Over the weekend, my two older boys (7 and 8) - who each got a basic Kindle for Christmas – spent their own money, earned from chores or saved from birthdays, to buy books*. This makes both writer-me and mom-me tres happy. I can’t remember them ever doing this before and it got me thinking about how having Kindles has changed our [...]

As Dave Hester would say: Yuuup! Bloomsbury is having an awesome holiday sale on e-books from now through January 6, 2012.  There are over sixty adult, YA and MG titles under $3.99, including The Mark for $1.99.  The full list of available books is here. Direct links to The Mark for $1.99 are below: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mark-ebook/dp/B0045I6TO4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322443368&sr=8-2 [...]

And today, it’s finally out! You can find The Vision (sequel to The Mark, in case you’re new here) in hardcover at a store near you or in your local library (and if you can’t, ask them to order it).  It’s also online (hardcover or ebook) at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound and probably some other places. Here’s what it’s [...]

My husband forwarded me an article this morning about how for the third consecutive week, more than a third of NYT Bestsellers sold more ebooks than hardcopies.  And how B&N eliminated 45-50 jobs recently, a lot of them related to book buying for the stores.  And how Borders is likely to go out of business this [...]

I just noticed yesterday and was so pleased to see it, though I don’t have a Kindle or any sort of e-reader myself.  I really just like paper books.  Of course, the Kindle is probably like the iPhone or a dirt rake…one of those things I was like: I don’t need that.  What on earth would [...]