Read an E-Book Week Update

Dorrance Books, Rose Dog Books and Red Lead Books have updated their web pages to provide links to the free books - click on "Free E-Books!" at the top of the menu on the left of each imprint's web pages. Here are today's free books (all PDF's):

• Property Owner's Sewer and Drain Guide by Melvin Ladon White
• At the Door by Maly M. Kiendl
• Robert Browning: Idealism and Disillusionment in His Life and Work by Cheryl Lodico

Open Books is offering all of their books free on Smashwords, using coupon code RFREE, as has author Des Greene.

E-Reads has their free books posted: Highland Hearts by Hannah Howell and Ship of Death (Destroyer 28) by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir.

Read an Ebook Week

Once again, it's Read an E-Book Week! For those who are new to ebooks, this is a promotion started by Rita Toews (read the story behind the promotion, HERE), where ebook publishers and authors try to entice us to try them out by offering free and discounted books. Many of these change daily, so I'll try to find them and recap each day. A number are specials that run all week and I'll try to summarize those here today. Many of the deals are ones that are advertised on the Read an E-Book Week page and not all are active (it isn't a normal workday, so I expect some to start working tomorrow), so be sure to double check before clicking, that it is, in fact, free.

Ebookstores and Publishers

Smashwords has a huge number of free and discounted books this week. From the main page, click on Read an E-Book Week Specials on the left/upper side of the page, then use the Filter By links to see just the free (with coupon code RFREE) and discounted books (coupon codes RAE25 and RAE50).

BeWrite Books was a big sponsor last year, but their website is undergoing renovations this week. They have partnered with Smashwords, though, to offer much of the catalog as "Set Your Own Price" - get any (or all) the books for free or donate any amount paid to the Red Cross for Haiti (see details HERE). Other books look to be 50% off with coupon code RAE50.

Kobo Books has a couple of coupon codes available. 4steal will get your $4 off one book, today only, while Read2010 is valid from March 7-13th and will get you any one book for free is good for $1 off any book (or, at least that is what it is advertised to do - so far, it's only giving you 10% off) , as will Buy5 for any five books (today only; this actually worked for more than 5 books, for me), while tweetkobo works for $3 off any title, valid thru March 8, both GET250 and kobo250 will get you $2.50 off, while Buck150 and Love150 work for $1.50 (thru March 31) and ip2 works for $2 off.

BooksonBoard is offering a free download during Read an E-Book Week (looks like it is a Sherlock Holmes collection).

OmniLit (fiction and non-fiction) and All Romance eBooks (the romance and erotica) will have free downloads and specials this week. The two share a bookshelf/library, so your login info on one will work on the other.

CurrClick.com sells downloadable curriculum for parents, educators and students. Participate in their Twitter Contest and you could win a Nook eReader. CurrClick.com will be giving away a free eBook every day, March 7-13th! It looks like today's book is Inside My Body Lapbook with Study Guide (there is a link at the top of the page to another 200 or so items that are free all the time).

Mindset Triathlon specializes in running, swimming, biking, nutrition and training eBooks. Will offer a free eBook every day this week - looks like it's only a chapter from 500 ironman triathlon questions & answers today, but if you click on the EBook Week logo, there are some other free downloads.

DriveThruComics has a wide selection of digital comics, including Judge Dredd, Mouse Guard, Girl Genius and more. Offering a free eBook every day during Read an E-Book Week, as well as many free all the time.

Wargame Vault: The world's largest wargame download site, offering hundreds of e-books for games and rule sets, plus paper terrain and paper figures. Wargame Vault will have dozens of free e-book downloads available during Read an E-Book week.

Diesel eBook Store: Many free e-books at Diesel's e-book store. Check the list at the left side of the screen.

Sylvan Dell Publishing: Picture books that excite children's imaginations. Offering a free download of Pandas' Earthquake Escape (although I could not figure out how to get this one free - I'll check again after the work week starts - it appears you can read it free online HERE).

eBook Pie offers free chapters to many of their books and has a free download of Triple Threat (which is also free from Harlequin and many other ebookstores) this week.

Twilight Times Books will have a different free book each day, plus Darrel Bain's World of Books available all week. Today's book is Behold the Eyes of Light, by Geoff Geauterr, available in both PDF and HTML versions.

Dorrance Publishing will have a free book each day this week from each of their imprints (Dorrance Books, Rose Dog Books and Red Lead Books), but I don't see the free books for today (of course, it is a Sunday and I seem to remember them being a bit late posting last year, as well). Visit each bookstore daily to get the free books.

Zulu Express has some free downloads in each of their genres (some or most appear to be public domain titles).

Drollerie Press has free short stories, limited full length novels.

BooksInMyPhone: Free e-books in many genres for Java enabled phones.

