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Monday, Nov 2
Kindle Genre Watch (02 Nov 09)
Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn. Atria. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. ROMANCE 7th Son: Descent by J. C. Hutchins. St. Martin's Griffin. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. WESTERNS Classic Western Collection. Kindle edition $2.95. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Sunday, Nov 1
Barron's Magazine Now Available for the Kindle
Amazon has added the business weekly Barron's Magazine to the roster of magazines available for the Kindle. The price of $10.99 per month includes free automatic wireless delivery of each issue on Saturdays, starting at 11:00 am New York City local time. All subscriptions begin with a 14-d...
Saturday, Oct 31
Opinion: The Kindle Does Halloween: Mystery Fiction for the Holiday
Do you remember your scariest Halloween ever? James Henderson does. It was the year he turned ten. What started out as a sensible plan to collect the most candy while trick-or-treating soon turned into a terrifying adventure for James, his two friends and his kid brother, Ricky." - Amazon.
Thursday, Oct 29
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 30 Oct 09
The Humbling, by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...an entertaining inquiry into the relationship between sex and creativity, sex and age, and sex and the ego (see a theme?)" Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $14.30. Price Alert: Hardcover edition of this book...
Tuesday, Oct 27
Books They're Talking About: Kindle Books in the Media (27 Oct 09)
In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts a wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map. He discusses his passion for the crusading style of reportage he championed, his clashes with Rupert Murdoch...
Sunday, Oct 25
Opinion: Savoring the Past: New Kindle Books for History Buffs (25 Oct 09)
The American philosopher George Santayana is quoted as saying that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. With more than 27,000 books in the Amazon Kindle bookstore "history" category, Kindle-owning history buffs will not run out of reading material any time soon....
Friday, Oct 23
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 23 Oct 09
Eating the Dinosaur, by Chuck Klosterman. Scribner. ESSAYS. EW's slant: "...comes off practically as a shut-in (albeit one with a top-notch DVD collection) ...despite being stuck a bit too much in his own head, Klosterman's essays are still both witty and clever." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 st...
Friday, Oct 16
They Moved My Bowl and More Doggy Humor for the Kindle
Barsotti's distinctive round pups, rendered in just a few simple lines, have been delighting The New Yorker readers for three decades and are instantly-recognizable for their depiction of canines in human roles. The juxtaposition of their simple world, consisting only of food, play,...
Wednesday, Oct 14
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 16 Oct 09
The Christmas Cookie Club, by Ann Pearlman. Atria. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...annual holiday coffee klatch as expository jump-off for cozy midlife chick lit..." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Tuesday, Oct 13
History Thru the Lens of Fiction: New Historical Novels for the KIndle (13 Oct 09)
When the young and beautiful Catherine Howard becomes the fifth wife of the fifty-year-old King Henry VIII, she seems to be on top of the world. Yet her reign is destined to be brief and heartbreaking, as she is forced to do battle with enemies far more powerful and calculating than she could...
Sunday, Oct 11
Opinion: Kindle Genre Watch (11 Oct 09)
On the Edge by Ilona Andrews. Ace. Kindle edition $6.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Soulless by Gail Carriger. Orbit. Kindle edition $6.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. ROMANCE Sweet Seduction by Maya Banks. Berkley. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Wednesday, Oct 7
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 09 Oct 09
Stardust: A Novel, by Joseph Kanon. Atria. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Kanon's prose is eminently noir, all cigarette smoke and magnesium flashbulbs..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (31 reviews). Kindle edition $15.39. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Sunday, Oct 4
Books They're Talking About: Kindle Books in the Media (5 Oct 09)
Follow the talk shows? Here's a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV in the coming week. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview. ON ABC'S 20/20 (09 OCT 09): ON NBC'S TODAY SHOW (09 SEP 09):
Friday, Oct 2
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 2 Oct 09
Juliet, Naked, by Nick Hornby. Riverhead. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...endearingly minor-key tale of never-too-lateness told in Hornby's dry, Brit-wit tones." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $14.27. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Thursday, Oct 1
Holy Kindle, Batman! New Books on Religion for your Kindle
reflects the latest scholarship, current English, and the needs of contemporary students of the Bible. This new testament includes a multitude of study aids right in line with the text. Expanded translations and other helps make it possible for you to study the Bible while you read..." - Amaz...
