. Two of them -- RAIN! Retail sales overall were up 4%, so that’s not just a case of the general economy affecting the bookstores in a negative way. They don’t understand (and there is nothing wrong with not understanding, as long as you are willing to learn) that Amazon pays the publisher for both the e-book and the p-book, and that in turn is part of how authors get paid. B&N’s aggressive approach to tablet marketing is widely seen as having been an over extension. I loved the book, Pete the Cat - I love my white shoes, and FELT that I had to do more than just read it and sing along! Best of all, there's recipes for you and your other half so you can diet together - with no rows! Blog at WordPress.com. While arguably a genre writer (Westerns, mysteries), Elmore Leonard was recognized outside of those fields, getting a National Book Award last year. We did buy a couple of these, although I’d already gotten some in the past (Amazon notifies you on the book’s product page if you have previously purchased it on this account), and some others block text-to-speech access*. I guess it makes some sense to give people a background when they do video interviews, but there’s something about pretending there are paperbooks there that makes me twitch a bit. When you long press a link on a page, you also get some choices: The Settings don’t seem all that different, unfortunately. , Maybe you could hire somebody like an old Catskills comedian to do it like a stand-up routine…, “Hey, it’s nice to see all the investors in the audience. I’m guessing that the reason why one with more than 3,000 is below one with fewer than 500 has to do with decimals we aren’t seeing…one might be 4.9123 and the other one 4.9125, for example. My work space can be anywhere I feel physically comfortable , warm and relaxed. You’ll receive your first email within 48 hours. 4.1 with 1,028 reviews, Howl’s Moving Castle I mean, it’s that or be Batman, and Ben Affleck just got that gig. It’s not that much cheaper than some current tablets, but some people will want them. Feel free to tell me and my readers what you think by commenting on this post. Thanks, Barbara! vibe, although yes, Wayne’s World was five years before 1997. links to an amazing video from 1997 having kids explain how to use the internet, and how cool that is. A Ball for Daisy is a story of loss — a little dog loses her favorite red ball to a much larger dog — but now it's also a story about winning: On Monday, Chris Raschka's book won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal for best illustrated story. with a “return engagement” for 68 (at time of writing) books which have previously been popular Kindle Daily Deals. The youngest Baby Boomers are in their mid-50s, after all, and that’s the generation that largely invented home electronics. Is competitive reading a good idea, or does it devalue the act of reading? They are committed to continuing with the NOOK side of the business…at which point, I’m all of the investors in the room snuck a sideways peek at the person next to them, to see if they were dumping the stock and making a break for the exit. I’m not sure that you’ll even be able to perceive the difference at that high a level…like being able to tell using your eye which Olympic swimmer one by 1/100th of a second. Our editors love sharing what’s new and trending in Teen and Young Adult literature. Woot is owned by Amazon, and does great, very short-term sales. Posted in Giveaways, Round-ups | 6 Comments ». You send them a picture of you holding the p-book, and they send you a pdf of it for free. Here are two more similarly extraordinary books—Bear Despair and Waterloo & Trafalgar—that invite you and your child into the world of images and ideas. It’s a refurbished first generation Kindle Fire for $89.99. It doesn’t have Bluetooth, which means no external keyboard. Early surveys indicated that Kindles were used disproportionately by people over 50, and that made sense. 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That often comes from a position of naivety: they think that Amazon can just give you a digital copy, I guess by scanning the p-book. Oh, it’s exactly the same…not! ), I Love My Kindle blog (automatically on your Kindle! I’m not quite sure how they figure that. I just check those and get to those faster. One barrier is that you would pay more for this combo than you might pay for the e-book alone, but I still don’t quite get it. , Guardian: “Amazon Kindle: why I finally went over to the dark side”, Thanks to Publishers Weekly for the heads-up on this. In the overall list, the top ten at time of writing are: I find that a fascinating set! 4.3 with 151 reviews, Agatha Christie + Miss Marple…need I say more? It’s possible that Jeff will find something sustainable, and I really don’t see the Amazon CEO Bigfooting any political stories into the “paper”. (U.S. customers only) Weekly, Grand Harbor Subscribe now to find out about each day’s deals.