Win a $1,000 Gift Card from Amazon

Sign up to receive emails from the Amazon Clothing Store and you can win a $1,000 Gift Card at Amazon. The only "catch" is that you can only use it on goods and ebooks sold directly by Amazon, so many of the ebooks available for Kindle won't qualify, due to the new Agency Model, where they are being sold by the publisher instead. Then again, there are lots of other things at Amazon that do qualify, including the Kindle itself.

Amazon Clothing's $1000 Gift Card Sweepstakes Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

...Eligibility. If you are an individual legal resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia and are 18 or older at the time of entry, you are eligible to enter the Sweepstakes...

How to Enter. You may enter the Sweepstakes beginning at 12:00:01 a.m. (PST) on April 15, 2010 and ending at 11:59:59 p.m. (PST) on May 31, 2010 (the "Sweepstakes Period").... Limit one entry per e-mail address.

...Prize. We will award a total of 1 prize during the Sweepstakes Period, consisting of a $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Certificate ("GC"). The total approximate retail value of the prize is $1,000. You may only use the GC for purchases of eligible goods on Amazon.com.

Read the rest of the rules and enter the contest HERE.

Chicago Blues for $1.99

If you are fan of the Chicago Blues, this is a must-have for your collection: Muddy Waters - The Father of Chicago Blues for $1.99. 21 cuts and just over an hour of solid music, including original recordings of Rollin' Stone and Mannish Boy and live versions Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working.

Playlist

1. Rollin' Stone
2. I Just Want To Make Love To You
3. I Can't Be Satisfied
4. Forty Days & Forty Nights
5. Rollin' & Tumblin'
6. Rollin' & Tumblin' Pt.2
7. Baby Please Don't Go
8. I'm Ready
9. Early Morning Blues
10. Walkin' Blues
11. You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead & Gone)
12. Mean Ol' Frisco
13. I Want To Be Loved
14. Honey Bee
15. Mad Love
16. All Night Long
17. Howling Wolf
18. Sugar Sweet
19. Good Lookin' Woman
20. I Got My Mojo Working (Live)
21. Hoochie Coochie Man (Live)

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare ($4.99 list), by Leigh Ellwood, the first in the Dareville series. Be sure to check the content warning on this one first (which nearly needs a warning of it's own).

Book Description
Dare you let the truth get in the way of love? Rock and roll legend Brady Garriston is in a slump, careerwise and in his love life. He is desperate for a comeback (and a "cum" back), and finds a possible solution in masquerading in small town Dareville, where he can clear the slate and start fresh. Brady finds his muse in the lovely and uninhibited school teacher Ellie Shaw, and soon the two are making more than just beautiful music together. But will Brady's deception bring on a sour note to their relationship? And what of the secret Ellie is keeping from Brady?

Warning: This book includes: scenes of graphic heterosexual and homosexual (M/M, light F/F) sex, three-way sex (MMF), and anal sex (M/F)

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: Epub, Mobipocket, Rocket, Microsoft Reader, Adobe Acrobat, HTML. 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.

Game of the Day - The Dark Legions

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $2.95 download of The Dark Legions. This one looks pretty interesting and I'm downloading the free trial as I post.

Book Description

• Realistic 3D Environment.
• 18 Unique Units At Your Command.
• Different Terrain Themes And Weather.
• Immersive Story Driven Campaign.

Prepare yourself for a real time strategy game set in the dark medieval ages! With 18 unique units at your command, you can fight epic battles between large armies as you build your empire through immersive story driven missions in Campaign Mode. You can also prove your strength against computer players on randomly generated missions, as well! The choice is yours! Let The Dark Legions take you on the quest of a lifetime today!

Music to Read By

It's not quite as long as I Love the 80s, Vol. 1, which I highlighted in January and which is still free, but I Love the 70s (1770s & 1870s) still gives you an hour of good classical music to read by.

• Performers: Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, Edouard Lalo, Carl Stamitz, Takako Nishizaki, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johann Baptist Vanhal, Donald Armstrong, Jeno Jando, Benjamin Godard, Antoni Wit, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jaroslav Krecek, Ilya Kaler, Bernd Glemser, Maria Kliegel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Stephen Gunzenhauser, New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Toronto Chamber Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen, Kirk Trevor, Capella Istropolitana, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christopher Hinterhuber, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Kevin Mallon
• Composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Stamitz, Franz Joseph Haydn, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Antonin Dvorak, Edouard Lalo, Johannes Brahms, Johann Baptist Vanhal, Benjamin Godard
• Conductors: Jaroslav Krecek, Pietari Inkinen, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Kirk Trevor, Kevin Mallon, Donald Armstrong, Antoni Wit

Also free and classical, yet a little more modern, is Decca & Deutsche Grammophon: The Con Brio Digital Sampler - Artists With Vigor And Spirit

Not free, but bargain priced is The 99 Most Essential Debussy Masterpieces, an Amazon exclusive and currently only $5.00 as part of this month's 100/$5: 100 Albums for $5 Each promotion at Amazon. A few others I noticed on that promotion that are worth checking out:

• Money Jungle
• Birth Of The Cool (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
• Super Hits: Billie Holiday

Back to free downloads, the X5 Free Sampler - Blues and Country Legends is a short one, with five cuts from Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hank Snow, Canned Heat,Woody Guthrie, but is well worth downloading.

The Christian Music Sampler, by The O'Neill Brothers, is another long sampler at over an hour. If you prefer vocals to instrumentals, you might also want to check out some of these free singles:

• I'm Singing
• Praise His Name
• Just Wanna Say
• Awesome God

A few more free samplers:

• Six Degrees Records Global Grooves Sampler
• Frenchkiss Records Super Sampler
• March 2010 Saddle Creek Sampler
• Music In Progress, Vol. II [+Digital Booklet]
• Beehouse Records Spring Sampler - 2010