Good news for Canadian eBook lovers. Google has opened the Google eBookstore for Canada. It has been a long time coming, but a quick look around shows the online search giant is hitting the ground running.
Oct 31
Toxic Reality Now Available!
Just in time for Halloween, author Katherine Tomlinson’s new fiction collection, Toxic Reality is now available in all formats on Smashwords as well as in Amazon.com’s kindle store.
“From cyanide and cannibalism to thought-provoking and heartrending stories to Craig List-esque killers and their curious mates and just downright creepiness, if you weren’t a fan of Katherine Tomlinson’s writing before this collection, you will be very soon.†–Christopher Grant, Editor/Publisher of A Twist Of Noir
“In Toxic Reality, Katherine Tomlinson proves that she’s an imaginative, masterful storyteller. She constructs realistic, likeable characters, drops them in desperate situations and watches them squirm. Her sharp sense of humor and gift for satisfying twist endings tie together this diverse and brilliant collection of crime tales.†– Chris Rhatigan, co-editor of the anthology Pulp Ink
Toxic Reality is the third collection of short fiction from Tomlinson, whose previous works include Just Another Day in Paradise, and L.A. Nocturne. Her work has been anthologized in Alt-Dead, Zombiefied, A Quiet Shelter There, and the upcoming Absolute Write speculative fiction collection.
A collection of 20 dark tales, Toxic Reality includes the Pushcart Prize nominee, “Water Sports†as well as stories that originally appeared in A Twist of Noir, Eaten Alive, Dark Valentine, and Clarity of Night.
Toxic Reality available for Amazon Kindle and Smashwords. Read some reviews of Toxic Reality.
Oct 30
Gunslingers versus the Living Dead in The Fifth Horseman
Looks like another Halloween treat from indie author G. Wells Taylor.
The Apocalypse Trilogy Goes Out with a Bang, Scream and Massacre.
The Apocalypse Trilogy by G. Wells Taylor gallops to its horrifying conclusion in The Fifth Horseman now available for download at online booksellers. This explosive mix of classic western storytelling and gothic horror delivers a terrifying and bloodstained final act to Taylor’s doomsday epic.
“Pandora City sits on the cattle trail north to Babylon. One day a wounded rider arrives with death stalking hard on his heels. The legends say that four horsemen will come to burn the earth and one will come to save it. So who is this rider? Over two centuries have passed since events chronicled in The Forsaken. Survivors have climbed out of the ruins and struggle to build a new life on the frontier of a dying world.”
Download the Apocalypse Trilogy Book Three: The Fifth Horseman for $3.99 at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Sony eBookstore, and  iBookstore where you can get Book One: When Graveyards Yawn for FREE and Book Two: The Forsaken for $3.99. Visit GWellsTaylor.com for links.
The Apocalypse Trilogy is a tale spanning centuries that weaves hard-boiled detectives, immortal children, zombie gangsters, angels, demons, and western gunslingers into a terrifying narrative of divine and human weakness set against a backdrop of decaying cities and radioactive wastelands.
(p.s. Notice he’s still got a free eBook there…jc!)
Oct 28
Kobo is getting into publishing.
Galleycat has a story about online bookseller Kobo getting into the book publishing business, all as it preps for the launch of its $199 Vox color tablet.
The international book seller will act like a traditional publishing house and do book editing, design, marketing, and sell the books.
It’s the Amazon model. Now let’s see if they’ll offer the Amazon 70% eBook royalty to entice authors aboard.
Oct 27
Pirate women of the digital age.
Jorgen dropped by with a link to an interesting Pocket-lint story that says a survey found one in eight women 35-years and older (up into their 80s) admit to pirating eBooks.
This follows a growing trend as eBook Readers and tablets make their way into the mainstream market with an accompanying increase in piracy across the board.
Oct 26
Shop e-Readers offers the full list for the holidays.
A PRWeb press release from Shop e-Readers promises that the online retailer will be offering all the brand name eReaders by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Sony, etc. to markets in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Oct 25
Sony Reader runs android apps.
Liliputing has a story about a hack that turns Sony’s $150 PRS-T1 E Ink Reader into an android ‘tablet.’ Â The details and video at the link.
Oct 24
Dell Latitude ST tablet coming soon.
GoodeReader has a post and leaked video of the Dell Latitude ST tablet.
The Latitude ST runs Windows and from the video appears to be positioned for entrepreneurial, professional and institutional work. It’s got all of the expected tablet bells and whistles including integrated cameras front and back.
Since they haven’t released the price, it’s hard to predict how this machine will be received on a market that’s showing wholesale adoption of Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet, and cooling sales on Apple’s more expensive iPad.
One thing I will say, the video sure makes the Latitude ST look expensive.
Oct 23
Is there a good side to ads in eBooks?
GoodeReader’s Michael Kozlowski digs into the notion of advertisements in eBooks. Amazon.com’s recent release of its $79 Kindle with special offers (subsidized by ads on the Kindle) suggests there might be compromises in the future that could make digital publishing affordable for everyone in the mainstream marketplace.
It will be a question of balance. And it’s a very slippery slope.
Oct 21
The future of Literature in the digital age.
Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to a Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable feature by Curtis White on the future of Literature in the digital age. It’s well-written and certainly worth your time. It might be a nice read to start your weekend.
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