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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Free Coffee with your Books Today

As a combination of a Tax Day break (for those in the US) and an early Earth Day celebration, Starbucks is giving free coffee today to anyone that brings in a refillable coffee mug. So, grab your Kindle and enjoy one of today's free books with your free coffee. Other than the fuel used to get there (free for those who can walk to a store), it'll be one of the cheapest entertainment choices you'll find today. And we can all use a break on April 15th!

Here are the details, from the Starbucks web page.
Join the movement. On April 15th, bring a reusable travel mug into your local Starbucks and get a free brewed coffee.

One person can save trees, together we can save forests.

For the good of the planet, Starbucks is encouraging everyone to switch from paper cups to reusable travel mugs. One day in March thousands of New Yorkers made the switch. Join them now by taking a pledge to do the same.

This global movement is taking place in locations around the world including East China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, Ireland, Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico.

Offer varies by country, ask your barista for details.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Regina in the Sun

Not only is Regina in the Sun, by R. G. Alexander, free in the Kindle store, it's also today's free book at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

Book Description
There's only one place left to run-into forbidden arms. Children of the Goddess Book 1 Children of the Goddess Book One When she arrives at Ye Olde Haven Pub, the sanctuary for Trueblood Vampires, Regina is wounded and desperate. Her only thought is to save the Deva Clan, her family, from the dangerous Loups De L'Ombre, the Shadow Wolves. She knows she will not exactly be welcomed with open arms. She is, after all, an Unborn, the lowest caste of Vampire.

As a natural born from the purest line, Zander Sariel knows the rules are sacrosanct-a Trueblood mates with his own kind. But one taste of the young Unborn is all Zander needs to know that rules were made to be broken.

With enemies at every turn, Zander risks everything to save Regina from the monster that hunts her, his own kind's ignorance and-if he must-her lack of faith in her own unique abilities.

Only together do they have a chance to defeat the shadow that haunts their future, and save their entire race from extinction.

Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, voyeurism of an m/m/f menage-a plethora of vampire nookie.


To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket, Rocket, Epub. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Lawdy, Miss Clawdy! Best of Elvis for $2.99

I just saw this and Amazon implied that it is today only. Playlist: The Very Best Of Elvis Presley contains 14 top Elvis Presley tunes for $2.99: 5 number 1 hits, 4 top 10 songs, 2 top 40 songs and on that just missed the top 40 (guitar Man). The two that were not hits in the Us were in the UK. If you can only have one Elvis album, I'd agree with one commenter that Elvis 30 #1 Hits is a better choice; but at $16.99 it's a lot more expensive that this shorter album.

Playlist
  1. Jailhouse Rock
  2. Don't Be Cruel
  3. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
  4. Don't
  5. I Need Your Love Tonight
  6. It's Now Or Never
  7. (Marie's The Name Of) His Latest Flame Elvis Presley
  8. Surrender
  9. Suspicion
  10. Guitar Man
  11. In The Ghetto
  12. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
  13. Burning Love
  14. I'm Leavin'

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - SEALed with a Kiss

SEALed with a Kiss ($5.99 list), by Mary Margret Daughtridge, is the first in her SEALed series and is free today at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

HOWEVER, there is a problem with the book right now, as the discount isn't appearing. If you want it, I'd suggest you email them at info@allromanceebooks.com, as they can manually add the book to your account, if they don't get the discount fixed today.

Update: They've fixed the problem with this book, so you can "buy" it at no charge now.

Update #2: When the fixed the problem with the discount code, another issue popped up - despite buying the book, it was not showing up in my library. I emailed them and that problem has been corrected - but only after I ordered the book again. So, if you ordered this book and haven't downloaded it yet, retry your order and check your library again. Or, you can email them and they should be able to manually add the book (but it may take a day or two).

Book Description
He figures she’s high maintenance.

He has yet to meet a woman who didn’t cling, and being a Navy SEAL doesn’t leave much time for anything else…

She figures he’s not “commitment” material.

Men are interested in one thing—either her brains or her body. She’s just as well off focusing on her career…

But when widowed Navy SEAL Jax Graham and his young son Tyler get trapped by a hurricane, family therapist Pickett Sessoms takes them in and knows just how to help a rough, tough Navy SEAL deal with a scared and lonely little boy. Jax and Pickett know just what to do with their red hot attraction, too, even though neither has falling in love in their plans. But when a “family” outing turns deadly, Pickett understands what it means to be a SEAL and Jax discovers that even a hero can’t always go it alone…


To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, Epub, Mobipocket. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Free Game - Super Granny 3

The free game this week at Sandlot Games is Super Granny 3 ($6.95 Amazon Game Downloads).

Game Description
  • More than 200 levels spread out over 5 Unique Theme Park Areas
  • 14 interactive objects found throughout the levels
  • 7 New And Challenging Enemies
  • All-new shop where Granny can upgrade with 8 handy items
Granny is off on an all-new adventure! After her troubled tropical trip, Super Granny is dropped into her most ambitious adventure yet, a run-down European theme park where she must rescue her arch-nemesis, the evil Dr. Meow, from the clutches of his even-more dastardly master, Mr. Fang. With the help of over 30 all-new interactive items Granny will run, dig, climb and float through 5 new worlds with over 200 levels of puzzle-solving, item-tossing, hilariously addictive fun!

Click HERE to sign up for the free download. For step by step purchase and installation instructions, see this post.