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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Buy a Book with Visa, Get a $10 Credit (KSO)

This offer is for those with the Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers or Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi with Special Offers only. Turn on your wireless, click Menu, Sync & Check for New Items, then on View Special Offers after the sync has completed. You should see a new offer:

Use your Visa® card to buy select Kindle books and get a $10 Amazon.com credit.

Click on the offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and get an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on July 21. You'll get an email (right away) with a link to the special Special Offers page. There is no promotion code on this one; instead, just buy any book from the list between now and July 31; if you return a book during this period, it won't count, but you can do so and purchase a different book during the promotion period.

There are a few things to watch for with this offer:
  • I don't see any requirement to click on the offer, but it won't hurt do so from at least one KSO on your acccount.
  • Second, you cannot use an existing gift card balance to buy the books and you must use a Visa Card for payment. To do so, follow the directions to ensure that a Visa Card is your one-click payment method on your Kindle, then call Kindle Support and have them freeze your current gift card balance while you put thru your purchase of a book from the list. This tip is one learned from the previous $10 for $10 purchase offer (which you can still take advantage of, using this trick).
  • You must have a KSO registered to your account when you make the purchases and when you get and apply the promotion code (which will be sent out by Aug 21).
  • The offer is limited to those in the US and only one per customer (not per KSO device).
  • I'd assume that the promotional credit won't be valid on any Agency book, but with hundreds of thousands of other choices, I know that I won't have any problem finding something to spend it on. With some of the books, you could never read them and still be ahead, essentially being paid up to $6.18 to purchase a book.

I'm going to highlight one book on the offer list: The Brass Verdict ($9.99), by Michael Connelly, because not only could you get this one essentially for free, but you can pick up the first book in the Harry Bosch series, The Black Echo for only 99 cents right now (although it's not part of the offer). The former is the the second title in the Mickey Haller series and unites the two series for the first time. You can also pick up the first in the Haller series, The Lincoln Lawyer, which was made into a movie recently and is also on the list for this offer, if you would rather start there. The only reason I'm not grabbing these three on this offer is that I already had all three in my library.

Book Description
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next.

Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.

Bringing together Michael Connelly's two most popular characters, The Brass Verdict is sure to be his biggest book yet.