Oprah's Pick: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (We Have the eBook Edition)

Yesterday, Oprah announced her latest book club pick: A New Earth by Echhart Tolle. You will be happy to know that she's gone whole hog this time. This is not a mere book recommendation. Oh no, she has added a webinar. Just think for the next ten week on Monday night you can watch Oprah and Eckhart are co-teach a class about finding your life purpose.

I admit, I have never gotten the whole Eckhart Tolle thing.

A friend of mine thrust The Power of Now on me as a "gotta read" book. I tried to read it. I really, really tried! But after fifty or so pages I gave it up in disgust. Not only is there nothing new in what he has to say, but he is pedantic and even worse, boring. The guy is an awful writer; and yes, I know that English is his second language.

When I finally confessed to my friend that I couldn't make myself read any more she insisted on loaning me the audio version.

The next morning I decide to give it a try. Listening to books is one of my favorite to pass time on the treadmill, so what the hell. I promised myself to listen to at least a half hour and to try to keep an open mind. It was with great resolve, that I got on the treadmill, placed the CD in the player and plugged in my head phones.

After fifteen minutes of listening to some guy tell me what I should do with a really bad Arnold-like accent I wanted to scream. Fifteen minutes later I wanted to pull my hair out and shriek!

At the end of a half hour I was done!! In kindness to those around me, I restrained my self, stifled the shriek and settled on throwing the headphones to the ground.

As luck would have it the real Arnold was on the overhead TV talking about "Cal-ee-for-nee-ah." Sometimes you have to admit, it is just not your day!

These types of books and spiritual teachers set my teeth on edge anyway. The only way I know to learn how to "live a day at a time" is to practice doing it. Reading about how to do it, talking about how you should do it and chasing the latest guru won't do it.

I am not sure that Oprah and Tolle have much to say that applies to most of us. Oprah has found her life purpose: a popular talk show host and philanthropist. Tolle has found his: making money trafficing off people's quest for a better life.

You can bet, come Monday night I will be otherwise occupied!

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Discounted eBooks - January 29, 2008

New titles top the agenda this week. Advice, Biography, SciFi, Romance and a Technology -- should keep you busy and informed for the next weeK!. Use coupon code C3KL9 at check out to get a 10% discount on any or all of these titles. Our guarantee: If you have bought one of these titles from eBooks About in the last 15 days -- we will gladly offer you a rebate on the book; just contact us. REMEMBER all Best Sellers and New Releases are always discounted by 10% -- no coupons needed

live Rich eBook edition byPollan, Stephan In Live Rich, he now concentrates on the earning side--with the compelling observation that living rich has less to do with net worth and everything to do with freedom. You can live the life you want by adhering to the four tenets of the Live Rich philosophy: Make Money: Don't Grow, Change; Take Charge and Become a Mercenary. Revolutionary workplace ideals, as well as a detailed action plan, you can apply this philosophy to every facet of your life and truly Live Rich. More Info List Price : $l10.95 Your price $8.43 (Using your 10% discount and $ .441 points in eBook Reward points)

Mermaids in the Basement eBook Edition by: West, Michael Lee Reeling from the loss of her mother, plagued with a bad case of writer's block (and don't even talk about that extra twenty pounds), Renata DeChavannes feels as though everything is just plain wrong. And that was before the tabloids caught her sweetheart, filmmaker Ferg Lauderdale, sharing an intimate squeeze with Hollywood's hottest young tamale More Info List Price : $18.95 Your price $14.59 (Using your 10% discount and $ .77 iin eBook Reward points)

Glamour Interrupted eBook edition by Cojocaru, Steven Before Steven Cojocaru was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, he could never have imagined himself living anything other than a high-glam Hollywood lifestyle. A bon vivant on two coasts, he held jobs as both the red carpet guru for Entertainment Tonight and the fashion correspondent for the Today show, hauling his suitcase full of flat irons and designer boots from New York to Los Angeles and back again, every week. He was Cojo, professional glamour boy with a barbed tongue who went shopping with J.Lo and traded fashion tips with Gwyneth. More Info List Price : $18.95 Your price $14.59 (Using your 10% discount and $ .77 points in eBook Reward points)

Moonseed eBook edition by: Baxter Stephen It Eats Planets. And It's Here. It starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Days later, a few specks of moon rock kicked up from the last Apollo mission fall upon a lava crag in Scotland. That's all it takes . . . Suddenly, the ground itself begins melting into pools of dust that grow larger every day. For what has demolished Venus, and now threatens Earth itself, is part machine, part life-form: a nano-virus, dubbed Moonseed, that attacks planets. More Info List Price : $7.19 Your price $6.15 (Using your 10% discount and $ .32 in eBook Reward points)

ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed eBook edition by: Walther, Stephen ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed is the most comprehensive book on the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Framework, covering all aspects of the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework -- no matter how advanced. This edition covers all the new features of ASP.NET 3.5. It explains Microsoft LINQ to SQL in detail. It includes a chapter on the two new data access controls introduced with the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework: the ListView and DataPager controls. More Info List Price : $47.99 Your price $41.03 (Using your 10% discount and $2.16 in eBook Reward points)

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Literary Fiction or Genre Fiction

The review comparing and contrasting the The Senator's Wife and Mermaids in the Basement got me to thinking about how publishers (and readers) classify fiction.  For example, The Senator' Wife is considered by the publisher as literary while Mermaids in the Basement is genre (romance) fiction.

The publishing industry uses two broad categories: 

• Literary fiction: loosely described as award winning and critically acclaimed.  This is fiction that addresses serious issues and is more generally character centric than plot driven. And finally, these are works that use beautiful language that is rich in vocabulary and lyrical in description. 
• Genre fiction or "popular" fiction: SciFi, Romance, Horror, Mysteries etc.  This is narrative and plot driven writing which is often formulaic, uses simple language and is calculate to create an immediate emotional response.

Here is my rule of thumb:  Has the New York Times reviewed it? 

Yes, means it was either written by a mega-selling author or it is classified as a literary work.  No, almost certainly means it is a popular/genre title.

The thing that keeps coming up for me is that Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Mary Shelly and  Mark Twain were never considered "literary" in their time. I am not sure that Jonathan Swift, Alexander Dumas or Sir Thomas Mallory were either.

What these authors have in common is that they have have all written books that people are reading and enjoying decades later. 

The best definition of literary fiction I have heard is:

Literary fiction is fiction that endures; books that are read and enjoyed a hundred years later.

I would love to be around in 2100 to find out what books have endured and are considered "classics". 

What writers will be remembered and read? Will it be Nora Roberts, Steven King, John La Carre or (heaven forbid), Dan Brown?

Which of the award winning titles from the last few years will be read and enjoyed?  Will it be Gilead (Marilynne Robinson), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen) or The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)?  

Or will the whole idea of literary fiction and books be a quaint old fashioned curiosity?

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Women's Stories: The Senator's Wife (eBook edition) and Mermaids in The Basement (eBook edition).

When it comes to books my daughter is a serial monogamist; she reads one book at a time from start to finish.  I on the other hand am a literary polygamist; in any given week I am in the process of reading four or five books.

Last weeks it went like this

• The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
• Mermaid in the Basement by Michele Lee West
• Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
• The Girl Who Walked Home Alone by Charlotte Chandler
• The Art of Big Talk by Debra Fine. 

By the end of the week I had finished The Senator's Wife and Mermaids in the Basement. 

Both are fiction.  Both are written by well known authors.  Both feature two generations of women and their contrasting lives.  Both were told from alternating points of view.  Both portray the intimate details of marriage and betrayal. 

And yet, they could not be more different!

The Senator's Wife is beautifully written, the language rich, the characters complex, the plot compelling. 

Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love.

This is a book I wanted to love.  In the end I couldn't make myself do it.  No matter how hard I tried, I did not love this book.

It was very slow going.  OK, I recognize that this is wonderful writing; an intricate character study of two morally ambiguous characters.  The problem is that no matter how much I tried, I couldn't like these women or particularly identify with either of them or their choices.  And they weren't so strange or interesting that I ended up (even grudgingly) fascinated by them.  And worse, the denouement left me cold -- it seemed both contrived and predictable. 

And yet the book has stayed with me all week.  I've rolled it around in my brain, examined it and analyzed it.  My final answer?  It was ultimately unsatisfying.

Mermaids in the Basement was a quick read that pulled me in from the first sentence and never let go.  Nothing heavy about this.  But the characters are rich and complex and downright intriguing.

Ripe with Southern charm and sultry atmosphere, West's diverting and funny latest unravels the tangled gossamer web of an eccentric extended Southern family.

These women are certainly morally ambiguous.  But guess what?  They are likeable and their choices make oddball sense.  I didn't necessarily identify (it is hard to be less of a "southern belle" than I am) but these women are real characters who grabbed my emotions as well as my brain.

