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KINDLE ME THIS
Chase — y’know, those Visa people — has partnered with Amazon to offer a deep discount on the Kindle wireless e-reader. For a limited time, you can sign up for the Amazon.com Rewards Visa and then get $100 off the Kindle, which now has more than 160,000 titles available. Full details are here.
HERE BE DRAGONS
In advance of the Sept. 20 release of Christopher Paolini’s BRISINGR, Alfred A. Knopf has reissued the first two books in the series, ERAGON and ELDEST, in THE INHERITANCE CYCLE OMNIBUS. The 1,186-page book includes a sneak peek at BRISINGR, via pages from the 24-year-old author’s handwritten manuscript. Meanwhile, play the series’ online VROENGARD ACADEMY game to be entered to win a two-night trip to Montana for lunch with Paolini and a framed art print. Other prizes include signed books, T-shirts, DVDs and video games.
CHEAP BASTARD ALERT
NIGHT SHIFT and WORKING FOR THE DEVIL author Lilith Saintcrow offers a free serial novel called SELENE, set in the same world as her books. New chapters go up every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
SELF-PROMOTION CORNER
The revised edition of GRAPHIC CLASSICS: AMBROSE BIERCE is now out from Eureka Publishing. With 70 new pages over the 2003 original, this comics collection features the classic stories “Moxon’s Master,” “The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter” and “The Damned Thing,” adapted by yours truly and illustrated by Reno Maniquis. Returning from the previous edition are works drawn by Mark A. Nelson, Milton Knight, P.S. Mueller, Roger Langridge, Simon Gane, J.B. Bonivert and many more. With BIERCE, all 15 volumes thus far in the GRAPHIC CLASSICS series are back in print; to celebrate, they’re offering a special offer on a complete set for only $135. Coming up next from the publisher is an all-new anthology, GRAPHIC CLASSICS: OSCAR WILDE, due in December. —Rod Lott
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Damnit, Rod! I guess I *have* to get one now.
The Kindle, I mean.