Kindle For Christmas: Where To Get Books For It Though?

December 1, 2010

The Kindle is burning up the charts for electronic gifts this Christmas, but where can you get books for someone getting them Kindle? Is there anywhere you can find an online books discount for these popular items?

The variety of options is quite overwhelming, so multiple services have been created to help you find the best deals available at any given time. Check these "aggregator" sites before going elsewhere to save yourself time and money; many times they have exactly what you are looking for during gift times! 

When looking for discount online books, don't get suckered into a second-tier website. If they look like they fly under the radar, they likely are! Aggregator sites sometimes are not style centric, but the sites that they promote and that you will give your credit card to should be 100% legit. 

SSL encryption, "Security Check" style verification services, a shopping cart, and other indicators will help to show you whether the site is legit or not. If you are unsure about a site, don't get risky!

When you buy your online discount books, you'll have to wait to deliver it until Christmas day, but no worries! You'll have ownership of your e-book and can deliver it to the Kindle whenever you want!

What kind of book to get your loved one? Well, you can go two ways. You can buy them a book you know they will like, one that fits their current reading list. Or you can buy for the "future" and buy something that you think they might be able to grow through, at some point in the future.

While many times we focus on what a person will enjoy on the day of opening the present, the other way of thinking about presents is to examine what this present may do for someone if they choose to use it. You have the ability to choose any book you want for them, and while they may not read it right away, they may pick it up when their perspective has changed! 

Whatever book you may get your loved ones this holiday season, there are tons of great options of where to get discount books online!

 

 

When Will We Turn The Volume Down? Screamers Making Populism.

November 23, 2010


The ubiquity of the New York Times Bestseller list and its kin make instant winners out of their powerful voice and subsequent syndication.  But what about the publishing companies? How do they choose what books to feature and which ones to throw on the discount books list?

This is all important first step in the making of a popular book writer, but what are publishers looking for?  Without delving into specifics, publishers are looking for a product that they believe will become popular.  But...


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What To Get For That Picky Someone?

November 22, 2010

You have one on your list; that person that is just impossible to shop for! Either they've got it all, or just don't seem to want anything; and either way they are making your life hard this holiday season!

So what to do for these difficult people?! I'll walk you quickly through how you can easily pick a great present for your special person! 

Many times we make it too hard on ourselves. You might be trying to be too creative with gifts when all the person would really want is a fun book or mov...


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Keep An Extra Coin In Your Pocket And Buy Your Books On Cyber Monday!

November 18, 2010
The whole retail world seems to be waiting. Waiting for a couple huge buying days that will kick off the holiday season. Black Friday is the store front version of the big day, and Cyber Monday is the online version. But are these great days to pick up your holiday gifts?

In a word, yes. These two days are fantastic opportunities to get some of the biggest days of the year, and to do so well before the big rush starts around Christmas time. If you aren't into pushing yourself through the door ...
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White Pages Now Going To Be "On Demand" Only

November 13, 2010
The "White Pages" used to be the only place that you could find your neighbor's phone number, but in the digital age, the "White Pages" have become an atavistic approach to finding phone numbers. And while the companies putting out these books haven't yet discontinued their service, they are looking at ways to pull down the extreme cost of producing and distributing these books.

One way that companies are trying to eliminate excess liability is to drop the amount of books made. AT&T is trying ...
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Should We Be Concerned About Paperback Books Going Away?

November 8, 2010
As the world marches forward to the future, we are definitely losing some pieces of our past. Book sales are dropping almost daily with the prevalence of e-books with no sign of the trend reversing. This looks to be a simple fact of our "progress" but should we be excited, or abhorred at the way things are going?

Questions like these don't have easy answers, but let's explore the question together and we can come to our own conclusions.

Paperback books and hardcover books so far have a complete...
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Arab World Lacking Basic Texts; Lack Of Translators And Interest To Blame

November 3, 2010
A recent study done by the United Nations found that only 10,000 books have been translated into Arabic in the last 1,000 years, which is roughly the same as the amount of texts translated in Spain last year alone.

The biggest obstacles to the translation of Western texts into Arabic is a lack of available translators as well as a significant lack of interest in any books that are not spiritual. 

Although to many this may seem like a serious error in the culture of any people, a lack of want fo...
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UNICEF Program To Help Poor Children In Zimbabwe Hits Logistical Wall

October 31, 2010

The UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) book distribution program in Zimbabwe has come up against a wall of logistical issues that are preventing 13 million books from reaching the hands of school children throughout the impoverished nation.

After years of civil war and a recently "fixed" currency crises which sent inflation % to millions per year, Zimbabwe is receiving a fair amount of attention from the United Nations. This nation was one of the top economic and political forces in Afr...


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New Feature From Kindle Creates New Ability For E-books

October 27, 2010
Of all the fantastic features of a e-book device, the greatest flaw has always been the inability to either share or borrow books from friends and family. One of the oldest methods of allowing for others to read new material, e-book lending has so far been in the same category as pirating; but that looks to be changing.

The Kindle reader is now allowing users to borrow and lend their e-books to other Kindle users, so long as the publisher and author allow it. This could end up being quite a re...
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BookBrewer Partnership With Borders A Boon For Writing Community, Or Bust?

October 18, 2010
The book industry is overcome by the e-book revolution; so far this year Amazon is selling more e-books than hardcover books. And on Friday, BookBrewer announced a partnership with Borders book store, which will give independent authors the opportunity to publish and sell their e-books through Borders' eBookstore.

 On the surface this development looks like another of the great partnerships driving self-publishing above traditional publishing methods, but I would argue otherwise.


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