It's not just books that are free on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch!
While it's true that there haven't been any free listings added, in the last 24 hours, to our already amazing list of free i-compatible books in the Kindle Store, there's another kind of FREE that can provide us with tons of great contemporary reading.
While the competition between Apple and Amazon may have actually led to higher ebook prices due to collusion between Apple executives and some large traditional publishers, periodicals are a different story. It's beginning to look like we -- the customers -- may be the beneficiaries of fierce competition between device makers, and isn't that the way it should be?
So today well focus our Free Book Alert on several ways in which we can read e-periodicals free on our iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, immediately in some cases and soon in others....
While it's true that there haven't been any free listings added, in the last 24 hours, to our already amazing list of free i-compatible books in the Kindle Store, there's another kind of FREE that can provide us with tons of great contemporary reading.
While the competition between Apple and Amazon may have actually led to higher ebook prices due to collusion between Apple executives and some large traditional publishers, periodicals are a different story. It's beginning to look like we -- the customers -- may be the beneficiaries of fierce competition between device makers, and isn't that the way it should be?
So today well focus our Free Book Alert on several ways in which we can read e-periodicals free on our iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, immediately in some cases and soon in others....
But first, a word from ... Today's Sponsor
You don't have to judge this sensual historical fantasy by its beautiful cover....
Lovers and Beloveds
(An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom)
by MeiLin Miranda
4.9 out of 5 stars - 9 Reviews
Kindle Price: $2.79
Visit Amazon's MeiLin Miranda Page
[O]ffers an impressive depth and breadth in terms of world-building, mixing hints of Victorian aristocracy with Ancient Greek religion to create a compelling, evocative setting. --A.M. Harte, "Quills and Zebras"
More than satisfied. It was excellent. --M.C.A. Hogarth
More than satisfied. It was excellent. --M.C.A. Hogarth
Product Description
BETWEEN DUTY AND DESIREOver a thousand years, the Tremont family has conquered kingdom after kingdom, until it now rules the entire continent. The kingdom's magic is long forgotten, but its Gods are still remembered. Tremont is a kingdom on the cusp of an industrial revolution; trains and stem engines are new, and the Scholar Priests of Eddin's Temple make exciting discoveries daily.
Heir to the Tremontine throne, Temmin is a sheltered young Prince on the cusp of adulthood. Now that he's of age, he must leave his childhood home behind for a new life with his father--Harsin the Fourth, by the Grace of Pagg, King of the Greater Kingdom of Tremont and Litta, Emperor of Inchar.
King Harsin expects his son to become the kind of ruthless, pragmatic man he is. But the family's immortal advisor Teacher has other plans, and they involve a seductive set of twins, holy personifications of the Gods called the Lovers. Teacher intends to bind Temmin to a Temple devoted to eroticism; to bring him closer to his people; and to set him on a path that will lead ultimately to unimaginable glory for the House of Tremont--or its end.
The first book in this fantasy series with a sensual twist.
MeiLin Miranda is the pen name of a longtime professional nonfiction writer who finally got past the saying that every journalist has a book inside him--and it should stay there. Once she did, she started posting draft installments of her series-in-progress "An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom" as a webserial, eventually ending the draft at 300,000 words! In the process, she accrued a fan base of more than 2,000 people and an understanding that what she was working on was not sustainable as a serial; it had to become a series of novels. To keep serial fans happy, she created "Scryer's Gulch: Magic in the Wild, Wild West."
MeiLin is a successfully crowdfunded author; her readers pay to keep her content online and freely available. When it came time, fifty of her fans bought special packages and raised $2500 to get her first book professionally edited and produced. The result was "Lovers and Beloveds: An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom."
MeiLin licenses her work under Creative Commons, and believes strongly that if readers love her work, they will support her. So far, they do.
When she's not scribbling, MeiLin spins and knits, plays D&D, reads way too much PG Wodehouse and Patrick O'Brian, fiddles with fountain pens, collects BPAL perfume, and hangs out with her husband, two daughters, two cats and a small floppy dog.
Click hereMeiLin is a successfully crowdfunded author; her readers pay to keep her content online and freely available. When it came time, fifty of her fans bought special packages and raised $2500 to get her first book professionally edited and produced. The result was "Lovers and Beloveds: An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom."
MeiLin licenses her work under Creative Commons, and believes strongly that if readers love her work, they will support her. So far, they do.
When she's not scribbling, MeiLin spins and knits, plays D&D, reads way too much PG Wodehouse and Patrick O'Brian, fiddles with fountain pens, collects BPAL perfume, and hangs out with her husband, two daughters, two cats and a small floppy dog.
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There are plenty of Kindle owners who are fed up with the way that Amazon and the New York Times have handled price discrepancies in the electronic editions of that newspaper, and probably an equal number of iPad owners who wonder what New Yorker executives are smoking to conclude that iPad owners would want to pay $230 a year ($4.99 an issue) for the New Yorker when it's available in the Kindle Store for $36 a year ($2.99 a month). So Planet iPad is here to help our readers sort it out, with our choices for the best reader-friendly e-periodicals and how to get them free, or as inexpensively as possible.
As you'll note, we are making a point of including Kindle editions, because there's a pre-holiday treat coming as Amazon has announced that its Kindle Store periodicals will soon be available on all Kindle apps. And what that means is that readers will have a chance to sample each of the periodicals listed here, and hundreds of others, free for at least 14 days!
- The New Yorker
(14 days free, $2.99/month in Kindle Store, $4.99/issue in iPad app, 46 issues per year)
- The New York Times Book Review
(14 days free, $2.99/month in Kindle Store, included in New York Times iPad app that is "free until early 2011," 52 issues per year)
- Poets & Writers Magazine
(14 days free, $0.99/month in Kindle Store, 6 issues per year, not yet available as an i-app)
- Opinionated: Voices and Viewpoints on America and the World
(14 days free, $1.49/month in Kindle Store, Weekly, not yet available as an i-app)
- Analog Science Fiction & Fact
(14 days free, $2.99/month in Kindle Store, Monthly, not yet available as an i-app)
- Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
(14 days free, $2.99/month in Kindle Store, Monthly, not yet available as an i-app)
- The Atlantic
(14 days free, $1.25/month in Kindle Store, Monthly, not yet available as an i-app)
- Narrative
(14 days free, $3.49/month in Kindle Store, Monthly, free as an iPad app)
- Red Adept Reviews
(14 days free, $0.99/month in Kindle Store, Daily, not yet available as an i-app)
- The New York Times
(60 days free, $19.99/month in Kindle Store (tagged by Amazon with the same "This price was set by publisher" that it uses to identify agency model ebooks), New York Times iPad app "free until early 2011," Daily)
Some readers may already be aware that your humble publisher believes Amazon and the New York Times may be collaborating to tarnish their brands, at least temporarily, unless they rethink their approach to the current free "trial" of the Times in the Kindle Store (and in an iPad App). But if you aren't already a subscriber, a 60-day free trial is a great deal, even if it may lead to some legitimate grousing (1) when it ends; and (2) among all the current and former subscribers who are now being denied the deal.
(Please note that free trials are available -- at least for now -- only to new subscribers.)
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