Amazon is set to release its upcoming Kindle Fire, which is aimed directly at both the tablet and e-reader market. Authors are also getting excited, as Amazon is ramping up its efforts to publish books directly without publisher intervention.
Amazon has announced that it will be publishing 122 titles this fall as part of its efforts to accelerate its publishing program. Spanning several genres, the project will involve both producing e-book formats and likewise printing the books in physical format (hard-bound and paperback). Sources cited by the New York Times say that the retail giant is aggressively wooing authors to join the program. In effect, though, the company is alienating big-name publishers that have been the bread and butter of their book retail business.
Amazon is banking on the success of their tablets and ebook readers. The company believes that this is only the natural evolution of the book publishing business. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” says Russel Grandinetti, an executive at the company. With the direct publishing effort, the company is taking the publishers, literary agents, and book critics out of the equation.
Authors still have mixed feelings about the new effort, though. Some authors have earned the ire of publishing houses that they are signed with — to the extent of receiving lawsuits — for self-publishing e-books on Amazon. However, Amazon’s direct publishing deals are a boon to many others, whose have often been passed over by editors for lack of a potential market. Some say that the great thing with Amazon’s new publishing program is that even grassroots authors and even small-time publishers can now get their shot at success. Now anyone with a good story can have a bestseller even without the support of the traditional publishing industry.
Every years, Amazon and more online retailers have big sales about Black Friday. Have many deals and discount, this is great time to shopping. In 2010, Kindle Fire E-reader discount to only$89.
Black Friday 2011 - Many people select this time to shopping
In Black Friday Day 2011 (is on Friday, November 25, 2011) Amazon can discount Kindle Fire Tablet 7 inch from $199 (about £130 ) to $120. Kindle Fire is the first model of Amazon Kindle Fire, Although incomplete, some cons : Not support 3G, no have camera, however only$199 to have great tablet with free music, movies, TV Shows – are well deserved. And use deals on Black Friday -Simple to have a tablet.
With a new GoldenEye game on the way for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, GameStop has decided to drop the price of the Wii remake all the way to $9.99. While you're at it, you can also pick up another James Bond game, Blood Stone, for the same price.
GameStop has some other unusually strong (for them) deals, including the wireless Rock Band 3 keyboard for $59.99 and DJ Hero wireless turntables for $9.99. With how cheap DJ Hero and its sequel have been recently, that's a nice, cheap way to get the DJ Hero multiplayer experience for a very small fraction of what it would have cost a year ago.
Direct2Drive has some very fun PC games for $4.95, including Just Cause 2, which is an absolute blast (and is a very difficult game to pick a single screenshot for). For that same price, you can also get The Witcher, STALKER, or Magicka.
Like last week with Altitude, Steam is letting people play Dino D-Day for free this weekend. If you end up liking it, you can get the full game for half price, $4.99.
Read on for the rest of this week's deals. Be sure to let us know what we missed in the comments.
Amazon
- Buy a 3DS game, get a select 3DS game free
- R.U.S.E. (360) -- $15.99 (from $29.99)
- Sonic Colors -- $19.52 (from $29.99)
Direct2Drive
- STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl -- $4.95 (from $19.95)
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut -- $4.95 (from $19.95)
- Just Cause 2 -- $4.95 (from $19.95)
- Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword -- $7.50 (from $14.95)
- Magicka -- $4.95 (from $9.95)
- Alpha Protocol -- $4.95 (from $19.95)
- STALKER: Clear Sky -- $4.95 (from $19.95)
- Just Cause -- $3.75 (from $14.95)
GamersGate
- Victoria 2 -- $14.98 (from $29.95)
- Mount & Blade -- $9.98 (from $19.95)
- Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword -- $7.48 (from $14.95)
- Mount & Blade Warband -- $14.98 (from $28.96)
- Magicka -- $4.99 (from $9.99)
- Magicka: Vietnam -- $2.47 (from $4.95)
- Magicka - four pack -- $14.98 (from $29.97)
GameStop
- GoldenEye 007 (Wii) -- $9.99 (from $39.99)
- James Bond: Blood Stone -- $9.99 (from $39.99)
- DJ Hero wireless turntable -- $9.99
- Tony Hawk Shred -- $9.99
- Tony Hawk Shred bundle -- $19.99 (from $24.99)
- Tony Hawk Ride -- $19.99
- StarCraft II -- $49.99 (from $59.99)
- Rock Band 3 wireless keyboard -- $59.99 (from $79.99)
- Dungeon Siege III (360/PS3) -- $39.99 (from $59.99)
- Dungeon Siege III (PC) -- $29.99 (from $49.99)
Good Old Games
- TopWare games 50% off
Impulse
- Bulletstorm -- $14.99 (from $29.99)
- Blood Bowl -- $4.99 (from $19.99)
- Trapped Dead -- $9.99 (from $19.99)
- Greed - Black Border -- $6.24 (from $24.99)
- Mount & Blade -- $9.99 (from $19.99)
- Mount & Blade Warband -- $14.99 (from $29.99)
- Mound & Blade: With Fire and Sword -- $7.49 (from $14.99)
- King Arthur -- $9.99 (from $19.99)
- King Arthur Collection -- $14.99 (from $29.99)
- Magicka -- $4.99 (from $9.99)
- Magicka Vietnam -- $2.49 (from $4.99)
- Victoria Complete -- $9.99 (from $19.99)
- Victoria II -- $14.99 (from $29.99)
- THQ Ultimate Bundle -- $99.99 (from $294.83)
Steam
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines -- $4.99 (from $19.99)
- Capsized -- $3.39 (from $9.99)
- Dino D-Day -- $4.99 (from $9.99)
- DCS A-10C Warthog -- $40.00 (from $59.99)
- Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising -- $14.99 (from $29.99)
- Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark -- $26.66 (from $39.99)
- The Kings' Crusade -- $9.99 (from $19.99)