This in from Publisher’s Weekly this morning:
According to Amazon, over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books it has sold, the e-tailer has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books. The ratio is across Amazon’s entire U.S. book business and includes sales of hardcover books where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded from the totals.
Did we mention that every single title published by Untreed Reads is available for the Kindle?
To read the article in its entirety, click HERE.
If you thought the only place to buy titles from Untreed Reads was either through our site or at Smashwords.com, we’re pleased to let you know that we’ve expanded our distribution to other ebook retailers.
Our authors can now be found on many of your other favorite sites such as Scribd, Kobobooks, and 1RomanceEbooks. Of course, you can also find us on Amazon for all flavors of the Kindle and Kindle Software.
We will also be appearing at BN.com as soon as the retailer is able to catch up on their backlog of titles to be added.
We’re very excited to announce that Untreed Reads titles are expected to be available for the iPad at the launch of the iPad Ebookstore. Look for us in the Sony Ebookstore in the near future as well.
We’ll keep you posted as we continue to add more retailers!
We’re thrilled to announce that the Kindle version of Anne Brooke’s “How To Eat Fruit” is now available at Amazon for direct purchase to Kindle devices, as well as for Kindle for iPhone. To purchase, you can visit the Amazon page by clicking HERE.
Not using a Kindle? Don’t worry! “How To Eat Fruit” is also available in a lot of other formats from our friends at Smashwords, by clicking HERE.
Take advantage of the $1 introductory price while you still can!
Author Paulo Coelho, the much celebrated author of the novel The Alchemist, has signed an exclusive deal with Amazon.com to release 17 of his works in their native Portuguese language for the Kindle. None of these editions have been available in electronic format previously.
For more information and a list of the available titles, click HERE.
Not to be outdone by the show that spun it off, Doctor Who, the BBC has also launched its popular series Torchwood into Kindle format. The selection here isn’t nearly as good as the Doctor Who novels, but fans of the show are likely to want to gobble them up.
I’m torn. I’ve collected the hardcovers and paperbacks of both Doctor Who and Torchwood, but don’t currently own the available titles. Should I keep part of my collection in paper and part in electronic? All in paper? What do you readers do when your favorite series is in both formats and you already have some? Leave your comments!
To see the titles available in the Torchwood series, click HERE.
There wasn’t much fanfare from the BBC, but on December 23rd the British Broadcasting Company released 17 titles in the Doctor Who book series in Kindle format. This is the first time the Time Lord’s adventures have been released in ebook format (although the BBC has ventured into digital comic territory before). Perhaps the success of Star Trek novelizations has finally brought the titles into release.
For a complete list of the titles now available, click HERE.
Upgrades aren’t necessarily a big deal, but Amazon will shortly give owners of its Kindle 2 device a heck of an improvement: native PDF support.
From Macworld:
Previously, if you wanted to read a PDF on your Kindle 2, you had two options: convert it to a Kindle format using Amazon’s conversion process or buy a Kindle DX, which has offered native PDF support from the get go. Once you apply the firmware update—which will install wirelessly using Amazon’s 3G Whispernet—you’ll be able to load up your Kindle 2 with PDFs to your heart’s content by either e-mailing PDFs to your Kindle address or by connecting the USB cable to transfer them directly to your Kindle 2.
You can read the other details of the update by clicking HERE.
The Blurb:
The people of Christmas Valley always celebrate Christmas to the fullest extent. The mayor plays Santa, every business is holiday themed, and there’s a nativity for the kids each Christmas Eve. This town knows Christmas. But this year nothing goes according to plan. Shepherd’s Inn is full of strangers, Mad Myrtle is causing problems, and a young couple with a baby due any minute rolls in to the middle of town in their Partridge Family-style bus. It’s hardly the holiday Christmas Valley wanted–but it may be just what they need. This charming novella is sure to become a new Christmas tradition for readers who love a great holiday story.
This title is currently available for free for both Kindle and Kindle for iPhone. You can download it directly from your reader, or click HERE.
The Blurb:
Right as I’m about to die, I realize all the myths are fake. There’s no white light at the end of a tunnel. My life isn’t flashing before my eyes.
All I can think about is how much I want to live.
I moved to New York City a month ago to become the best journalist the world had ever seen. To find the greatest stories never told. And now here I am–Henry Parker, twenty-four years old and weary beyond rational thought, a bullet one trigger pull from ending my life.
I can’t run. Running is all Amanda and I have done for the past seventy-two hours. And I’m tired. Tired of knowing the truth and not being able to tell it.
Five minutes ago I thought I had the story all figured out.
I knew that both of these men–one an FBI agent, the other an assassin–wanted me dead, but for very different reasons.
If I die tonight–more people will die tomorrow.
This title is available as a free download for Kindle and Kindle for iPhone. You can download through either the device/software or by clicking HERE.
The Blurb:
It begins one day in sophomore English class, just as Ellie Barnett’s teacher is assigning Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. From nowhere comes a quiet “tsk” of displeasure. The target: Sam Blaine, the cute bad boy who’s teasing Ellie mercilessly, just as he has since kindergarten. Entirely unbidden, as Jane might say, the author’s ghost has taken up residence in Ellie’s mind, and seems determined to stay there.
Jane’s wise and witty advice guides Ellie through the hell of adolescence and beyond, serving as the voice she trusts, usually far more than her own. Years and boyfriends come and go–sometimes a little too quickly, sometimes not nearly fast enough. But Jane’s counsel is constant, and on the subject of Sam, quite insistent. Stay away, Jane demands. He is your Mr. Wickham.
Still, everyone has something to learn about love–perhaps even Jane herself. And lately, the voice in Ellie’s head is being drowned out by another, urging her to look beyond everything she thought she knew and seek out her very own, very unexpected, happy ending. . .
This title is a free Kindle/Kindle for iPhone download. You can either download it through your device/software, or by clicking HERE.
