Free Kindle Books (Oct 8) - 2 + forum-alerts on just-discounted books+Kindle discussions +Amazon deals

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Oct. 8: - 2 newly-released Kindle books on Saturday morning  (Late-day report, as was away)


Kindle Daily Deal (Often U.S. only, unfortunately) (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)

eye of the god, by Ariel Allison, 45 customer reviews, 4.4 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Saturday 10/8:
      Friday's Price: $9.99
      Saturday's Discount: $8.00
      Saturday's Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (80% off)

Billed as "Romantic Suspense" - the 3 genre categories never hint that this is partially faith-oriented, in that Abingdon Press is the book publishing arm of the United Methodist Publishing House, but buyers should know this.  From the Product Description, a hint so that you can see where the book is coming from:  "When the dust settles over the last great adventure of the Hope Diamond, readers will understand the “curse” that has haunted its legacy is nothing more than the greed of evil men who bring destruction upon themselves.  No god chiseled from stone can direct the fates of humankind, nor can it change the course of God’s story."
  Some readers have found it riveting, and one said "a great mixture of fact and fiction."

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Ongoing popular discussions
  . To Avoid Confusion, Please Use the Official Product Names in Forum" [Very entertaining!] Newer
  . Warning: Personal docs now sent to a Kindle will now go to all new Kindles
    registered to your account   Newer
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed in more detail
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles [Use of free 3G web-browsing refers only to K3 aka Kindle Keyboard.)

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?
  . Changes to lendle (This is Kindle owner-to-Kindle owner lending.)
      The changes include incentives for offering loaners.

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   thru' October

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Oct 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) - an ongoing forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "This thread is for discounts and price drops that readers [esp. Emily Bronte] find from publishers."
  10/7-8

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TEMPORARILY-Free Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a very popular, unfiltered daily set of release-alerts by Joyce.  The eBooks can become no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

Penumbra
Author: Carolyn Haines
Genre: Mystery - Thriller

DESCRIPTION: Far from Haines's fluffy Southern cozies in tone, if not geography, this thriller from the author of Crossed Bones aims at a noirish literary quality it only partly achieves. On the plus side are powerful scenes of suspense and a moody evocation of time and place. Eschewing anything so obvious as naming an actual date, Haines makes it clear through subtle clues that the action is happening just after the end of WWII. The entrenched racial structure of a small Mississippi town of that era is similarly well done. Chief among the novel's shortcomings is the heavy-handed rendering of the love story between a mixed-race beauty, Jade Dupree, and all-white deputy Frank Kimble. Other interracial relationships are integral to the story, but the tantalizing possibility of a strong unifying theme is lost in banality and cliché. After society queen Marlena Bramlett, Jade's white half-sister, is brutally raped and Marlena's young daughter kidnapped, the plot thickens like cold grits. Haines loses control as her story builds to a discordant conclusion, which could be setting up a sequel but otherwise fails to satisfy.

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WTF? Work
Author: Gregory Berman
Genre: Humor - Office Situations - Employee Handbook

DESCRIPTION: As if your HR Department didn't have enough to worry about, WTF? is holding its own office orientation. From dealing with workplace politics and romancing coworkers to climbing the success ladder or getting canned, WTF? Work shows you how to handle the daily lows of holding down a j-o-b. Whether you're sitting in the cubes or in the corner office, working the counter or bussing the tables, WTF? provides an employee handbook that's actually worth reading. It leaves the PC stuff to the professionals and instead delivers some not-safe-for-work advice for when your job has you saying, "WTF?" '

[These are from Joyce's free-books alerts Saturday in the forums, 10/8/11 - morning, 2 books.]

Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
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  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
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Len Edgerly's Amazon Single - A report from Amazon's NYC Press Conference + 2 free short stories + forum alerts & topics

A Kindle Fan's Report from the Front Row at Amazon's NYC Press Conference  $0.99

This new Amazon Single is by The Kindle Chronicles podcast's Len Edgerly, who's filed "A Kindle Fan's Report from the Front Row at Amazon's NYC Press Conference," covering this event in his inimitable style, with cover photograph by John Marshall Mantel and a couple of photos by Len.  Love that tent photo.

  Len is widely appreciated for his perceptive and balanced reports and his excellent weekly interviews in connection with the e-publishing scene.

  From the Product Description:

' In this 30-page article, I invite you to join me in the front row at Amazon's press conference in New York city on September 28, 2011.

That's when Jeff Bezos introduced the next generation of Kindles, including the Kindle Fire tablet.  Just being at the event was a major thrill for a book lover whose life has been changed by the Kindle.  I thought I'd seen the future when I bought a Rocket eBook in 1998.  That didn't work out too well, but the Kindle in 2007 looked like the real thing.

  The next year, I started a weekly podcast, The Kindle Chronicles, to participate in the revolution in reading that I was sure would follow.  Since then, I've interviewed 165 people representing all parts of the Kindlesphere -- from Amazon executives to nervous writers, from technologists to school administrators, from the editor of the New York Times Book Review to my wife Darlene, who reads three times as many Kindle books as I do but is an endearing skeptic about technology.

  I traveled by train to New York City worried that Amazon executives might get so excited about their shiny new color tablet that they would forget to keep improving the monochrome e-ink Kindles.  In the event, I need not have worried.  Jeff Bezos started the press conference by telling the Kindle story in a way that touched me as highly personal and revealing.  Come join me in the front row, and I'll show you what I mean. '

I just heard about the book and bought it on the spot as one who looks forward to Len's take on the Kindle and e-publishing scene.



