As of Thursday, November 5, the Top 5 books on the Kindle Store Bestsellers List are:
By Reason of Insanity, by Randy Singer
Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent
A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
Bound for the Holidays (Ties That Bind book 1) by Mackenzie McKade
The Hunters by Jason Pinter
I’ve never heard of any of [...]
The wonderful thing about sharing a Kindle with your spouse is that you can see where your tastes in books overlap (Malcolm Gladwell) and diverge (anything to do with sports or Jane Austen), without ever having to argue about whose books should be banished to the bottom shelf in the office. There are 52 items on [...]
By marketing eReaders to people who already love to read, device manufacturers are failing to expand the market of potential buyers, thereby cannibalizing the sales of printed books. Or so says Jason Pinter over at Huffington Post in his article “Why the Digital Revolution is Missing the Big Picture” (via TeleRead). He makes some valid [...]
I took the Kindle to my book club meeting on Wednesday for the first time, where it was inspected with some interest. The other book club members, like myself, are women in their thirties. Some of the women are in the paid workforce, and a few of us have taken a couple of years off [...]
I read a sample of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol on the Kindle today, and nearly laughed aloud midway through Chapter One at the description of Brown’s Langdon’s fashion sense: “He was wearing his usual charcoal turtleneck, Harris Tweed jacket, khakis, and collegiate cordovan loafers… his standard attire for the classroom, lecture circuit, author photos, [...]
I read Pride and Prejudice about once every 18 months, each time discovering some new detail that I had missed previously. It was a good choice, then, for my first assessment of the Kindle 2, a test that would determine whether I could get into the flow state that Jeff Bezos refers to. When I [...]