Monday starts with a free book in the kindle store and some good deals -
- Bite Me by Parker Blue is a very well reviewed (4.5 stars, 9 reviews) fantasy vampire novel for young adults. It’s also free and sounds quite interesting -
An edgy book for teens that spans the gap between YA and adult fiction. Life after high school is tough enough without having to go 15 rounds with your inner demon.
Val Shapiro is just your ordinary, part-demon, teenaged vampire hunter with a Texas drawl. And a pet hellhound named Fang. Soon enough she finds herself deep in the underbelly of the city, discovering the secrets of the Demon Underground and fighting to save those she loves. Whether they love her back or not.
- Magic in the Wind by Christine Feehan is just $1.99. Rated 4 stars on 69 customer reviews. It’s Book 1 of The Drake Sisters series and categorized as romantic suspense.
- Interlude in Death by J. D. Robb is for $1.99 and Midnight in Death by J. D. Robb is for $1.99. People seem to either love her (thanks for the updates) books or hate them so check them out – they’re classified as Police Procedurals and also as Romantic Suspense.
- The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters is just $1.99 and rated 4 stars on 39 reviews. It’s an Amelia Peabody mystery/thriller.
- Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block is rated 4.5 stars on 20 reviews and is for $3.99. It’s for ages 12 and up.
- Just Sex by Susan Kay Law is a $2.35 romance novel that’s rated 4 stars on 16 reviews.
- Microbe by Bill Clem is a $1.99 technothriller that some reviewers are comparing to The Andromeda Strain. It’s also in the Top 50 on Kobo Books so it ought to be good. His other books are at $1.99 too.
Also free (courtesy Buxr) are 23 children’s picture books in PDF format. Click on the book cover to download. Books include The Boy Who Wasn’t There, Pirates Ahoy, and Tyrone the Horrible.
The meaning of eReader has been completely and truly polluted
Reading through all the ereader headlines and articles today and any device with even a hint of a screen is being referred to as a potential eReader. Soon we’ll have mirrors shipping with a little insert saying – Usable as an eReader. Simply use a book and another mirror.
Another snippet that was extremely annoying/amusing was someone writing that the Kindle is terrible for reading in the dark. Yes, Mr. Genius. It is meant to resemble a book and you need to turn on the light and/or graft a cat’s eyes on to your own.
Finally, some 21-year-old offers his sage advice on TechCrunch (this is so obviously link-bait that it doesn’t deserve to be linked to). Here are the two gems which are rather conveniently the title and the conclusion -
Dear Authors, Your Next Book Should be an App, Not an iBook.
I’m 21, I can say with a lot of confidence that the ‘books’ that come to define my generation will be impossible to print. This is great.
His ‘book should be an app’ idea is pretty disastrous -
Like, do I need to have all of my book accessible at any given time? Why not make it like a game so that in order to get to the next ‘chapter’ you need to pass a test?
Pass a test to get to the next chapter? We already have that. It’s called School.
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J.D. Robb is a pseudonym for Nora Roberts so they are not “his” books. The “in Death” series is pretty good, if you can get past the impossible sex scenes, that part is definitely fiction.
thanks for the update.
As usual, on receiving notice of “free” books available ( the are $2.00 in Canada when they are designated “free”) I checked the current list – only to find that the first two I checked aren’t available for Canada. Given the Kindle itself was made available for Canada it irks me that we not only can’t receive free books as advertised, but that many of the free books aren’t even available if you live in Canada (the actual books are available here in case you were wondering)
The other thing that has reduced my Kindle reading to next to nothing is the fact that many of the books I’d like to read cost more for the Kindle edition than they cost to purchase the real thing – which I can share with my friends. I’ve gone back to the library – with online reserving, it is almost as easy as kindle.
“People seem to either love his books or hate them so check them out”
“his” should be “her”. J.D. Robb is also known as Nora Roberts.
“People seem to either love his books or hate them so check them out”
J.D.Robb is actually a *her*. Specifically, the pseudonym of romance writer Nora Roberts.
is there a way to contact you through the site? an email address or contact form?
i keep wanting to send you stuff, like point out some good and reasonably priced books (i bought 10 this weekend for a grand total of about $12) but cant find a good way to send them to you… although maybe i just havent spotted it?
A comment or just an email at [email redacted]. thanks.
Just to mention that J.D. Robb. is really a female – Nora Roberts is her real name
Actually I think I can see where the 21 year old is coming from. Youths nowadays have very short attention span, as seen from my kids in my school where I teach. Books are no longer engaging, especially textbooks which they abhor.
Instead, they embrace ICT and use the Internet wisely for their knowledge and information. They read, but they don’t read from print books – they read via multimedia resources. So I can see where he was coming from.
But if he was talking about novels – then it would be a big mistake. Having said that, barely any teenagers will actually sit down to read a book – if you’d think about it.