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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Random Notes

Today's the last day to take advantage of the Get $25 Gift Card with Android Phones and Save $20 on Beauty products KSO offers. The latter includes everything from hair driers to shampoo, not just makeup and lotions.

Today's Audible New Day/New Deal book is Ice Limit, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, narrated by Scott Brick, for $7.95. It looks like you can still get yesterday's book, Life of Pi, at the sale price, as well.

Don't forget to check AudioGO each weekday for a free comedy audiobook.

Fictionwise has another 60% off coupon code, 081911. Technically it has expired, but is still working today (and is likely to expire early tomorrow). The multiformat books can be used on any reader and I added the latest edition of several magazines to my library with this code. Their DRM'd books are for the nook or one of their ereader apps only, but are a good source for those who like Harlequin, as they continue to add dozens of books each week.

Ellora's Cave is having a huge sale and nearly 500 titles are priced at $1.49 over at Amazon (two at 99 cents). While those two dollar books are matched over at B&N (A Hero's Welcome and Dyad Dreams), the rest are not, such as these backlist titles from Roberta Gellis. You can also shop the Values from the Vault sale at Ellora's Cave, directly, where there are now about 102 pages of sale books (and some of those Roberta Gellis books are only 99 cents).

If you are in the UK, Mills & Boon is having a sale and you can use coupon code 30AUG to get 30% off you order, thru Aug 30.

Kobo still has a few coupon codes going for non-Agency titles: JUNE20OFF (20% off), Kobodollaroff ($1.00 off), aug25ca1, aug25us1, aug25au1 and aug25row1($1.00 off, each), GIFTREAD (25% off), save20offer (20% off - One time use), Welcome20 (20% off - One time use), FirstRead (35% off - One time use), DIAMOND (Free book - Diamondhead by Patrick Robinson). All but the first are one-time only use codes.

Allromance eBooks is giving a 30% rebate on all books from Samhain Publishing (they were doing a discount, but had to stop, as this is an Agency publisher -- don't know how they can go rebates on the and the other stores can't, though) and a 50% rebate on titles from Ellora's Cave (including some titles not on the other EC sale). That makes those $1.50 titles at Amazon only 74 cents after rebate (you can buy a few, then use the rebate amount to buy a few more, from what I can tell). They also have a deal to get you to open an ARe Cafe account, where if you "import" your library (so you can share it with others in the forum), they will give you a 50% rebate on your next purchase (presumably excluding Samhain titles in this one).

If you grew up reading Diane Duane's Young Wizards series (or just want to discover it now; it's a young adult fantasy series that pre-dates Harry Potter), she has a bundle of all nine books on her web site (in either EPUB, Mobi or both formats ... although why anyone wouldn't choose to get both formats is a bit of a mystery) for $39.99. Add in discount code BUNDLE for another 20% off, which works out to $3.56 per book (may only work if you choose the bundle with both formats). You don't enter the code until after the payment info, so keep going past the PayPal login screens and when you return back to the website you can enter the code. It's confusing enough, though, that she set up a help page to show you how it works. These are the original editions; she is going to update some of them (at least the first four) for a post-Harry Potter audience and those will be released starting in September; while you are there, you might as well also pick up the free short story and novella not from this series). After you order, you'll need to wait for three emails, one of which will contain your download link (and which can only be used 10 times). There, each book is downloaded separately (once per format), rather than in one large zip file.