BlackLibrary.com is currently offering a number of free e-book and audio book downloads to promote their new digital library. These books are base on the Games Workshop “Warhammer” family of table-top miniatures games (and now on-line games, too). The stories … Continue reading
While reading The Force is Middling in this One by Robert Kroese, I once again ran into one of my few gripes about the Amazon Kindle: how footnotes work. As a big Terry Pratchett fan — who is a big … Continue reading
According to a “Coming Soon for Kindle” announcement in the Amazon.com discussion forums, a couple new features are in the offing: First, we are making Kindle newspapers and magazines readable on our free Kindle apps, so you can always read … Continue reading
For those Kindle 3 owners who like to be early adopters or those who are having any problems that they think might be fixed by the latest patches, Amazon is now making a beta release of the 3.0.3 firmware version … Continue reading
The Man Booker Prize for 2010 was awarded today for Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question, the first time the prestigious prize has been awarded for a comic novel. The novel is available for the Kindle in US at $9.99 [UPDATE … Continue reading
No, “Kindle Singles” is neither a convenient food item nor a place to meet eligible e-book readers. It is a new program announced today by Amazon to provide a platform for authors and publishers to produce works that are too … Continue reading
I just noticed that Jean Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear is currently available on Amazon for $1.59, apparently to promote the upcoming release of here newest book, The Land of Painted Caves (available for pre-order at $14.98 at … Continue reading
KindleMinds.net is now eBookworm.us. Due to restrictions imposed on me by Amazon if I wish to continue in the Amazon Affiliate program, I have changed the domain for this blog to www.eBookworm.us. For a little while, links/bookmarks to the previous … Continue reading
The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker I read this for the monthly book-reading game at the KindleBoards.com forum. By design, it is in a genre outside of my comfort zone. In spite of that, I still enjoyed it, though … Continue reading