In case you’re blissfully unaware, MacMillan placed an ad in Publishers Weekly explaining that they were changing the prices of their ebooks, which Amazon was none too happy with.
Amazon responded by informing MacMillan that they would no longer sell any MacMillan books–digital or otherwise. Basically, Jeff Bezos took his ball and went home. On Sunday afternoon, Amazon quietly announced in its Kindle forum that maybe it would sell MacMillan books after all. Apparently, Bezos realized the game would go on — with or without him.
The Last Surgeon Autographed Book Giveaway!
[This giveaway is now closed.]
So I was hanging out on Twitter when I saw an author asking bloggers if they wanted to read his new book. That happens quite a bit. But this time it was Michael Palmer. As in New York Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. As in one of the triad of authors who got me interested in science and medicine Michael Palmer (the others were Robin Cook and Michael Crichton).
Except he wasn’t asking me.
So I very politely and demurely said “ME PLEASE! GIMME PLEASE!” Or words to that effect (sometimes it’s hard to remember what I said out loud as opposed to what I was thinking).
A week or so later I got The Last Surgeon in the mail along with a note offering an autographed copy of the The Last Surgeon to Booklorn readers. Which brings me to today’s post: Giveaway!
Not only is Michael Palmer autographing the book, but he’s happy to ship it to a winner ANYWHERE in the world.
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