- Under the Sheets (K-US/N/E)
If you prefer the nook Touch, you can pick up on for $70 over on Daily Steals today. It is a refurb, though; if you want new, then they are currently on sale for $99 at Barnes & Noble and quite a few people (including me) received personalized coupons in their email yesterday, offering a $25 gift card if purchased with Mastercard; unfortunately, the coupons are not transferable, so you'll have to check your email to see if you received one, too. If you don't have a membership at B&N, you can also buy that at $25 and turn around and get $25 off purchase, essentially giving yourself a year of discounts and free shipping on the website with purchase.
Those who do buy EPUB from the Sony store may be interested in the new coupon code, 25OFF02092012, good for 25% off one non-Agency Sony Reader ebook. Good through 15 February 2012. Also for those using EPUB, Books on Board's email today said they are having a 50% off sale this weekend on some SciFi books (to celebrate the Hugo Awards) and they linked in their new Freebies page; most of what is there I already had (or is public domain), but I think there were one or two that are new for my library (although they may be just samples, I'll have to read a bit closer to find out, as at least one I looked at was just that).
Madboy: My Journey from Adboy to Adman ($1.99), by Richard Kirshenbaum, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.Book Description
A thrilling and irreverent memoir about the transformation of the advertising business from the 1980s to today
Richard Kirshenbaum was born to sell. Raised in a family of Long Island strivers, this future advertising titan was just a few years old when his grandfather first taught him that a Cadillac is more than a car, and that if you can’t have a Trinitron you might as well not watch TV. He had no connections when he came to Madison Avenue, but he possessed an outrageous sense of humor that would make him a millionaire.
In 1987, at the age of twenty-six, Richard put his savings on the line to launch his own agency with partner Jonathan Bond, and within a year, had transformed it from a no-name firm into the go-to house for cutting-edge work. Kirshenbaum and Bond pioneered guerilla marketing by purchasing ad space on fruit, spray-painting slogans on the sidewalk, and hiring actors to order the Hennessy martini in nightclubs. They were the bad boys of Madison Avenue—a firm where a skateboarding employee once bowled over an important client—but backed up their madness with results.
Packed with business insight, marketing wisdom, and a cast of characters ranging from Princess Diana to Ed McMahon, this memoir is as bold, as breathtaking, and as delightful as Richard himself.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Stephen R. Covey, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.81 and in the KLL; it was the Kindle Deal of the Day in the US a couple of weeks ago).Book Description
n The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
From the Publisher
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People is a comprehensive program based on developing an awareness of how perceptions and assumptions hinder success---in business as well as presonal relationships. Here's an approach that will help broaden your way of thinking and lead to greater opportunities and effective problem solving. Be Pro-Active: Take the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen. Begin With an End in Mind: Start with a clear destination to understand where you are now, where you're going and what you value most. Put First Things First: Manage yourself. Organize and execute around priorities. Think Win/Win: See life as a cooperative, not a comprehensive arena where success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others. Seek First to Understand: Understand then be understood to build the skills of empathetic listening that inspires openness and trust. Synergize: Apply the principles of cooperative creativity and value differences. Renewal: Preserving and enhanving your greatest asset, yourself, by renewing the physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional dimensions of your nature. Stephen R. Covey is the most respected motivator in the business world today. Learn to use his 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People--and see how they can change your life.
Love Magick ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Francesca Lia Block, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
Francesca Lia Block does it again! This time, she has brought together a powerful, talented, impeccable group of writers, in her first venture into publishing, with the e-book anthology LOVE MAGICK. She has been playing with the idea of publishing the work of her friends and students together for years. In this genre-bending anthology, 38 writers from around the world, invite us into the realm of LOVE MAGICK- as they understand it. This is a book of stories and poetry told through the lens of fantasy, magical-realism, contemporary fairy tales, erotica, sci-fi, even horror- beautiful work that seeks to understand both the magical aspects of love and the love aspect of magic. How does love change us, for better or worse? This anthology is a kaleidoscope for the senses, like LOVE MAGICK, it is nothing you'd expect, and everything you might hope for.
