Kindle Daily Deals: Omaha Beach and Gossie

Today’s $1.99 Kindle Daily Deals include first person accounts of Omaha Beach and a picture book for preschoolers, Gossie. Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944 (4.5/5 stars, $1.99 today only) – From Amazon: “Balkoski’s depiction of ‘Bloody Omaha’ is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.” … Read more

Video Post: Whispersync for Voice, Immersive Reading and Text to Speech on the Kindle Fire HD!

There are some features of the new Kindle Fire HD that simply must be seen to be fully understood and appreciated, so we’re kicking off a series of video posts demonstrating those features today with one on the topic of all the ways your Kindle Fire HD can read your Kindle books aloud to you. … Read more

Today’s $1.99 Kindle Daily Deals: International Bestseller Chaperoned For Adults, The Sci-Fi Satire Feed For Teens

Chaperoned (4/5 stars) – From Amazon: When an old friend invites her to help renovate a bar in a posh resort town, single gal Christine immediately agrees, anticipating two blissful weeks of sun, cocktails, and gorgeous men. Her excitement is short-lived, however, thanks in no small part to her overbearing mother and one heavy-handed guilt … Read more

Kindle Fire HD vs. Kindle Fire: Software and Functionality

If you already own a regular, non-HD Kindle Fire, then you know it’s a pretty nifty little multi-purpose device, sort of a step between a dedicated e-reader and a full-featured tablet computer. The new Kindle Fire HD, on the other hand, IS a full-featured tablet computer. [TIP: be sure to read all the way through this … Read more

Today’s $1.99 Kindle Daily Deals For Kids and Adults

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Secrets of the Cold War (4.5/5 stars), a nonfiction historical bestseller. From Amazon: Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there. … Read more

Author Spotlight: Classic Stephen King

The Stand (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $8.99) – From Amazon: This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: … Read more