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Where’s the old TheIndependentDaily.com?
It’s here at this location. Right here. You’re in the right place. Really. We’re just changing things around to keep life more interesting and because we’re shifting our influence.
At the bottom of this page is the link to the retired main portal.
Just below this paragraph you’ll see a listing of books available in E-Book format for purchase, typically on Amazon, including some new E-Books of Full, Novel-Length for only $1.49, along with links for each. (Click on the book-cover to be directed to the listing and lengthy sample.) Below those, you’ll soon find Unique, Collector, or First and other rare editions for sale on eBay by us. The list will be built soon, so bookmark us with our new https secure link and check back.
Just $1.49?
Yes.
Now available at Amazon:
Leading the comfortable life of the semi-retired in Savannah, the duo of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, the city’s (and, really, the world’s) most noted Black detectives, are awakened from their professional slumber by a series of most unusual murders all tied by the common thread of one particular song from many years earlier; a popular R&B number by a Black singer who died under foggy and questionable circumstances while performing to a mixed-race audience.
But the story really begins much, much earlier at Howard University during an evolutionary moment in America’s history: a time of struggle and violence and appeasement, when smoking weed was a given, and Gladys Knight was at the top of the charts and her game.
Dr. Watson begins this memoir by ... Read more, for less! At Amazon
Getting the Hell out of California is the story of two lawyers from very divergent backgrounds, Lester Izemore and Buster Sikes, whose lives become intertwined late in life through a strange series of events beginning with a corrupted law practice, some questionable and (many) felonious and capital crimes, and (of course) a failed marriage to a re-emerging bisexual Swedish woman destined to embark on a later-in-life career as a stripper in San Francisco after her moment of anagnorisisn and shedding her disconsolate husband in favor of a new age relationship with an aging feminist in Sausalito. Did I mention the Mormon fundamentalists?
Lester Izemore, a misanthropic graduate of the McGeorge School of Law whose early career, owing to his relationship with his cousin, Cary O’Halloran in Beverly Hills, results in financial success and prestige until in 2007 when Les’ wife of nearly twenty years, Helena (whom he had married out of love, lust, and to preclude her deportation back to Sweden) commits an act of egregious insult that brings Les to his emotional collapse.
By 1989 the Beverly Hills law firm ... Read more for Less! At Amazon
About $1.49 Books:
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We have a fairly extensive inventory of antiquarian or otherwise unique, esoteric or collectible and First Edition volumes. Inasmuch as Fiction is concerned, unless falling into one of the print categories above, I find no reason to pay more than two to three dollars for a Used volume, and that is chiefly owing to the cost of production, and never buy a new copy by any writer. When asked to review a book for TheIndependentDaily.com, I give the author a mailing address for a print copy of the book.
E-Books are an entirely different phenomenon resulting from the near-immediate transfer of “zeros and ones” from one terminal to another. There really is no production cost aside from those incurred by the electronic publisher mashing together strings of digits and crapping out a volume of “literature” only readable on a device capable of understanding what that specific pile of digits means.
E-Books do not have a fragrance, as do printed books. E-Books do not have a feel. There is no recorded lifeline from owner-to-owner where salient points have been underscored or personally annotated in such a way as to enhance the reading and understanding of the text, giving the reader a window into the mind of the book’s owner 20 to 100 years, or much more, in the past.
So, why would an E-Book have a value of anything more than a buck or two to compensate the writer for his or her effort, interest, work, experience, and time hunched over the keyboard contemplating the perfect adjective, even when multiplied over the sale of hundreds, or perhaps thousands of times?
There are no First or Signed editions, nothing collectible, in binary. There is only reading, which, after all, is the true purpose of books: To inform, to teach, to help. To expand your knowledge base and deepen the well from which modern-day analogies may be drawn to the surface, and against which possibilities will broaden in scope.
To impute a value beyond a once or twice-readable book in this format is as fallacious as binary currency: another unfathomable. And, that’s why the books here, except as otherwise noted, are One Dollar and Forty-Nine Cents.
So, learn, enjoy, relax, expand for a lot less money than a “Happy Meal.”
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