Tuesday, Sep 29
Kindle Genre Watch (29 Sep 09)
ROMANCE Silent Killer by Beverly Barton. Zebra. Kindle edition $4.47. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Easily Amused by Karen McQuestion. Kindle edition $1.79. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Transition by Iain M. Banks. Orbit. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
Thursday, Sep 24
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 25 Sep 09
The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. Doubleday. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Sometimes it seems that authors, like their villains, don't know when to leave well enough alone." Amazon customer rating: 3 stars (435 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
Tuesday, Sep 22
History Thru the Lens of Fiction: New Historical Novels for the Kindle (23 Sep 09)
The French Mistress: A Novel of the Duchess of Portsmouth and King Charles II, by Susan Holloway Scott. New American Library. TIME FRAME: Restoration England. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (8 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Monday, Sep 21
Books They're Talking About: Kindle Books in the Media (21 Sep 09)
legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. The author of When Jesus Came to Harvard and The Secular City, Cox explains why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social just...
Friday, Sep 18
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 18 Sep 09
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. Chronicle Books. PARODY. EW's slant: "Can it be that in the rush to turn a charming book novelty into a renewable resource, the whole Austen-and-monsters series has already jumped the shark?" Amazon customer rating:...
Tuesday, Sep 15
The Kindle Celebrates Agatha Christie Week (Sep 13 - 20)
Only two Christie mysteries are in the public domain and available for free download to the Kindle: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which marked the first appearance of Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot, and The Secret Adversary, which chronicles the first case of young-ad...
Sunday, Sep 13
Opinion: The Soul of a Dog (and Five Other New Kindle Books about the Pets in Our Lives)
Whether you have a beloved animal companion or - like me - are currently furry friend-impaired yet enjoy reading about other folks' cats and dogs, you may wish to add these recently-published Kindle titles for animal lovers to your Kindle e-library:
Thursday, Sep 10
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 11 Sep 09
The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central Publishing. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...fans of The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, etc. will gobble it up with glee..." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (5 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
The Kindle Explores DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard)
Other Kindle models can speak PDF too, after what is sometimes - not always - a simple conversion process. All of which makes the latest project of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication of interest to Kindle readers with a scholarly bent.
Sunday, Sep 6
Kindle Genre Watch (7 Sep 09)
Dying Bites by DD Barant. St. Martin's. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Price alert! You can buy the paperback editionfor $6.99. Intervention by Robin Cook. Putnam. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. The Siege by Stephen White. Dutton. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Spee...
Friday, Sep 4
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 4 Sep 09
In hypnotic, pared-down prose, The Longshot offers a striking portrait of two men striving to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how ... Cal and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with legendary fighter Rivera. Four years ago...
Wednesday, Sep 2
Opinion: Reading Fiction on your Kindle: A Few Novel Pointers
4. Turn on the Kindle's wireless connection so you can use Google to search for information or check the Wikipedia for information about the author as you read. The Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg E-Books will transport you, magically of course, to Kindle-friendly versions of free Pro...
Monday, Aug 31
The Kindle Reads One Story, The Magazine
One Story magazine is now available in a Kindle edition. Published monthly. $1.49 including free wireless delivery to your Kindle. One Story is a not-for-profit literary magazine featuring one great short story every three weeks. By publishing only one writer one time only, One Story edito...
Friday, Aug 28
Offbeat and Interesting: Three New Nonfiction Titles for the Kindle
Johnson lifts the curtain on an art form that has undergone rebirth and illuminates a world where art, drama, and commerce come together in highly entertaining theater. A tattoo shop is no longer a den of social outcasts and degenerates - it’s a workshop where committed and schooled artis...
Monday, Aug 24
Opinion: History Thru the Lens of Fiction: New Historical Novels for the Kindle (24 Aug 09)
The White Queen, by Philippa Gregory. Touchstone. TIME FRAME: 15th century England. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (13 reviews). Kindle edition $12.47. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. The Virgin's Daughters, by Jeane Westin. NAL. TIME FRAME: 16th century England. Amazon customer rating: 5 sta...
Saturday, Aug 22
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 21/28 Aug 09
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater by Frank Bruni. Penguin. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "What's the big fat deal? Pass the breadsticks." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (9 reviews). Kindle edition $12.46. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Thursday, Aug 20
Kindle Genre Watch (20 Aug 09)
Legacy by Cayla Kluver. AmazonEncore. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Undone by Karin Slaughter. Delacorte Press. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled. ROMANCE WESTERNS The Border Empire by Ralph Compton. Signet. Kindle edition $4.79. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Friday, Aug 14
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 14 Aug 09
A Happy Marriageby Rafael Yglesias. Scribner. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...recounts the triumphs and failures of a well-matched relationship with raw, often brutal honesty." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (34 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Wednesday, Aug 12
The Kindle Reads World Fantasy Award Nominees for Best Novel
Nominees for the 2009 World Fantasy Awards have been announced and devotees of this genre will be pleased to learn that of the five novels up for the best fantasy novel award, four are available for the Kindle. Winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention to be held in San Jose, C...
Saturday, Aug 8
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 7 Aug 09
With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Henry - lonely, friendless, not too good at sports - spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about the soft skin and buddin...
