Welcome! It's Sunday again! Posted by noon or earlier every Sunday, just for "YOU"! Every week seems shorter and shorter! There is a faint smell of Spring in the air here in Michigan every now and then, and this is making me crave some warmer days ahead when I can sit outside and read. Ooooo! Such a nice thought! Now, if only my neighbors would not play their music at such high decibels! Last year it kept me IN the house. Pathetic, I say! This year will be different! If I need to have a talk with them, or our Landlord, whoever, I WILL! I am NOT going to miss out from sitting outside enjoying some fresh air and a great book this year!
So what do you think about Amazon buying Goodreads? Please LEAVE COMMENTS BELOW! I would LOVE to hear what YOU think about this!
I've seen so MANY thoughts and opinions about this subject, both good and bad. I like to focus on the positive, so I am 'hoping' it will stay somewhat the same. I can hope! I LOVE Goodreads and I really don't want to see much change to it, but if there are some good ones, GREAT!
I'll admit to one thing. I sure am glad I own a Kindle! That was the best choice I have ever made. Now with Amazon taking over Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers are NOT going to be featured/available for purchase through, most likely guaranteed.
I read in one article that this sale is going to give Amazon even MORE availability to suggest books to us. I'm kind of on the line with that one because I LIKE the Publishers advertising books on Goodreads like they do now. There may be a book I might not otherwise have read, but because of the advertisement from a publisher for a book that catches my eye, I'll go and check it out. Now, the same books may be advertised for me that are advertised for me on Amazon. Bummer about that because I enjoyed the variation, although this is only speculation on my part and of the others that I have read.
What about Publisher advertising? Will we still see that? I LIKE THAT!!! MORE books for me to see! Plus, the Giveaways! I LOVE entering those, too!
The thing I really like about Goodreads is our ability to voice our opinions about books more so than what we do in a traditional review on Amazon, and I think we tend to be more truthful on Goodreads than what we may be on Amazon, and we also get some pretty good conversations going about books, too. We can make Groups there, Book Clubs, To Be Read lists, (so will Amazon REQUIRE ALL the books on our TBR lists be on our Wish Lists, too? LOL!! That would be ridiculous because I have something like 200 books on my list! LOL! We ALL do!) Those are some of the questions I have.
The only thing we can do is wait and see.
If you have any thoughts about this sale, please list them below in the COMMENTS!
Important! Something I 'just' noticed that started THIS WEEK.
All the books you see here from the NYT Top 15 Best Sellers ARE direct links to the physical books whenever possible, and directly to Amazon. If there is NOT a physical book available, then the book is directly linked to the ebook at Amazon.
Just this week I have noticed some of the publishers out there have much lower prices on some their ebooks, and then others are much higher. Please know when the lower occurs, I will make note that it is a publisher's price point.
Whenever there is an Independent Author out there who self publishes their book, I also make a HUGE note of this, too! Why? I believe this is EXTREMELY important because I completely support ALL Independent Authors! The blood, sweat and tears they have gone through to get HERE! WOW!!! Although I even do this when they release a NEW book too, for ALL the same reasons, but when they hit THIS LIST, believe me when I say I am doing the HAPPY DANCE!!! This is an author who is BEYOND OUTSTANDING, WONDERFUL, AMAZING, PURE EXCELLENCE, THE BEST, THEIR WRITING PROVES THEY ARE DIVINE, and on and on and on! It is someone with such talent they "DESERVE" TO BE NOTICED! KOODLES TO THEM!!
And now, ON TO THE BOOKS!
1. Six Years
Print Book: $15.37
Ebook: $14.99
2. Wait for You
INDEPENDENT AUTHOR AND SELF-PUBLISHED!
Ebook ONLY: $2.99
3. The Storyteller
Print Book: $15.97
Ebook: $12.74
4. Just One Night, Part 2: Exposed
(Simon and Schuster Digital Sales)
Ebook: $1.99
5. Alex Cross, Run
Print Book: $15.41
Ebook: $11.99
6. Gone Girl: A Novel
Print Book: $13.75
Ebook: $12.99
7. A Week in Winter
Print Book: $14.32
Ebook: $12.99
8. Falling Into You
INDEPENDENT AUTHOR AND SELF-PUBLISHED!
Print Book: $9.12
Ebook: $2.99
9. Three Sisters (Blackberry Island)
Print Book: $8.92
Ebook: $5.50
10. The Host: A Novel
(Hachette Book Group)
Ebook only: $1.99
11. Safe Haven
Print Book: $8.14
Ebook: $5.69
12. Just One Night, Part 1: The Stranger
(Simon and Schuster Digital Sales)
Ebook only: $1.99
13. Surrender Your Love
(Independent Author and Self Published!)
Print Book: $9.99
Ebook: $2.99
14. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Print Book: $8.77
Ebook:; $9.99
15. Admission
Print Book: $10.00
Ebook: $ 2.99
Wow! There we have them! "Three" Independent Authors who self published this week ON the New York Times Best Seller List! AMAZING!! KOODLES TO YOU!
Thanks for stopping by! Have a GREAT week ahead!