Links: Coupons, Refurb Kindles, Nancy Drew, and Other Stuff
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There are refurbished Kindles on sale for , which is both a good and a bad thing. The discount may mean a new model is coming soon but it probably own’t be , whatever it is. So if you’ve been waiting for the price to drop, it surely dropped now!
Hark a Vagrant does Nancy Drew Cover Snark!
Graceful curtsey to Robinjn for the link.
I am over at Kirkus talking about changing trends in covers, from models looking directly at you to the long-lasting trend of headless covers.
This trend is slowly changing, and on more recent releases you’ll see a head, a back, a peek of a face looking over a shoulder. In the past few years, very often the cover would reveal everything from the chin downward. On the men, stubble to hips with man titty of epic proportion in between, or for the heroine, chin to bustle, with perhaps a partially undressed back in the middle. For a while now, there haven’t been a lot of faces on the covers of romance novels.
Kobo coupons for you – I had a hard time figuring out what the “select ebooks” were, as I didn’t see any marked. Maybe it works on all of them? That’d be cool!
20% Off Kobo eBooks with code “June20off”. Valid through 31 December 2011.
Get Off select Kobo eBooks – Kobodollaroff. Valid through August 31, 2011.
This is rather thought-provoking. Domino Project’s “Read This Before Our Next Meeting” is free for the Kindle thanks to corporate sponsorship. This week: Citrix, a software used to log in securely to workplace information and desktops, is sponsoring the free-ness.
Also of note: it is not available digitally at BN:nook except in Audio format. Domino books are Amazon-powered, as they put it, and thus digitally Amazon exclusive.
While the idea of sponsoring a freebie is interesting, and I wonder whether or how it would translate to the romance fiction genre, I have to say, I think this is kinda funny. One of Citrix’s included features is the virtual meeting software, GoToMeeting. So read the book before your next virtual meeting (and then cancel it because the only thing worse than a meeting is a Task Force).
And for your next office decor purchase: Meetings: None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us.
Graceful curtsey to Mollie for the link.
Links: Chase, Kobo, and Backhanded Insults
A hard-to-find Loretta Chase is on Amazon for .99 digitally. I don’t know who “NYLA” is as a publisher, but with the square cover art and the artistic style of the image, I’m wondering if Chase self-published this book. Anyone know?
First out of the gate in News From My Tweetstream From BEA was Kobo’s announcement of a new ereader with a touch screen, selling for 9 and available next month (“in time for Father’s Day”) at many retailers including Indigo, Best Buy, WalMart and Borders.
I’ve been waiting to see what the new Kobo will look like, because I’m curious about how it will work, especially since I am wondering if a different reader will lure me away from Kindle III (“Motto: easy to load books, crap-ass organization.”) Kobo has user-created collections, and some dexterity in loading files that might appeal to me, and I adore how much of their data they like to share and talk about at conferences. I’m going to try to go fondle one at BEA this week.
From the Department of Backhanded Compliments, comes this article about summer reading wherein writer Allison Dempsey has the following recommendation for Alyssa Day’s upcoming novel:
If you have no shame in your literary taste and want to combine as many ridiculous genres as possible: “Vampires in Atlantis” by Alyssa Day.
Historical romance, smutty sex scenes, bloodsucking creatures and a disappearing city: What more could you ask for in terms of a self-indulgent read? Might want to go the Kindle route with this one, though, to avoid being judged in public. (Available June 7.)
WOW. I’m actually stumped on how to come up with a more insulting recommendation. Any ideas on how you could insult a book more while recommending it?
May Links
There has been drama at my house this past week. Monday evening I took my wife to the hospital and the next evening she had surgery to remove an infected stone filled gall bladder.
I was able to keep up on this week’s posts because most of the work was done Sunday and Monday before my wife’s pain got too bad to ignore.
Today I’ll wrap up the week with a list of posts — both here on Horror Books with the Undead Rat and on other people’s blogs — that I think you might find interesting.
- Last month I started a series called Tools for Horror Readers which was an extensive revision of a few posts I published years ago. I plan to add some more to it this month.
- I recently posted Top Ten Scary Books: Books That Scared the Undead Rat which gathered a number of interesting responses.
- In light of the next suggestion, I offer another recent series: The 2010 Shirley Jackson Awards.
- Notes from the Current Silly Season: What’s Your Favorite SF/Fantasy Award, And Why? from Omnivoracious. This article not only talks about the Shirley Jackson Awards but got me thinking about what these awards mean and how might the rules — juried or popular vote, publisher contributed only or general contribution, etc., — be effecting the nominations and winners.
- Horror Speciality Press Cemetery Dance had an announcement yesterday abour their New Cemetery Dance Website!. The look of the new site is going to take some getting used to but it feels like an easier-to-navigate website.
- A few days ago horror author John Everson announced that he had a short story published in the Literary Mayhem website. I hopped over and sure enough, LM offers PDF copies of short stories by Mary SanGiovanni, Ronald Kelly, John and a forthcoming one from James A. Moore. This is a great way to discover new authors and a great service from Peter at Literary Mayhem.
- “Dorian Gray” as Wilde actually wrote it: A new edition finally brings us the original text of the novella along with a wealth of editorial insight. Did you know there was another version of The Picture of Dorian Gray? Find out about it here in this article from Salon.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound has yielded a bunch of computer data.
For the first time in 20 years, the number of US homes with television sets has dropped.
Reader, beware: How a fake quote from MLK went viral in less than 24 hours.
Facebook responds to Julian Assange’s allegations that the social network is a “spying machine.”
The moment we’ve all been waiting for: The 2011 Webby Awards are announced.
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The Vatican likes hackers now, because they make things? Who are they, Hannah Arendt? That’s a far cry from the Pope Benedict XVI’s early writings that say (among other things, obviously) that computer users are living in an alternate reality.
Rumors of an Android crackdown on enforcing app and hardware specifications are leading some to question the meaning of “open” platforms, and whether Google is living up to its own open philosophy.
The FCC is now requiring wireless carriers to share their networks, and some aren’t happy about it.
For all of you out there wishing you could still use a Commodore 64 for computing, you’re in luck.
And in the department of not-really-tech-but-on-the-blogs, high-altitude dancing on an Amsterdam to Miami flight sounds pretty perfect.
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Take a deep breath, Steve Jobs: Adobe releases a Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool.
Movie rentals are coming soon to Facebook, putting it in competition with big video content providers like Hulu and Netflix.
A mini app roundup: Bizzy’s “check out” system will let you write micro reviews of places you visit, Angry Birds will be coming to Facebook this spring, and Situationist hopes to get you interacting with strangers in public.
Watch out Mac owners: this year’s Black Hat hacker conference will feature a Mac hacking class!
Will a Sprint and T-Mobile merger work?