Kindle Daily Deal (Often U.S. only, unfortunately) (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)

The Dead Saint, by Mairlyn Brown Oden, 23 customer reviews, 4.3 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Friday 10/7:
      Thursday's Price: $9.47
      Friday's Discount: $7.48
      Friday's Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (79% off)

"The casual yet taut style will keep readers turning pages to find out if Bishop Lynn [Peterson] can prevent disaster..." -- Publishers Weekly

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Ongoing popular discussions
  . To Avoid Confusion, Please Use the Official Product Names in Forum" [Very entertaining!] New
  . Warning: Personal docs now sent to a Kindle will now go to all new Kindles
    registered to your account   New
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed in more detail
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles [Use of free 3G web-browsing refers only to K3 aka Kindle Keyboard.)

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?
  . Changes to lendle (This is Kindle owner-to-Kindle owner lending.)
      The changes include incentives for offering loaners.

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   thru' October

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Oct 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) - an ongoing forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "This thread is for discounts and price drops that readers [esp. Emily Bronte] find from publishers."
  10/5-10/7

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TEMPORARILY-Free Kindle Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.
  NOTE: The alerts are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a very popular, unfiltered daily set of release-alerts by Joyce.  The eBooks can become no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

So far, on Thursday morning, there were only two entries released, both of them short stories.  One so far for Friday as of early morning.

' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

Haunted Destiny: A Midnight Dragonfly Bonus Short Story
Author: Ellie James
Genre: Children's Fiction
* Pre-Order for November 23, 2011 *

DESCRIPTION: Teenage mystic Rachelle Dugas knows to expect the unexpected when she fills in for a friend leading a Haunted New Orleans tour. But when she decides to check out a haunted house on her own, nothing prepares her for the secrets lurking in the shadows-or the twist of destiny about to unfold.

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A Very Holly Christmas: An Exclusive Short Story
Author: Sheila Roberts
Genre: Romance
* Pre-Order for November 15, 2011 *

DESCRIPTION: Shelia Roberts is back with the hilarious short follow up to On Strike For Christmas. This short story will bring you right back to the spirited town of Holly, one year after the big strike! For even more Christmas (this time with a touch of romance) don't miss The Nine Lives of Christmas, coming November 2011.

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Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients
Author: Derek Landy
Genre: Children's Fiction

DESCRIPTION: Grade 5-8-When 12-year-old Stephanie's eccentric Uncle Gordon dies, a mysterious man bundled in an overcoat, scarf, sunglasses, and a hat shows up at both the funeral and the reading of the will. This man, as it turns out, is Skulduggery Pleasant, a walking, talking skeleton who rescues Stephanie when she is attacked while alone in the house that she has just inherited. It seems that a particularly evil person named Serpine is trying to obtain a scepter that will allow him to rule the world. Stephanie is swept into a world of magic, secrets, power, and intrigue as she and Skulduggery try to keep one step ahead of Serpine and various other nefarious folk. Deadly hand-to-hand combat, nasty villains, magical derring-do, and traitorous allies will keep readers turning the pages, but it is the dynamic duo of Stephanie and Skulduggery who provide the real magic. The girl eagerly jumps into this new, dangerous, action-packed life, but she isn't sure that she has the guts or the power to pull it off. Skulduggery Pleasant lives up to his name, performing amazing feats with such self-effacing drollness that readers will wish they had a similar skeletal friend. Give this one to fans of Eoin Colfer's "Artemis Fowl" books (Hyperion) or to anyone who likes a dash of violence and danger served up with the magic. '


[These are from Joyce's free-books alerts Thursday in the forums, 10/6/11 - afternoon, 2 books, and Friday, 10/7/11 - morning, 1 book.]

Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
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Special Offers Kindle can now have Offers Turned Off (for $30)

The Kindle Basic SO image comes from dvice.com, but that site got the story from Nate Hoffelder's The Digital Reader, where he explored a tip from Mobileread Forum's jswinden.

Having a preference, myself, for a personal reading environment without ads, I've recommended these only for those who really want those Special Offers and, as it turns out, many do. A visit to the forums will show how many either really like the feature or wish they had bought one, for special Amazon sales such as $200 off laptops or $500 off HDTVs or even a $10 gift certificate for $20 worth of Kindle books, and some have asked Amazon to let them have the option to have the special offers (which means ads also) if they want.

    However, a few have decided they'd rather have the Kindle without Special Offers, and Amazon does offer a 30-day full refund policy on their Kindles, which means some have returned a Special Offers model to order a regular Kindle while others have returned a regular one to get a Special Offers model.  Now there is another way, at least with the model Nate bought.  

  Nate found himself annoyed by the ads that he's been seeing with his new $79 Kindle Basic but also discovered that Amazon has added a solution for those who've decided they would prefer the Kindle Basic offers-free.  Under the Manage Your Kindle page, he saw that you can UNsubscribe from the Special Offers on the Kindle Basic by paying the difference in cost between the Kindle Basic SO and the Kindle Basic without SO.

  Amazon explains on that page: "Amazon is able to offer the Kindle at a subsidized price by delivering Special Offers and Sponsored Screenavers. By unsubscribing you will be charged $30 (plus applicable tax)."

