A NEW WRINKLE FROM AMAZON.COM.

Today Amazon Kindle announced a new program that changes the playing field between them and all other e-book retailers. Amazon has had the upper hand for some time. Now they are seeking a monopoly. However, they are also offering a lending program so more e-book patrons will be able to read for free. It’s complicated but I enrolled all of my novels and screenplays in their new program.


Today is the last day you can purchase my novels and screenplays for 99 cents. Starting tomorrow the prices will change. Not much; still less than a gallon of diesel or a bag of chips.

My novels and screenplays will no longer be available on Barnes and Noble Pubit. Sorry nook owners…your device is going the way of the beta max…

Act now and take advantage of this transition!

KINDLE – don’t leave home without it!

While planning for 2012 I began consolidating my personal papers and noticed the pages remaining in my personal planner. I was about to order another when I discovered a Daily planner available for my Kindle. I downloaded it along with a Daily Journal and Notepad.

I already use my Kindle for back-up internet using the G3; as an MP3 player as well as keeping all the user manuals for my computers, recipes, appliances, and other personal documents. Of course, I carry all seventeen books currently for sale on Amazon and B&N.

My Kindle memory stores over two hundred books from other authors as well as several samples from authors I’m intending to purchase. My archives include four hundred plus and counting.

With these three additional applications the Kindle becomes even more important in my life. I’ll be able to post short blurbs on Twitter and Face Book. Shoot, I may even write a novel using the Daily Journal. AIN’T TECHNOLOGY SWELL?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Robert+Hatting&x=14&y=22 AMAZON OR BARNES AND NOBLE.
http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?store=EBOOK&WRD=robert+hatting&page=&prod=univ&choice=ebooks&query=robert+hatting&flag=False&ugrp=1

Do you have a witness to your life?

As most of my loyal readers know, I usually write from experience. The impressions I have for known events or processes keep my stories grounded in reality.


Recently I have been researching an idea for my book, REVOLUTION OF FOOLS. (the sequel to MURDER IN PANAMA) Without giving away the plot, I’m investigating a plausible method to bring large forces of Colombian and Venezuelan rebels into Panama– legally. I checked with local immigration and began to understand the processes. Coming to Panama from South America isn’t that easy. However, obtaining a visa to visit Panama is less arduous and faster if one gets a sponsor that resides in Panama. I considered the variety of ways for a rebel to obtain a sponsor. I slept on the dilemma and then it dawned on me…

There are thousands of innocent co-conspirators waiting with baited breath in on-line dating services. How do I know this? I joined one in order to understand the process.

WOW! What an awakening…thousands of lonely Panamanian women seeking the man of their dreams; from all ages – 21 to 75. So, I found the plausible method. Some handsome dude from Colombia or Venezuela answers an ad … throws some romantic sonnets her way and presto he has a sponsor for a tourist visa.

Well, now I know. Just like my recent heart attack, this is a first for me; an on-line dating service. The entire world can get a shot at getting into my heart, knickers or wallet. (At least for another week)

All kidding aside, it’s sad there are so many lonely folks out there. It just proves what my father related to me years ago when I asked him why he married.

“Son, everyone wants and needs a witness to their lives.”

A DEAL IS A DEAL!

My last post announced the re-pricing of all my novels and screenplays to $.99 each.  I was expecting a larger volume to make up for the normal loss of revenue.  It's not working tus far.  Please spread the word, folks,  I'll stand by my deal until January 1, 2012 but then the prices go back up...not drastically but enough to create a bottom line for the tykes at Nutre Hogar.

E-BOOKS ON SALE

Until December 31, 1011, all e-books and screenplays by Robert Hatting are on sale for 99 cents each. Choose from a wide range of genre’s (17 titles) including my most current novel, MURDER IN PANAMA and my bestselling novel, ALASKA BE DAMNED. These are available at Amazon’s Kindle store and Barnes and Noble’s Pubit store. One can download these e-books to almost all electronic devices; all of the Kindle readers, all the Nook readers as well as tablets, Blackberry units and most PDA units. Don’t forget, you can also download them to any computer.


E-books make an excellent gift; easy to purchase and send electronically. Consider birthdays and of course the rapidly approaching holidays.

SEND ME YOUR CASTOFFS!

I usually avoid discussing politics and religion. But I have to comment on this latest political free trade treaty between the US and Panama. I guess mostly I have a question: WHAT BENEFIT DOES PANAMA GET OUT OF THIS TREATY?


I’ve asked a lot of people; ExPat and Panamanian. No has given me an answer.

NAFTA killed the small farming industry in Mexico and I suspect the same will happen here in Panama.

Be prepared for the giant US agribusinesses to start dumping all their genetically engineered, hormone enhanced, steroidal beef, pork and chicken plus other farm products into the mainstream of the Panamanian food cycle. This can’t be good for Panama. Where’s the upside? A less expensive D-9 Cat or a deluxe Amana appliance?

Please, somebody explain because I’m bewildered. It appears to me that it’s a one way treaty. What can Panama sell to the US? Tropical fruits and vegetables? Coffee? Raspadura?

I don’t get it…someone please explain.

PANAMA CANAL -TONNAGE 1956

This photo was taken by my father, Wayne Hatting.