Today’s Kindle Deal of the Day is Deborah Smith’s A Gentle Rain. This Kindle book normally sells at $12.95, but today only you can get it for 99 cents! With an average review rating of 4/5 stars across 80 customer reviews, this book is currently in the top 10 sales ranks in Kindle Contemporary Romance and … Read more
(Psst! Audible members, at the end of this post there’s a link to a full cast performance of The Importance of Being Earnest that’s being offered free to Audible members all this month!) I’ve never been one to watch or read celebrity gossip tabloids, and I don’t care for any of those B-list celebrity reality … Read more
This week’s Amazon Weekly Digital Deals have been announced. The winning movie is being offered as a $1.99 Instant Video rental through the weekend, the winning videogame download and Kindle book are priced at $1.99 through the weekend, and the winning MP3 album is priced at $5 through the weekend: In movies, it’s I Am Legend. The … Read more
It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time to vote for this week’s Amazon Digital Deals. We introduced this new Amazon feature last week, and here’s how it works: Each week’s candidates are posted on Amazon for voting to open on Thursdays, and voting closes the following Wednesday at midnight (PST). The product that has received … Read more
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