  Nate says this works only for K4 although it could be that this is the model he bought so that's the only one it would show in his case, but I don't know.

  Nate dislikes ads so much that he's given up TV, cable, and he watches TV content online, where ads can be blocked.

  melissa, for her part, commenting to his story, says,
"There are no ads while you are reading.  Only the screen savers and a small banner at the bottom of the home screen.  The special offers however have been the real bonus.  We have probably paid for the Kindle with the savings from the offers.  The offers seemed to have slowed down, so maybe that was just a start up idea."

  Nate confirms that the ads aren't shown while reading.

I suspect that this option will show up in future software updates, maybe in both directions.


Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 Advice to those "New" before clearing the "Old"

The first photo is by Aaron Miletich taken Oct 5, early morning, at Apple campus.  The second one, at Pixar, is by gromitgirl / Maryann, taken with her iPhone, "Moments after news broke..."

   Steve Jobs' Greatest Achievements

Steve Jobs Through the Years

Storify's Honoring a legend

The Apple I, 1976, built with Steve Wozniak and also industry vet Ronald Wayne, there for "adult supervision."

That first Apple, by the way was $666.66, and those buying one still had to provide their own keyboard, monitor and power supply :-).

Two of the stories are from Wired.com, which, at the main site URL tonight, has a special, striking screen for this story as does the Apple site memorium page, with no gadget images in sight, and just the words about a life that had been the foundation of that company and which has had such an effect on much of the world.  It's not just materialism, as some will say - it's what can be done with technology, and there's something to be said for creating products that have brought so much good feeling to those who use them, much of it educational and yet fun.  I saw tweets from tcarmody of Wired and from LoveThatMax that their children use devices invented by Steve Jobs to communicate, to "talk" as Carmody put it -- apps on the iPod Touch and iPad.

I first heard the news at the end of a local ABC Channel 7 news segment, delivered in conversational tones, with an almost question-mark delivery as if maybe it wasn't so, and although the world knew he had resigned because he felt 'the time had come,' the actual end of his life struck me as impossible, probably because of the force of his energy.  The will to excellence and beauty in design and function seemed more a generalized drive that couldn't be stopped just like that.

  Although I wasn't a fan of some of his ways with normally imperfect people or rival companies, I admired all that he'd accomplished.  He really was so much larger than life as the cliche goes, that I found myself really shocked that he suddenly could just not "be" anymore.  That's what I mean by an impossibility.  It really got to me.

As for his drive toward quality and doing what you love, making the best of the short time we all have here, I first saw, at Wired, some of the words from his Commencement Speech to Stanford graduates in 2005 and then saw TV coverage on it, and after that, Nick Bilton's well-chosen passages from the speech, on a special webpage with that amazing monochrome image of Jobs.   I'm putting some excerpts here, adding a few from the transcript, and here is a link to the video of that speech.

' ...I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.  The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.  It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
. . .
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.  Don't lose faith.  I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.  You've got to find what you love.  And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.  Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.  And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

[On Death]
. . . . Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  You are already naked.  There is no reason not to follow your heart.
. . .
No one wants to die.  Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.  And yet death is the destination we all share.  No one has ever escaped it.

And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.  It is Life's change agent.  It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.  Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.  Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.  Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.  They somehow already know what you truly want to become.  Everything else is secondary.'

I also enjoyed some interesting visual reminders, from Mike Cane's site, of why Jobs made such an impact, with some "firsts."

  And I thought Cane's quote from George Bernard Shaw summed it up well:

' The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. '

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Free Kindle Books (Oct 5) - 6 + forum-alerts on just-discounted books+Kindle discussions +Amazon deals

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Oct. 5: - 6 newly-released Kindle books on Wednesday morning


You Can Do this!: Surviving Breast Cancer Without Losing Your Sanity or Your Style, by Elisha Daniels and Kelley Tuthill, 2 customer reviews, 5.0 stars, $0.00

"Kelley Tuthill is an investigative reporter at WCVB-TV in Boston.  She shared her breast cancer journey in an Emmy Award winning video diary and an online blog at http://www.thebostonchannel.com ...  Elisha Daniels is the marketing director for Boston-based clothing design label Sara Campbell.  Both women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and both are cancer free today."

"...Covers a great amount of information in understandable language about a highly personal disease - each person has different decisions to make according to their own specific diagnosis." -- Customer review



Kindle Daily Deal (Often U.S. only, unfortunately) (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)

Today We Are Rich, by Tim Sanders, 95 customer reviews, 4.8 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Wednesday 10/4:
      Tuesday's Price: $9.99
      Wednesday's Discount: $8.00
      Wednesday's Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (80% off)

From About the Author "...Tim Sanders is ... the author of the New York Times bestseller Love is the Killer App.

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Ongoing popular discussions
  . Warning: Personal docs now sent to a Kindle will now go to all new Kindles
    registered to your account   New
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread (Newer)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?
  . Changes to lendle (This is Kindle owner-to-Kindle owner lending.)
      The changes include incentives for offering loaners.

