Some days everything happens at once. The Year of the Warrior is now available as an e-book, from Baen.
Category Archives: Bookselling
Readmill Community for iPad, iPhone
Readmill is an eReader app for iPads and iPhone which connects readers and authors in a community with the books. It appears to be Goodreads.com with eBooks. You can share quotes and get recommendations from your friends. They recently added a page of recommended stores for buying iPad/iPhone formated books easily. You can see what’s going in a post like this one featuring highlights from the past week.
In related news, I’ve started to use The Old Reader, an RSS feed aggregator. It’s good. I like it so far.
Do you use either of these sites/apps?
Nothing to say, How about a free book?
Here I am, it’s approaching 7:00 p.m. I need to get to translating, and I have nothing to blog about. Today’s big challenge at work was starting the training of my newest assistant, a young man from Haiti. I shouldn’t have to train new assistants at this time of year, as the ones I trained in the fall aren’t supposed to have expired yet. But I’ve been running through assistants a little more rapidly than usual of late. One would almost think there was something wrong with my management style… No, no, that’s ridiculous.
Anyway, I praised Robert Mullin’s space fantasy novel Bid the Gods Arise a while back, and for a very short time you can get the Kindle version free here. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Good Bookshops Will Survive
Allan Massie talks about what he has learned about bookselling in the Internet Age:
Intelligently run independent bookshops have a future. I’ve no doubt about that.. We have at least two in the Scottish Borders , one in Selkirk and the other in St Boswell’s, which are a pleasure to visit, precisely because they are run by people who combine an interest in books and literature with an interest in their customers and an awareness of their tastes. Without such interest and awareness, few bookshops will be long for this world.
Best of 2012
Sam Storms has an 11 book list of his ten best books of 2012, included two books on, if not actually by, Jonathan Edwards. He also worries that D. A. Carson’s The Intolerance of Tolerance will not find the readers who need it.
Crossway has a butt full of recommendations for serious readers (I’m sorry. I meant to type heart-full, but a Twitter trend got in my way #replaceheartwithbutt So juvenile.) Crossway’s staff recommend serious titles each, from John Frame’s The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God to Ender’s Game. They also asked their authors to recommend reading for the coming year, and of course after removing all of the self-promotion, they had a pretty good list.
For more non-fiction recommendations, Tony Reinke of Desiring God Ministry has a list of twelve.
If you haven’t perused the fun novels, etc. at The Rabbit Room, you should.
Solstice news
Tomorrow is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, known in the church calendar as St. Thomas’ Day. It was on St. Thomas’ Day in the year 1028 that Erling Skjalgsson, hero of my novels, The Year of the Warrior, West Oversea, and (soon) Hailstone Mountain, was killed at the battle of Soknasund. (Or Boknasund.)
By coincidence or divine appointment, I have today reached verbal agreement with Baen Books to re-release The Year of the Warrior in e-book form. Look for it soon.
Addendum: Thanks to Ori Pomerantz for facilitating the negotiations.
Ransomed
If you have an e-book reader, you can get C. S. Lewis’ classic space trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength, for $1.99 each for a limited time.
The links are to Amazon for Kindle versions, because we get a cut of our linked Amazon sales. But if you’ve got a Nook or Kobo, you can buy the books through the Harper & Row site here.
This has been a service of your friends at Brandywine Books.
And Rupert Murdoch, I suppose.
Goodreads Choice Awards
Goodreads has announced their winners for the 2012 Choice Awards in twenty categories. See what users have reviewed and scored highest for the past year.
Today Only: Klavan Novels 80% off
One of our favorite authors, Andrew Klavan, has eight of his old novels (e-books) on sale for $1.99 or less. I’m getting this one: The Scarred Man
Lars has reviewed most of these, maybe only half of them. Search the blog archives.
Kindle Interests for Today Only
Of potential interest for our esteemed readers, here are some $1.99 deals for today only:
Flyleaf copy: “Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power.” His stories of almost human androids and clairvoyance have pressed in on us as part of a kind of modern mythology. This is a biography or exploration of the author who had many fascinating and some bizarre ideas.
