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Friday Midday Links: Amazon Sells 3 Million Kindles in 3 Weeks

Friday Midday Links: Amazon Sells 3 Million Kindles in 3 Weeks

In a move of smart and generous customer service, Harlequin is replacing everyone’s LIT and Mobi purchases with ePub copies. If you recall, earlier this year Harlequin announced that it was eliminating support for LIT/Mobi purchases. I had hoped that like Fictionwise, Harlequin would offer this switch out for customers and Harlequin did. As of(…)

50% off Harlequin eBooks

50% off Harlequin eBooks

Harlequin is having its 12 days of Christmas sale and today’s deal is 50% off all ebooks. Links that might be helpful: If you have a Kindle Fire, you can read Adobe ePub books by sideloading a free reading app. This link tells you how to get ePubs on the iOS (iPhone, iPad, iTouch) For Kindle eink(…)

REVIEW: Because of the List by Amy Knupp

REVIEW: Because of the List by Amy Knupp

Dear Ms. Knupp: In looking in my past reviews, I don’t see that I’ve read you before but I believe I have and just not reviewed the book(s) that I’ve read.  Because of the List starts out with a old but favorite premise.  Hero is best friends with heroine’s older brother.  The twist in this book(…)

REVIEW: Lord of the Abyss by Nalini Singh

REVIEW: Lord of the Abyss by Nalini Singh

Dear Ms. Singh: This is the fourth book in a connected series with the three other stories written by three other authors. I haven’t read the other three and I don’t feel like my reading experience was impaired in any way.  The prologue lays the table.  A long lived people leaved peacefully and prosperously in(…)

REVIEW:  Craving the Forbidden by India Grey

REVIEW: Craving the Forbidden by India Grey

Dear Ms. Grey: Right before I received your book for review, a friend of mine told me she had a “meet cute” on a train. She ran into a guy who dropped a tux he was carrying. She later found out he was the best man and the tux was for the wedding. I joked(…)

REVIEW: Pride and Passion by Charlotte Featherstone

REVIEW: Pride and Passion by Charlotte Featherstone

Dear Ms. Featherstone: I confess that I read this book because I just loved the cover.  The positioning of the characters, the color of the dress, the frills at the cuff of the man’s outfit. It was very evocative.  The soft against the hard.  It’s a clinch but an evocative, sophisticated clinch.   This is(…)

REVIEW: Cast in Ruin by Michelle Sagara

REVIEW: Cast in Ruin by Michelle Sagara

Dear Ms. Sagara, Ah, the peril of the long-running series. I knew in the back of my mind that your ongoing Elantra series consisted of many books but checking Amazon, I see that Cast in Ruin is book 7. This both surprises me and makes me wince. Surprise because I can’t believe it’s been that(…)

REVIEW: The Son He Never Knew by Kristi Gold

REVIEW: The Son He Never Knew by Kristi Gold

Dear Ms. Gold: I probably should have stopped reading at the first chapter when I figured out that the male protagonist of the story would not figure out he had a son until said son was 10 years old, but I didn’t. Unfortunately, the story never got any better. Jessica Keller and Chase Reed are(…)

Thursday Midday Links: Amazon Launches a Lending Library

Thursday Midday Links: Amazon Launches a Lending Library

If you own a Kindle device (as opposed to using an App) AND you are a Prime member, you can take advantage of Kindle Owner’s Lending Library.  It has about 5,000 titles in there and it’s all non agency books.  While Agency publishers (and others) are balking at the potential loss of revenue, I would(…)

Tuesday Midday Links:  Freebies from Samhain, Writing Contest from Harlequin

Tuesday Midday Links: Freebies from Samhain, Writing Contest from Harlequin

Freebies from Samhain: Freebie for month of November: Touching Lace by Anne Rainey |  Amazon |  nook Freebie from November 1 to Nov 14: Carinian’s Seeker by T.J. Michaels | Amazon | nook  ****** Galley Cat reports that a self published author offered a free sample at BN, Amazon discovered this and lowered the price to his book to free.  Part of Amazon’s contract is(…)

TRIPLE PLAY REVIEW: Donovan Brothers Brewery series by Victoria Dahl

TRIPLE PLAY REVIEW: Donovan Brothers Brewery series by Victoria Dahl

Dear Ms. Dahl: I had been planning to review Good Girls Don’t, but by the time I got to it, Bad Boys Do was out and Real Men Will was imminent. So I figured I might as well review all three, since the trilogy’s release dates are so close together. I’m not a stickler for(…)

REVIEW: The Long Way Home by Cheryl Reavis

REVIEW: The Long Way Home by Cheryl Reavis

Dear Ms. Reavis, I’m so glad that by the time I’d heard of these books, the second one was already out and the third one wasn’t too much of a wait. In Little Darlin’ you make me actually like a secret baby book and toss in a marriage of convenience just for fun. In this(…)

Wednesday Midday Links:  Amazon’s Silk Privacy Policy Satisfies EFF

Wednesday Midday Links: Amazon’s Silk Privacy Policy Satisfies EFF

EFF, a watchdog for internet privacy rights, questioned Amazon about SILK and the use of data to create predictive web browsing patterns. According to the answers given by Amazon to EFF, Amazon does not intercept encrypted traffic and it logs only the URL requested, the timestamp, and token identifying the session. EFF deems this to(…)

REVIEW: Cowboy Take Me Away by Kathleen Eagle

REVIEW: Cowboy Take Me Away by Kathleen Eagle

“When photographer Skyler Quinn first fixed her lens on gorgeous cowboy Trace Wolf Track, she liked what she saw but didn’t give it much thought. Until everywhere she went—the rodeo, the Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary—there he was, and the heat between them built to the boiling point. As a widow struggling with debts and(…)

REVIEW: Unclaimed by Courtney Milan

REVIEW: Unclaimed by Courtney Milan

Dear Ms. Milan: Toward the end of the review it is going to sound like I didn’t like this book but that would be the wrong impression. I did like this book.  I liked it but in a lot of ways I found Mark, like his older brother Ash, to be almost saintly in his(…)