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   thru' October

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Oct 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) - an ongoing forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "This thread is for discounts and price drops that readers [esp. Emily Bronte] find from publishers."
  10/4-10/5

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TEMPORARILY-Free Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a very popular, unfiltered daily set of release-alerts by Joyce.  The eBooks can become no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

If, on this Home page listing (in orange), you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of any long listing of free books *

' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

You Can Do This!: Surviving Breast Cancer Without Losing Your Sanity or Your Style
Author: Elisha Daniels
Genre: Health - Mind - Body

DESCRIPTION: Breast cancer survivors Kelley Tuthill and Elisha Daniels are redefining what it means to be a cancer patient. More than 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer each year, but that diagnosis does not mean sitting on the sidelines while life passes you by. Both Tuthill and Daniels worked throughout their extensive cancer treatments and continued to enjoy their family, friends, and high-profile careers while fighting the fight of their lives. You Can Do This! shares with you the strategies that worked, what didn't, and what they wish they'd have known at the time of diagnosis.

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Moon Maya 2012: A Guide to Celebrations in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras (Moon Handbooks)
Author: Joshua Berman
Genre: Guide to Mexico 2012

DESCRIPTION: December 21, 2012 is an important date for the Maya; it marks the end of the Long Count, a 5,125-year cycle of the Maya calendar, and the world's transition into a new era. Some believe this transition will be peaceful; others warn it will be nothing short of explosive. But there's one thing everyone can agree on: Traveling to the Mundo Maya in the year 2012 is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity-and it's not to be missed. Travelers to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and

  MORE... (the rest of this and 4 more books: Click on "MORE" just below.)
*****

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[... CLICK HERE for MORE ... »]

Kindle Fire said to be "on fire" at 2000 per hr pre-ordered the first 5 days

Per geek.com's Matthew Humphries: "Kindle Fire pre-orders exceeding 2,000 per hour"

The article explains that the figure is extrapolated from "Amazon’s Availability Lookup and SKU Aggregator (Alaska) system, used internally for tracking stock" -- "in the first 5 days pre-orders were available, 250,000 Kindle Fires were snapped up."

  They're referencing an original story at Cult of Android, which loads on my Firefox only if I grant all kinds of script permissions, while it loads automatically on Internet Explorer.  So, with that caveat for those of you who use NoScript and other browser-script imonitors,  the rest of this is from the Cult of Android story written by John Brownlee yesterday afternoon.

I started this blog article early this morning and then had to leave, not getting back until 5pm so this is "old news" as I type it but I thought I should finish the report of the headlined news anyway, so here it is.

Amazon's internal inventory management system
Brownlee says that a "verified source within [Amazon] has provided exclusive screenshots of Amazon's internal inventory management system Alaska (Availability Lookup and SKU AGgregator)" and you can see the scaled down and larger version at the linked story.

  For the first five days, the pre-orders are said to be showing 50,000 orders per day, and their projections -- which probably should not be based, in my view, on the first 5 days, because heaviest pre-orders would be in the first days of the announcement --  are that "if this level of consumer demand...continues, Amazon will have 2.5 million pre-orders for Kindle Fire before it even officially goes on sale on november 15th.

Biggest tablet launch in history?
  Brownlee adds that if the trend contnues, this would be the "biggest tablet launch in history" for first month sales, and that includes, he says, the launch of the far more expensive iPad, which has, since its launch only 1.5 years ago, established an amazing library of curated applications that currently dwarfs the Google Android Marketplace's more chaotic smaller set of Android apps.  The 7" Kindle Fire would use the currently even smaller Amazon Apps Store, but obviously Amazon and its developer parties are gearing up for quite an expansion there by mid November.

Was it an unapproved leak?
The gist of the article is that someone at Amazon leaked the pre-order numbers but that Jeff Bezos would be "annoyed."
  Since the numbers alone can spark more sales, because people tend to want to go with 'winners' when they're investing money, it's not totally convincing to me that this was a rogue leak, but who knows.

Numbers for the new low-cost EInk readers
THEN, Cult of Android shows what they call "The Amazon internal pre-order numbers for the Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G eInk readers, respectively" and the numbers indicate, Brownlee says, that the tablet is vastly outselling the two lower-cost e-Ink reader models.

  That would be expected, since the "rest of the world" that doesn't want a either a dedicated e-Ink reader or another eInk model after 4 years of availability and past purchases) and which has been waiting for a low-cost but promising tablet (for media needs) from a company they expect will deliver both a good tablet and also content that makes it worth buying that tablet, would heavily lean toward the new, color-filled option with video and audio features that are never a focus of the lower-cost dedicated readers.

Co-existence
 As we've seen, many have bought the iPad AND either a Kindle or a Nook, the latter for books only. 

The WiFi-only Kindle Touch, at $99 with Special Offers (ads subsidizing part of the cost) is being outsold, Brownlee writes, "at the rate of ten to one, racking up only 20,000 pre-orders to date, while the Kindle Touch with 3G and WiFi and with Special Offers is shown with only a few more than 12,000 pre-orders so far.

  They don't show a table for the NON-Special Offers e-Ink models, but Amazon has always said that the Special-Order models outsell the regular ones.

Verified numbers?
  Brownlee closes with the statement that these are "verified order numbers" (and that would only be if he knows and trusts the person at Amazon said to have given him these numbers) and that "a preorder is not the same as a sale," pointing out that consumers could mass-cancel orders (not likely) or that demand could level off (a more realistic possibility but also not a given either as the word spreads, which I've been experiencing).

Reconsidering the 7" tablet market
  Steve Jobs has dismissed the 7" tablet market as negligible, saying that people want a 10" at the minimum (apparently that's what the research of Apple-leaning consumers told him) but the rest of the consumer world may be similar to another group whose wants he had dismissed in Jan. 2008, when he also told The New York Times's John Markoff and David Pogue that the new Kindle device wouldn't do that well, explaining, "The whole conception is flawed at the top because "people don’t read anymore."