It hasn't really stayed with me in the same way as The Senator's Wife.  I haven't spent any time analyzing it.  And yet it  left me feeling warm and satisfied.

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Readius -- The Scroll Is Back

Everything old is new again: a reading platform that starts out the size of a pack of cigarettes (I know, it is politically incorrect to even use that c-word)and expands to a full 5 inch screen. 

 

 

Photos of the so-called Readius prototype have been kicking around for a while. I couldn't have told you the thing was called Readius® but I did know that it was a small light reader with a roll up screen and just eight buttons!

What's not to like about the idea other than the fact that it isn't OLED based?  But I won't bore you with my particular hobby horse.

OLED or not, you still get a small, light thing to carry around.  A gadget that combines high resolution and long battery life -- always a winner.

Secretly, I've wanted one since I saw the first prototype.  If nothing else you have to admit that there is a real "coolness" factor to that roll up screen.

Looks like I might actually be able to get one soon.  According to a Reuters story earlier this week, the Readius will be available for sale by this summer.

The word is that it is really a cell phone that handles eBooks, RSS feeds, email and audio files.  Added features include a 30 hour battery life, an SD slot and it's very own portal.

According to Karl McGoldrick, chief executive of Polymer Vision:  "We are taking e-reading and bringing it to the mobile phone." 

Coolness not withstanding, before I get too excited there are a few question I want answered:

• About that portal:  what exactly do they mean by  "the portal allows users to personally configure the Readius® User Interface and design content and services to their own style and needs"?
• About reading:  What eReader software will I be able to use?  Will I be able to read my Mobipocket or PDF files?  Even the protected (DRM'd) files?
• About eCommerce: Will I be able to buy eBooks, news services and subscriptions anywhere or will I be stuck with a proprietary reader and limited choices?
• How much will it cost? 

The other thing I wonder about is if this device represents competition for current eInk readers (Kindle, Sony, Cybook, Irex etc) or the iPhone?  I guess time will tell.

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eBook Discounts for January 23, 2008

These are the five titles you asked for last week. Use coupon code B2J8G at check out to get a 10% discount on any or all of these titles. Our guarantee: If you have bought one of these titles from eBooks About in the last 15 days -- we will gladly offer you a rebate on the book; just contact us. REMEMBER all Best Sellers and New Releases are always discounted by 10% -- no coupons needed!

Glamour Interrupted eBook edition by Cojocaru, Steven Before Steven Cojocaru was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, he could never have imagined himself living anything other than a high-glam Hollywood lifestyle. A bon vivant on two coasts, he held jobs as both the red carpet guru for Entertainment Tonight and the fashion correspondent for the Today show, hauling his suitcase full of flat irons and designer boots from New York to Los Angeles and back again, every week. He was Cojo, professional glamour boy with a barbed tongue who went shopping with J.Lo and traded fashion tips with Gwyneth. More Info List Price : $18.95 Your price $14.59 (Using your 10% discount and $ .77 points in eBook Reward points)

Book of People eBook Edition by: Brooks, Geraldine Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding-an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. More Info List Price : $25.95 Your price $19.97 (Using your 10% discount and $1.05 iin eBook Reward points)

90 Minutes In Heaven eBook edition by: Piper, Don, Murphy, Cecil On the way home from a conference, Don Piper's car was crushed by a semi that crossed into his lane. Medical personnel said he died instantly. While his body lay lifeless inside the ruins of his car, Piper experienced the glories of heaven, awed by its beauty and music. Ninety minutes after the wreck, while a minister prayed for him, Piper miraculously returned to life on earth with only the memory of inexpressible heavenly bliss. More Info List Price : $9.09/td> Your price $6.99 (Using your 10% discount and $ .37 in eBook Reward points)

Bond of Fire eBook edition by: Whiteside, Diane "What do you get when you cross the Crusades, incredible, sensuous story"** called Bond of Blood. Now Diane Whiteside, turns up the Texas heat once again. In this exciting novel she revisits that landscape of fiery seduction while exploring the centuries-old love affair between vampire knight Jean-Marie St. Just and vampire firestarter and secret agent H¿l¿ne d'Agelet. More Info List Price : $14.00 Your price $11.97 (Using your 10% discount and $ .63 in eBook Reward points)

Strong at the Broken Places eBook edition by: Cohen, Richard Cohen spent three years chronicling the lives of five diverse "citizens of sickness": Denise, who suffers from ALS; Buzz, whose Christian faith helps him deal with his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; Sarah, a determined young woman with Crohn's disease; Ben, a college student with muscular dystrophy; Larry, whose bipolar disorder is hidden within. The five are different in age and gender, race and economic status, but they are determined to live life on their own terms. Intimately involved with these patients' lives, Cohen formed intense relationships with each, talked to their families and friends, and shared joy, even in heart-breaking setbacks. More Info List Price : $19.95 Your price $15.36 (Using your 10% discount and $ .81 in eBook Reward points)

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A real eReader -- What This Woman Wants.

