Bloomberg News is reporting that when the U.S. Justice Department officially moved to file suit against Apple and the “Agency 5”, all but Apple and one of the publishers named in the suit negotiated a settlement. From Bloomberg: The U.S. sued Apple Inc. (AAPL), Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New … Read more
A new month means some new Kindle Singles, 99 cent shorts in fiction, nonfiction, journalism and memoir. Among the best-reviewed titles this month: An Unexpected Twist, by Andy Borowitz; rated an average of 4.5/5 stars across 141 reviews: Andy Borowitz almost died, but lived to tell this stranger-than-fiction tale. In his first-ever work of autobiography, … Read more
Released just today, Carole King’s Memoir A Natural Woman is a must-read for fans, and recommended for anyone else who would be interested in reading about the tumultuous life of the sometimes needy and even battered woman who nevertheless blazed trails for generations of creative women to come. In her review for USA today, Elysa Gardner says: As an … Read more
Avid readers and fans of erotica can hardly have missed the brouhaha over Fifty Shades of Grey, the surprise bestseller by E.L. James. It’s been written about in The Huffington Post, ABC News has covered it, NPR has debated whether or not it’s sexist, the NY Times has written it up as an “S & … Read more
We posted yesterday about Amazon’s Weekly Digital Deals vote, and here are the winners for this weekend. Last Thursday these products went head to head against other digital videos, ebooks, MP3 albums and videogame downloads, and the one in each category that received the most customer votes was declared the winner, and will now be offered at the low … Read more
A new month means a new list of 100 Kindle books, each priced at $3.99 or less! If you’re pining away for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, you might want to take a look at Boardwalk of Dreams. From Amazon: In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic … Read more
Remember how Amazon had that big holiday promotion, where customers would vote on which sale item they wanted from among a group of deeply-discounted items in various categories? And whichever item won the most votes in each category would be offered at the low, sale price? Well now they’re doing it every week for digital … Read more
If you haven’t been reading magazines on your Fire, you’ve been missing out! And now, Amazon is offering a free, trial issue of 15 different magazines exclusively to Fire owners as an incentive to give this content type a try. The list includes OK, The Atlantic, Martha Stewart Living, Taste of Home, Family Handyman, Whole Living, Men’s … Read more