I love Rand McNally's Road Atlas, but they can be awkward to use, folding out to take the entire dash or tabletop. They have now migrated three states to the Kindle, where they'll definitely cost less ($1.59), take less room (but do take about 4MB of space, each), but where I wonder if they'll be as useful. I can see why Washington is one of the first states included and it makes sense they stay on the west coast with their initial picks. You can now drive all over California (Northern and Southern) and Washington state with just your Kindle in hand, but if you want to get from one to the other, I guess you'd better stick with the interstate, for now, as Oregon hasn't been released yet.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Rand McNally Atlas out for Kindle
I love Rand McNally's Road Atlas, but they can be awkward to use, folding out to take the entire dash or tabletop. They have now migrated three states to the Kindle, where they'll definitely cost less ($1.59), take less room (but do take about 4MB of space, each), but where I wonder if they'll be as useful. I can see why Washington is one of the first states included and it makes sense they stay on the west coast with their initial picks. You can now drive all over California (Northern and Southern) and Washington state with just your Kindle in hand, but if you want to get from one to the other, I guess you'd better stick with the interstate, for now, as Oregon hasn't been released yet.
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state with just your Kindle in hand, but if you want to get from one to the other, I guess you'd better stick with the interstate, for now, as Oregon hasn't been released yet.
Kindle Magazine Price Lowered
Cash: Personal Finance for Real People has as it's goal to help American consumers evaluate their options for spending, saving and investing across the broad range of decisions they confront every day. 
has as it's goalWhen I pointed out the the publisher that it was cheaper to just buy the weekly issues at $0.49/week versus subscribing at $2.49/month, that anyone who was serious about managing their cash would quickly conclude the same, and that relying on memory to go buy the issue would no doubt result in most people just reading an issue now and then, not to mention that their own press releases stated that the price would be $1.49/mnonth (a $12/year difference), they quickly agreed that the pricing was a problem and that they were working with Amazon to correct it. Only a few hours later, the price has been lowered to $1.49, perhaps one of the swiftest (hopefully permanent) price drops for a Kindle subscription. This magazine is a Kindle exclusive, also, something that the Amazon blog didn't make clear, but which is clearly spelled out in the companies press releases that were posted in news agencies across the web (but which are, oddly, difficult to impossible to find on the publisher's own web site). So, enjoy the price break - you can get this magazine for free for the rest of the year (first billing 12/31 if you order today or after 1/1 if you order tomorrow), then keep it for $1.49/month after that.
Free Ebook on Kindle: Private
Let's hope this one lasts longer than Flood (which was announced to be free thru January 3rd, but was only free for a few hours).
Kate Brian's new book, Privilege, is due out December 30th. To get you hooked on the author, you can download Private for free until January 15th. This is a young adult/children's selection.
Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy--the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. But when she arrives on the beautiful, tradition-steeped campus of Easton, everyone is just a bit more sophisticated, a bit more gorgeous, and a lot wealthier than she ever thought possible. Reed realizes that even though she has been accepted to Easton, Easton has not accepted her. She feels like she's on the outside, looking in.
Until she meets the Billings Girls...
(which was announced to be free thru January 3rd, but was only free for a few hours).Kate Brian's new book, Privilege, is due out December 30th. To get you hooked on the author, you can download Private for free until January 15th. This is a young adult/children's selection.
new book, 
, is due out December 30th. To get you hooked on the author, you can download Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy--the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. But when she arrives on the beautiful, tradition-steeped campus of Easton, everyone is just a bit more sophisticated, a bit more gorgeous, and a lot wealthier than she ever thought possible. Reed realizes that even though she has been accepted to Easton, Easton has not accepted her. She feels like she's on the outside, looking in.
Until she meets the Billings Girls...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Two new Kindle Magazines
There are two new weekly magazines out for the Kindle - one to teach you how to manage your money, while the other seems to concentrate on ways to spend it!
