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Trivia in the Kindle store
Trivia in the Kindle store I love trivia! I’ve had books about it for years. When I managed a brick-and-mortar bookstore, I had a publisher’s rep who had been a five-time Jeopardy champion (that was...
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Snapshot: June 1 2015
Snapshot: June 1 2015 I generally run this information through eReaderIQ.com (it’s just easier than Amazon), and there are some vagaries in the searches (both there and on Amazon). I do try to run it...
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Monthly Kindle Deals for $3.99 or less each: June 2015
Monthly Kindle Deals for $3.99 or less each: June 2015 Amazon does the Kindle Daily Deal (at AmazonSmile…benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*), which discounts (usually) four books a day...
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Guest post: Kris Calvin, author of One Murder More
Guest post: Kris Calvin, author of One Murder More Kris Calvin is my sibling, who has recently published a first novel. I wasn’t involved in the production of the book, except as a beta reader (and any...
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Round up #298: Geeking out over books, well read cities
Round up #298: Geeking out over books, well read cities The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. Amazon’s Most Well-Read Cities in America I’m happy for a lot of...
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Alexa, tell me a bedtime story (Audible comes to the Echo)
Alexa, tell me a bedtime story (Audible comes to the Echo) Thanks to regular reader and commenter Harold Delk for the heads up on this! Woo hoo! This is something people with the Amazon Echo have...
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A chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card for subscribing to a free Amazon...
A chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card for subscribing to a free Amazon newsletter Amazon really wants you to subscribe to their free e-mail newsletters, and I’ve seen them offer some incentives in...
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Today’s KDD: up to 80% off the most popular KDDs of 2015 (so far)
Today’s KDD: up to 80% off the most popular KDDs of 2015 (so far) One of today’s Kindle Daily Deals (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) is a great opportunity! It’s any...
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Books in the 1970s
Books in the 1970s CNN is following up their successful series on the 1960s with one on the 1970s: http://www.cnn.com/shows/the-seventies Tom Hanks is an Executive Producer. The existence of this...
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Limited time sale on Fire tablets: up to $40 off
Limited time sale on Fire tablets: up to $40 off This isn’t a Limited Time Offer that is only available for owners of the Fire tablets with Special Offers (although those are often outstanding!). This...
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Taking away a child’s reading “privileges”
Taking away a child’s reading “privileges” For a child, is reading a privilege…or something else? After reading this Publishers Weekly article by Josie Leavitt I am making a Vulcanian effort to control...
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The Big Deal: Kindle books up to 85% off through June 28th
The Big Deal: Kindle books up to 85% off through June 28th Amazon saves us money on e-books in so many ways, but I do think it’s fun when they do the Big Deal. It’s over 500 books this time (529 at...
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AAP’s (Association of American Publisher’) 2014 report: the huge growth was in…
AAP’s 2014 report: the huge growth was in… According to this Publishers Weekly article by Jim Milliot the AAP (Association of American Publishers) has released its final figures on book industry sales...
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Round up #299: Alice in translation, sorry we don’t publish books by people...
Round up #299: Alice in translation, sorry we don’t publish books by people like you The ILMK Round ups are short pieces which may or may not be expanded later. Restoring a p-book (paperbook) One...
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Pay by the page read: Amazon revolutionizes royalties
Pay by the page read: Amazon revolutionizes royalties For as long as anyone in the publishing business can remember, it’s been about selling books. It hasn’t actually mattered if anyone read the book...
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Amazon announces Paperwhite 3 with exciting new…um…
Amazon announces Paperwhite 3 with exciting new…um… I love my Kindle Paperwhite 2. In fact, I didn’t “upgrade” to the top of the line Kindle Voyage because I’m more than satisfied with what I have. The...
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More than a million books in Kindle Unlimited
More than a million books in Kindle Unlimited I’ve been a happy member of Kindle Unlimited (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) Amazon’s “all you can read” subser...
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Amazon echo owners now able to write reviews on Amazon
Amazon echo owners now able to write reviews on Amazon I am just on my phone, so just a quick note on this. I got an email from Amazon today telling me that I can now review the Amazon echo on the...
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The most reviewed Amazon devices
The most reviewed Amazon devices There are a lot of things you can say (and think) about Amazon product reviews. Might some of them be from “sock puppets” (fake people created by the product...
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July 2015 Kindle book releases
July 2015 Kindle book releases While I don’t generally pre-order Kindle store books myself, I know many of you do. I understand the fun of just having the book show up, but I figure I’ll order when I...
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