  As we've seen, different devices and form factors coexist because people can be more varied than some market research might indicate depending on the structure of the questioning or interpretation of results.


A Starter Tablet?  Or is ultra-portability, lightness, the draw itself?
  It may well turn out that people decide that, despite the attractiveness of ultra-portability and a lower price that can encourage gifting of a 7" tablet within families, they'd rather have a 10" tablet.
Or, not.

  Amazon and others are certainly "ON that," and some columnists point out that most who are drawn to the 10" form factor and the beauty of an iPad have, for the most part, already bought one and will again when a new one is released, but there are those who will look at other products too, and -- as been said over and over again lately -- Amazon's media and network ecosystem is a strong factor in this market.  The 7" KTab could function as a starter for those who want to look at whether or not they want to invest in a higher cost tablet, already having netbooks that can do more than a tablet while still being lightweight and less expensive than a tablet for sitting and consuming media.

Apple
  The upshot of Brownlee's article is that Apple, who would not be particularly threatened by this turn of events, could just decide that maybe it's time they ought to just offer a 7" iPad !

Interesting Comments
In the Comments section to Cult of Android's story, one commenter expressed doubts about the story itself, citing Photoshop as a good 'source' for the figures, and Brownleee responded,
  "We verified our source, so no, these aren't Photoshops."

More entertainingly, maybe, another commenter said,
  "The rooted Nook is the bomb. A rooted kindle is a nuclear weapon"

Possible Cost to Amazon of each Tablet
Within the two articles I cited, Cult of Android being the primary one, there are related articles indicating the innards of the Fire may cost about $150 based on what's known about RIM's Playbook, minus the features (camera, amount of memory, SD slot) that would allow them to price a basic tablet at the lower cost -- with the idea that the Cloud and Amazon Silk browser's network computing power, will compensate for the lower amount of local storage given, via virtually unlimited storage on the Cloud.
  Other estimates of the cost of the Kindle Fire have not included looking at the inside of the tablet or even the Playbook, which was a sort of hardware template for Amazon's new offering.


Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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Free Kindle Books (Oct 3-4) - 27 + forum-alerts on just-discounted books+Kindle discussions +Amazon deals

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Oct. 3-4: - 27 newly-released Kindle books on Monday-Tuesday, as of Tuesday morning

[ Photo is of the Oct 2012 deals... ]
OCTOBER'S 100 Kindle book deals, $1.99-$3.99

Am repeating this announcement for those who missed this a few days ago, as each day there are about 2,000 visitors new to the blog.

  Amazon's pages say that these are "hand-selected" by Amazon's Editors each month.




Kindle Daily Deal (Often U.S. only, unfortunately) (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)

Winter Sea, by Susanna Kearsley, 252 customer reviews, 4.4 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Tuesday 10/4:
      Monday's Price: $7.69
      Tuesday's Discount: $5.70
      Tuesday's Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (74% off)

"...haunting story of an author whose historical novel begins to evoke an alarming string of ancestral memories" -- Amazon editor

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Ongoing popular discussions
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread (Newer)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?
  . Changes to lendle (This is Kindle owner-to-Kindle owner lending.)
      The changes include incentives for offering loaners.

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   thru' October

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Oct 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) - an ongoing forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "This thread is for discounts and price drops that readers [esp. Emily Bronte] find from publishers."
  10/2-10/4

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TEMPORARILY-Free Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a very popular, unfiltered daily set of release-alerts by Joyce.  The eBooks can become no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

If, on this Home page listing (in orange), you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of any long listing of free books *

' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:
[10/3 #1]
14 Books - 2 Posts in this same tread. There are some books that have been previously offered, but I will include in today's listing. There may be some Kindlers that missed or Newbies that might be interested. Happy Reading ... Joyce

ETA: I would love to take the time to add descriptions, but I've really been busy with year-end at work, and my time is in short supply for a few more days. I will try to resume doing this when the hectic work load has ended. So, please forgive.

[ Andrys' note: For the 2nd and 3rd batches (included on the 2nd page when clicking
    on "More") Joyce did list descriptions...]

My Sister's Voice
Author: Mary Carter
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition
Author: Jerry Weissman
Genre: Business - Meetings - Presentations

The World-Tilting Gospel
Author Dan Phillips
Genre: Religion - Evangelism

A Beginner's Guide to Using Your iPad as a Business Productivity Tool
Author: Dave Caolo
Genre: Business - Investing

  MORE... (23 more books: Click on "MORE" just below.)
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Amazon Kindle Team ANSWERS on the Kindle Touch 3G web-browsing in 3G Question - Update

Kindle Team responds at the Amazon Kindle forum thread. At the link, you'll see the now clear answer to the questions asked over the last 3 days:

'Posted on Oct 2, 2011 4:42:59 PM PDT

The Amazon Kindle team says:
(AMAZON OFFICIAL)

We apologize for the confusion. Our new Kindle Touch 3G enables you to connect to the Kindle Store, download books and periodicals, and access Wikipedia - all over 3G or Wi-Fi.

Experimental web browsing (outside of Wikipedia) on Kindle Touch 3G is only available over Wi-Fi.

Our Kindle Keyboard 3G will continue to offer experimental web browsing over 3G or Wi-Fi. '

All bolding mine, of course, to emphasize the most salient points.


