John Grisham EBooks Now Available!

Big news on the ebook front today, as John Grisham's are now available (legally) in electronic format. Here's the announcement from Amazon:

Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, John Grisham was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time between the office and courtroom recesses to work on his hobby--writing his first novel. That hobby would quickly turn into a new full-time career. We're excited to announce that his international bestsellers including The Firm ($7.99), The Pelican Brief ($7.99), The Client ($7.99), and his latest collection of short stories, Ford County ($9.99), are now available on Kindle.

You can also find his books in the B&N and Sony stores.

Free Book Update

The Amazon pricing genie has raised the price of the "free" editions of these three back to 99 cents (along with removing over a dozen other previously free titles in the last couple of days):

• Rides a Dread Legion, by Raymond E. Feist (pre-order)
• The Dark Tide, by Andrew Gross (pre-order)
• Stopping Time, Part 1, by Melissa Marr

If you ordered them while they were free, you won't pay when they are delivered (and you should have Stopping Time, Part 1 today).

At Barnes & Noble, you can get still get Stopping Time, Part 1 and Stopping Time, Part 2 as free pre-orders and they've added these:

• Male Call , by Denise A. Agnew
• Take One, by Karen Kingsbury

Sony has added these three as free downloads:

• Stopping Time, Part 1, by Melissa Marr
  
• Take One, by Karen Kingsbury
• Sushi for One?, by Camy Tang
  

Free Audiobook - The Pilgrim's Progress: Retold

The Pilgrim's Progress: Retold (Abridged) by John Bunyan, narrated by Paul Michael ($5.99 paperback) is free to download at ChristianAudio.

One of the most powerful dramas of Christian faith ever written, this captivating allegory of man's religious journey in search of salvation follows the pilgrim as he travels an obstacle-filled road to the Celestial City. Along the way, he is confronted by monsters and spiritual terrors, among them Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. An enormously influential seventeenth-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language.

Abridged and retold by James Baldwin.

Get your free audio download HERE; after adding it to your cart, enter the coupon code PROG103 during checkout. After you finishing checking out, you will be asked which format you prefer to download - select MP3 if you want to be able to play the book on your Kindle.

Read an EBook Week Postscript

Twilight Times Books was late updating their free book list yesterday, so they will be leaving both yesterday's titles:

• Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine Issue Sept/Oct 2005
• Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine Issue Jan/Feb 2006
  

and some (currently all) of the others from this week (which are mostly novels, not short stories) up as free downloads until March 17th. In addition, they will be having a sale on several of their titles over at OmniLit - 50% off until March 17th (they are mixed in with other discounted titles on the sale page). The discounted titles include:

• Awkward Grace by Jeff McCord
• Burnout by Stephanie Osborn
• Bainstorming by Darrell Bain
• Darrell Bain's World of Books by Darrell Bain
• Dragon's Moon by Bent Lorentzen
• Embraced by the Shadows by Mayra Calvani
• Gate to Nowhere by Leanna Sain
• Hiding Hand by Lee Denning
• Human by Choice (book I) by Travis S. Taylor and Darrell Bain
• Krona by Bent Lorentzen
• Lady Runaway by Ginger Hanson
• Monkey Trap by Lee Denning
• The Cresperian Alliance (book III) by Stephanie Osborn and Darrell Bain
• The Elixir by Thomas Root III
• The Solomon Scandals by David Rothman
• The Y Factor (book II) by Darrell Bain and Stephanie Osborn
• Touch of Fate by Christine Amsden
• Usurper by Patrick Welch

A reader sent in a tip on In Over Her Head ($24.95 paperback), by Elsie Russell, which I highlighted last August, when she was giving away a copy as a PDF. It's now available for the Kindle and only $1.00. As I've said before, visiting her web site is worth the time, just to see the samples of her paintings.

Book Description
The debut of Penny Bell's's musical composition, featuring the use of mysterious extremely low frequency waves takes a tragic turn when several concert-goers die in their seats during the performance. The once-bright horizons of Penny's career collapse, and she retreats to a dank Soho basement apartment lit only by the glow of computer monitors and electronic displays. There, using herself as a guinea pig, she sets out to unlock the secrets of her beautiful and deadly symphonies. A series of strange coincidences intrude upon her solitary quest. Her neighbor, the erotic performance artist Ula Nova's, disappears after her studio is broken into. And then Ula's charming and damaged young choreographer appears, and sweeps Penny off to Europe to search for the diva, plunging Penny into a seedy and unfamiliar world of jet set artists and international intrigue where the threads of every encounter always seem to lead back to those ELF waves and their pint-sized progenitor.

I want to thank all the publishers and authors who made their books available for free or deeply discounted this week. I've added quite a few to my TBR stack and look forward to trying out several new authors.

Free Book (DRM) - Russell Rules

Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner ($9.99 Kindle), by by Bill Russell & David Falkner, is free at Fictionwise (and probably not for long), in the following (DRM'd) formats: Secure Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, eReader (nook), Adobe PDF, Adobe EPUB (Sony, others)

Book Description
He has been hailed as the greatest team player of the twentieth century. In Russell Rules, the star center of the Boston Celtics and five-time NBA Most Valuable Player reveals the eleven essential steps to attaining success in your professional and personal lives.

Leadership and teamwork are the hallmarks of becoming a champion, and in this book Russell shares the insights, the memories, and, most important, the enduring philosophy that made him a star. He talks about what leadership means to him, and how living by these eleven rules has influenced him in every aspect of his life, from being a single father raising a daughter to becoming a successful coach and mentor to others. Filled with rousing personal and professional anecdotes and never-before-revealed stories of his glory days playing with Celtic greats Bob Cousy, Tommy Heinsohn, Sam Jones, and their legendary coach Red Auerbach, Russell Rules offers inspiring lessons on teamwork, commitment, personal integrity, and what makes a winning team. This invaluable primer will help anyone become a champion...from the man who has successfully proven that playing-and living-by these rules really works. Foreword by Bill Bradley. How ironic!

Click HERE for the free book.