7 Saturday afternoon deals for your Kindle

For your Kindle, 7 deals that underline the emergence of $1 as the scary new price point in ebooks -

1. Her Secret Bodyguard by Misha Crews. Price: $1. Genre: Romantic Suspense, Thriller, Contemporary, Very well written. Rated 5 stars on 5 reviews. Have had my eye on this for a while – it has slowly and steadily worked its way from the hundreds to #71.
2. The List by J. A. Konrath and Jack Kilborn. Price: $1. Genre: . Rated 4 stars on 82 reviews. It’s on sale for $1. 
3. Ten Days in a Mad-House – Under Cover by Nellie Bly. Price: $1. Genre: Undercover journalism, 19th century, Criminals, Mental Illness. Rated 4.5 stars on 9 reviews. In 1887, Nellie Bly convinced the authorities she was insane and started investigating reports of brutality and neglect at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. This is the sort of book that makes you glad ebooks and eReaders exist.
4. The Righteous by Michael Wallace. Price: $1. Genre: Thriller, Murder in a Polygamist Enclave, Mystery. Rated 4.5 stars on 29 reviews. When a reader writes this you have to take notice – This mystery was very realistic to the point that I had dreams that I was in Blister Creek, Utah.
5. Least Wanted by Debbie Mack. Price: $1. Genre: Hard-Boiled, Mystery, Action & Adventure. Rated 4.5 stars on 12 reviews. Debbie Mack might have hit the Top 100 with one of her other books. This book is at #161 and sounds very promising.
6. The Black God’s War by Moses Siregar III. Price: $1. Genre: Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Novella. Rated 4.5 stars on 23 reviews. It’s a novella (25,000 words) introducing a new epic fantasy series that arrives May 2011.
7. Saving Rachel by Donovan Creed. Price: $1. Genre: Spy Stories, Crime, Action & Adventure, Thriller. It’s gone all the way to #3 - perhaps for the first time ever there are two indie authors in the Kindle Store Top 10 (assuming John Locke is an indie author). Rated 4 stars on 210 reviews.

Hopefully you like one or more of these.

The Inevitable Race to Zero, or is it $1?

Here are the sales ranks $1 books have stolen in the Kindle Store Top 40 -

1. #1 – Alone by Lisa Gardner.
2. #3 – Saving Rachel by John Locke.
3. #7 – Switched by Amanda Hocking.
4. #11 – Lethal People by John Locke.
5. #19 – Her Last Letter by Nancy C. Johnson.
6. #20 – Wish List by John Locke.
7. #28 – Deed to Death by D. B. Henson.
8. #31 – My Blood Approves by Amanda Hocking.
9. #32 – Not What She Seems by Victorine E. Lieske.
10. #33 – Now and Then by John Locke.
11. #35 – Lethal Experiment by John Locke.
12. #36 – The Heat by Heather Killough-Walden.
13. #39 – The Color of Heaven by Julianne MacLean.

So, 13 out of the Top 40 books in the Kindle Store are at $1.

How long before the Kindle Store status quo is like the iPhone App Store status quo, i.e. 70% of the Top 100 are apps/books at $1?