BooksForABuck: offers free and $1.00 stories and novels. If you mention Read an E-Book Week and buy 2 e-books, you'll get one free.

Birds Hill Publishing: Bullying: A Parent’s Primer, a 19 page booklet, free this week if you request it by email (link is mid-way down their page).

Ellora's Cave: Romantica/Erotica in all genres.

E-Reads: Two free downloads. E-Reads is a publisher dedicated to bringing out-of-print books back in electronic and print formats.

Badosa.com: Free e-books in Spanish, Catalan, English and French.

Sharing Books: Offers e-books, stories and classic children's literature.

Bast Press: Offers a free download of the illustrated poem: The Effects of Gravity on the Soul of a Poet.

Cerridwen Press: Mainstream fiction for all tastes.

SynergEbooks.com: Free eBooks in a myriad of genres during Read an E-Book Week.

ireadiwrite Publishing: Digital small press. Offering 1/2 price on longer works and daily $2.00 deals.

Macabre Ink Digital Publishing: Offering a 50% discount on all e-books. Use coupon code eBOOKWeek.

Authors

Steve Jordan is giving away Chasing the Light this week, HERE, in several different formats. In addition, you'll find more of his work free on his novels page (as well as a number of reasonably priced novels if you enjoy the free downloads).

Warren Adler: writer and playwright, is a great supporter of e-books. Check out his website for a writing contest.

Lillie Ammann, writer and editor Will be giving away a number of e-books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Cliff J. Burns Canadian author (noir). Free short stories and novels. Two novellas have been optioned for movies.

Patricia and James Taylor (spiritual) Free e-book On the Wings of the Wind.

Pauline Rowson: Offers a free download of In For the Kill. (Marine Mystery)

Cory Doctorow: Fans can find a download of his book Eastern Standard Tribe and a collection of free essays (IN ITALIAN) entitled Content .

David Bowles : Free downloads of Spring House: Book 1 in the Westward Sagas and Adam's Daughters: Book 2 in the Westward Sagas.

Heather Wardell (women's fiction) Free novels Life, Love and a Polar Bear Tattoo and Go Small or Go Home.

Rae Lori: Free download of short story The Real Miranda.

L. Diane Wolfe: Free download of The Circle of Friends Book V...Heather.

Jeffrey A. Carver: Free downloads, including a Nebula Award finalist.

Meira Eliot: Free download of Moldavite.

Jean Sheldon: Free download during Read an E-Book Week.

Nara Malone: A draw each day for a flash drive with starter e-library and e-reading program pre-installed so readers have a no hassle way to discover e-reading.

Online-Business-Guide: 10 Easy Steps to Write an E-book for free. Sharon L. Cohen authored three books on Internet businesses and writes/ghostwrites e-books.

A Summer Ago: R. Andrew Reeves, Jr. and Tzynya L. Pinchback combine poetry, haiku and prose with imagery in this unique e-book. Free during Read an E-Book Week.

Rita Toews: Offering a free download of Confessions of a Failed Domestic Goddess at Smashwords.

Danielle Raine: 50% off Housework Blues-A Survival Guide. Non-fiction motivational/inspirational manual for women who 'have issues' with the domestic stuff.

Dawn Colclasure: Offers free download of BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL: How We Survive as Writing Parents.

Beth Trissel : Will give away a download of each of her e-books to individuals chosen from comments on her blog.

Websites

Kiwa Media QBook: Touch enabled read-along colour story book for iPhone. Free download of Sebastian's Tail Lite on the iTunes app store. Ready for iPad.

The Lewis Four: A blog on eReaders and eReading will offer a contest for a $15.00 gift card to either Sony's Reader Store or Amazon.

Ideomancer Speculative Fiction: Free download of their magazine containing short stories.

The Long and the Short of It: Free e-book download. Long and short romance reviews - and more.

Book Glutton: An on-line book club! Very interesting! Thousands of free e-books, ranging from classics to contemporary works. Offers bookgroups, shared annotations and previews of for-sale books.

Password Incorrect: Piotr Kowalczyk, Polish tech-absurdist and writer 3.0 beta. His zany, short stories are like ultra-slick easy-to-break gadgets, showing how deeply our lives depend on technology. Follow links to free download of short stories.

RAWSISTAZ Literary Group: An online community of readers and writers interested in African-American literature. Seven+ free e-book downloads during the week.

Online Novels: Well organized website of free e-novels by published and unpublished authors who have made their work available for download.

The Great White Ebook Shark : Unique website offering expert critique of e-books and links to their site. Teaser first chapters and directions for downloads.

You can read more about Read an Ebook Week on the promotion's official home page, HERE.

Game of the Day - Cradle of Persia

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $2.99 download of Cradle of Persia. With seven total reviews, six are five-star and the remaining one is three-star.

