The romance ebook website All Romance is honoring Earth Day by giving away free ebooks this month. All Romance says this is their way of helping the environment, and while I don’t know if anyone has yet proved for certain that ebooks are greener than print, I do know that if you want to read [...]
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Check out Kindle App News for the best Kindle app coverage
For several months now I’ve been trying to keep track of new apps as they’re released on the Kindle Store. It was manageable at first, but now that the number of titles is approaching 50, the task has grown beyond my resources and attention level. That’s where Kindle App News comes in. The blog was [...]
How to spot a pirate ebook site
Let’s assume you don’t want to download a pirated copy of an ebook, but you’re still the type of consumer who wants a good bargain. As you look around the web for ebook sources, you’ll sometimes come across websites that charge a flat fee for limitless downloads. There’s no mention of torrents, and it’s not [...]
Read an Ebook Week means special deals and offers
When “Read an E-Book Week” was started in 2004, it made sense to try to expose more readers to the convenience of ebooks. The Kindle didn’t exist, the readers that did were expensive, and ebook editions were priced like hardcovers if they were made available at all. Now the marketplace is far more competitive, and [...]
Russian novel retells “The Lord of the Rings” from the bad guys’ POV
Fifteen years ago, Russian paleontologist Kirill Yeskov decided to rewrite Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” for fun. His new version, “The Last Ring-bearer,” assumes that the original story of the Ring of Power is actually a retelling of a major war as written by the victors — and as with human history, the vanquished [...]
Free study guides for SAT, ASVAB, real estate license from Peterson’s
Something must be working with Kaplan’s free study guide giveaway, because the company has run that promotion twice in less than a year. Not to be outdone–well, okay, slightly outdone based on both quantity and offering–college search engine Peterson’s is doing something similar. The SAT titles are sample chapters only, which is where Peterson’s fails [...]
Vook offers free Guns N’ Roses enhanced ebook for two days
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 closest I’ve come to test-driving an enhanced ebook was when I downloaded one of Amazon’s [...]
Last few days to grab 130 free education books from Kaplan
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 free, in multiple formats. You can check out the titles on the Kindle Store, or [...]
Gooseberry Patch giving away three mini-cookbooks for Kindle
UPDATE 23 August 2011: These titles are no longer free—see comment below. The cookbook publisher has three short titles, each with 25 recipes, posted for free on the Kindle Store. One covers mac & cheese, one covers meatloaf, and one covers chocolate chip cookies. For some reason, Gooseberry couldn’t figure out how to add a [...]
Amazon giving away bundles of bestsellers to 15 winners
Amazon wants more email addresses, so it’s giving away bundles of the hardcover editions of its top 10 best books of 2010. If you’re interested, visit www.amazon.com/booksdelivers by February 10th, 2011 and enter the email address connected to your Amazon account–but remember that these are hardcovers, an older technology that is sometimes used to decorate [...]
Free screens: subway maps of major cities
Fellow Kindle owner Parker Higgins just sent me a note about some Kindle transit map screensavers he created, and after I slapped myself in the head for not coming up with the idea first, I quickly downloaded them for my own use. As you can see, they’re maps of some of the world’s most traveled [...]
Geek.com giving away a free Kindle
Here’s another chance to get a Kindle for free, courtesy of Geek.com and Target. There’s no detail on whether or not this is a Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi/3G model, but what’s important is it’s free. To enter the drawing, visit the Geek.com post and leave a comment. (Be sure to read their rules first.) The contest [...]