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Wednesday News: Sony Reader releases its iOS App; Britney Spears fiction; Amazon Prime goes monthly; EU to end Agency

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Sony brings Reader software and bookstore to iOS platform | ZDNet – Sony launches its Reader software for iThings. It might be one of the best OS reading apps available for ePub. You can read Adobe DRM’ed ePubs (and PDFs) along with non encrypted ePubs and PDFs. You can create your own collections as well.

Watch Out Netflix And Hulu, Amazon Prime Is Now Available For $7.99 Per Month – Amazon is making its Prime service available for $7.99 per month. This includes free two day shipping, streami...

Daily Deals: Vampires, beta heroes, drug smugglers, oh my

[image error] Vamps and the City (Love at Stake, Book 2) by Kerrelyn Sparks. $ .99

From the Jacket Copy:

Who says a vamp can’t have it all?

Darcy Newhart thought it was a stroke of genius—the first?ever reality TV show where mortals vie with vampires for the title of The Sexiest Man on Earth. As the show’s director, Darcy’s career would be on track again. And she can finally have a life apart from the vampire harem. Okay, so she’s still technically dead, but two out of three’s not bad. Now she just has to mak...

REVIEW: Heart of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice

Dear Ms. Rice:

Your voice, your storytelling style just works for me. This means that whatever flaws may be apparent for other readers are hidden from me. Am I the best person to review your books? Perhaps not. I tried to pinpoint what it is that I enjoy about the stories that you tell. First, the story is suspenseful. You place people we are attached to in jeopardy. The suspense storyline is balanced out by a romance that is not very suspenseful in that we know the two individuals are attract...

MANGA REVIEW: Strobe Edge volume 1 by Io Sakisaka

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Story & Art: Io Sakisaka

Publisher: Shueisha/Viz

Rated: T for teen

Volumes: 1/10

Dear readers,

In my ongoing quest to reacquaint myself with the shoujo genre, I stumbled across this new title from Viz. The series completed its run in Japan in 2010 but was just officially published in English this month. While straight up romance manga is typically not my thing, I decided to give this a go since I heard good things about it.

Ninako Kinoshita is a sweet girl, who unfortunately is very naïve. She tend...

Tuesday News: Nothing is more important today than voting (unless you have already voted)

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Find Your F–ing Polling Place – Today is the very last day to vote in the US of A’s Federal election for 2012. Please go and vote today if you haven’t already. The site I’ve linked to gives you not only your polling place but also the people on your ballot. It appears, despite the vulgarity, to be non partisan. Go out and vote!

Android Tablets Gain Momentum in the Third Quarter, Expectations Remain High for the Holiday Quarter, According to IDC – Apple is losing market share to Android tablet...

Beyond the Books—The Evolution of a Series

Vivian Arend and Elle Kennedy talk about the evolution of a series. How they are birthed and how hard they are to continue. Series are a very popular selling tool for authors. Readers seem to love them and hate them in equal measures, but the dollars seem to indicate that there is tremendous appetite for connected books, both featuring the same characters and different characters.

On to the Guest Post:

While there’s been an explosion of change in the publishing world in recent years, adapting a...

Daily Deals: Irish historical romance; a couple of RS; and a fantasy book $2.99 and under

[image error] Last to Die by Kate Brady. $ 1.99

From the Jacket Copy:

A ruthless killer hides in plain sight, someone no one believes is capable of murder. Within a week, six women will be murdered, all punished for their dark pasts. Detective Dani Cole is determined to track down this serial killer whose victims include a young woman she pulled out of a life of crime. Her investigation leads her to a photography foundation and the renowned photographer Mitch Sheridan, a man she she fell in love with years a...

REVIEW: Exposed to You by Beth Kery

Dear Ms. Kery:

With the provocative opening, the book had a lot to live up to but I felt it fulfilled its promise. I must admit that part of my appreciation for the story may be because of the character tropes presented.

Joy is emotionally closed off and Everett is more impulsive, a “creature of instinct” his sister calls him. This was consistently displayed throughout the story. Even when Joy was doing things that were outside her comfort zone such as allowing Everett liberties in a public spa...

REVIEW: Legacy of Love by Christine Johnson

“She dreamed of digging through ancient ruins–but the only exploring Anna Simmons gets to do is in the expensive houses she cleans in Pearlman, Michigan. When Brandon Landers hires her, she’s unsure whether to be furious or thrilled. He evicted Anna and her ailing mother, but she’s heard rumors of hidden treasure on his land. Treasure Anna decides to find. Not just for herself, but for new employer whose unexpected kindness has softened her heart.

Physically and spiritually wounded in the Grea...

Monday News: A Bookish Wedding; Wall Street’s love affair with Amazon; Disaster supply kit list

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It was a wedding full of books, paper flowers, and Legos. Take a gander at the gallery of the wedding of Cindy & Sam by RubinWeddings.com

Amazon profits: They don’t exist, but the company keeps on keeping on. – Matthew Yglesias argues that the unrealistically optimistic view of Amazon’s business plan by the investor class is propping up Amazon’s razor thin margins. As long as Amazon increases its market share, Wall Street keeps rewarding it.

“But what makes Amazon not just amazing but downright...