  Finally! Thanks, KTeam.  I do appreciate the confirmation, too, that the Kindle Keyboard 3G model (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G) will continue to allow the experimental free web browsing.

Update - To see which countries or areas have the experimental free 3G web browsing enabled on the Kindle Keyboard 3G (Kindle 3 3G-model), see the Listing of Countries with free 3G web-browsing enabled, which references an always-updated table put online at Amazon. UK.

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US: Kindle Fire  7" tablet - $199 Kindle NoTouch ("Kindle") - $79/$109 Kindle Touch, WiFi - $99/$139 Kindle Touch, 3G/WiFi - $149/$189 Kindle Keybd 3G - $189, Free, slow web Kindle DX - $379, Free, slow 3G web

UK: Kindle Basic, NoTouch - £89 Kindle Touch WiFi, UK - £109 Kindle Touch 3G/WiFi, UK - £169 Kindle Keyboard 3G, UK - £149   Keybd: w/ Free, slow 3G WEB

OTHER International Kindle NoTouch Basic - $109 Kindle Touch WiFi - $139 Kindle Touch 3G/WiFi - $189 Kindle Keybd 3G - $189   Keybd: w/ Free, slow 3G WEB

Check often: Temporarily-free recently published Kindle books
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published free books, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
  Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

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Digitimes is still at it -- predicting 10" Kindle tablet (Fireball?) before Christmas

WHAT? YET ANOTHER RUMOR FROM DIGITIMES

To be fair, DigiTimes Systems' predictions have been fairly accurate -- where they've tended to fall short is in over-optimistic delivery dates. And this one is about an earlier than expected delivery date.

  I imagine they go by scheduled and estimated factory ship-dates and then assume the products will be ready to be shipped to customers immediately when some serious q&a would still have to be done.

  This story has been in my Google reader for a few days and I missed seeing it.

Digitimes' Ninelu Tu and Steve Shen report, on Sept. 30, some fairly 'soft' news, that:

' Amazon is expected to outsource the production of 10.1-inch tablet PCs to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), and shipments of the 10.1-inch tablets are likely to begin before year-end 2011 for holiday-season demand, according to industry sources. Foxconn declined to comment on market reports. '

While I wouldn't be surprised that Amazon might have more up its sleeve for the coming holidays, I think it would confuse the buyers.  There is also the danger that if they said anything like this MIGHT be coming, that would cause customers to hesitate on the 7" although I hear and read often that people are attracted to the smaller ones after having used 10" ones and found the larger ones were too awkward to carry around outside the home, for pleasure at least. They'd certainly be fine in briefcases.  And the pricing on smaller screens is definitely going to be more attractive on a new product when gift-giving is a focus in this economy.

 There's no description whatsoever of the expected product to be shipped, so this one seems a bit shaky to me.  Any source who knows of imminent shipments would have and would give more of an idea of what would be shipped other than its conventional screen size.

But I felt I should blog it, nevertheless.


Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
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Kindle Touch 3G may not have Kindle Keyboard 3G 's free 3G web browsing - UPDATE4

UPDATE - Amazon Kindle Team has made an official response to the much-asked questions, about a basic feature, at the Amazon Kindle forum referenced in the two posts.

  Click on the link above to read the full, brief, but clear answer.


Earlier (just as a historical record now)

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FOLLOW UP to earlier "Clarification needed from Amazon re Kindle Touch 3G-experimental G-experimental web browsing feature or omission"

I wrote, the other day, about the slight feature-differences between the older Kindle Keyboard 3G (UK: K3) model and the new Kindle Touch 3G, while also writing a separate piece on a possible BIG difference between the two models that many customers have been asking Amazon to clarify.

See the original blog article for the details if the longtime free 3G experimental web browser feature is an important one for you (I don't think it is to most, as it is quite slow on e-Ink).

It seems the feature will still be offered in the older Kindle Keyboard 3G model.  Many in the forums  are comparing notes and responses from various Customer Service representatives and waiting to hear something definitive before making final decisions on which Kindle 3G model to get.

  After a few days of Amazon Kindle forum discussions about this, there's been no appearance at the forums by anyone from the  official Kindle Customer Support team in response to all the questions and the several reported contradictory responses from well-meaning Amazon Kindle Support representatives.

  It would be understandable if Amazon has decided not to include the old bonus-feature with the new Kindle models (it was always labeled "Experimental"), but something definitive should be said by someone officially so that people can then make their buying decisions without the confusion seen this week.

  The customer support responses 2 days ago were almost 100% reassurances that the feature was included on the Kindle Touch, but starting Oct 1, that has changed, although a few customer representatives, in email or by phone, still respond that both models include the feature.

  Reading the latest pages of both forum threads linked (there are many other forum message-threads on it) will give an idea what forumners are up against in trying to decide one way or another.

  Last night one customer received unusually firm word, from one support rep, that the older Kindle Keyboard 3G model will still offer the 3G web-browsing feature.
  The emailed wording that Mobileread forum member yifanlu received from Kindle customer representative [b]Pushka[/b] is clear and not "boilerplate" in style -- Puska feels that free 3G experimental web browsing will continue on the old model. Yifanlu reported Pushka's response:

" The Kindle 3 (Kindle Keyboard) supports free 3G experimental internet browsing and I can confirm that it will continue to do so in the future.  This feature won't be removed from Kindle 3. "

  That's an unusually definite response about the older Kindle Keyboard model going into the future and the "I can confirm" phrase may indicate that Amazon is starting to give Customer Service personnel more solid information to be relayed.

