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Kindle Nation Weekly Digest for 6.13.2011 – DEADLINES, DEADLINES! Don’t Let These Kindle Deals Expire Without Taking Advantage!

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Kindle Sunshine Deals expire June 13;
Last Chance to Enter to Win a Kindle Tablet (Sweepstakes Ends June 21)
(See Below for Details)

In This Issue

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BACK ISSUES FROM THE LAST MONTH:

 

Kindle Nation Weekly Digest for 6.4.2011 – Brand New Free Book Tool with Category Sorting of Over 500 Free Titles! Amazon’s New Sunshine Deals = The Best Kindle Book Sale Ever! Enter to Win a Kindle Tablet!

You Asked for It, and Here It Is!
Search and Sort Free Kindle Books by Reviewer Rating, Date Added, Bestselling and Your Favorite Category:

Suspense, Romance, Kids, Horror, Nonfiction, Business, How-To, Fantasy, Erotica and More!

By Steve Windwalker

Ever since we first began posting free Kindle book listings — when was that, sometime in the 70s? — our readers have written in from time to time with requests that we make it possible search and sort these lists by category. We’ve tried manual approaches which haven’t really worked, but now we’ve got some great news!

In our ongoing effort to make Kindle Nation the best and most useful site it can possibly be for the greatest readers in the world — yep, I’m talking to you — we invested a while back in bringing on a terrific development team to turn the reader request into a reality. There are other very cool things on the way, believe me, but today I am thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new Free Kindle Book Tool that allows readers unprecedented features for searching and sorting among the Kindle Store’s ever-growing offering of free contemporary titles, including:

Karen Cantwell, this week's Kindle Nation sponsor
  • multiple category search by our most popular categories, with more to come, as well as a complete list that shows all free contemporary titles; and
  • the ability to sort any of these category or complete lists in ascending or descending order by Bestselling, Reader Review Ratings, or Date Added.

And I think this is the right place for me to extend a huge thank you to all the authors and publishers who have sponsored Kindle Nation over the past year. Just in case it is not manifestly clear, it is our sponsors’ past, present and future support that has enabled us to invest in bringing such cool features to Kindle Nation, and I urge and encourage you to give their books a try whenever you are able and interested.

This week’s newsletter, for instance, is sponsored by a terrific novelist named Karen Cantwell, whose novel Take the Monkeys and Run has already proven a favorite with Kindle Nation readers and is guaranteed — at just 99 cents — to deliver one of the best returns on investment you’ll ever find in the Kindle Store when it comes to hitting the sweet spot at the intersection of Humor and Whodunit.

Here’s our current listing of Category choices, and we will be adding additional categories and other brand new features in the future:

ALSO In This Issue:

This week’s Kindle Nation weekly newsletter is now live on the web – 600+ Free Books, Kindle Store Price Check in Aisle 5, and Preparing the Way for a Kindle Tablet

In This Issue

 

Greetings from Kindle Nation!

You may not be shocked to learn that I absolutely love it when your citizenship in Kindle Nation leads to good things in your live, whether they be great reading, cool Kindle accessories, a chance to win a free Kindle like Cyndi Collins won last week, or …

wait for it …

how about a free trip halfway around the world?

So imagine how happy I was to receive this email this morning from Susan at WorldReader.org, who you may recall appeared here at Kindle Nation back in late March with a guest post about a chance to win a trip to Africa to participate in WorldReader’s mission putting Kindles in the hands of kids there:

Hi Stephen,
How are you?  I hope all is well.
I just wanted to point you in the direction of Sara Rhyne–she won the video competition to travel to Africa with us, and she saw it on Kindle Nation!
I am passing over a link to an interesting interview with her: http://bit.ly/jfgM3b.  She is currently in Kenya and is having a great time…
Take it easy,
Susan

Doesn’t get much better, for me. Thanks, Susan, and congratulations, Sara!

Kindle Nation’s Free Weekly Newsletter and Digest for 5.13.2011 – 500+ Free Books, Kindle Give-aways, and News of a Kindle Tablet

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Greetings from Kindle Nation!

  • Even with plenty of work to do and the occasional crisis — this week’s was generated by Google’s Blogger service — we had tons of fun this week! Why? Mainly because we completed our first-ever Kindle Nation Sweepstakes and got to give away a brand new Kindle 3G! We had 2,998 entries and the level of excitement was high on our Facebook page, where we will be announcing new Kindle give-aways very, very soon to everyone who becomes a fan by clicking the Like button on our page.
  • Our first Kindle give-away is out for delivery as I type and by the time you read this it will probably arrive at the home of winner Cyndi Collins. And meanwhile, if you don’t want to wait for our next Kindle sweepstakes, a little bird told us that there’s another Kindle 3G giveaway going on right now over at the Facebook page of our friends at BookLending.com.
  • Finally, before we get started, Amazon announced this week that Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, has become the fourth member of what it calls the Kindle Million Club. I double checked with a human at Amazon who assured me that they are also keeping track of indie or direct-to-Kindle authors, and it’s my view that there will be several indie author members of the Kindle Million Club by the end of the year. Maybe we should have a contest where the Kindle Nation citizen who correctly predicts the names of any such indie authors wins a new Kindle!

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In This Issue

This Week’s Sponsor – Unmentionables by David Greene

More Free Books Than Ever! Why We Are Going to Keep This Issue of the Kindle Nation Newsletter Especially Short!

