It’s been a big day for Amazon press releases. I suppose that the company is trying to snag as much publicity as possible in the run up to the launch of the Kindle Fire. But today Amazon announced that it has added three more authors to the “Kindle Million Club”, bringing the total of authors who’ve sold over one million e-books to 14. The three new authors include David Baldacci, Stephenie Meyer, and self-publishing prodigy Amanda Hocking. (It’s a little odd Amazon’s waited this long; Hocking said she’d sold over 1 million e-books in March, but again, timing...

Originally posted at Kindle Nation Daily 3.17.2010 I've been a David Baldacci fan for over a decade, and I've easily read over half of the books he's published since his stunning 1996 debut with Absolute Power. From everything I've heard he's a decent guy -- among other things, in addition to spinning a great yarn, he's a national ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and he funds his own literacy foundation, the Wish You Well Foundation. I'd love to keep reading his books on my Kindle, and I probably will do so. Since I and many other Kindle Nation readers...

On TechFlash, Eric Engleman comments on an Associated Press story about a new “enriched” edition of David Baldacci’s latest novel, Deliver Us From Evil, that Hachette is putting together. It will cost $15.99, $1 more than the $14.99 starting price of the regular edition (which will fall to $12.99 if the book becomes a bestseller). The “enriched” edition will include deleted passages, research photos, an audio interview, and video of Baldacci. It is not clear what format this book will be in, but since Hachette is working with Apple, it will probably be an appbook. “Hachette is ‘unsure’...