New York Times Best Sellers eBooks discounted!

This week we are doing something a little different for weekly specials. This week ALL of the New York Times Best Sellers are yours to buy for an additional 10% discount.  You get a 23% discount when you use your points to purchase these great titles! Use Coupon code MAYbest1 at checkout to get your discount on these great books. And remember that we always discount best sellers!

eBooks About Everything automatically discounts the New York Times Best Sellers.

This is your chance to stock up on some fabulous titles at an additional 10%. 

 

What about these great Fiction titles?

   Simple Genius by David Baldacci

   The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

   Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner

We also have informative and entertaining non fiction biographies to keep you reading for hours!

  John Adams by David McCullough

   Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut

      Are You There Vodka?  It's me Chelsea by Chelsea Chandler

And finally books to inspire and motivate you.

  Harmonic Wealth by James Arthur Ray

   Gorgeously Green by Sophie Uliano

   The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferris.

Books are the best entertainment value ever.  Where else can you get ten hours of total entertainment for less than $25?

Happy reading!

 

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So why is the New York Times Best Seller List Being Revamped?

I hate it when elitism is used as a guise for crass commercialism. I am a great believer in point blank crass commercialism. Here: Go buy eBooks (any eBooks) at my store now!

I object, loudly, to being discriminated against because I am a Westerner who loves reading paperbacks. And I really hate it being placated with great sounding rationalization. Case in point: The New York Times Book Review section.

The New York Times Reviewers love to look down that their noses at us, the unwashed masses, and our taste in books. They especially despise common people like my friends and I. We don’t discuss War and Peace or pass around copies of Ethan Fromm. We are unabashed consumers of chick lit and thrillers.

We may be a little light on class (we've been known to buy books at Costco, WalMart and the grocery store!) but believe it or not, we are all capable of detailed literary analysis and critical thinking. . .but I digress.

Back to the New York Times: starting next week The New York Times Book Review will be expanded to three separate fiction lists: the vulnerable hardback list, the standard mass market paperbacks list and a brand new category--trade paper (the larger, more expensive versions).

The reason for the change?

According to Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the Book Review, it is because “now you have a list that corresponds closely to what we review in the section and what we gauge our readers are interested in.” Huh?

Aside from the fact he ends the sentence with a preposition, there is a fundamental flaw in that sentence. He seems to think that the Book Review is a bastion of intellectual light and literary taste that can only be appreciated by the sophisticated, educated, literary, rich, East Coast intellectual. People like me, common middle class (Western) readers who love books don’t count. It is now unclear to me why I am bothering with it at all; maybe it's because I like the pictures.

I ask you, is the hardback edition of the latest Nora Robert’s title somehow more cerebral than a paperback or even eBook edition?

All of those words to obfuscate the real deal: The New York Times is more than willing to lose a page of excellent literary review and criticism to create space for more ad revenue.

Ad revenue I understand – I don't know anyone who is against revenue! Not very erudite or cultured, but honest. But we do understand it. So why doesn't Sam just say so??

New York Times Summer Reads

Over the weekend the New York Times listed it's summer reads -- recommended for the beach. As always, there are a couple that I wholeheartedly recommend (I read them), some I don't know about and a couple I wonder WHAT they were thinking.

It was great to see that about half of these books are avialable as eBooks which makes them cheaper and more portable.

So without further ado -- here is the list:

• CITY OF FIRE by Robert Ellis (St. Martin’s Minotaur); 357 pages; $24.95.
• DREAM WHEN YOU’RE FEELING BLUE by Elizabeth Berg (Random House); 276 pages; $24.95 -- the eBook is only $17.95
• MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER by David Shalleck with Erol Munuz (Broadway Books); 332 pages; $23.95.
• MICHAEL TOLLIVER LIVES by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins); 277 pages; $25.95
• STRAITS OF FORTUNE by Anthony Gagliano (William Morrow); 240 pages; $23.95
• SUMMER READING by Hilma Wolitzer (Ballantine Books); 251 pages; $24.95 - eB0ok is only $17.95
• THE ENTITLED by Frank Deford (Sourcebooks); 318 pages; $24.95.
• THE PRINCE OF NANTUCKET by Jan Goldstein (Shaye Ayreheart Books); 239 pages; $24.00 -- the eBook is only $17.95
• THE SAVAGE GARDEN by Mark Mills (G. P. Putnam’s Sons); 324 pages; $24.95 -- not to be confused with the book of the same name by Denise Hamilton where the eBook is only $6.99.
• WAY OFF THE ROAD by Bill Geist (Broadway Books); 240 pages; $23.95 -- the eBook is $17.95.
• UP IN HONEY’S ROOM by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow); 292 pages; $25.95. parent-0767922727 -- the eBook is only $19.95

The linked books are available at eBooks About Everything and if you enter the coupon code as SUMMER07 at check out you will received a 7% discount on each of the titles.