Stay Tuned: Will Amazon Announce a $299 Color+Touch Kindle Tablet in July?

Another New App Expands the Power of the Kindle: Converter (Easy Conversions for Kindle)

Amazon: The Hidden Empire — A Fascinating Look at What’s Really Going On

A Word on the Current Blogger Outage

Don’t miss the latest reviews at Kindle Kids’ Corner!

Kindle Nation Free Book Alert: Over 500 Free Contemporary Titles on Kindle!





Live on the Web: Kindle Nation Weekly Digest with Free Books, News, & Tips – March 18-19, 2011

Greetings from Kindle Nation!

If you’ve been a reader of our weekly Kindle Nation email digest for a while, there’s a good chance that you have also read — at least from time to time — our Kindle Nation Daily blog. And it wouldn’t shock me if you said to yourself once or twice, even if you were too kind to say it to me, “Well, it’s a pretty good blog, but he really ought to bring someone in to spruce it up.”

The good news is that, in addition to hearing that from others, I also said it to myself more than once, and this week the process has culminated in our launch of a brand new, totallApril Hamiltony spiffed up Kindle Nation Daily website at http://kindlenationdaily.com. Please feel free to bookmark it and pay us a regular visit each day.

 
 

And just in case you are wondering, yes, I did bring someone special to spruce it up: novelist, nonfiction author, blogger, and all-around web whiz April Hamilton, (photo at right). In addition to her very well-received novels Snow Ball and Adelaide Einstein, she is the author of The Indie Author’s Guide, founder and editor-in-chief of Publetariat, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Independent Authors. And, since I am a great believer in the importance of hiring people smarter than oneself, I’m happy to report  that beginning April 2 she will also be the general manager for Kindle Nation and Windwalker Media.

Welcome to our world, April!

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In This Issue
This Week’s Sponsor: “FAUSTINE,” by Imogen Rose
It’s Here At Last! NOTEPAD: The Full-Featured, User-Friendly, Time-Saving Kindle App That We Have Been Waiting For
Kindle’s Real Page Numbers
A Few Tidbits from the Kindle Store
Around the Kindlesphere – March 18: Kindle Tablet Rumors Redux, More Revolution
From Kindle Kids’ Corner: 6th Grader Elizabeth G. Reviews Palace of Mirrors By Margaret Peterson Haddix: “All girls should read this book”
From Kindle Kids’ Corner: 6th Grader Margaret Ruth O. Reviews Calling by K. R. Schulteis: “Once the story plot started rolling, I was personally enthralled and refused to put it down until I was finished.”
Kindle Nation Free Book Alert: Over 200 Free Contemporary Titles on Kindle!

Kindle Nation’s Free Weekly Digest, January 27, 2011: Kindle Tips, Kindle Lending, Kindle Freebies, and the Kindle Revolution

IN THIS ISSUE – CLICK ON THE TITLES TO READ:
The Kindle Revolution and the Bottom Line: Amazon to Announce 2010 Corporate Earnings After Stock Market Close Today, January 27, 2011
Kindle’s New Lending Program May Not Be for Everyone, But It’s Definitely for Some: Lending & Borrowing Grow By Leaps and Bounds Through New “Kindle Lending Club”
From the Kindle Nation Mail Bag: Kindle User Tip – The Kindle Clock: Setting and Finding The Time on Your Kindle
INCOMING! IDENTIFY! IDENTIFY! Yes, It’s the Kindle Revolution
Kindle Nation Free Book Alert: Over 200 Free Contemporary Books!
Kindle Nation Weekly Sponsor:
A Novel by Deborah Wallis
another 5-star read @ just $2.99!

Deborah, I just finished listening to the excerpt on my Kindle and I’ve gotta say you’ve hit the sweet spot. Even though the genre is not usually my cup of tea I could tell right away that you’ve got terrific command of the tools of your trade as a novelist. I’m setting it up … as a Free Kindle Nation Short, and I will be in touch. Cheers, Steve
That’s the email message I sent immediately after I first read the work of this week’s sponsor, debut thriller novelist Deborah Wallis, and I meant every word. We’ve had three previous Free Kindle Nation Shorts authors who have turned up later signing AmazonEncore contracts, and after reading Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: Murder at Cherry Point it would not surprise me a bit if Deborah Wallis turns out to be the third.
Here’s the set-up:
For the first time in more than a year, Abby Weaver’s family is together when her husband, Major Danny Weaver, returns home safely from Iraq. But only a few months later, a twist of fate puts him in the cockpit of a Harrier spinning out of control during the Cherry Point Air Show. Abby and her six-year-old son, Chris, watch in horror as their lives explode in a fiery crash on the tarmac in front of them.
Was it an accident or murder? Determined to find out what happened, Abby is drawn into the same sordid squadron secrets that Danny had stumbled onto before his death, secrets someone may have wanted concealed badly enough to kill for. As she hunts the person she believes murdered her husband, Abby becomes the hunted in this heart-pounding page-turner.

And here’s another author’s take:
It has become a cliche to say that you couldn t put a book down, but I literally stayed up all night turning the pages of Deborah Wallis’s new thriller. Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: Murder at Cherry Point gives the reader a rare glimpse behind the Marine Corps chain link fences. This rip-snorting read offers real insights into the day-to-day events, the politics, the competition, and, yes, the intrigues of the military life. And it will keep you biting your nails the whole time.
–Edward Barnes Ellis, author of In This Small Place

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