Danielle Steele has been digitized

Danielle Steele is one of the world's most popular authors and one of the holdouts from the digital revolution, with over 580 million books sold and not one of them in digital form, until now, and they have made quite a splash in the Kindle catalog. A search turns up 71 titles currently available, two at 5.59, ten at $6.00, four at $9.99 and the rest at 6.39. With one click, you can be reading her latest, One Day at a Time ($9.99), in less than a minute. Her entire catalog might take you nearly an hour, between clicking and downloading (although you could start reading as soon as the first one arrived), but would keep you occupied reading for most of the year!

Synopsis
Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling new novel-a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take life-Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family, her last name loaded with expectations. Her mother is a mega-bestselling author who writes under the name of Florence Flowers-and her sister, Jane, is one of Hollywood-s top producers. They-re not your typical family by any means.-Jane has lived with her partner, Liz, for ten years, in a solid, loving relationship. Florence, widowed but still radiant, has just begun a secret romance with a man twenty-four years her junior. And Coco, a law school dropout and the family black sheep, works as a dog walker, having fled life in the spotlight for the artsy northern California beach town of Bolinas.But when Coco reluctantly agrees to dog-sit in Jane-s luxurious home, she soon discovers how much things can change in just a matter of days.-It turns out Jane-s house comes complete with an unexpected houseguest: Leslie Baxter, a dashing but down-to-earth British actor who-s fleeing a psycho ex-girlfriend. Their worlds couldn-t be more different. The attraction couldn-t be more immediate. Suddenly Coco is seeing things differently: Leslie is not just a celebrity, he-s a single dad to an adorable six-year-old girl. Her mother is not just a self-centered walking advertisement for great cosmetic surgery, she-s a woman in love, with vulnerability and new insight. And Jane and Liz are about to take the bravest plunge of all-into parenthood. As Coco contemplates a future with one of Hollywood-s hottest stars, as her mother and sister settle into their lives, old wounds are healed and new familes are formed-some traditional, some not so traditional, but all bonded by love.With wit and intelligence, Danielle Steel-s new novel explores love in all its guises, taking us into the lives of three unusual but wonderfully real couples. Funny, sexy, and wise, One Day at a Time is at once moving, thought provoking, and utterly impossible to put down.

The most expensive Kindle Book yet!

What do you get when someone self-publishes, no one is checking the price entered and Amazon's software is not set up to at least alert someone to double check the listing if the price is over a certain threshhold? The most expensive Kindle book to date (be sure not to one-click it, even if you do have a very high credit limit on your Amazon linked credit card):


Yes, that's right, you SAVE more than $10,000.00 with the current Kindle discount on this title (that would buy a fleet of Kindle 2's). Those really interested in the subject matter, though, might want to check out the paperback version - it's only $52.95 (currently discounted to $47.65). It won't load on your Kindle, but you could mark up and lose several dozen copies and not put a dent into the price asked for the electronic version.

It's all a pricing error, of course. It's pretty obvious that the publisher was trying to set the price on the two editions, Kindle and Paperback, at the same $52.95 level. But his finger slipped and hit the 3 instead of the period (it's just one key above on the numeric keypad). Not only was the error not seen when submitted, you have to think that someone must have the job of checking the listings once up and that Amazon probably notified them of the listing being up (and probably sent an acknowledgement of the listing when first submitted, which may have also shown the price that was being set). And you would also think that someone over in the IS department might have set up a threshold (whether $100 or $1,000) as Apple did in the AppStore to at least flag items over that price and require a confirmation from the listing person (with a simple form where they retype the price, at least forcing them to make the same error twice), preventing such a listing from even being submitted, let alone posted to the store.

Then again, maybe this is part of the vendors plan to prove to his shareholders that ebooks simply don't sell and that they shouldn't bother with them for future titles. It might backfire - one copy may make more profit than all the paperback copies he sells in a year, if anyone ever actually orders it.

Amazon Kindle 2 ships a day early!

Unlike the prior version of Kindle, which sold out the first day and then was back ordered, sometimes for months, the rest of the 14 months it was out, the Kindle 2 has shipped a day early. Two days really - those who preordered starting seeing charges over the weekend and the Kindles shipped yesterday. For everyone else, you can order today and Amazon has Kindles ready to ship. Rather than being a sign of lack of demand, since all those sold out and undelivered Christmas orders (where Kindle was the best selling Electronics item pretty much the entire season) have been filled with Kindle 2, this shows that Amazon has better prepared (so far) for the demand for their device.

Order today and you can be reading your 28 free Kindle books tomorrow!

Free Ebook on Kindle: The Holy Bible English Standard Version

The Holy Bible English Standard Version (ESV). Publisher: Good News Publishers/Crossway Books (November 29, 2007)

Synopsis
The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is an essentially literal Bible translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with literary excellence, beauty, and depth of meaning.

This brings the total number of free books (not including public domain and promotional chapters) for your Kindle that are currently available at Amazon to 28.

Free Ebook on Kindle: Last Chance, My Love

Last Chance, My Love by Lynne Connolly.

Synopsis
What if you're in love -- but you can't make love?
Book One of the Triple Countess series. Miranda and Daniel, Earl and Countess of Rosington, are in love, but for the past five years their love has been purely platonic. Because if Miranda has another child, she will die. Daniel resolves to take a mistress, one who will understand the purely physical business arrangement, but when Miranda discovers his plan, she can't bear it. So Daniel's brothers scheme, and Daniel finds himself on the losing end of a wager.

Daniel and Miranda must pose as a simple innkeeper and his wife, forced to work together to save a failing business. Their masquerade brings them into temptation, their searing desire for each other threatening to ruin their good intentions, but it also brings danger, in the presence of the brutal father of a young girl who turns for them for help.

Can Daniel and Miranda save themselves, their protege and their marriage?

Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex.