At the end of last week the books and eBooks of the America’s largest publisher Macmillan disappeared from the pages of America’s largest online vendor, Amazon.com.
What would bring on such a happenstance?
Well it all started earlier in the week with the announcement of the iPad. See Steve Jobs promised the world that with his iBookstore the publishers would hold more control over the prices set for the book. Macmillan was one of the publishers who had signed on to provide content for the iPad.
Shortly thereafter Macmillan sat down with Amazon and outlined their view on increasing the cost of eBooks for Amazon’s Kindle, somewhere in the range of $3-5 for ..read more
So Tor in their infinite wisdom has given GeekSix some awesome schwag. And that schwag is going to passed on directly to you oh GeekSix reader.
What is this schwag exactly? It is a copy of of Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World (first book in the Wheel of Time series) and Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn (first book in the Mistborn trilogy). And we have three sets to give away to you. Keep reading to find out how to win schwag!
This giveaway is all part of Tor’s Fantasy Firsts giveaway. And on October 27, The Gathering Storm will be released. The Gathering Storm is the 12th book in the Wheel of ..read more
October 27.
It is a day I have been waiting for for about four years. Even more when a man named James Rigney, Jr. passed away in 2007. And even more when a man named Brandon Sanderson came into the picture.
This day? The release of The Gathering Storm, book 12 of The Wheel of Time series. So just about seven weeks until I get my hands on the one book I just have to have.
And now Tor, the publisher of The Wheel of Time series, has made available the first chapter of The Gathering Storm on their website.
I am at a crossroads with this first chapter release. Do I chance it ..read more
For all you Angels & Demons/The Da Vinci Code fans out there, Dan Brown is set to release his next novel in the adventures of Robert Langdon. The Lost Symbol is set to come out in September.
Now whether Brown is a product of an over hyped, sensitive society that latches onto anything shiny, or a great writer, is in the eye of the reader. I tend to go with I enjoy the secret puzzle side of his writing, but it is not anything revolutionary. Brown is one of the few authors I went out of the way to read his other couple unrelated novels.
But let the conspiracy theories and crazy ..read more
Epic Fantasy. Books that dominate our life as we hang on year after year for the next one to be released. Books that many could take half a life time to actually know the actual story. Books that we will pay way too much money on because we have to buy the first day it is released. Books we love. Epic Fantasy.
So that is this week’s Top 5. I found it hard to embrace the horror side of fantasy as I almost see that as its own genre. So for this list I suppose I really drilled down to the tenants of fantasy in my brain, alternate world, creatures, races ..read more
Looks like it has been a big news week for fans Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. A couple of big announcements have filtered down the pipeline (thank you to Dragonmount) that solidifies a couple huge decisions for readers. Just wanted to catch you up on what is going on:
The huge news is that the planned last book of the series, is now a planned last three books of the series. Yes, A Memory of Light is being broken into three volumes now, with the first volume to be released in November 2009. Brandon Sanderson, who is finishing the series for the now departed Jordan, estimates what was ..read more
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