Content [CLOSED] FREE (and very inexpensive) books for the Kindle

[koland]

Two short business titles this morning, neither appear to be excerpts (but are not much larger than a few chapters, from the size.).


Sam Walton's Way, by New Word City

Book Description
It would be difficult to overstate the impact Sam Walton had on American business, specifically retailing. The standalone box stores he pioneered have quite literally changed the nation's landscape. His innovations in supply-chain management and distribution totally reshaped the relationship between suppliers and retailers, and, for the most part, took wholesalers out of the equation. His insistence on low prices altered customers' expectations of what they will have to pay for everything from socks to soda. Like few business leaders before or since, Sam Walton changed the world.

Saturday, August 14, 1964 was a broiling hot day in Harrison, Arkansas-but the heat was the last thing on Sam Walton's mind. For the 46-year-old Walton, this was a big day: the grand opening of his second Wal-Mart. He was going to make damn sure it was a big success. He'd planned everything. In the parking lot, he'd had two truckloads of watermelons delivered and hired a donkey to provide rides for the kids. He headed outside to greet his first customers. What he saw would make most entrepreneurs lose their cool: The watermelons had burst, and donkey dung littered the lot. Walton's reaction was emblematic of his ability to rise above any challenge. He ignored the mess, smiled, walked up to the crowd, stuck out his hand, and said, "Welcome to Wal-Mart." That focus on customers is Walton's prime leadership lesson. But there are many others, beginning with his obsession with low prices-just the first step in a mission to deliver unbeatable value....

New Word City, publishers of digital originals, contributes 10 percent of its profits to literary causes.


What I Learned from Peter Drucker, by Jim Champy

Book Description
Peter Drucker is universally acknowledged as one of the most influential business thinkers of all time. His theories on how organizations affect society and how to manage them effectively have profoundly shaped the way we live today. Here, his friend Jim Champy offers unique insights into his legacy.

If there were a pantheon for the geniuses of business management, my friend Peter Drucker's bust would loom front and center. Whenever I face a management conundrum, I try to imagine his solution. His quizzical smile-kindly but knowing-has kept me straight on many a crooked path.

In person he was every bit as dynamic and fascinating as his writings and reputation were. He awed people, including me. After all, he was arguably the most influential business thinker of the twentieth century. His eccentricities strengthened his legend. Disinterested in material wealth, he lived and worked in a modest Southern California ranch house that in no way reflected his renown as a one-man think tank. He was such an expert on Japanese art that you expected to find his house full of priceless objects. I don't think I ever saw a single one.

[koland]

Two more free erotica titles added in Kindle store:

Outlaw Lovers Dossier by Jan Springer
Lap Dance by Sally Painter

[koland]

Free:

What Is the Gospel?, by Greg Gilbert

Book Description
This newest addition to the IXMarks series presents a clear, straightforward statement of the gospel, the third mark of a healthy church.

What is the gospel? It seems like a simple question, yet it has been known to incite some heated responses, even in the church. How are we to formulate a clear, biblical understanding of the gospel? Tradition, reason, and experience all leave us ultimately disappointed. If we want answers, we must turn to the Word of God.

Greg Gilbert does so in What Is the Gospel? Beginning with Paul's systematic presentation of the gospel in Romans and moving through the sermons in Acts, Gilbert argues that the central structure of the gospel consists of four main subjects: God, man, Christ, and a response. The book carefully examines each and then explores the effects the gospel can have in individuals, churches, and the world. Both Christian and non-Christian readers will gain a clearer understanding of the gospel in this valuable resource.

[koland]

The Magician's Accomplice, by Michael Genelin, is free in the Kindle store right now in what is surely a pricing error. This is his latest book, released just this month, the third in his Jana Matinova series. For those of us who also got Siren of the Waters ($9.99 Kindle) free from B&N last month, this means we only have to buy Dark Dreams ($10.17 Kindle) to fill in the series.

Book Description
Devastated by her lover’s death in an explosion—on the same day an indigent student was shot and killed in sleepy Bratislava—Jana is transferred to The Hague, headquarters of the international police force Europol. On the flight she encounters a retired magician, the dead student’s uncle, who is determined to help Jana investigate his nephew’s death. And his help is indeed needed as Jana faces an international criminal conspiracy emanating from Europol itself.

[Wordcrasher]

Originally Posted by koland

The Magician's Accomplice, by Michael Genelin, is free in the Kindle store right now in what is surely a pricing error. This is his latest book, released just this month, the third in his Jana Matinova series. For those of us who also got Siren of the Waters ($9.99 Kindle) free from B&N last month, this means we only have to buy Dark Dreams ($10.17 Kindle) to fill in the series.

Book Description
Devastated by her lover’s death in an explosion—on the same day an indigent student was shot and killed in sleepy Bratislava—Jana is transferred to The Hague, headquarters of the international police force Europol. On the flight she encounters a retired magician, the dead student’s uncle, who is determined to help Jana investigate his nephew’s death. And his help is indeed needed as Jana faces an international criminal conspiracy emanating from Europol itself.

Thanks koland !
This book looks really interesting. I just bought it

[SamuraiXSendai]

Has this been posted?
"Cemetery Dance Publications will publish The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman in hardcover this fall, but for a limited time only we're giving the book away for free as an eBook and as a streaming audiobook to anyone who wants to check it out early!"

I am just a fan not connected with them. They publish mostly horror, mostly limited/signed. If I am not mistaken this is their first try at an ebook.

It's in PDF format and also streaming audio here: http://www.downloadthedarkness.com/

[cheerio6414]

Thanks kooland for the recommendations

[koland]

This thread is now closed and will be un-stickied. Please see the new monthly thread at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90197 for the new books this morning.