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Here’s another interview from GenCon 2013, with self-publishing writer A.G. Howl, aka Amanda McGuire. She is the author of a steampunk pirate romance called The God of Death, available for $5.99 in Kindle or $10.79 in paper from Amazon. She will have a sequel out this month. GenCon was her first convention. Me: I am [...]

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Which is odder: That Amazon, the Kindle company, hired a guy named Kindel to head up a new stealth mobile development project? Or that Amazon hired a Windows phone guy to head a mobile project?

That’s what’s happened.  As Geekwire reported on Monday — and yes it dispensed with the April Fool’s aspect – Charlie Kindel, who helped build Windows 7 Phone and then left Microsoft for a startup in 2011, is now at Amazon “working on something wonderful,” according to his LinkedIn profile

His current job description:

Seems like only yesterday that DC Comics was adding the Nook tablets to its formerly exclusive deal with the Kindle Fire platform, and releasing graphic novels via e-book stores. But the thing about DC on those color tablets was that the comics were actually sold through third-party stores like comiXology, or DC’s own app Vertigo. [...]

 TED Talk videos have an almost cult-like following among the geek crowd, but many of the topics discussed within are usually much more complex than the bite-sized videos tend to get into. That's why TED launched TED Books at the beginning of last year as a way to both capitalize on the popularity of its TED talks, and offer viewers a way to read more about the topics they become obsessed with thanks to the videos. TED Books were originally launched as Kindle Singles through

Publishers Lunch reports that the three month standoff between Amazon and the Independent Publishers Group is over. Although IPG President Mark Suchomel declined to discuss the terms of the agreement Amazon and the IPG have reached, the fact that it took three months to reach it does suggest Amazon didn’t get everything its own way—but [...]

 From the website.  I love the logo so I’m reprinting it bigger than usual.  Stories are available on the website or in ePub form for free, or in Kindle format for $1. GREAT AUTHORS INSPIRE US. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week, each [...]