Kindle Nation Daily Bargain Book Alert for Friday, February 5, 2010: 50 for Under a Buck

There are big changes afoot in the Kindle Store, and it is likely -- at least until we hear definitive news to the contrary directly from Amazon -- that in a few months a much smaller portion of the store's offerings will be as affordable as they are today. Three of the Big Six publishers (MacMillan, HarperCollins, and Hachette) have joined together under the collusive anti-reader price-gouging auspices of the BS Cabal to announce that they will soon raise ebook prices by 30 to 50 percent, and Amazon itself said recently that beginning later this year it would pay 70 percent royalties to its indie ebook authors, but only if they priced books at $2.99 and up.

So I thought it would be a good time to celebrate this moment of great 99-cent Kindle Store offerings by helping the citizens of Kindle Nation find some of the hidden offerings priced at less than a dollar, with lists here of Intriguing Recent Releases, the 99-Cent Kindle Store Bestseller List, Great Blogs for 99 Cents a Month, Literate Erotica at 99 Cents a Pop, and Five Other 99-Cent Bargains by Yours Truly:

Ten Intriguing Recent Releases for Under a Buck

• Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
• The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
• Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac
• The Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger  
• The Schoolmistress, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Uncle Vanya by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Watershed by Carol Frome
• Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville
• Brainbox by Christian Cantrell

 

The 99-Cent Kindle Store Bestsellers' List

• Faking It by Elisa Lorello 
• The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (Mobile Books) by Sir James Knowles
• The Complete User's Guide To the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2: Tips, Tricks, & Links To Unlock Cool Features & Save You Hundreds on Kindle Content by Stephen Windwalker
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
• Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe
• Ordinary World by Elisa Lorello
• Beauty and the Beast (mobi) by Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
• Heart of Darkness (mobi) by Joseph Conrad
• The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
• Poems By Walt Whitman
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck 
• Declaring Spinsterhood by Jamie Lynn Braziel 
• With This Ring, I Thee Dread by Ruth Ann Nordin 
• The Complete Mark Twain Collection (Over 300 works, with active table of contents)

Great Blogs for 99 Cents a Month, with a 14-Day Free Trial

• Kindle Nation Daily: The inside scoop on all things Kindle by Stephen Windwalker  
• Zen Habits by Leo Babauta  
• A Kindle World Blog by Andrys Basten
• ESPN - The Baseball Report by ESPN
• Consenting Adult by Sue Katz
• Furthering the Worldwide Cultural Conversation by Anastasia M. Ashman
• Ars Technica by Ars Technica
• AP Strange by Associated Press
• DailyMe Better You 
• Duct Tape Marketing by Duct Tape Marketing
• I Love My Kindle by Bufo Calvin
• Len Edgerly by Len Edgerly

  

 Literate Erotica at 99 cents a Pop

(File these under: With a Kindle, You Don't Need a Brown Paper Bag) 

• Tales from Mystic Valley by Moira Rogers 
• Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Complete, Unexpurgated Text by D.H. Lawrence  
• Justine or Good Conduct Well Chastised (mobi) by Marquis de Sade
• Out of the Box 2 (On The Edge) by Kallysten
• Fanny Hill (Including 12 Illustrations by Paul Avril) by John Cleland
• Romance of Lust: All Four Volumes of the Victorian Classic! (Optimized for the Kindle!) by Anonymous, William Simpson Potter, and Edward Sellon
• Barely There by Samantha Hunter
• The Erotic Adventures of Arabella by Anonymous
• The Fortunate Mistess or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Deleau, Known by the Name of Lady Roxana by Daniel Defoe  

 

Five Other 99-Cent Titles by Yours Truly
(When Amazon initiates its new $2.99+ pricing and 70%-royalty structure, I will have decisions to make on some of these. But for now, they are all priced under a dollar)

 

• Beyond the Literary-Industrial Complex: How Authors and Publishers Are Using the Amazon Kindle and Other New Technologies to Unleash a 21-Century Indie Movement of Readers and Writers) by Stephen Windwalker
• Say My Name: A Novel by Stephen Windwalker    
• 21 Steps: How to Publish a Kindle Blog (And Why You Might Want To) (Download Instantly to Your PC, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle or Other Kindle App) by Stephen Windwalker
• The Feedback is the Filter: Who Will Distinguish Quality in an Indie Publishing Future? ((Excerpt from Beyond the Literary-Industrial Complex)) by Stephen Windwalker
• No Kindle Required - The Complete "Kindle for iPhone" User's Guide/Unlock the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch" (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly) by Stephen Windwalker