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It's not too late!

( Jul. 11th, 2008 08:44 am)
If you haven't signed up for tor.com's free ebook giveaways, there's still time.  From what the weekly email is saying, there will be one more week, and one more book made available before the site launch which will be on July 20th.  (Right about when I'll be travelling home from Readercon I bet.)   And it looks as if they will be making in that final week ALL of the prior ebooks available again.   That's right, if you missed one, or you jumped in late, you still have some time to grab free ebooks by the likes of:


All that could be yours for the right to check out Tor.com when it goes live.  But do it soon, or you'll miss out!

 
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I'm loving Friday Mornings.

( Jun. 13th, 2008 10:44 am)
Okay, I don't know if you all have signed up for the FREE EBOOKS over at http://www.tor.com/  yet, but if you haven't rush, do not dawdle, over there and sign up now! Seriously, this has been the best thing I've done in a long time.   Counting the one available as of this morning, that's eighteen (18) free books.   Not to mention some cool artwork you can download for your desktop wallpaper.   Look, I don't know how long they intend to keep up with this giving away of the free books.  I thought they were only planning to give away an even dozen, but we're half again beyond that, and there's one slated for next week, so even if you missed out on previous ones, there's still new stuff on the way, and time for you to jump in and grab some.   They have several formats available: PDF, HTML and MOBI, so you can read in the format of your choice.

All I can say is THANK YOU to the folks over at TOR.COM for making this happen, and especially a tremendous THANK YOU to all of the authors and artists for allowing your work to be shared in this fashion. 
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I'm loving Friday Mornings.

( Jun. 13th, 2008 10:44 am)
Okay, I don't know if you all have signed up for the FREE EBOOKS over at http://www.tor.com/  yet, but if you haven't rush, do not dawdle, over there and sign up now! Seriously, this has been the best thing I've done in a long time.   Counting the one available as of this morning, that's eighteen (18) free books.   Not to mention some cool artwork you can download for your desktop wallpaper.   Look, I don't know how long they intend to keep up with this giving away of the free books.  I thought they were only planning to give away an even dozen, but we're half again beyond that, and there's one slated for next week, so even if you missed out on previous ones, there's still new stuff on the way, and time for you to jump in and grab some.   They have several formats available: PDF, HTML and MOBI, so you can read in the format of your choice.

All I can say is THANK YOU to the folks over at TOR.COM for making this happen, and especially a tremendous THANK YOU to all of the authors and artists for allowing your work to be shared in this fashion. 
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The Amazon Kindle--Not exactly a review.

( Nov. 26th, 2007 04:37 pm)

Okay, for anyone on my flist who hasn't heard of this yet, Amazon has launched their own digital book/electronic reader.  It is known as the Kindle, and you can read something about it here:

Link to Amazon Kindle Page

The next test, was finding whose books I could purchase, so I started doing some random searches on authors I would consider purchasing if I were to own a Kindle.  Most of whom would be in the SF, F, and H fields.   Here's who I could find:

One of the features I was a little disappointed about was magazine subscriptions.  While I do like having subscriptions to the physical magazines, because that's cool, I might actually get a few more stories read if I had it all digital and didn't need my laptop to do the reading.  IE, it's something I'd consider.   What's sad is that NO Fantasy, SF, or Horror magazines are available through this service.   Even more, there are only (at the time I write this) eight (8) magazines available for subscription at all.   Maybe it doesn't sound cool to others the way it does me.   But there's hundreds of Blogs you can subscribe to, I'd have though magazines would want to be available this way too.  Perhaps it's just going to take a while to get there.

I'm curious what other people think.   Mostly from a consumer aspect, though if you happen to be an author and want to share opinions about the device from that side too, cool.   But especially those friends of mine who aren't writers, you book readers you.  What do you think?  Does something like this meet your needs?   Or are you going to give this a heck no, no way no how reaction?   I'm real curious.  (Opinions, such as: if they could bring down the price tag to $200 I'd go for it are welcome too.)

I think for me the hardest part is this:  I can't test drive one.  At least with the Sony reader, I can find one in a store somewhere and play around to see what I think.   I don't usually buy electronics sight unseen.  I'm not that trusting.  I'd be more inclined if I got say a 90 day money back guarantee trial from Amazon.  Please dear readers (all five of you) share your thoughts too.

Edit:  I'm seeing lots of hits, with no posting.  Anyone want to share where you found this entry from?  I'm very curious how so many people found this one post.
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The Amazon Kindle--Not exactly a review.

( Nov. 26th, 2007 04:37 pm)

Okay, for anyone on my flist who hasn't heard of this yet, Amazon has launched their own digital book/electronic reader.  It is known as the Kindle, and you can read something about it here:

Link to Amazon Kindle Page

The next test, was finding whose books I could purchase, so I started doing some random searches on authors I would consider purchasing if I were to own a Kindle.  Most of whom would be in the SF, F, and H fields.   Here's who I could find:

One of the features I was a little disappointed about was magazine subscriptions.  While I do like having subscriptions to the physical magazines, because that's cool, I might actually get a few more stories read if I had it all digital and didn't need my laptop to do the reading.  IE, it's something I'd consider.   What's sad is that NO Fantasy, SF, or Horror magazines are available through this service.   Even more, there are only (at the time I write this) eight (8) magazines available for subscription at all.   Maybe it doesn't sound cool to others the way it does me.   But there's hundreds of Blogs you can subscribe to, I'd have though magazines would want to be available this way too.  Perhaps it's just going to take a while to get there.

I'm curious what other people think.   Mostly from a consumer aspect, though if you happen to be an author and want to share opinions about the device from that side too, cool.   But especially those friends of mine who aren't writers, you book readers you.  What do you think?  Does something like this meet your needs?   Or are you going to give this a heck no, no way no how reaction?   I'm real curious.  (Opinions, such as: if they could bring down the price tag to $200 I'd go for it are welcome too.)

I think for me the hardest part is this:  I can't test drive one.  At least with the Sony reader, I can find one in a store somewhere and play around to see what I think.   I don't usually buy electronics sight unseen.  I'm not that trusting.  I'd be more inclined if I got say a 90 day money back guarantee trial from Amazon.  Please dear readers (all five of you) share your thoughts too.

Edit:  I'm seeing lots of hits, with no posting.  Anyone want to share where you found this entry from?  I'm very curious how so many people found this one post.
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