Kensington Publishing Company has a new Kindle Store freebie this morning: a lengthy excerpt from Brad Herzog's new road memoir
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse
. At 936 "locations," this is over 5 times the length of a Kindle sample, and the full-length book is available for pre-order here until its release on Tuesday. The book is being billed as
On the Road
meets
Eat, Pray, Love
, if you can get your head around that combination. Kirkus Reviews says "Herzog's third travel memoir follows the highways cross-country examining the idea of the hero along the way. He captures stunning details of the American landscape. The hero's return, is irresistible...a near-perfect ending."
by Brad Herzog (Author)
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At a party Saturday evening, I met an author who has published several of her novels with Kensington,
Robin Reardon
, and I told her she was very well positioned for the ebook revolution because Kensington, a successful New York-based independent publishing company, is light years ahead of dinosaurs like Penguin Pearson in understanding how to connect with ebook readers. Much more on this later, but let me just mention that Penguin, coincidentially, is the publisher of the two books mentioned above in that
On the Road meets
Eat, Pray, Love comparison, and both of the Penguin titles are terribly overpriced in their Kindle editions since Penguin established its new predatory pricing plan under the agency model.
by Peter Pezzelli (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars (21 customer reviews)
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by James Patterson (Author), Maxine Paetro (Author)
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by Eric von Hippel (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)
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"Eric von Hippel has a penchant for identifying important aspects of technological innovation that run contrary to conventional wisdom and to the thrust of conventional scholarship. His work on the important role that users, rather than suppliers, play in the advance of technology casts the process in a new light. This book is an intellectual feast."
—Richard R. Nelson, George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs, Business, and Law, Columbia University
"Eric von Hippel has written a genuinely important book on innovation. Combining a wealth of case studies and data with a clear and systematically developed theoretical framework,
Democratizing Innovation turns much of how we think about innovation economics on its head. Von Hippel has provided us with a fascinating book that will challenge innovation theorists and businesses alike."
—Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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- "Free" in the Kindle Store refers, for now, to the price for download to US-based Kindles. Amazon adds charges for Kindles based beyond US borders.
- Originally posted to Planet iPad 5.31.2010.
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The best way to find out about these free listings right away, when they occur, is to subscribe to the Kindle edition of Planet iPad, which pushes Planet iPad Free Book Alerts directly to your Kindle Home screen 24/7. And in the case of many free listings that disappear within a matter of hours or days, "right away" is often just in time.
No Kindle Required: Whether you are a long-time Kindle owner or you've just acquired an iPad and are filling it with ebooks for the first time or you are reading Kindle books on a PC, Mac, BlackBerry, iPhone or iPad Touch, you can get any and all of these titles absolutely free on your Kindle-compatible device of choice! Click here to download a free Kindle App for your device.
Here are our other updated free promotional iPad-compatible listings in the Kindle for iPad Store as of May 31: |
4.4 out of 5 stars (59 customer reviews)
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Here's a quick free read (or text-to-speech listen) for your commute, just a little something to whet your appetite for
the full release of J.A. Konrath's latest Jack Daniels mystery, Shaken, which will be published initially in a Kindle exclusive by AmazonEncore this Fall and is available, at least for now, at a pre-order price of $2.99
. I don't ordinarily include many "free samples" in the Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alerts because many of them are just trying to game the bestseller lists through the redundancy of offering something that is already free as a Kindle Store free sample. But when a teaser like Konrath's comes out while the full ebook is still in its unreleased pre-order state, as in this case, a worthwhile purpose is served.
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by Kathleen Morgan (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars (10 customer reviews)
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by Sidney Sheldon (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars (81 customer reviews)
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- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 655 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: HarperCollins e-books (May 25, 2010)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
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