If you’re a bargain hunter when it comes to ebooks, there’s now a new source for discounted titles: Kindle Daily Deal at amazon.com/kindledailydeal. It’s similar to the Gold Box daily specials that Amazon has offered for years now, but focused exclusively on one-day discounts of a single Kindle ebook each day. Amazon says it will [...]
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Like audiobooks? There’s a way to get $100 off a Kindle through Audible
Those $99 refurbished Kindles are nice, but if you want a really cheap Kindle, and you’re thinking about joining Audible, the best combo offer is one that isn’t that easy to find these days: sign up for a year of Audible Gold at $14.95 a month, and get a $100 code that you can use [...]
Sci-fi mag experiments with freemium model on Kindle Store
Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine has switched to a freemium subscription model on the Kindle Store. A lot of the blogs that covered this last week sort of glossed over it, I imagine because we’re all getting inured to the idea of free and nearly free ebook offerings. But what this long-running genre magazine is [...]
Kindle 3G with Special Offers now only $139
Amazon just announced that AT&T has agreed to “sponsor” the Kindle 3G with Special Offers—or more plainly, the ad-supported Kindle—and dropped the price by another $25. At $139, it’s now the same price as the regular Wi-Fi Kindle model, which is a little surreal and hints that Amazon’s experiment with ad-supported hardware is proving successful. [...]
Angry Robot introduces DRM-free subscription plan: pay flat fee, get every new title for a year
I’m subbing over at the esteemable Teleread blog for the month of July, and I just posted this news over there but thought it was something worth sharing with Booksprung readers as well. Also, it gives me a chance to blockquote and reference my own post elsewhere, which is not only meta but deeply satisfying [...]
“Go the F–k to Sleep” audiobook version currently free from Audible
By now you’ve probably heard of the new pseudo-children’s book “Go the Fuck to Sleep”, which was conceived as a joke by the author for his friends, but then turned viral and was transformed into an actual book. If you’re curious about it, you’re in luck. The audiobook version—which is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, [...]
Unbridled has 25 books for 25 cents each. The catch? It’s through Google Ebooks.
There’s a great sale going on right now from Unbridled Books. Unfortunately you’ll have to go through Google, a company that hasn’t worked out the kinks when it comes to ebook purchases. (Update: the sale has ended, but the user experience is still relevant, especially if you plan on buying Google Ebooks in the future.)
Amazon’s two week “Sunshine Deals” sale has a little of everything
On June 1st, Amazon announced Sunshine Deals, a two week promotion with smaller publishers that features 600 ebooks priced between $0.99 and $2.99. The selection is all over the place in terms of genre and quality, and it sort of reminds me of the bargain shelves in Barnes & Noble’s retail stores, only without any [...]
Kobo’s summer reading challenge: read books, help charitable organizations
Did you ever participate in a summer reading program when you were a kid, where you attempted to reach a goal of n books or pages before the end of August? Do you miss that sort of thing? If so, Kobo has just the program for you. Their “One Trillion Minute Challenge”, which launched last [...]
Get ‘em while they’re free: 5 books that became famous movies
There’s been a dearth of interesting (to my eye) titles available for free on the Kindle store lately, so I’m happy this morning to post about a set of five new releases to make up for it. Well, “new” isn’t quite right. These are either classics, like E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India,” or books [...]
Amazon offering 56 TextVook mini titles for free
Vook, the company that mixes audio and video with ebooks, has just released a new line called TextVook. The titles are short (about 4,000 words) and offer concise overviews of topics from subjects like science, law, and world history. They fall somewhere between an old-fashioned encyclopedia article and an edited Wikipedia entry. About 20 of [...]
Amazon repurposes screensavers as billboards, introduces ad-sponsored Kindle for $114
Amazon just widened the gap between its cheapest Kindle and the competition, with a new ad-supported Wi-Fi model for $114.