Book Description

• Travel Through 7 Historical Epochs.
• 100 Engaging Levels.
• 8 Original Bonus Items.
• Build The Masterpieces Of Ancient Persia.

Build Ancient Persia in this engaging puzzle game! This land was filled with luxurious gems and metals that were set to impress peasants and visiting nobles alike! But its exotic gardens and majestic architecture have long since vanished in the passing sands. Now you can seek out the riddles of these ruins as you travel through the land of a thousand and one nights. You will need skill and a keen wit to unlock a mystery never before seen by man, here in the Cradle of Persia!

Free Read Friday

To start off your weekend and in anticipation of Read an Ebook Week (coming up next week), today's post will feature only free reads from around the internet. The first one is free only today and the next few are online reads at Harper Collins (no downloads and you must read while connected to the internet); I've linked in the Amazon pages for the newest additions so you can read the reviews or buy a copy if you decide reading online isn't for you (or you want to keep the book - these online reads change frequently and with no notice).


Stranger in Paradise, by stan graham, is free on Smashwords with coupon code WX68C, valid only today.

Book Description
Janice moves from the Midlands to a sheltered housing unit in the south of England. Taking with her the ghost of her former husband.A humorous look at life in sheltered housing

Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow ($4.79), by James Rollins, can be read online HERE.

Book Description
When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents—on the expedition from which they never returned—leads Jake and Kady to a strange inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a that may hold the key to their parents' disappearance.

But even as they enter the gate to this extraordinary place, savage grackyls soar across the sky, diving to attack. Jake's new friends, the pretty Mayan girl Marika and the Roman Pindor, say the grackyls were created by an evil alchemist—the Skull King. And as Jake struggles to find a way home, it becomes obvious that what the Skull King wants most is Jake and Kady—dead or alive.

Gone ($6.39), by Michael Grant, can be read online HERE.

Book Description
In the blink of an eye.

Everyone disappears.

Gone.

Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day.

It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.

The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way.

Evernight ($5.59), by Claudia Gray, can be read online HERE.

Book Description
Bianca wants to escape.

At the eerily Gothic Evernight Academy, the other students are sleek, smart, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

When she meets handsome, brooding Lucas, he warns her to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him. But the connection between them can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart . . . and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed.

The Thief ($3.79), by Megan Whalen Turner, can be read online HERE.

Book Description
"I can steal anything."After Gen's bragging lands him in the king's prison, the chances of escape look slim. Then the king's scholar, the magus, needs the thief's skill for a seemingly impossible task to steal a hidden treasure from another land.To the magus, Gen is just a tool. But Gen is a trickster and a survivor with a plan of his own.

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism ($7.99 paperback), by Georgia Byng, can be read online HERE.

Book Description
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Hypnotism

Molly Moon is no ordinary orphan. When she finds a mysterious old book on hypnotism, she discovers she can make people do whatever she wants. But a sinister stranger is watching her every move and he'll do anything to steal her hypnotic secret...

For those that missed some of the earlier reads, you can also still read The Amanda Project: Book 1: invisible I ($9.99), The Summoning (Darkest Powers, Book 1) ($5.59) and The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle ($7.99 paperback) for free as well, just click HERE.

Twinkle, by Dan McGirt, author of Hero Wanted (free smashwords; $13.49 paperback), is free on Smashwords

Book Description
Twinkle. A small town with big secrets. Can Stella find eternal love with her vampire boyfriend Edmund? Will werewolf Jake's own desire for Stella drive him to a fatal decision? Or will the arrival of a certain famous vampire slayer turn all their lives upside down? Twinkle is the vampire epic you’ve waited for—if you’ve already read all the other vampire epics. Enter Twinkle if you dare!

The short story Robot Confessional, by David Dalglish, author of The Weight of Blood (free Smashwords; $0.99 Kindle), is free to read online.

Book Description

Down the Rabbit-Hole with Alice

Blackstone Audio and Audiofile are giving away a free download of the audiobook Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, read by Michael York. You can get either the MP3 (Kindle compatible; place in the \audible directory) or M4B (iTunes/Quicktime) versions of the book (or both), in one convenient (and large) zip file. Hurry, though, as the offer is only good until March 16.

Book Description
Alice chases the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and encounters a world of delightfully eccentric characters like the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and the Queen of Hearts. This enduring and evocative tale can be read on many levels and enjoyed by adults and children alike.

Alice's Theme, from the album Alice In Wonderland ($7.99), by Danny Elfman, is free to download at Amazon. Put the MP3 into your \music folder on your Kindle and let the theme play while you read a free copy of Alice In Wonderland to yourself or out loud to your kids.

Update: If you have a nook, head down to your local Barnes & Noble store, as they have a free download of Alice in Wonderland that is only available there.