The Phenomenon of the 99¢ eBook

In case you haven’t noticed, there are several thousand free books available for Kindle readers, and many more that cost about as much as a pulp novel did in 1945 and less than a decent pack of gum costs today.  Now, there have always been cheap-as-free books available for eReaders, but this isn’t just your usual suspect list of Project Gutenberg and other public domain goodie goodies.  The 99¢ (Or, with the 20% discount, 80¢) Kindle edition isn’t so much a book as it is a marketing venue for no