Tuesday, Aug 4
History Thru the Lens of Fiction: New Historical Novels for the Kindle (4 Aug 09)
Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and to survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows up fa...
Sunday, Aug 2
Kindle Genre Watch (2 Aug 09)
Night Watchby Sergei Lukyanenko. Hyperion. Kindle edition $7.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. ROMANCE Bengal's Heartby Lora Leigh. Berkley. Kindle edition $6.39. Text-to-Speech Enabled. Chosen To Dieby Lisa Jackson. Zebra. Kindle edition $5.11. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
Friday, Jul 31
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 31 Jul 09
How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberryby Adrian Colesberry. Publisher. HUMOR. EW's slant: "...while Colesberry's lovemaking may be many-hued, his joke writing is fairly monochromatic." Amazon customer rating: none yet. Kindle edition $9.99.
Monday, Jul 27
Books They're Talking About: Kindle Books in the Media
Today we begin a continuing Kindle Reader column featuring forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on upcoming TV and radio shows. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview. ON THE CBS EARLY SHOW (07 AUG 09):
Saturday, Jul 25
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 24 July 09
It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic and Occasionally Inebriated Womanby Stefanie Wilder-Taylor. SSE Ebooks. MEMOIR. EW's slant: "...a few too many rim-shot-ready-one-liners, but her writing is rich with insights about l...
Thursday, Jul 23
Opinion: Kindle Genre Watch (23 Jul 09)
Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles. Scribner. Kindle edition $9.95. Fugitive by Philip Margolin. HarperCollins. Kindle edition $9.99. Sworn to Silenceby Linda Castillo. Minotaur Books. Kindle edition $9.99. FANTASY ROMANCE TailSpinby Catherine Coulter. Jove. Kindle edition $6.39.
Tuesday, Jul 21
The Kindle Runs Blind into a Tripwire and Dies Trying: The Jack Reacher Series
Jack Reacher... returns in this explosive tale of an undercover operation set up by the FBI to rescue an agent investigating Zachary Beck, a reclusive tycoon believed to be a kingpin in the drug trade..." - Amazon. Warning: the reviews on Amazon contain spoilers. You'll enjoy the plot twists and t...
Sunday, Jul 19
Opinion: History Thru the Lens of Fiction: New Historical Novels for the Kindle (19 July 09)
Falco has taken his pregnant wife, two daughters, and brother-in-law to Alexandria on what is ostensibly a vacation....In fact, Falco is charged with keeping his eye on things, and indeed trouble brews right away - the Librarian of Alexandria's great library is found dead in his sealed offi...
Friday, Jul 17
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 17 Jul 09
The Wedding Girlby Madeleine Wickham. Thomas Dunne Books. NOVEL. EW's slant: "Sophie Kinsella hides behind the pen name Madeleine Wickham this time around, but her lighthearted tone and penchant for ditzy, flawed female characters are plain to see." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (6...
Thursday, Jul 16
A Week of Entertainment: Kindle Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 29 May 09
Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a b...
Saturday, Jul 11
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 10 Jul 09
A Monster's Notesby Laurie Sheck. Knopf. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...brainy, lyrical first novel...thrilling feat of literary scholarship, beautiful wordsmithing and deep empathy." Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (1 review). Kindle edition $16.50.
Thursday, Jul 9
The Kindle Revisits Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld
All volumes in the Otherworld series are now available in Kindle editions: Frostbitten, book ten of the Otherworld series, is slated for publication on September 29, 2009 and is available for pre-orderin hardcover now. No info yet on whether it will be available for the Kindle on that dat...
Wednesday, Jul 8
Kindle Finds a New Cover and It's Heavenly
When I bought the Kindle 2, I once again started looking for a cover. By this time I saw the Kindle as pretty much a constant companion worthy of a beautiful jacket so I looked at the Oberon covers once again and was immediately overwhelmed with choices - some nineteen different designs for Ki...
Saturday, Jul 4
Celebrating the 4th: Historical Novels for the Kindle Set in Revolutionary Times
a fascinating portrait of Aaron Burr, who lived out his long life partly as a suspected traitor and partly as one of the most heroic and colorful of the founding fathers. A fictional memoir based on actual facts, Burr describes the early struggles and endless intrigues of the United States....
Wednesday, Jul 1
Take Me Out to the Kindle: New Baseball Books
A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team - Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others - provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a...
Monday, Jun 29
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly Jun 26/Jul 3
From building houses in Appalachia to saving sea turtles in Costa Rica to teaching English in Thailand, this book is a rich resource of ways to use your skills to help out the world and reap some lasting benefits yourself. Like its two predecessors, it includes an engagingly descriptive me...
