the Back Cover

    ‘ ‘There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more.’ – Billy Graham 

    Philip Yancey’s words—captured in his many bestselling books—have influenced the lives of millions of readers by strengthening their faith, building their hope, sparking their creativity, and challenging their comfort zones. If you’re one of those readers, you know personally how his insights have affected your mind and heart. And if you’re new to Yancey, you’re in for a life-altering experience. These meditations—all drawn from the beloved and bestselling writings of the author—will take you through an entire year of Yancey’s insight and imagination, covering a broad range of topics: 
    •  How to rediscover God through the wonders of nature, music, and romantic love 
    •  Why grace means you can’t do anything to make God love you more or less 
    •  What happens when you cut through preconceptions to encounter the ‘real’ Jesus 
    •  How to renew your understanding and practice of prayer 
    •  Where you can see God in unexpected people and places 
    •  How to cope when life crashes in around you Every day, experience the best from a beloved author who, with freshness, clarity, and energy, has so brilliantly articulated God’s wonderful but mysterious relationship with you. ‘                                                                                          

    Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert: Start with Inkmesh to Find and Download Over a Hundred Free Books from Baen

    Baen Books is a well-respected indie science fiction publisher that has been around for over 25 years, and the company has been in the forefront among publishers who understand and play well with the ebook revolution.

    Baen regularly offers free promotional ebooks in a very successful effort to inspire reader interest in other books that are offered for a price, and the publisher is currently offering over 100 free Kindle-compatible books from its website. In every case they are:

    • easy to find;
    • easy to download to your PC or Mac;
    • easy to transfer to your Kindle; and
    • easy to read on your Kindle, Kindle for PC, or Kindle for Mac.

    Before you start, if you are going to download any of these books to your computer, make sure that you have downloaded and registered the Kindle for PC or Kindle for Mac app to your computer; it’s free, easy, and it will make it easier for you to manage and organize free book downloads like these in the future. You can find links for all of the Kindle’s current and future free device apps downloads in the left sidebar on this Kindle Store page.

    I recommend starting with this Inkmesh link to find the list of free books from Baen: http://bit.ly/FreeBaenBks. Once you see the Inkmesh list on the screen of your PC or Mac (as in the screenshot at right), just follow these steps:

    • Right-click or COMMAND+click on a title that interests you.
    • On the individual title’s Inkmesh detail screen, click on the link in the line that reads “Get it from Baen WebScriptions for free!”
    • On the book’s Baen Books page, you will have a choice between emailing the book directly to your Kindle via the Whispernet, which in virtually all cases involving a Kindle located in the U.S. will cost you 15 cents for Amazon’s email services, or downloading it for free to your computer in a pre-formatted Kindle-compatible file provided by Baen.
    • If you choose to download the book to your computer just click on the link that looks like this under the heading “Download Unzipped Files.” You also have the option of downloading a zipped file, but at today’s download speeds this seems an unnecessary step given that most ebook files are far less than a megabyte. The download should begin immediately with the usual caveats about making sure you trust the source of the file. Baen’s been around twice as long as Amazon and is deserving of your trust.
    • If you are downloading a book to your Kindle for PC or Kindle for Mac app for the first time, you may be prompted to select the application that you choose to have open “files like this,” and you should select the Kindle for PC or Kindle for Mac app. Once you’ve made this selection and responded appropriately to prompts along the way, your copy of the ebook will open in the Kindle app environment right on your computer. 
    • Once you take a look at the ebook and decide that you want to be able to read it on your Kindle, if you have a Kindle, just connect the Kindle to your computer via USB, locate the book file in your “My Kindle Content” folder within your computer’s “My Documents” folder (or a similarly named folder), and you can drag and drop it easily into your Kindle’s documents folder.
    • If you choose to email the book directly to your Kindle, click on the “Email book to my Kindle” and you’ll see a pop-up screen like the one at the right, prompting you to add the address suffix @webscription.net to your “Your Kindle approved e-mail list”on your Amazon Kindle Manger [sic], by which they actually mean your Manage Your Kindle page at Amazon.com. Once you take these steps, enter the address for your Kindle device in the appropriate field and click “Send,” you should see a message like this one, and the book should show up on your Kindle’s Home screen:

    The file [northworld_trilogy.mobi] was sent to your Kindle at [you@kindle.com]

    Good luck!

    Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Monday, March 22, 2010: A New Amazon Book on How to Publish a Kindle Book, and Over 2 Million Other Free Books!

    Downloading? Uploading? More and more Kindle owners are doing both, and this morning Amazon has launched a new free book that is clearly aimed at encouraging thousands of established, emerging, and brand new authors to publish their work directly on the Kindle platform. This is a very brief and rudimentary introduction to using the Kindle Digital Text Platform, but it makes sense for Amazon to use a free ebook to help build interest among current and prospective authors.

    Product Details
    by Amazon.com (Kindle Edition – Mar. 14, 2010)Kindle Book
    Buy: $0.00
    “Free” in the Kindle Store refers, for now, to the price for download to US-based Kindles. Amazon adds various charges for Kindles based beyond US borders.