I have spent five (long) years looking for a really good eBook reader. Not perfect; just good. And yet I keep looking.

Lately I have become convinced that that eReaders are pretty much irrelevant given current technology.

I have lot of gadgets! Why do I want one more?

What it comes down to it, I don't want a new eReader no matter now fancy. What I want is a robust device that I can use for a variety of things including, reading eBooks.

The new devices needs to have these characteristics:

A logical hardware package:

• Light (5-8 oz.) ergonomic design. The ability to EASILY hold the device in one hand. AND to be able to comfortably do basic navigation with the same hand. Doesn't matter if it uses buttons, flip bar, finger or pointer.
• Enough processor speed and RAM to make it snappy -- this changes so fast I won't bother with specification.
• A 6-8 inch TOUCH screen with internal lighting.
• High resolution screen for text, graphics, and video.
• Clear audio capabilities for both listening and recording.
• Always-on connectivity -- WiFi works great
• Generous storage 40-80GB; I personally like the solid state hard drives.
• Long battery life and easy battery replacement.
• All the standard hardware things you would expect like SD card slot(s) and USB ports.

A robust operating environment:

• A full operating system (Palm, Windows Mobil or Linux come to mind)
• Basic functional software -- Internet browser, email, contacts, calendar, notes, photo gallery etc.
• A full compliment of readily available productivity software, GPS capabilities, and games.
• Easy writing/note taking ability with real annotation ability -- handwriting recognition and on screen keyboard plus the ability to use a keyboard and mouse if desired.

eBook-specific software included:

• The ability to read least 2 of the common protected eBook formats: PDF, MS Lit, Palm and Mobipocket
• The ability to buy books "over the air" from any source, anytime, anywhere.
• Great search capability that includes not only searching of the eBook text but all annotations as well.
• The ability to share my annotations with others.
• All the obvious software features you would expect: changing font type, font size, highlighting and bookmarking, dictionary lookup.

And I want it all for a decent price -- less than $500.

OK, that might be a little optimistic but certainly the capability can be had for close to $800. And as far as add-on capability (more RAM, larger hard drive, more slot); that can be as pricey as the manufacturer can get away with.

The most intriguing possibilities on the horizon are the tablet and ultra-mobile devices. Here are a couple of possibilities shown by Engadget in the last month.

The iriver prototype tablet

or the Inventec UMPC 7A

 

I keep wondering why Sony and Amazon have just introduced single purpose brain-dead devices. Presumably they studied the market before creating their readers.

The the only conclusion I can draw is that they are invested in protecting a divided marketplace -- keeping listening device, video device, eBook device and GPS system device users in separate little ghettos for their marketing convenience.

A universal device is inevitable. So the real question is this: Are they going to start listening to the consumer or will some Chinese company come along and eat their markets?

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The BEST eBooks about The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968

Today is the United States national holiday celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday.

Of course, I woke up this morning thinking about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.  Most of what I know about this topic I learned from Taylor Branch and his amazing three part history .

Remember, I grew up outside of the US.  My main source of information on all things American was Time Magazine.  It is no surprise that I had a very vague idea of what the Civil Rights Movement really was or how it happened.  Sure, I knew the basic outlines but there were very few details.  

It doesn't seem possible, but it really was eeighteen years ago I picked up Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch.  History always intrigues me and I had often wondered (in a kind of lazy way)  about the Civil Rights Movement.  I saw the book and picked it up expecting to skim it for information.

A funny thing happened.  After just few pages, I found I couldn't put it down.  I bought it and headed home to read it carefully. 

I was transported to the deep South of 1954.  The characters are drawn so carefully and completely that they start to live and breath  The descriptions are so detailed and graphic that you can see and feel them.  Two days (and 900 pages) later I was still in the South, but now it was 1963. 

That was a book I hated to see end!  Those pages flew by and I could have read another 900 with ease. 

Over the intervening years I would think about the book and wonder what happened next.

It took ten years to find out. . .

 Pillar of Fire picks up the story and and takes you through 1965.  And then  I had another five year wait for the last volume At Caanan's Edge.

It is a testament to how powerful the books are that I never forgot characters in the intervening years. 

