Michelin Driving Tours Now Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store

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Kindle readers can now experience Michelin ratings and recommendations while they drive through the California wine regions, Florida, and New England

Amazon.com announced that Michelin has released Michelin Driving Tours available exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Three tours are currently available–“Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley, and the Russian River Valley: California Driving Tours”; “Orlando and the Keys: Florida Driving Tours”; “Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket: New England Driving Tours”–and will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for six months. Customers can download these tours exclusively from the Kindle Store for $3.99, and can read them on their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac, and soon, iPad. The Kindle Store now includes over 450,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle, including titles such as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Treasure Island.”

“Kindle’s portability and light weight make it ideal for travel,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. “The Michelin Driving Tours complement the Kindle travel experience by guiding travelers from unique hotels to must-see attractions to four-star restaurants, all in one lightweight package.”

Michelin has been evaluating and recommending hotels and restaurants for over a century. The Michelin Driving Tours allow Kindle customers to experience Michelin mapping and expert-tested drives on their Kindle. Detailed mapping, hotel and restaurant selections and star-rated attractions are all featured in these guides. Driving directions guide travelers along Cape Cod Bay through tiny villages, point them to prestigious wineries clustered on Route 29 from Napa to Calistoga, and ensure they will enjoy US1’s sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean and Florida Bay from Islamorada to Marathon Key, to name a few examples of the driving tours offered.

“Michelin Drives on Kindle encourage customers to experience, explore and discover with confidence. Detailed mapping, tried-and-tested routes in New England, Florida and California are designed to engage drivers and Kindle users to make the most of going mobile,” said Cynthia Ochterbeck, general manager of Michelin Apa Publications. “With the launch of these three titles, Michelin remains focused on enhancing mobility by providing resources geared to the needs of 21st-century travelers.”

Kindle is in stock and available for immediate shipment today at www.amazon.com/kindle.

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Bestselling Author F. Paul Wilson Makes Electronic Editions of Five of His Books Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store

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Previously out-of-print and award-winning LaNague Federation series available for the first time electronically

Amazon.com announced that renowned horror and science-fiction author F. Paul Wilson has decided to make the five books in his LaNague Federation series available exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). This is the first time any of these books have been available electronically, and the five books will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for one year. Wilson chose to use Amazon’s self-service Digital Text Platform to upload these books and make them available to Kindle customers around the world.

“One of the great things about Kindle is the ability for authors to make previously out-of-print titles available for their readers again,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. “For the first time ever, F. Paul Wilson’s fans will be able to discover their favorite titles electronically, and new fans can find these previously out-of-print titles more easily than ever before.”

The titles from the LaNague Federation series are:

• “An Enemy of the State,” winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
• “Wheels Within Wheels,” winner of the first Prometheus Award
• “The Tery”
• “Dydeetown World,” on the American Library Association’s list of “Best Books for Young Adults” and on the New York Public Library’s recommended list of “Books for the Teen Age”
• “Healer,” winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

F. Paul Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author who has won the Stoker, Inkpot, Porgie and Prometheus awards. He has written more than 40 books in genres that include science fiction and horror, and his books have been translated into 24 languages. His work has been adapted for film and TV: his novel “The Keep” was made into a 1983 film directed by Michael Mann, and many of his stories have been adapted into teleplays that have aired on Showtime and the Sci-Fi Channel (now called SyFy).

“I’m thrilled that I’m able to make all five novels of the LaNague Federation series – including an additional five bonus short stories – available for the first time in digital, and for the first time all together as a series,” said F. Paul Wilson. “The result is a giant roman à thèse exclusively for Kindle readers. It’s wonderful that Kindle and the Digital Text Platform provide a convenient channel for authors like me to reintroduce classic titles to a whole new audience.”

The Kindle Store now includes over 450,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle, including titles such as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Treasure Island.”

Kindle is in stock and available for immediate shipment today at http://www.amazon.com/kindle.
Amazon’s Digital Text Platform can be accessed at http://dtp.amazon.com.

