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Empress of Light
James C. Glass
In this sequel to SHANJI, Kati has used the light of creation to win a war bringing her to the throne as Empress of her planet, and she has forged new alliances with former enemies. Her daughter Yesui is born w...
Hôtel Transylvania
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a character first introduced to the reading world as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first mee...
Mother's Choice
Elizabeth Mansfield
It's a Mother's Duty To Protect Her Daughter
Cassandra Beringer would never allow her daughter Cicely to repeat her mistake and marry a man twenty years her senior--even if he is the handsome Viscount Inge...
Pock's World
Dave Duncan
In this thrilling story of adventure and suspense by master storyteller Dave Duncan, five flawed individuals must decide the fate of an entire world.
On the outskirts of the Ayne Sector sits Pock’s Worl...
Time Slave
John Norman
Dr. Brenda Hamilton--a Ph.D. mathematician from Cal Tech--is beautiful, though she does not know her true beauty. She is a woman, though she does not know her true womanhood. Deep within herself she is sensu...
Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute
Bill McWilliams
Using long established historical records and contemporary journals as well as recently-released war-time documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day that Will ...
Lord of the Fire Lands
Dave Duncan
Raider and Wasp have spent five years at Ironhall studying to become Blades, expert swordsmen whose talents stand unmatched. Magic both enhances the Blades' fighting skills and binds them in lifelong duty....
Miscalculations
Elizabeth Mansfield
His Woman Of Affairs
Jane Douglas had a sharp wit, a brilliant mind, and an extraordinary knack for numbers. As financial advisor to Lady Martha Kettering, she was able to provide for herself, her sister ...
The Girl With the Persian Shawl
Elizabeth Mansfield
An Arrogant Spinster, a Dashing Rake, and an Unsigned Painting
The Girl With Persian Shawl was a strangely bewitching masterpiece that had hung in the Rendell household for generations. Kate Rendell graci...
A Thousand Deaths
George Alec Effinger
While George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen novel WHEN GRAVITY FAILS is perhaps his most famous work, his lesser known novel THE WOLVES OF MEMORY remained his favorite. In it, he introduced readers to Sandor Couran...
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Mistress of the Morning Star
Elizabeth Lane
Born to an Indian chieftain and then sold as a slave by her mother, the pagan princess Marina becomes the fierce Conqueror Cortes' concubine. Of course this is to the displeasure of the jealous yet gentle sol...
After the Storm
Janet Dailey
Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a diffe...
Lot Lizards
Ray Garton
A “lot lizard” is a female hooker who works a highway truck stop as her territory. When trucker Bill Ketter looks for a little relaxation and release, he discovers, too late, that he has bitten off more...
This Kind of War
T.R. Fehrenbach
THIS KIND OF WAR is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the Korean-American conflict that began in 1950 and is still affecting United States' foreign policy. Fifty years later, not only does this e...
The Book of Kells
R.A. MacAvoy
An unusual and original work of fantasy from the acclaimed author of Tea with the Black Dragon.A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough,...
The Sex Sphere
Rudy Rucker
Punk-rock SF! Nuclear terrorists, a political kidnapping, and a giant woman from the fourth dimension. Say goodbye to the old world. This literary tour de force explores the landscape of the higher dimension...
Stage Door Canteen
Maggie Davis
New York City, the capital of the free world, is dark, its lights turned off as enemy submarines lurk offshore, as close as Coney Island. Three men--a gunner from a B-17 bomber who‘s a national hero, a magaz...
Murder by Manicure
Nancy J. Cohen
Both Nancy J. Cohen's debut title PERMED TO DEATH, and her follow-up, HAIR RAISER, have wowed fans and critics alike. Now, in this eagerly anticipated third entry in the Bad Hair Day Mystery series, styl...
This Business of Publishing
Richard Curtis
THIS BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING has been hailed by literary agent Michael Larsen as "must reading for writers, agents and anyone else who cares about the future of publishing." It reveals the unique perspective o...
Shatterday
Harlan Ellison
Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership....
The Stricken Field
Dave Duncan
Paranoid but almighty, the sorcerer Xinixo had seized control of the Impire. But ruling the imps and most of the world was not enough. He would never feel safe until he was universally loved, so he would sma...
Highland Conqueror
Hannah Howell
Lady Jolene Gerard is running out of time--each moment she remains within the walls of Drumwich Castle she is in jeopardy. Her only chance lies with a prisoner chained to the dungeon walls, a Scotsman who, in ...
Journalist and author Deborah Solomon, who has a regular Q&A feature in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, collars Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for a mini-interview in this morning’s edition.
When asked to comment on Kindle’s competitor Nook he properly declines until his interlocutress provokes him with the observation that, unlike the Kindle, a book on the Nook can be lent.
“The current thing being talked about is extremely limited,” he reminds Solomon. “You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t pick two friends, not even serially, so once you’ve loaned one book to one friend, that’s it.”
This surprises the journalist who, like a courtroom lawyer, should never ask a question to which she doesn’t know the answer. “You have to pick just one person? What are you saying? It’s like ‘Sophie’s Choice’?”
“It is ‘Sophie’s Choice’,” replies Bezos. “Very nicely done.” Touché!
Solomon also challenges Bezos when he tells her that Amazon takes a 65% cut of revenue from self-published digital books published by Amazon. “And Amazon keeps 65 percent?” she exclaims. “That sounds like a lot.”
“Does it?” Bezos replies. “You’re an author, what does your royalty check look like? Are your royalties 35 percent?” Touché encore!
Bezos reveals how he reads a Kindle in the bathtub, and why it’s infinitely better than reading a paper book there. A clue is provided by Chris Steib, pictured above, whose experiment was reported in Print is Dead.
To read the all-too-brief Q&A, read Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos by Deborah Solomon.
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