Most would love to have firm wording, either way about the newer model.
  I should make clear, though, that no other ereader maker has offered its customers even free Wikipedia via 3G in the first place (which the Kindle Touch would definitely still get), much less internationally as Amazon has done.  Customers in 40+ countries receiving "only" free Wikipedia and, of course, the Kindle Store on 3G have often viewed Wikipedia as a "Consolation Prize" because over 60 countries have been given full web access.

  The question of cost-effectiveness with 3G carriers has always been there though.

U.S. customers have been one group with full access, and some customer reps continue to respond that U.S. customers still will  have that with the Kindle Touch 3G as well.  But as explained in the original piece here, the product page has the following wording under the "Battery Life" section of the Kindle Touch 3G product page:

' Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as shopping the Kindle Store, downloading content, and web browsing (browsing available only in Wi-Fi mode). '

If uncertain about "upgrading" a Kindle 3G device to the Touch model, I'd pay more attention to that product page wording, since it was put there for a purpose and Amazon hasn't changed it after being made aware that the phrase seen under "Battery Life" rather than under "3G Wireless" has sparked confusion because it would mark a surprising change from what customers have had on the Kindle for 4 years.

Again, most of us stress that we just want clarity on the issue, regardless of what Amazon's decision is on that feature, in connection with the new Touch devices, which would probably make web browisng easier and encourage longer 3G sessions which would likely be costly for Amazon.

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UPDATE - Just proving how out-of-hand this is, the latest (unfortunate) customer support response, reported (by LM) at the Amazon forum, says that even WIKIPEDIA is *not* allowed either.  That would be probably the first time anyone in the world with Amazon/AT&T 3G wireless at all in their area was not able to access Wikipedia via 3G.

' "Hello,
Please know that you will not be able to browse other websites like google, gmail, Wikipedia using the 3G feature.  I'm sorry if this disappointed you.  However, your Kindle may use wireless connectivity to make other services available, such as wireless delivery of personal documents (see below), which may require an additional charge.  Kindle Touch 3G provides free 3G wireless that lets you download books right from your Kindle Touch.  Experimental web browsing is only available when connected to a Wi-Fi network." '

UPDATE2 - AND, last night at Mobileread forums, THIS reported customer service answer:

' Hello,

I understand your concern and I'm happy to help.

Kindle Touch 3G has WebKit- Based Browser features; you can browse the web over Wi-Fi and and WhisperNet(3G coverage).

However, for international customer's, Internet access using your Kindle's Web Browser through Whispernet is not available in most countries outside the United States when using your Kindle's 3G connection, however most customers can access Wikipedia and other website. '

How on earth can they be responding with diametrically-opposed views?


UPDATE3 - [LAST two, just to show how utterly bizarre these opposed answers are:

' 10/2   [a "NO, you cannot!" type note]
#1 just now
Nancy says:
To add to the confusion, here is the reply that I received when I asked if you can use the touch 3g to email in Europe like you can on the current version:

'Hello,

I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Kindle Touch 3G provides free 3G wireless that lets you download books right from your Kindle Touch. Experimental web browsing is only available when connected to a Wi-Fi network.

Please note that you can e-mail using Kindle Touch 3G only when you are connected to Wi-Fi and it is not possible to e-mail with 3G.

Web browsing will be unrestricted for wifi connections and will only allow Amazon.com and Wikipedia on 3G.

We are trying very hard to establish ourselves as a successful online digital store and can assure you of numerous changes in very near future which will enable us to achieve our goal and Customer feedback like yours is very important in helping us continue to improve our website and services.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. '

It looks to me like different people are getting different answers.

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[10/2 a few minutes later:  [a "YES, you sure can! type note]
#2 just now

I was all set to order the Kindle Keyboard 3G, but I decided to email Amazon's customer service to see if they could enlighten me. Here is the response I got:
"Hello,

Thanks for contacting us with your question about Kindle Touch 3G.

Below is the answer for your 2 questions:

1. Yes, definitely Kindle Keyboard with 3G continue to be available through the end of this year. If the stock ends as this product is selling out very quickly, we will provide more stock.

2. Yes, new Kindle Touch 3G will be able to browse the web using the free 3G service.

If you need any further required information, please let us know.

Thanks for your interest in our newly launched Kindle models."
Hmmmmm.....

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As the world spins


Original post: 10/2/11, 8:29 AM; Update2: 3:09 PM
Kindle Touch 3G   Kindle Touch WiFi   Kindle Basic   (UK: KBasic)   Kindle Fire
Kindle Keybd 3G   (UK: Kindle Keybd 3G)   K3 Special Offers   K3-3G Special Offers   DX

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  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
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Free Kindle Books (10/2) - 37 + Lower-cost discounted ones from forum alerts + Kindle discussions +Amazon deals

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Oct. 2: Morning - 37 newly-released Kindle books on Sunday so far,
  almost all are latest Vook classics

The Girl in the Lighthouse (Arrington), by Roxane Tepfer Sanford, 13 customer reviews, 4.8 stars, $0.00
Genre: Historical Fiction

"...recommended reading for lovers of imaginative, well-crafted stories..." -- Tracy Moore, Apex Reviews


