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Thin Air
George E. Simpson
It's a mystery that dates back to World War II--what happened to the USS Sturman and its crew. For Naval Investigator Nicholas Hammond, the search will challenge him…and the answers will, like bodies floa...
Shadow of Ashland
Terence M. Green
“THE BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ”–Entertainment Weekly
"Things have to be settled, or they never go away."
Only weeks before she dies in March, 1984, Leo Nolan’s mother shows her son a rose she says w...
The Longest Way Home
Robert Silverberg
"What wonders and adventures he has to tell us," is how Ursula K. LeGuin characterized the world of Robert Silverberg, and in The Longest Way Home, he takes readers on another dazzling odyssey.
Joseph, ju...
Marriage Is a Bad Habit
Ruth Dickson
When Ruth Dickson released her 1967 book MARRIED MEN MAKE THE BEST LOVERS, it went off like a bombshell. Defenders of the “sanctity” of marriage rose up to dismiss her frank, innovative, thoroughly resear...
Orion's Dagger
Paula Downing King
With ORION’S DAGGER, Paula E. Downing presents the thrilling final installment of THE CLOUDSHIPS OF ORION trilogy, which Starlog magazine called “special...a thoroughly engrossing story.” The trio wa...
Fair Warning
George E. Simpson
America is set to finally end World War II with a devastating act--dropping the atomic bomb over Japan. But what if a secret mission was set in place to alter the course of history? In this fast-paced, and i...
Rogues of the Black Fury
Travis Heermann
When a band of shadowy fanatics abducts Javin Wollstone’s little sister, Bella, from his care, his only hope to bring her home is turning to a hard-bitten band of special warriors, the Black Furies, led by C...
The Sudden Star
Pamela Sargent
The appearance of a white star bathing the world in a deadly glare turns Earth into a nightmare of fear and death. Rape and murder are as common as suicide. Medical help is allowed only for certain diseases, a...
Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future
John Lange
The sciences, as opposed to politics and religion, have their roots in philosophy. Philosophy has been spoken of as the mother of the sciences, although she is, in many cases, more of a grandmother or grea...
The Man in the Moon Must Die
Jeff Bredenberg
What do a cunning old man, a code-slopper gone rogue, a pair of lowlife tech-runners, a sexually frustrated AI, and a hermaphrodite underworld boss have in common? They're all out to get Benito Funcitti, ow...
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Guardian Angel
Linda Winstead Jones
Defying her father's wishes that she find a suitor and marry, Melanie Barnett is well equipped to sharp shoot anyone who gets in her way in Paradise, Texas. She isn't out to play the love game, but when a mask...
Mastering the Business of Writing
Richard Curtis
One of the most comprehensive guides currently on the market, MASTERING THE BUSINESS OF WRITING is an insider's guide to the business of being a professional writer. All aspects of the publishing industry ar...
Shanji
James C. Glass
On the planet Shanji, a ruthless Emperor rules a subjugated people. Kati, raised by the lower caste Tumatsin, is taken captive by the Emperor's troops, but saved by The Searchers, who see her as the promise...
The Bird of Time
George Alec Effinger
Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip…into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing ...
The Jupiter Theft
Don Moffitt
The Lunar Observatory on Earth is picking up a very strange and unidentifiable signal from the direction of Cygnus. When the meaning of this signal is finally understood, it clearly spells disaster for Earth....
EMT Rescue
Pat Ivey
These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive first-hand experiences a...
Southern Rapture
Jennifer Blake
Lettie Mason vowed to bring the man who killed her brother during the American Civil War to justice. Now the war is over and she finally can. Yet, she falls into her brother's murderer's embrace and her emoti...
On Killing
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this in...
The Listeners
James Gunn
After fifty-one long years of patient waiting, the message has finally arrived. They have dedicated their lives to trying to decipher the eerie silence that resounds from space and now there is finally a so...
Highland Bride
Hannah Howell
Journey to the treacherous and tempestuous Highlands of fifteenth century Scotland in Hannah Howell's passionate tale of a feisty beauty determined to uncover the softer side of the iron-willed warrior who ha...
The Infinity Link
Jeffrey A. Carver
In the year 2034, a young woman named Mozelle Moi learns that her work as a test subject in a top-secret tachyon transmission project will soon be terminated. The purpose of the project has never been reve...
The Hoax
Clifford Irving
The ultimate caper story, novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of the literary hoax that stunned the publishing world, is the story of his faked “autobiography” of Howard Hughes. HOAX was fir...
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Manu Herbstein
Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. Thrust into a foreign land, passed from owner to owner, stripped of her identity. This is the life of Nandzi, who was given the name Ama, a name st...
Lens of the World
R.A. MacAvoy
This is the story of Nazhuret, an outcast, the dwarfish offspring of unknown parents. Yet his story is a great one, filled with surprising rewards and amazing adventures. By the hands of Powl, mentor, madma...
The Border Men
Cameron Judd
From one of the strongest voices in frontier fiction, THE BORDER MEN is a bold novel of revolution, adventure, and the spirit of the American pioneers. Cameron Judd tells the compelling story of proud men a...
Business World reports that HarperCollins owner Rupert Murdoch took a swipe at Amazon’s $9.99 e-book price, boosting Macmillan’s lonely public stand against the retailer’s rigid pricing tactics. “We don’t like the Amazon model of selling everything at USD 9.99,” he said, calling for a renegotiation of Harper’s deal with Amazon, and Amazon said it’s ready to hear what he has to say.
Murdoch acknowledged that he stands to lose money by opposing $9.99. “They pay us the wholesale price of USD 14 or whatever we charge,” he said, referring to the wholesale price that Amazon might pay to Harper for a $28.00 e-book. “But I think it really devalues books and it hurts all the retailers of the hard cover books.” Amazon takes a loss on such transactions but has used the loss-leader strategy to gain a dominant position for its Kindle e-book reader. It’s worked so far but publishers have worried that a day of reckoning will come in the form of a demand by Amazon that publishers lower their wholesale prices to accommodate that $9.99 retail price.
Though he didn’t refer to Macmillan, Murdoch’s position mirrors Macmillan’s and clearly indicates that the new e-book retail model introduced by Apple as part of its iPad tablet rollout has united the publishing community. “Apple, in its agreement with us, which has not been disclosed in detail, does allow for a variety of slightly higher prices,” Murdoch coyly said.
For background, read Publishing’s Weekend War: 48 Hours that Changed an Industry.
Richard Curtis
(c) Reuters