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Amazon Adds More Great Books for Cooks and Epicures to the Kindle Store

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The Kindle Store adds Mark Bittman’s ‘How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition,’ Rose Levy Berenbaum’s ‘Rose’s Heavenly Cakes’ and Nancy Baggett’s ‘Kneadlessly Simple’ to thousands of other titles in the Cooking, Food & Wine category

Amazon.com announced that the Kindle Store recently added many new great books for cooks, including three new cookbooks that are available today in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore): Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition,” Rose Levy Berenbaum’s “Rose’s Heavenly Cakes” and Nancy Baggett’s “Kneadlessly Simple.” The Kindle Store now includes over 450,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle, including titles such as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Treasure Island.”

“Customers tell us they love to cook from recipes on their Kindles,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. “Kindle for iPhone or Kindle for BlackBerry is a great way to keep ingredients lists with you when you go to the grocery store, and then pick up right at that recipe on your Kindle when you’re ready to cook. In the kitchen, Kindle doesn’t have pages that may close while you’re trying to reference a recipe. We hope that our customers who cook will take advantage of some of these great Kindle books.”

“With the new edition of ‘How to Cook Everything’ now available on Kindle, more people will be cooking from my book than ever before,” said Mark Bittman. “And that’s been my goal all along: to encourage everyone into the kitchen.”

The Kindle Store has thousands of great books for cooks. Some of the new and most popular books include:

• “How to Cook Everything, Completely Revised 10^th Anniversary Edition: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food” by Mark Bittman, published by Wiley
• “Rose’s Heavenly Cakes” by Rose Levy Berenbaum, published by Wiley
• “Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No Knead Breads” by Nancy Baggett, published by Wiley
• “So Easy: Luscious, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week” by Ellie Krieger, published by Wiley
• “The Best Recipes in the World” by Mark Bittman, published by Broadway
• “Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes From a Lifetime of Cooking” by Julia Child, published by Knopf

Kindle is in stock and available for immediate shipment today at http://www.amazon.com/kindle. Don’t have a Kindle? Buy yours for ($259) $189!!

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Thousands of the most popular classics for free on Amazon Kindle Store

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With over 450,000 titles, the Kindle Store contains the largest selection of the books people want to read including New York Times® Best Sellers and most new releases at $9.99, unless otherwise marked. And Amazon provides thousands of the most popular classics for free including titles like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and Treasure Island with more coming.

The Amazon Kindle Store lets you choose from thousands of popular classics all available for free wireless delivery in under 60 seconds with Whispernet.

1. Visit Kindle Popular Classics
2. Search or browse for a title just like a normal Kindle book.

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Paulo Coelho’s Books Available in Portuguese Exclusively in Kindle Store

[tweetmeme] Coelho’s books, including the iconic “The Alchemist,” are now available in the author’s native language for download in under 60 seconds

Amazon.com announced on January, 08 that international bestselling author Paulo Coelho has decided to make 17 of his books, including “The Alchemist,” available in his native Portuguese exclusively for worldwide distribution in Amazon’s Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). This is the first time any of these editions have been available as electronic books, and they will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for six months. Kindle is the most gifted, most wished for and the No. 1 bestselling product across all categories on Amazon.com–not just electronics. The Kindle Store now includes over 400,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read, including New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases.

“Our customers around the world have long been fans of Paulo Coelho’s books,” said Russ Grandinetti, vice president, Kindle Content. “We’re thrilled to work with Mr. Coelho to offer these titles in his native Portuguese in the Kindle Store for download in less than 60 seconds in more than 100 countries around the world.”

Paulo Coelho is the all-time bestselling Portuguese-language author. One of his best-known books, “The Alchemist,” was a No. 1 bestselling title in 74 countries. “The Alchemist” also holds the 2008 Guinness World Record for the most translated book in the world (67 languages in over 150 countries).

“The great opportunity that Kindle offers to a writer is that it allows readers who are not in their country and do not have access to their local bookstores to immediately access texts in their mother tongue,” said Coelho. “Therefore, it is with great joy that I now see all my books in Portuguese, so far only available abroad in a few specialized bookstores, being just a click away from all Portuguese readers that are around the world.”

Kindle is in stock and available for immediate shipment today at http://www.amazon.com/kindle. Kindle DX will be released on Jan 19, 2010.

Source: Amazon.