Tech Experiments: Best Women’s Erotica 2010 (Kindle Beta Taste Test)

Now, this is looking to be pretty fun. Amazon just released a beta version of a feature which lets you (in this case, me) embed the first chapter from select books into a web page. Typically, for the Kindle reader, for many books — but not all — Kindle users can download a book’s first chapter so they can sample the book before making a purchase. This new option (in beta), lets me put that first chapter in a blog post, and below you can see that it has the functionality to let readers resize the text size, make it full-screen, flip through the pages, etc.

I was really surprised to see they made this available for my (hot!) book Best Women’s Erotica 2010. Not only did they include the introduction (where I tell you about all the stories in the book, but still no spoilers) — they included the entire first story! It’s a red-hot piece of erotica by extremely talented author Scarlett French. Her story “Shoe Shine at Liverpool Street Station” is simply riveting. If you’re looking for a turn-on, read it below.

And, let me know what you think of this new Kindle beta toy, if you feel moved to give me your opinion. As I love erotica so much, I’m inclined to do regular flash-erotica posts when I find sexy books enabled for this kind of sharing (unless it annoys you, or you find a bug).

Violet Blue

The London Times named Violet Blue "One of the 40 bloggers who really count" and Self Magazine named TinyNibbles one of the “Best Sex Resources for Women.” Blue is an autodidact and pundit on sex and technology, hacking and security, porn for women, privacy and bleeding-edge tech culture. She is a journalist for ZDNet, CBS News, CNET; she's an educator, speaker, crisis counselor, volunteer NGO trainer, and the author and editor of over 40 award-winning books.

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1 AnthonyA November 1, 2010 at 7:57 am: Well, the widget is working fine to let me read the intro and first story.

It’s a bit disconcerting to see how few words are one one page, though – hardly a sentence fits. Not your fault, of course, Violet, but a narrow little box within the vertical black bars just doesn’t present much text.

It works, but not really quite a pleasurable experience.
2 violet October 29, 2010 at 12:52 pm: BearGriz72 – that’s fantastic! Thanks for saying so. The book is packed with outrageously talented authors; I’m so proud I get to work with such amazing writers.

I think I’ll do these posts regularly, then :D
3 BearGriz72 October 29, 2010 at 1:41 am: OK Violet i’m hooked, I think I am picking up a copy of this for the GF.
4 violet October 28, 2010 at 7:29 pm: What do you mean, is it not working for you? I’ve looked at it on a couple of computers for over a day before posting…
5 DominaDoll October 28, 2010 at 6:22 pm: Cool. But I thought this was going to be more of a scratch and taste?
Congrats BTW! You deserve it.