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Friday, October 28, 2011

Buy one of 100 Horror titles for $1 (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers (including the brand new $79 Kindle):

Buy one of 100 Horror titles for $1

To take advantage of this offer:
  1. First, turn on your Kindle with Special Offers, click Menu, then View Special Offers.
  2. Find the offer: Buy one of 100 Horror titles for $1. Click on it, then on the link to Email Me This Offer.
  3. You will get an email from Amazon with your promotional code, right away.
  4. Once you have the promotion code (and have selected your book; see below), click this link, then on the button labeled Enter Your Code, at any time up to the expiration date of November 30.
  5. Enter your code and follow the directions.
  6. Choose any of these books and you'll pay only $1.
You'll have a promotion code on your account that will apply to the FIRST book you buy (from the list) after that. Note that even if the book is free, you'll pay a dollar, so be careful which one you pick after you enter the code -- make sure you don't grabbing a low cost title by accident, which can happen if you apply the code right away, before you are ready to buy the book (current prices range from just above $3 to $10.00, although I did see one in the $13-14 range). You should save the code and not enter it until you are ready to buy a book.

To recap: you must claim the offer by October 31 and must do so from your Kindle with Special Offers. You'll get a promotion code via email and you have until November 30 to enter and redeem the code. Once you enter it, it will work on the next book on the list that you purchase.

Limited to one per customer and one per device.

There are already a number of books that are supposed to be on this offer that are not available to those in the US. Strange, since Amazon set up the list and the offer is limited to those in the US. For a few books, there are other editions available in the US, but I would not count on the code working if you try it on those. I've seen this before, when publishers yank their books from the Kindle store, after they are featured in a promotion, but never so many when a promotion starts. If you see one you want and it is "not available", send an email to Kindle support (not Amazon) and complain that the offer is for US only and they picked a non-US ASIN/publisher (and give them the correct ASIN). Odds are, even if they can't fix the offer page, you'll get someone in support that can give you a promotion to get that book under the same terms as this deal. If you read horror at all, though, you should be able to find something interesting, such as Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby; I have a review copy and recommend those that thought it was only a movie take a look. So far, I've found one book I purchased on another $1 deal (Neal Stephenson's Zodiac), a couple of books I've picked up free on other promotions and what may be the most popular title in my library (Kalayna Price's Once Bitten; I have the same title by three other well-known authors, in addition to this one).