January 2016 Kindle book releases
While I don’t generally pre-order Kindle store books myself, I know many of you do.
I understand the fun of just having the book show up, but I figure I’ll order when I want it…since I could have it within a minute, usually.…
However, it’s worth noting that pre-ordering at a low price will tend to preserve that price. Back when the Agency Model was solidly in place, Amazon couldn’t guarantee that books sold by the publishers using that structure wouldn’t go up in price after you pre-ordered them. It wasn’t likely, it was just that Amazon couldn’t control it. We have largely returned to the Agency Model, but Amazon is allowed to discount in some circumstances.
These aren’t necessarily the most popular of the pre-orders…I’m just going to list ones that catch my eye. Since we might not agree on that, here’s a link to the 5,722 (at time of writing) January releases in the USA Kindle store:
January 2016 USA Kindle store releases (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
Of those, by the way, 747 are in
Kindle Unlimited (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
As usual, I won’t be deliberately linking to books which block text-to-speech access blocked**.
We’ve gone back and forth recently on whether the top four were the
Kindle First (at AmazonSmile)
picks for this month.
Amazon no longer does the “New and Popular” search as a default, but does “Featured”. Presumably, a human being picks those titles in some way…and the list is clearly not the same. This time, the top four are Kindle First picks…when last time they weren’t.
The other thing is that some of those Kindle Unlimited titles are way up on the list. I’m concerned (and I’ve alerted Amazon about it) that people are confused: they think they are pre-ordering a KU borrow, when they are actually pre-ordering a purchase. In other words, they may be thinking they’ll get the book at no additional cost, and actually be charged for it. Amazon has confirmed for me:you can not pre-order a borrow from KU.
Okay, books!
Feverborn: A Fever Novel by Karen Marie Moning
Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time omnibus by Scott and David Tipton (and others)
The Great Train Massacre: Matt Jensen The Last Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard
Pulitzer’s Gold: A Century of Public Service Journalism by Roy J. Harris
Building a Recommendation Engine with Scala by Ansari, Saleem A.
Scandalous Behavior (A Stone Barrington Novel) by Stuart Woods
The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala’s Cloud Forest by Paul Kockelman
Batman: Gotham City’s Guardian (Backstories) by Matthew Manning
The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing by Roy Peter Clark
Perry Rhodan Lemuria 4: The First Immortal by Leo Lukas
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition by James O. Gump
L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels by James D. Stein
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics by Casey Brienza
The Power Of Soft: How to get what you want without being a **** by Hilary Gallo
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (Postmillennial Pop) by Ramzi Fawaz
Missing Woman (The Albert Samson Mysteries) by Michael Z. Lewin
Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to Work by Thomas Graham
A Pocket Full of Lies (Star Trek: Voyager) by Kirsten Beyer
Blood and Steel: Throne of the Caesars: Book II by Harry Sidebottom
The Movie Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by DK
NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football by Johnny Anonymous
Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me by Vaughn Bode
Dog Soldiers: Love, loyalty and sacrifice on the front line by Isabel George
Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives by David M. Levy
Keeper of the Stars (A King’s Meadow Romance Book 3) by Robin Lee Hatcher
How To Be Great: From Cleopatra to Churchill – Lessons from History’s Greatest Leaders by James Adonis
What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature by Pheng Cheah
Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World by Al Pittampalli
Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics by Rick Shenkman
Scarlet Widow by Graham Masterton
DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal: A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best by Kristine Smith
Spice Yourself Slim: Harness the power of spices for health, wellbeing and weight-loss by Kalpna Woolf
National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States, 8th edition by National Geographic and Phil Schermeister
Paddington at Large by Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum
My Time With The Kings: A Reporter’s Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement by Kathryn Johnson
Warriors of the Storm: A Novel (Saxon Tales) by Bernard Cornwell
The Case of the Fickle Mermaid: A Brothers Grimm Mystery (Brothers Grimm Mysteries) by P. J. Brackston
Sage’s Eyes (Forbidden) by V.C. Andrews
The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors by Al Silverman
