Amazon’s posted its new monthly list of $5 MP3 albums (remember, these MP3s work with iTunes!), as well as a very special, limited-time offer. This week only, as a tie-in to promote the movie release, Avengers Assemble is available as a $5 MP3 download. This hard rock album contains 13 tracks, including the first new Soundgarden … Read more
Valya Dudycz Lupescu’s haunting, lyrical novel The Silence of Trees is well worth the usual purchase price of $4.99, but from now through May 3rd the author is offering it for free download. From Amazon: In Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, Nadya Lysenko has built her life on a foundation of secrets. When she was sixteen, Nadya … Read more
Men in Black III is on its way to theaters this summer, so why not check out the first film in the series, Men In Black, while you wait? With an average review rating of 4.5/5 stars across 269 reviews, this fast-paced, funny movie kicked off the series with a bang ($2.99 to rent, $9.99 … Read more
This month’s list of Kindle bargains, books all offered at $3.99 or less, is a great mix of nonfiction and novels. The Herriot classic All Things Wise and Wonderful is here at $3.99, a big savings over the usual digital list price of $14.99. If cooking is your passion, check out Fast, Fresh, and Green, … Read more
Art lovers and students of art will want to get Art Gala: Classical Masterpieces: it’s an app that brings a gallery of masterworks to your Fire, along with a virtual docent to describe the works. From Amazon: Get lost in the timeless work of artists such as Da Vinci, Monet, Picasso and many, many others! … Read more
Perhaps the best way to tell you about After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is to reprint our own Steve Windwalker’s Kindle Nation Daily review: I suspect there are a good many of our readers who like myself savored the pleasures, on the screen or on the printed page, of John Berendt’s … Read more
One of the most popular apps of all time is now available for the Kindle Fire: Draw Something. It was just released April 25th and has already earned an average review rating of 4.5/5 across 146 reviews. From Amazon: You don’t have to be an artist to tap into your creative, doodle-loving side. Art is for everyone, so … Read more
If you’re a fan of puzzles and brainteasers, you’ll want to try the Grabarchuk series of puzzle books. I’ve just tried my hand at Puzzlebook: 103 Puzzle Quizzes and Puzzlebook: 101 Puzzle Quizzes, and can tell you these puzzles are quick, fun and addictive. The collections include puzzles based on pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, word … Read more