Saturday, Jun 27
Opinion: Capturing Lives: New Biographies & Memoirs for the Kindle (28 Jun 09)
Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and M...
Wednesday, Jun 24
PC Magazine Now Available for the Kindle
Amazon has just added PC Magazine to its roster of magazines available for the Kindle. The price of $1.49 per month includes free automatic wireless delivery of each issue at the same time the paper version hits the newsstands. All subscriptions begin with a 14-day free trial period.
Tuesday, Jun 23
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 8 May 09
For three days in January 2007, the most-emailed article in The New York Times was "Appreciations: Mr. Noodle", an editorial noting the passing, at age 96, of billionaire Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen. The very existence of the noodle inventor came as a shock to many, but not...
Opinion: Kindle Genre Watch (23 Jun 09)
This is a modern fairy tale. It's a story about finding a job, having a weird boss, and meeting someone you like. But behind it all, there's a mystery: What is the secret of Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store? This is also a story about books, writing, and technology. So, if you're someo...
Sunday, Jun 21
History Thru the Lens of Fiction: New Historical Novels for the KIndle (4 May 09)
a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity...the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. A pano...
The Kindle Reads Oprah's Books of Summer 2009
Interested in finding out how many of these books Oprah will actually be able to read on her Kindle, I checked and found that 15 of the 25 titles are now available for Kindle readers. Ten are only available in dead tree form. Kindle Editions: Paper Editions:
Friday, Jun 19
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly (19 Jun 09)
Julie Metz's life changes forever on one ordinary January afternoon when her husband, Henry, collapses on the kitchen floor and dies in her arms. Suddenly, this mother of a six-year-old is the young widow in a bucolic small town. And this is only the beginning. Seven months after Henry's dea...
Wednesday, Jun 17
History Thru the Lens of Fiction: New Historical Novels for the Kindle (17 Jun 09)
In first century A.D. Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private 'informer,' often for the emperor, ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations with their wives, so in A.D. 77, Falco and his wife, Helena Justi...
Monday, Jun 15
A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 12 Jun 09
Though not conventionally beautiful..., Idina Sackville dazzled men and women alike, and made a habit of marrying whenever she fell in love - five husbands in all and lovers without number...British society amy have adored eccentrics whose differences celebrated the values they cherished...
Thursday, Jun 11
Kindle Genre Watch (11 June 09)
Slocum and the Family Businessby Jake Logan (Slocum, 365). Jove. Kindle edition $4.79. Slocum's being hunted by Goose Martin - a man with a bad rep and a worse need to put some lead into Slocum. Then a young man approaches him with news that hits harder than any bullet - Slocum is his father." - Amazo...
Tuesday, Jun 9
The Short Answer: The Classic Kindle Or The Kindle DX?
Tomorrow the newest member of the Kindle family - the Kindle DX - ships. Kindle readers now have three choices in Amazon reading devices - the 1st generation Kindle, the Kindle 2 or the Kindle DX. IF YOU'RE BUYING THE KINDLE PRIMARILY FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN READING:
Monday, Jun 1
The Kindle Yuks It Up: Amusing Reads for Lazy Summer E-Book Reading
Tired of 24/7 bad news on cable? Talking heads got yours spinning? The antidote? A few hours getting away from it all with a mood-changing jolt of humor.<br /><br /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_WZgP5QuUFN8/SiMN6KhpacI/AAAAAAAAApg/kJKfs...
Thursday, Dec 25
Opinion: The Kindle Reads Entertainment Weekly's Best Fiction of 2008
The author of this collection of five long stories is a Nigerian-born Jesuit priest. "Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately... [they] take the reader inside Nigeri...
Sunday, Dec 21
Opinion: Murder Can Be Puzzling: Puzzled-Related Mysteries for the Kindle
Sudoku maven Liza Kelly is conducting classes in a penitentiary, of all places. One of her best students is released, but his freedom doesn't last long. He's found dead, leaving his own puzzle for Liza to solve to find the killer -- before her number is up." - Amazon.
Friday, Dec 19
Opinion: Merry Mayhem: A Dozen Holiday Mysteries for Your Kindle!
A humbug of a shopping mystery...From The Anthony and Agatha Award-Winning author of Accessory to Murder. Mystery shopper Josie Marcus doesn't get the appeal of the year-round Christmas shop. But when three such holiday houses pop up within two blocks, she's assigned to rate them anonymous...
Monday, Nov 3
Opinion: Kindle 101: Adding Kindle Books to your Amazon Wish List
Today's Amazon Kindle status: ORDER NOW and Amazon will ship you your new Kindle within 2 to 3 weeks. Eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime. Well, believe it or not, putting a Kindle book in your wish list depends on whether it has been reviewed yet on Amazon by other folks! PLAN A PLAN B