Pugs of the Frozen North (A Not-So-Impossible Tale) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
Lanny Budd novels by Upton Sinclair
Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye by Michael Shermer
The Gilded Age of Sport: 1945-1960 by Herbert Warren Wind
The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson
Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain by Douglas Fields
A Geek in Thailand: Discovering the Land of Golden Buddhas, Pad Thai and Kickboxing by Kenneth Barrett
Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira
Doom of the Dragon (Dragonships of Vindras) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
UFO Hunters Book Two by William J. Birnes
The Regulators by Stephen King (and a bunch of others by King, including Cujo, Firestarter…even Thinner)
Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson
Be You. Do Good.: Having the Guts to Pursue What Makes You Come AliveJan 12, 2016 | Kindle eBook
by Jonathan David Golden and Bob Goffe You. Do Good.: Having the Guts to Pursue What Makes You Come Alive by Jonathan David Golden and Bob Goff
Warriors 1 by Gardner Dozois and George R. R. Martin
The Big Bucket List Book: 133 Experiences of a Lifetime by Gin Sander
NeuroLogic: The Brain’s Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior by Eliezer Sternberg
NYPD Red 4 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp
John J. Nance novels
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George and John Schoenherr
Stephen Becker novels
Next Generation Paper Airplanes: (Downloadable Material Included) by Sam Ita
The Sentinel by Jeffrey Konvitz (basis for the 1977 movie)
Max Shulman novels (including Dobie Gillis)
Ringo Starr And The Beatles Beat (Part Two) by Alex Cain and Terry McCusker
Once a Crooked Man by David McCallum (yes, that David McCallum, the actor)
The Book of the Month: Sixty Years of Books in American Life by Al Silverman
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History’s Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton
Teen Frankenstein: High School Horror by Chandler Baker
Harlequin Heartwarming January 2016 Box Set: When Love Matters Most\A Boy to Remember\The Missing Twin\Under the…by Kate James and Cynthia Thomason
What Decade Do You Belong In? (Best Quiz Ever) by Brooke Rowe
Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author by Herman Wouk
The World’s Your Stage: How Performing Artists Can Make a Living While Still Doing What They Love by William Baker and Warren C. Gibson
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White
This Census-Taker by China Mieville
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature by Meredith Maran
Better Call Saul: The World According to Saul Goodman by David Stubbs
Hollow City: The Graphic Novel by Ransom Riggs
Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling
Trouble’s Child by Mildred Pitts Walter
The Mammoth Book of Kaiju by Sean Wallace
Barbie Spy Squad Big Golden Book (Barbie Spy Squad) by Mary Tillworth
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
Geek Girl: Picture Perfect by Holly Smale
Does the Yeti Exist? (Top Secret!) by Nick Hunter
Kingdom Come: An Elizabeth Harris Mystery by Jane Jensen
Study Hall of Justice (DC Comics: Secret Hero Society #1) by Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny by Justin Hill and Wang Dulu
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Pawn’s Gambit: And Other Stratagems by Timothy Zahn
The Jack Reacher Field Manual: An Unofficial Companion to Lee Child’s Reacher Novels by George Beahm
Sherlock Holmes, The Missing Years: Timbuktu: The Missing Years by Vasudev Murthy
Earnest by Kristin Von Kreisler
Choose Your Own Misery: The Office Adventure by Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon
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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. Shop ’til you help!
** A Kindle/Fire with text-to-speech can read any text downloaded to it…unless that access is blocked by the publisher inserting code into the file to prevent it. That’s why you can have the device read personal documents to you (I’ve done that). I believe that this sort of access blocking disproportionately disadvantages the disabled, although I also believe it is legal (provided that there is at least one accessible version of each e-book available, however, that one can require a certification of disability). For that reason, I don’t deliberately link to books which block TTS access here (although it may happen accidentally, particularly if the access is blocked after I’ve linked it). I do believe this is a personal decision, and there are legitimate arguments for purchasing those books.
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other blogs/organizations, buy Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.
n thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard!
* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get. Shop ’til you help!
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other blogs/organizations, buy Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.