Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A 2014 Cheat Sheet for All You New Kindle (and Other E-Reader) Owners – The Millions

By Editor posted at 6:00 am on December 24, 2014 1

 cover With each new Holiday Season The Reach of ereaders Expand’s, as a new crop of Kindles, Nooks and iPads are fired up. The first thing to do is download a few books.

Just a few years after ebooks and ereaders first emerged as futuristic curiosity They are fully mainstream now. Even Among the avid, book-worshiping, old-school readers That frequent The Millions , ebooks are very popular. Looking at the statistics That Provides Amazon US, 48% of all the books Bought by Millions readers at Amazon after clicking on our links thisyear werewolf Kindle ebooks. This is an uptick from last year, When The Percentage was 45%. In 2012 it was 33% and the year before it was 25%. It Seems almost fitting, given the tug-of-war between book and ebook partisans, thats the Numbers excellant Eventually settle out near even, with neither format coming out the “winner.”

So, for All Those Readers unwrapping shiny new devices, here are some links to get you going.

For starters, The Millions published a pair of very highly Regarded and very affordable ebook Originals in 2013. If You are new to the ereader game, we hope you’ll pick up These titles:

 cover  cover Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and The History of the Worst Thing Ever by Mark O ‘Connell ($ 1.99)

The Pioneer Detectives: I did a distant spacecraft Prove Einstein and Newton wrong? by Constantine Kakaes ($ 2.99)

They are also available on Apple and other platforms.

Here are some of the most popular ebooks Quantity by Millions readers in 2014 (Which you I’ll see are very similar to our Hall of Fame and Most Recent top-ten Which take intoaccount books in all formats). Publishers Appear to still be having luck pricing ebooks pricing near the magic $ 9.99 Number That HAS BEEN a focus for many in the industry (all prices as of this writing), though aggressive pricing on some backlist titles ice Clearly driving brisk sales. Occasional promotional pricing, a frequent occurrence in the Kindle Store, HAS likely exaggerated some of These sales as well.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ($ 6.99)
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose ($ 1.99)
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter ($ 5.99)
Just Kids by Patti Smith ($ 8.62)
The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich ($ 8.61)
Tampa by Alissa Nutting ($ 9.78)
Fox 8 by George Saunders ($ 0.99)
A Highly Unlikely Scenario by Rachel Cantor ($ 9.99)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith ($ 6.99)
Underworld by Don DeLillo ($ 11.74 )
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury ($ 12.62)

Other Potentially Useful ebook links :

Editors’ Picks
Best of 2014
Top 100 Paid and Free
Kindle Singles

And in this fractured ebook landscape , you’ve got your overpriced NookBooks, Google eBooks, Apple iBooks, and The Indie Bound ereader app thatlets you buy ebooks from your favorite indie bookstore. Finally, do not forget Project Gutenberg, the original purveyor of free ebooks (mostly out-of-copyright classics).

Happy Reading!

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