First, Manning Publications has a coupon for $15 off of any purchase, today only, whether an ebook or printed book. The company publishes technical books, mostly computer programming in nature and most of their ebooks are PDF's. They are, however, in the process of moving to embrace both epub and mobi formats and they have already released a few books in those formats and are converting others. Best of all, if you buy the PDF, then when (if?) the book does get converted, you get all three formats. Here's a catalog of all their ebooks, while this page
shows the ones in mobi and epub formats.
For $15 off, enter coupon code dotd1228 before checkout (near the bottom of the checkout page, after the billing address). You can also get a 35% discount on any order (which can be more than one book) by downloading one of their green papers (in PDF form, most excerpts/condensations from books they sell, it appears). You'll get a download link and the coupon in email with these. The two cannot be stacked, but that's still a decent discount on technical books.
Next up, Kobo has a 25% discount on any one title, using coupon code BW25. The offer expires Jan 2, 2010, and all of their books are in either DRM'D EPUB or are only accessible via a mobile device or the web (always check the available formats there, before purchasing). That means no deals for the Kindle only readers, but a good discount for those who have a Sony or nook reader. I haven't tried this coupon, but the last one they did worked even on their $9.99 Bestseller titles, so you can snag one for $7.50, if their formats work for you.
These last two are exclusive coupons created just for readers of this blog. If you know of anyone that might want to read the books, just share the address of this blog post (booksontheknob.blogspot.com/2009/12/ebook-coupons-free-books.html) and have each person log in and "purchase" the books (with their own accounts) using the coupon codes below. I do ask that you don't post these two codes elsewhere on the internet (although you can post a link back to this post, if you wish and it's allowed on the forum/site where you wish to post). Remember, books at Smashwords are free of any DRM and the Mobi format there works fine on the Kindle (EPUB is the format of choice for the Sony or nook).
Molokai Reef ($3.95 Smashwords; $5.99 Kindle), by Dennis K. Biby. Use coupon code VW97A during checkout to get this book for free, through January 5, 2010.Book Description
Molokai Reef weaves humor, travelogue, environmental issues, sailing, and social commentary into a page turning mystery. Follow Gybe with no last name and his wacky friends, including a doobie smoking scarlet macaw, as they solve a murder mystery on the island of Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands.
Book Description
A stockbroker’s wife disappears. Blood on his hands and an adulterous affair with the missing woman’s younger sister sees him charged with murder. With no body and only circumstantial evidence he walks free. Ten years later, journalist Jacinta Deller decides to investigate, only to become embroiled in a warped game of delusion and murder.
One note about Smashwords - their site seems to be running quite slowly today (could it be all those new nooks being used at once? Or the million new Kindles that found homes over the holidays?), so you may need to be patient or hit refresh a time or two before the book pages pop up. I haven't had any problems downloading books from my library there, just getting book pages to display.
