, Amazon has a few other book deals going on for Black Friday/CyberMonday. I know they aren't ebooks, but I thought I'd highlight a few for those buying books as gifts or looking for children's books, as the illustrations often don't translate well to e-ink (at least, not yet).
First there is the Dr. Seuss: Three Books for the Price of Two sale. There are seven pages of books, all at essentially full price (at a quick glance, I saw prices ranging from $3.99 to just over $10, with $8.99 for many). Put three into your cart and check out and the least expensive of the three will be free (you won't see the promotion until the last page, when you confirm the order - look to the upper right where the total is and you should see a "promotion" applied as a discount). You can generally take advantage of this type of sale more than once by simply submitting multiple orders, but watch your total if you want free SuperSaver shipping, as you have to get above $25 each time (before the promotional discount). Amazon has also set up a special Gift Books for Kids and Teens page that can help with picking out gifts, as it has categories by age and suggestions to read after finishing Twilight, for example.
A second sale is their Three for Two: Paperback Favorites promotion. This one currently has 553 books included and the prices seem to be discounted even before the third one free is added in. If you check out the listings, the Kindle version (if it exists) is often sale priced as well, such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, for $6.00 in Paperback and on Kindle and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, for $5.50 in Paperback and on Kindle. You can browse thru the entire list as a whole, or by categories: Bestsellers, Contemporary Classics, Cookbooks, Mysteries: First in the Series, History & Popular Science.
There is also a CyberMonday Deals in Books page already active (although there are no Lightning Deals active - I'd bet they start tomorrow at 3AM EST). Here I found some real bargains, such as Running with Scissors: A Memoir for $2.55 (Paperback; $7.99 Kindle) and some relative bargains, such as Rose's Heavenly Cakes for $19.07 (Hardcover - if you overindulge with this one, check out The South Beach Diet: Good Fats, Good Carbs Guide $5.11 Kindle) and Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert ($26.67 Hardcover, marked down from $80.00), which has 576 pages of the best of Dilbert from the last 20 years, as well as a DVD with every Dilbert comic strip to April 2008.
Here are some of the other deals I spotted there:
- Last Known Address, by Theresa Schwegel - $4.99 Hardcover; $3.99 Kindle
- Dune Road, by Jane Green - $9.27 Hardcover; $7.42 Kindle
- Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1957-1958 (Vol. 4), by Hank Ketcham - $4.28 Hardcover
- Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth - $4.03 Hardcover; $3.22 Kindle
- The Eleventh Man, by Ivan Doig- $3.98 Hardcover; $3.18 Kindle
- College Girl, by Patricia Weitz - $4.04 Hardcover; $3.23 Kindle
- Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel, by Garrison Keillor- $5.83 Hardcover; $5.83 Kindle
- Songs for the Missing, by Stewart O'Nan- $2.53 Hardcover; $2.02 Kindle
- Golden Country, by Jennifer Gilmore - $3.23 Paperback; $2.58 Kindle
- Untamed, by Steve Bloom (Photographer) - $7.87 Paperback
- Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader, by Jan Karon- $9.26 Hardcover
- Cowboy & Wills: A Love Story, by Monica Holloway- $9.84 Hardcover; $9.84 Kindle
- What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy, by Susie Essman - $6.75 Hardcover; $6.75 Kindle
- The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati, by David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim - $8.75 Hardcover; $8.75 Kindle
and some Children's Books:- Ghosthunters And The Incredibly Revolting Ghost, by Cornelia Funke - $2.74 Hardcover
- The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street, by G. P. Taylor - $2.12 Hardcover; $9.99 Kindle
- Dinomummy , by Phillip Manning - $2.95 Hardcover
- The Enchanted World of Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne; Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator) - $4.90 Hardcover
- The Tale of Despereaux Special Edition: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo; Timothy Basil Ering (Illustrator)- $6.15 Hardcover; $6.15 Kindle
- Hannah Montana: Backstage Pass, by M. C. King - $4.02 Hardcover
