The last one is not for a 12 year old, I assure you. The first two are lighter fair, but if you are on a long flight and specifically avoiding technical items or coding, a little fun never hurt anyone. Apparently you've lost that sense of whimsy.

Here are some suggestions:

• Zombocalypse Now (zombie choose your own adventure)
• Beer, Women, and Bad Decisions (boy's night out choose your own adventure)
• My Zombie Body (1st person take on being a zombie... fully sentient, no control over your own zombie body)

ORLY? http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODcyMjkyMDYxNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTQ5MTMxMw@@._V1._SX640_SY1035_.jpg Yup.

That's only with 'Special Offers'. It's $10 more without (which would be a fair comparison to the Nook Touch)

"Amazon and Google Give Into Apple's Demands; Drop In-App Purchase Buttons"

MUDs... heck, I'm building one just for the nostalgia (because without the sound of the modem, using telnet just doesn't feel the same). Anyone remember playing MajorMud or TradeWars or other BBS games?

SEO. Exactly. I self-published a book on Lulu, made it available all over by purchasing an ISBN, and put up a website with samples, some SEO, and a completely free PDF version (Creative Commons). Searching for my book or parts of my book title lead you to... my book, then a few other places also hosting copies of the PDF and linking back to my site. So the answer is, do a better job of branding the book online. Period. For reference, it's a PHP Book: http://www.phpreferencebook.com/

Or you could just download books released under Creative Commons. Just sayin'. I always will release digital versions in PDF for free, and only charge for the Kindle version because they kinda make you (so it's really cheap). Maybe it's the wrong crowd, it is a PHP Book after all, but none-the-less, you wouldn't have bought it if it was for sales digitally, so might as well share it. http://www.phpreferencebook.com/

Or you could release a digital version of the book for free via Creative Commons, and only sell it in print (or special formats like Kindle). Nothing wrong with playing both sides. I did it with http://www.phpreferencebook.com/ and have no desire to ever change that.

I still use php.net a ton for the nitty gritty of everything, but for 90% of it all, I found it sometimes tedious to deal with. If you want EVERYTHING, it's great. I dunno, in a way it inspired me to write a php book because I was spending too much time trying to figure out sprintf() because it's not very beginner friendly. Since I mentioned it, I'll post a link to the book blog and the creative commons pdf version (complete): phpreferencebook.com.

I also really like going to tizag.com for their tutorials and plain jane explanations.