If you do buy your movie tickets thru Fandango, you'll also get a $2 Amazon MP3 credit with each purchase (even the 2-for-1 deal above!). You might want to then check out Amazon's new 20-songs-for-25-cents deal. You can buy them mix-and-match or just grab the entire playlist for $5.
Amazon is making a big push into the "free" game arena, specifically with games you can play on your PC/notebook/netbook. If you've played the free games on your iPad or Kindle Fire, you know how these work: you get the game for free and can play for free, but you can then buy bonus packs (with real money) to advance faster or get special items in the game. As an example, with Fiesta Online Sparkcash you get a "free 30-day swift and Dark Pegasus Mount" and creating your Allods account thru Amazon gets you a free starter package with 600 Premium Crystal Chips and an Enchanted Saddle. Like iPad and Android games, you can also just play the free editions and never spend a dime (although play may be limited as some items may require purchase to attain), so it might be worth checking out a few of them.
Kobo has a new coupon code this weekend, Save30Jul20m7, good for 30% off selected books
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is King City ($1.99), a standalone novel by Lee Goldberg.Book Description
Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption…turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he’s exiled to patrol a beat in King City’s deadliest neighborhood… with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival.
Now Wade fights to tame the lawless, poverty-stricken wasteland…while investigating a string of brutal murders of young women. It’s a case that takes him from the squalor of the inner-city to the manicured enclaves of the privileged, revealing the sordid and deadly ways the two worlds are intertwined…making his enemies even more determined to crush him.
But for Tom Wade, backing down is never an option...even if it will cost him his life. It’s one reason why bestselling author Janet Evanovich calls Wade “an unforgettable and deeply compelling character in the most original crime novel to come along in years."
The Beach Café ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Lucy Diamond, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).Book Description
Evie Flynn has always been the black sheep of her family - a dreamer and a drifter, unlike her over-achieving elder sisters. She's tried making a name for herself as an actress, a photographer and a singer, but nothing has ever worked out. Now she's stuck in temp hell, with a sensible, pension-planning boyfriend. Somehow life seems to be passing her by. Then her beloved aunt Jo dies suddenly in a car crash, leaving Evie an unusual legacy - her precious beach cafe in Cornwall. Determined to make a success of something for the first time in her life, Evie heads off to Cornwall to get the cafe and her life back on track - and gets more than she bargained for, both in work and in love...
The Boy Who Loved Batman ($10.34 Kindle, $3.99 B&N), by Michael Uslan, is the Nook Daily Find.Book Description
A lavishly illustrated memoir about a boy who loved Batman and would grow up to turn his passion for the caped crusader into a vision of the Dark Knight, and ultimately one of the most successful pop culture franchises of all time. When he was eight, Michael Uslan fell in love with the comic book character known as Batman. He watched unhappily as the dark, serious superhero he knew and loved was turned into a campy goofball in the '60s TV show starring Adam West, and in 1979 he purchased the film rights to Batman with the goal of realizing his infinitely cooler vision of the caped crusader. After ten years of desperately pitching a film that no one wanted, he sold and then produced Tim Burton's critically acclaimed and phenomenally popular re-telling of Batman. Twenty years later, having produced every Batman film to date, Ulsan finally brought his full vision of Batman to the screen with THE DARK KNIGHT. The decades in between were fraught with heartache and hilarity, tears and turmoil, adventure and misadventure. Michael, a consummate story-teller, recounts his story here, in a memoir that will draw in comics and movie fans, pop culture enthusiasts, film students, and of course, all the boys and girls (of all ages) throughout the world who love Batman.
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
After "The Dark Knight" opened to historic response, my wife, Nancy sat me down and said, "Okay, NOW what do you want to be when you grow up?"
The Goose Girl ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in Shannon Hale's Books of Bayern series, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life under her aunt's guidance learning to communicate with animals. As she grows up Ani develops the skills of animal speech, but is never comfortable speaking with people, so when her silver-tongued lady-in-waiting leads a mutiny during Ani's journey to be married in a foreign land, Ani is helpless and cannot persuade anyone to assist her. Becoming a goose girl for the king, Ani eventually uses her own special, nearly magical powers to find her way to her true destiny. Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can become queen of the people she has made her own.
Grade Level: 5 and up
Starting today, Kobo has a special code, romance80, that will work for up to 80% off a specific Romance title (which will rotate every 3-4 days). Today's book is Rock Hard ($7.19 Kindle; $7.39 KoboBook Description
Trapped together on the Sinners tour bus for the summer, Sed and Jessica will rediscover the millions of steamy reasons they never should have called it quits in the first place...
