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July #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ken Liu, Kat Howard, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Walter Mosley, Field of Dreams, Scott Westerfeld’s Zeroes, and much more

July brought a refreshed list of Summer Reading Deals and 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each to the Kindle store, and there’s over 700 titles in there, 387 of which are Whispersync for Voice enabled in the “Summer Reading Deals” alone. (There’s … Continue reading

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September WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, Neal Stephenson’s Mongoliad, Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men, Sarah Prineas, Arthur C. Clarke, David Wong, Jasper Fforde, and more

Another roundup pushing up against the end-of-the-month wire, so let’s jump right in with the deals expiring at the end of the month. First up, a roundup of what most caught my eye of the 189 Whispersync-for-Voice-enabled titles in this month’s $3.99 … Continue reading

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The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014

Well, it’s (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems … Continue reading

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February Whispersync Deal roundup: PKD, Marie Brennan, Walter Mosley, Ken MacLeod, Theodore Sturgeon, Robin Hobb, and more

Well, February’s well past half over, so as usual it’s beyond past time to get this month’s Whispersync deal roundup put together. So here we go!  [UPDATE: Since this series has drawn some new readers/listeners who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for … Continue reading

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November 2014 Whispersync Roundup: Octavia Butler’s Dawn, Peter David’s Artful, Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan, and more

Now that we’re about halfway through November, it’s past time to round up this month’s Whispersync (and other) deals. First up, the usual gold source for new Whispersync deals, the Kindle monthly deals. 12 books to send up this time:    Dawn … Continue reading

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October Whispersync Deal Roundup: Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising, Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon, Tim Pratt’s Heirs of Grace, James Blaylock’s The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, and more (UPDATED!)

October is here, and so a new crop of monthly e-book deals are live. While quite a lot of the September roundup remains live as well (outside of the specifically monthly price drops) here’s what’s new: NOTE: Updated on Tuesday Oct … Continue reading

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Release Week: Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others, Glen Duncan’s By Blood We Live, Iain Banks’ Matter, and Octavia Butler’s Patternmaster and Imago

FEBRUARY 5-11, 2014: While much more quiet in terms of quantity — in particular in concurrent new releases, as apparently every publisher had the same “FEBRUARY 4 OR BUST” idea this year — there’s some absolutely exquisite quality in this week’s … Continue reading

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Release Week: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, Hang Wire, Dominion, Love Star, The Crane Wife, Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis, and Janis Ian’s Stars

JANUARY 22-28, 2014: Another huge week of releases, from the old and long missing (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Xenogenesis), to the new (The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, and Hang Wire), to alternate history and other bits around the edges, to a fantastic … Continue reading

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Release Week: Unfettered, Bloodchild and Other Stories, The Unreal and the Real, Dirty Magic, Snowblind, The Séance, A.C. Crispin’s StarBridge, and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn

JANUARY 15-21, 2014: This week brings an absolute feast for lovers of short stories, with picks including the star-studded Unfettered anthology and two collections, Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories and Ursula Le Guin’s The Unreal and the Real. In … Continue reading

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Briefly, On Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower

As I have been finishing Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred over the past day and a half or so, of the many thoughts swirling around in my head was this: that no author I’ve read had such a command of both the … Continue reading

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