Fortunately, Simon and Schuster released all three books as eBooks last year and you won't have to wait for 15 years to get the whole story.

This is non-fiction, history and biographical writing at it's VERY best! 

As a teaser, I am adding the publisher's information about Parting the Waters:

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.

Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.

Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness and illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody freedom rides, and through siege and murder.

Epic in scope and impact, Branch's chronicle definitively captures one of the nation's most crucial passages.

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Steve Jobs Kindles Another Debate

"The seminal thinker of Apple is taking another byte that’s too big for his britches. He is declaring the written word dead" says Henri Reynard in this guest appearance.

Steve Jobs has always made great presentations even when he is presenting a dead product. Remember, oh guru, the great black walrus carcass of NeXT hanging around your neck?

Unfortunately when a product offering to your worshipping crowds isn’t up to par, you have to depend on a controversy to make news.  And Jobs is a past master at this kind of folderol.

Luckily for him it is just babble and not real prognostication. He has amply proven that he is not a living reincarnation of Nostradamus. If the written word is dead so is computing which last time I looked depended on keyboards and words to do almost everything it does.

If he really wants to amaze and intelligently impact the growing market for devices that can both talk and listen to you he should build a better tablet computer. I’ll even design it for him.

The tablet computer needs to be about the size of a sheet of paper or at least seven inches by ten inches. It should be no thicker than his new offering which is just another thin portable. It should take written text and dictation. It needs great color resolution like the iPhone and a new operating system based on spoken commands.

This tablet needs a five thousand word look up vocabulary so that it can offer you options when it doesn’t recognize a word you used. “Did you mean functions,” are prevalent in typed word dictionaries. It needs a particular dictionary adapted to the task of taking dictation and dealing with handwritten text. It could also have a keyboard that is presented onscreen as a touch screen function. It certainly should have drawing functions and stock images built into its connected library of utilities.

It should also be fully ready for the next big thing in computing, “Permanently Connected Publishing.” That would be a computer worthy of notice. It could also be designed to fold up and act as a phone; eventually. I wouldn’t want him to overreach the market again.

I can go on and so can a lot of you. Let’s have a little fun challenging Jobs to actually do something besides listen to the iPods with the rest of his life. The iPhone is a pretty toy but not a revolution in anything but Apple’s bottom line. Let’s see a real revolution in computing.

Bring on the tablet computer, it is long overdue.

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Steve Jobs: "People Don't Read Anymore"

Earlier this week New York Times blogger John Markoff got the chance to sit down and talk with Steve Jobs.  In a fascinating and wide ranging interview they talk about the MacBook Air, the Kindle, Google smart phone, television and Bill Gates.

Jobs disses the Kindle and predicts it will go nowhere.  From his perspective:

"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore. . . Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore."

Steve loves controversy, and this is one more in a long line of outrageous statements.  It most certainly will get him and the new MacBook Air noticed. 

I happen to agree that the Kindle is a deeply flawed product - ugly, proprietary and dumb.  But I am not letting him off the hook here: his statement is deeply flawed (not to mention dumb and inflammatory). 

People Don't Read Anymore

First and foremost is the presumption that the only reading that "counts" is book reading.  Particularly ironic in this case since the interview was given to someone who writes a blog; last time I checked most people read blogs. 

His statement ignores newspapers and magazines and the tremendous amount of reading done online.

How many people do you think will read his statement that no one reads anymore? 

Oh yeah, there is this:  I would be willing to bet that more time is spent reading email on the iPhone than watching TV or actually talking.

There isn't a market for Books

Makes you wonder why Amazon is in business at all, doesn't it?  But even more problematic is that his statement is not accurate.  The actual statistic from the National Endowments for the Arts study is:

57% percent of Americans over the age of 18 read at least one book per year not required for work or school.

Let's just take the statement at face value.  Let's agree that there isn't much market for books or book related technology.  Then let's do the math: 

• The US population is about 300 million people. 
• If 57% of them read 1 book a year then there is (at the very least) a 171 million unit market. 
• The average book price is $18.00
• That translates to something like a $3 Billion market. . .

By the way actual annual book sales in the US are more than $16 Billion per year

I personally wouldn't sneeze at that kind of money. And that doesn't touch the educational market.

Hey, Steve

Before you so lightly dismiss reading (and eBooks) you probably ought to start praying that people continue to read for a while. 

If they don't, all those iPhones and that shiny new MacBook Air (which requires the user to read) will be sitting on the shelf for a long time to come.

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