May – Dracula Month  

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Hosted by: Ellie Start Date: Fri 1st May 2009      Sign-up here

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently [...]

Book Addicts Book Group April – Other Cultures

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

Hosted by: Forgotten Start Date: Wed 1st April 2009

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls’ school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond clasmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them–along [...]

Donald Maass has written a bunch of books about writing and now he is offering one of them as a free download on his site.
“Packed full of fine analysis, solid advice, and thoughtful reflection on the state of contemporary publishing. [...]

Here’s a great Christmas present from the lovely people at Random House. For a limited time (until Feb 28th, 2009) they are giving away nine free ebooks in a variety of formats from a variety of ebook retailers.
New York, NY – December 8, 2008 — The Random House Publishing Group and Lexcycle, Inc., jointly [...]

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Just a quick reminder that this month we are reading and talking about The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.  Both fantastic books and both discussions have just started so there’s plenty of time to join in.
In December we can look forward to 1984 by George [...]

Published all over the Amazon site today was the announcement that they are probably laughing all the way to the bank about and why not!
“Someone” sent Oprah an Amazon Kindle as  gift and guess what, she loves it, and has given it her blessing.  I guess that means tears before bedtime for the Sony Reader [...]

No UK Kindle before Christmas
Well this is a blow, but as per my previous post, not very surprising as I knew they would have problems here with the sheer number of WiFi carriers (not a problem in the US as there is only one apparently)
This is the latest from the Frankfurt Bookfair:
Amazon will not launch [...]

I got this in my email today and I was mighty happy to see it.
Free Ebooks from World Fantasy Award Finalists
Last week we announced the return of free ebooks from Tor.com. We’re kicking things off this week with backlist titles from two of the authors who are finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Award [...]

Award-nominated authors and podcasters Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine have teamed up across hemispheres for “Double Trouble”, a unique celebration and promotion for their summer releases of The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery and Digital Magic. Morris and Ballantine are asking their fans to make “Double Trouble” on Amazon.com by ordering [...]

The “free e-books every week” offer has finished now, but for a limited time you can download all of them via the Tor.com website.
Get ‘em while you can – click here
Twenty Four free books!
Here’s the complete list showing the available formats for each one:
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
PDF || HTMLnew! || HTML zipnew! || Mobinew!
Old Man’s [...]