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New free ebook Situational Poker takes the game beyond the cards

Falbe Publishing's newest website www.poker-situations.com offers the free poker ebook Situational Poker in its entirety for reading online or as an ebook download. Situational Poker presents the experience of a player with nearly two decades of poker experience. The ebook emphasizes the game of no-limit Texas hold'em but most of the playing advice can be applied to any game.

Major elements of the ebook are:

How to select winning poker hands
How to factor your table position into your playing ...

My fantasy ebooks are now available at BarnesandNoble.com

Mainstream exposure to readers has been the elusive holy grail for me as I've marketed my fantasy series the past four years. But thanks to Smashwords.com my novels are now being distributed as ebooks to some major online retailers with BarnesandNoble.com being the first to have successfully added my novels to its digital inventory.

Now fantasy readers who like to shop the Barnes & Noble website will have the chance to notice my work. Just like at my website the first book in The Rys Chronicl...

More classic ebooks in epub format plus a new book review

Although I'm sufficiently busy getting ready for the holidays, I have been pecking away at converting my collection of classics to the epub ebook format and adding to the content at one of my websites.

My latest titles now available as epub ebooks are:

A Trio of Tragedies: MacBeth, Hamlet, and King Lear by William Shakespeare - Some fine reading if you want to get away from all that heartwarming holiday stuff.
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

The famo...

Add your free fantasy ebook link to the directory at the Fantasy Tavern

I recently cleaned up my Fantasy Tavern website by sweeping the floors, polishing the silver, and kicking out the bums that hadn't paid their tabs. Now it's time to attract a new clientele. In addition to free access to my fantasy novel Union of Renegades, I decided to include links to other free fantasy ebooks. I got the list going by doing a search and collecting links to some decent reads, but I need input from other fantasy authors out there promoting their work with free ebook downloads ...

Beaver Research - Presumably a recession-proof business

Last weekend the family and I were out answering boat ads on Craigslist. While not finding an address in Portage, Michigan we passed a business that boldly labeled itself as BEAVER RESEARCH. As you would expect, the business appeared to be prosperous because there is a limitless need for beaver research. Naturally I took a picture of the sign.

Can you imagine working there and being the lady who has to answer the phone.

"Good morning, Beaver Research! How may I help you?"

Or

"Beaver Research, d...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Get in the mood for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie that will be released in the United States on Christmas by reading the original adventures by the masterful Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The short stories in the collection called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are clever, diverse, and marvelously entertaining. Holmes is a fascinating character and Doctor Watson is downright charming. I am very much looking forward to seeing him played by Jude Law. And I have no doubt that Robert Downey Jr....

You can never know too much about survival

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A fun reference with lots of practical advice for survival in various situations. I liked the scope of the book, which ranged from detailed instructions on how to land a plane and cross a river infested with piranhas. It had a fun humor to it as well, with advice on how to ditch a meeting at work and still get credit for being there, how to escape from the trunk of a car, and how to find out the name of someone y...

Spread the digital love - Ebooks as gifts

Time, money, and distance often constrain a person from sending an actual physical gift. For a while now there have been a couple options for the quickie email gift. Either those e-cards that are pleasant but hokey, and gift certificates from various online retailers. I'd like to suggest giving ebooks as gifts.

Paper books are a popular gift choice, judging from the mobbed condition of any Barnes & Noble during the holidays, so why not ebooks? Well, at some retailers the use of digital rights ...

The weak U.S. dollar and ebooks equal a good deal for readers outside United States

Over the past month I've noticed an increase in customers for my ebooks from outside the United States. When this happens, I know that the U.S. dollar is weak. When its value dips I often get a little spurt of international buyers for my ebooks. This greater attention from people outside the United States might also be caused by the increased availability of ebook reading devices around the world. This is all a happy combination for me. I know that people from all over the world download the ...

New in DRM-free epub The Three Musketeers and A Narrative of the Mutiny

Ebook enthusiasts looking for a versatile cross-platform digital reading format frequently choose the format called epub. In order to meet the desires of this segment of ebook readers, I am slowly but surely adding the choice of epub to every title in my classics collection.

Today, I converted The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and A Narrative of the Mutiny, Aboard His Majesty's Ship Bounty by William Bligh to epub. These are both fantastic reads. The Three Musketeers is a novel that bri...