The Princess & the [Ummm - parental guidance mayhap], by RJ Silver, 6 customer reviews, 4.8 stars, $0.00

"Don't be thrown by the title...this is great! My wife and I read P & P a while ago and really enjoyed it. I laughed out loud several times " -- customer review
"The funniest story I have read in a long time." -- customer review

"...an adorable and hilarious take on the Princess and the Pea. This is not a graphic or pornographic tale in any way" --customer review



Kindle Daily Deal (Often U.S. only, unfortunately) (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)

The Hangman's Daughter, by Oliver Pötzsch (Author), Lee Chadeayne (Author, Translator) 413 customer reviews, 3.7 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Sunday 10/2:
      Saturday's Price: $7.99
      Sunday's Discount: $7.00
      Sunday's Daily Deal Price: $0.99 (88% off)

"...[by] television screenwriter Pötzsch, a descendent of the Kuisls, a famous Bavarian executioner clan."
"A brilliantly-researched and exciting story of a formative era of history when witches were hunted -- Publishers Weekly
[Caveat - 39 people really did not like it (1 star and many reasons)]

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Other current forum threads that might interest some
Public Library Lending questions at the forums, and Lendle's Kindle borrowing
  . How many e-books does your public library have?
  . Public librarians: what has been your Kindle/Overdrive experience?
  . Changes to lendle (This is Kindle owner-to-Kindle owner lending.)
      The changes include incentives for offering loaners.

Ongoing popular discussions
  . Discussion of geographic restrictions on digital purchases
  . Discount-alert books discussed on separate message thread (Newer)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books that are not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   thru' October

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Oct 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

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LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "This thread is for discounts and price drops that readers [esp. Emily Bronte] find from publishers."
  10/1-10/2

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TEMPORARILY-Free Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is ever on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a very popular, unfiltered daily set of release-alerts by Joyce.  The eBooks can become no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

If, on this Home page listing (in orange), you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of any long listing of free books *

[ Andrys' note: More free Vook Classics - Last week's went back up in price]

' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: Vook Classics

The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell: Vook Classics

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill: Vook Classics

The Iliad by Homer: Vook Classics

The Game by Jack London: Vook Classics

  MORE... (32 more books: Click on "MORE" just below.)
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October's 100 KindleDeals $1.99-$3.99, 12 Newly-Free Books, Discounted-book-alerts

Oct. 1:, Morning - 12 newly-free Kindle books



OCTOBER'S Kindle Deals, $1.99-$3.99

These are "hand-selected" by Amazon's Editors each month, and today's are the new ones for October.




Today's Kindle Daily Deal
That link will bring up a new book each night at midnight.

Today's is Robert Kroese's debut novel, Mercury Falls, 215 customer reviews, 4.4 stars
Friday's price: $7.99
Saturday's discount: $7.00
Saturday's Kindle Daily Deal Price: $0.99 (88% off)
"...owes much to Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" -- Amazon editor
"Kroese’s hilarious romp has cult favorite written all over it." --Kristine Huntley, Booklist


Forum Alerts on Newly Discounted Books the last day or so:
9/30-10/1

 Some of the lower-priced ones + ones getting more votes there or on the book page):

'diva says :
... I started tracking this book since Feb. 2011 and it is dropping dramatically.
The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks was originally $15.95 and now at $7.52 ...

Megan L. Lavey says:
Lord and Lady Spy took another drop to 79 cents!
I just grabbed my copy, and it looks like a great book.

Rachel says:
Hurry Down Sunshine dropped from $9.99 to $1.99. (I got it at $9.99 a while ago, and it's an excellent book -- a memoir of a father dealing with his daughter's mental illness.)

Emily Bronte says:
Random House:
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella for $1.99
This Fierce Splendor: A Loveswept Historical Romance by Iris Johansen for $1.99
AmazonCrossing:
Old Town by Lin Zhe for $2.99
Stalina by Emily Rubin for $2.99

Jane Doe says:
The Sisters Club. this seems cheap. I hope it has not been mentioned.

Miss Kitty in The City says:
Fly By Wire by Ward Larsen
Price Dropped to $2.99 (from $14.95

Baj says:
Through a Glass Darkly dropped all the way down to $2.99 from $11.99. '

Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos   Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.   I've added a by Low-to-High pricing. Editors' Picks: $1.99-$3.99   thru' October

Free contemporary books: subsets Filters out excerpts, chapters, previews US:  by Last 30+ days  Oct 2011    Publication Date   Late-listed    Bestselling   High-ratings UK:  by PubDate   Popular

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TEMPORARILY-Free Books:  Alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the tireless "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is constantly on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of mostly temporarily-free books.  They're *not* recommendations by anyone but are a very popular, unfiltered daily set of release-alerts by Joyce.  The eBooks can become no longer free within days, sometimes, within hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing them for us.

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* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of any long listing of free books *

' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

Rain Song
* Previously Offered October 2010
Author: Alice J. Wisler
Genre: Religious - Spiritual

DESCRIPTION: In Wisler's likable debut, a young woman is offered a chance to find romance and make peace with her past. After her missionary mother dies under mysterious circumstances in Japan, young Nicole Michelin returns to North Carolina to live with her depressed father and loving grandmother. Now 31, and a middle school English teacher, Nicole bears the scars of a time she can't remember. She sleeps with her cloth kimono doll and nurses phobias ranging from anxiety about flying to a fear of commitment. But when she meets an intriguing man through a Web

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