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  74 readersIsn’t that the dream of many authors? What if today’s digital tools can propel not only category fiction but also thoughtful science and physics titles? The author Colin Gillespie and his publishing partner Howard Gurevich, founders of the publisher Big Fizz Inc., have been wrestling with these questions for five years. Gillespie is a physicist turned

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  Cheap Science fiction ebooks – A selection of interesting offerings from The Phoenix Pick

  1640 readersThe Phoenix Pick, an online science fiction ebook site is offering a range of ebooks for reduced prices this month. I have received a press release from them in which they announce the shortly to appear new two part science fiction novel by Kevin J Anderson and Steven Savile called Tau-Ceti, which is the first section

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  Open Road To Launch ‘Iconic eBooks’ Imprint

  552 readersDigital publishing house Open Road Integrated Media is launching a new imprint called Iconic eBooks. The imprint will put out digital editions of what the publisher defines as books with “universal name recognition,” from any category including memoirs, fiction or nonfiction. The new imprint launches with a new eBook version of Erica Jong’s Fear of

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  George RR Martin Joins the Kindle Million Club

  1353 readersThe SF author George Martin is now the latest to join a new and (not-quite-so) exclusive club. Amazon announced today that Martin, author of such books as A Game of Thrones, Windhaven, and ,A Feast for Crows, has just sold his millionth Kindle eBook. Martin is now the eleventh author to be inducted into the Kindle

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  Breakdown of categories in the Kindle Lending Library

  741 readers Here is the listing of categories and book totals from the Kindle Lending Library.  This is from my Kindle 4: All books: 5,156 Fiction: 1,346 Non-fiction: 3,865 Advice and how-to: 734 Business & investing: 480 Politics & current events: 90 Literary fiction: 78 Biographies & memoirs: 223 Religion & spirituality: 456 Science fiction: 68 Fantasy: 30 Mystery & thrillers: 149 Romance: 330 Science: 189 History: 271 Children’s ebooks: 294 Reference: 481 Travel: 247 Sports:

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  Gardner Dozois’ “The Year’s Best Science Fiction” 1st and 2nd collections now on the Kindle

  473 readersFrom SF Signal, which reports the that Dozois posted the following on his Facebook page: My first two Best anthologies from St. Martin’s, THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION and THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SECOND ANNUAL COLLECTION, are now available in Kindle editions. These are extremely hard editions to find in print,

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  Gardner Dozois’ “The Year’s Best Science Fiction” 1st and 2nd collections now on the Kindle

  434 readersFrom SF Signal, which reports the that Dozois posted the following on his Facebook page: My first two Best anthologies from St. Martin’s, THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FIRST ANNUAL COLLECTION and THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION, SECOND ANNUAL COLLECTION, are now available in Kindle editions. These are extremely hard editions to find in print,

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  Digital Reading: Getting Beyond the Book Fetish

  930 readers By Anne Kostick, Partner, Foxpath IND One of my favorite YouTube videos is “Medieval Helpdesk,” a Norwegian bit of humor from around 2008. For those who may have missed it, the joke concerns a monk in need of assistance operating that newfangled invention, the book. Not only is the monk stymied about how to open the book

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  Free Legal Science Fiction Ebooks – Great Site

  3986 readersI have just come across Arthur’s Bookshelf, a rather neat website that offers us free and legal science fiction downloads.   Unlike most sites that offer us free sci-fi, this one actually has ebooks written by people other than Jules Verne and HG Wells (good though they both are), and has a really wide range of

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  Wildly Popular Chinese SF Trilogy to Get English Translation by Chinese Publisher

  350 readersBy Publishing Perspectives Science-fiction was introduced into China during the late Quin Dynasty; seen as a “form of enlightenment for ordinary Chinese people.”  But since then, the only Chinese sci-fi that has been translated into other languages has been the occasional short story.  Until now. The Chinese People’s Daily Online reported that Yao Haijun, the deputy director