Cash: Personal Finance for Real People has as it's goal to help American consumers evaluate their options for spending, saving and investing across the broad range of decisions they confront every day. More than ever in this country’s history, people are looking for tested, authoritative and practical help managing their money. To meet this need, CASH pulls the best advice and information from the dozens of different sources available to Tribune Media Services to tailor a continually-updated handbook to being a smart consumer. In addition to traditional investing and saving advice by experts like Andrew Leckey, Humberto Cruz and Kiplinger’s, CASH helps readers with questions like: Should you pay your kids to bring home good grades? Is it still a good idea to lease rather than purchase a car? Can you really save money by flying to India, staying in a luxury hotel and having local surgeons perform your coronary bypass?” CASH draws its material from experts and publications syndicated by TMS, providing a depth and breadth of resources unparalleled in a consumer publication. Among its many contributors are U.S. News and World Report, Kiplinger’s Money Power and Consumer News Service, Andrew Leckey’s Successful Investing, the Los Angeles’ Times’ premier financial columnist Kathy Kristof, health advice from the Mayo Clinic, Retire Smart by Mark Miller, Kids and Money by Steve Rosen, Ask the Builder by home repair guru TIM Carter, automotive advice and reviews from Jim Mateja, Travel advice from Rick Steves and Christopher Elliott, and many more. CASH features the following sections: Savvy Investing; Managing Your Money; Managing Your Career; Kids and Money; Retire Smart; Home, Family and Health; and Travel Smart .
The Escapist covers digital entertainment culture with a progressive editorial style for a mature audience of entertainment enthusiasts, industry insiders and other readers. Weekly magazine-style updates offer several perspectives on a single editorial focus, while daily features and staff editorials provide a look at a broader variety of topics.
You can get a two week trial for either or both magazines or buy a single issue at a time. With Cash, the current single issue price is actually less than the subscription (49 cents vs2.99 2.49 now 1.49), while you save with the subscription on The Escapist (99 cents vs the same 2.99). The best deal, of course, is that first two weeks - you should get at least two and perhaps three issues at no charge whatsoever, which should be enough to decide if you really like them well enough to keep paying and whether you find the time to read them regularly.
Cash: Personal Finance for Real People has as it's goal to help American consumers evaluate their options for spending, saving and investing across the broad range of decisions they confront every day. More than ever in this country’s history, people are looking for tested, authoritative and practical help managing their money. To meet this need, CASH pulls the best advice and information from the dozens of different sources available to Tribune Media Services to tailor a continually-updated handbook to being a smart consumer. In addition to traditional investing and saving advice by experts like Andrew Leckey, Humberto Cruz and Kiplinger’s, CASH helps readers with questions like: Should you pay your kids to bring home good grades? Is it still a good idea to lease rather than purchase a car? Can you really save money by flying to India, staying in a luxury hotel and having local surgeons perform your coronary bypass?” CASH draws its material from experts and publications syndicated by TMS, providing a depth and breadth of resources unparalleled in a consumer publication. Among its many contributors are U.S. News and World Report, Kiplinger’s Money Power and Consumer News Service, Andrew Leckey’s Successful Investing, the Los Angeles’ Times’ premier financial columnist Kathy Kristof, health advice from the Mayo Clinic, Retire Smart by Mark Miller, Kids and Money by Steve Rosen, Ask the Builder by home repair guru TIM Carter, automotive advice and reviews from Jim Mateja, Travel advice from Rick Steves and Christopher Elliott, and many more. CASH features the following sections: Savvy Investing; Managing Your Money; Managing Your Career; Kids and Money; Retire Smart; Home, Family and Health; and Travel Smart .The Escapist covers digital entertainment culture with a progressive editorial style for a mature audience of entertainment enthusiasts, industry insiders and other readers. Weekly magazine-style updates offer several perspectives on a single editorial focus, while daily features and staff editorials provide a look at a broader variety of topics.
covers digital entertainment culture with a progressive editorial style for a mature audience of entertainment enthusiasts, industry insiders and other readers. Weekly magazine-style updates offer several perspectives on a single editorial focus, while daily features and staff editorials provide a look at a broader variety of topics.You can get a two week trial for either or both magazines or buy a single issue at a time. With Cash, the current single issue price is actually less than the subscription (49 cents vs
Monday, December 15, 2008
(Formerly) Free Ebook on Kindle: Flood
In anticipation of the release of Andrew Vachss' 18th and final Burke thriller, Another Life, 
18th and final Burke thriller, Another Life, Amazon.com: There has been some discussion that Another Life might be the last novel in the Burke series. Do you see it that way? And if so, why?
Andrew Vachss: I don't just "see" it that way, I *wrote* it that way. Another Life is the coda to the Burke novels, the final chapter in a series that has been running since 1985.
Others in the Series at bargain prices:
Blue Belle $0.99
$0.99Strega $3.99
$3.99Safe House $3.99
$3.99Footsteps of the Hawk $3.99
$3.99Everybody Pays $4.05
$4.05Dead and Gone $4.16
$4.16Hard Candy $4.95
$4.95Sacrifice $4.99
$4.99False Allegations $4.99
$4.99And one other freebie, this one actually predates Flood: A Bomb Built in Hell. PDF format only, it and a few other downloads are available on the author's web site.
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