Amazon lowers Kindle e-book reader price to $299
By RACHEL METZ | AP Technology Writer | July 8, 2009
Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Kindle electronic reading device to $299 on Wednesday in an effort to attract more bookworms and make the gadget a mainstream hit.
Review: `Cheap' engaging, lacks cohesive argument
By LAURA IMPELLIZZERI | AP Business Writer | July 8, 2009

But Ellen Ruppel Shell's chronicle of American pursuit of low prices offers more than hindsight: We all now know that nothing in our economy was as benign as it seemed.

The Romance Reader: ‘A Rogue of My Own'
By Lezlie Patterson | McClatchy-Tribune News Service | July 8, 2009

“A Rogue Of My Own” by Johanna Lindsey; Pocket Books (2009), 356 pages, $25.99 (hardcover)

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