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Free coffee this Saturday when you demo a Nook Color

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Chris Walters

For a single small coffee, I’m certainly not suggesting you make a special trip to your nearby Barnes & Noble tomorrow for a guided tour of the Nook Color. However, if you were planning on dropping by a B&N soon … Continue reading →

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Sterling Publishing giving away free Nook Color via Twitter

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Chris Walters

Sterling Publishing wants some free social media marketing to your Twitter followers, so it’s giving away one Nook Color to a randomly selected person who publishes a special tweet before 11 p.m. ET on February 25th: ["Three Seconds"] focuses on … Continue reading →

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Vook offers free Guns N’ Roses enhanced ebook for two days

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Chris Walters

From what I’ve read online, most people have mixed feelings at best for Vook, a company formed to create and sell “enhanced ebooks” that embed video, audio, and social media elements in the text. I’m still on the fence; the … Continue reading →

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LivingSocial offering $20 Amazon gift card for $10 today only

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Chris Walters

Update: this deal has expired! LivingSocial, a GroupOn knockoff (only in 2011 can I write a sentence like that and have it make any sense), is offering a pretty awesome deal today for Kindle customers: a $20 Amazon.com gift card … Continue reading →

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Last few days to grab 130 free education books from Kaplan

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Chris Walters

Get your downloading finger ready: this weekend is your last chance to take advantage of Kaplan’s big January ebook promotion, where over 100 books on higher education and specialty subjects like nursing and law are being offered to readers for … Continue reading →

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EA’s sale on Kindle games ends today

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Chris Walters

This is a quick reminder that EA’s 50%-off sale on its Kindle games will end today. I can’t vouch for any of them personally (I’m more of a Triple Town man), but if you’re one of those Scrabble fiends (you … Continue reading →

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$5 ebook sale at Borders, and (unofficially) at Amazon

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Chris Walters

If you received a Nook for Christmas and you still can’t buy anything from Barnes & Noble’s borked servers, head over to Borders.com. The retailer is offering 200 titles for $5 each until January 2nd. This is good news for … Continue reading →

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Kobo has another 50% off code for today

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Chris Walters

Today at Kobo you can use the promo code “Holiday50″ to take 50% off the price of any single title from a collection of nearly 200. It’s not quite the same selection as what they offered earlier this month–Jennifer Egan’s … Continue reading →

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