Windows 7: The Missing Manual

Today only, you can get the ebook version of Windows 7: The Missing Manual ($26.39 paperback), by David Pogue, for $10.00 at O'Reilly Books & Video. This is a DRM-free book and you get the MOBI, EPUB, PDF and Android versions in the package and normally sells for $31.99

Book Description
In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hard-nosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.

Windows 7 fixes many of Vista's most painful shortcomings. It's speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features, including better organization tools, easier WiFi connections and home networking setup, and even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware.

With this book, you'll learn how to:

• Navigate the desktop, including the fast and powerful search function
• Take advantage of Window's apps and gadgets, and tap into 40 free programs
• Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8, and learn the email, chat, and videoconferencing programs
• Record TV and radio, display photos, play music, and record any of these to DVD using the Media Center
• Use your printer, fax, laptop, tablet PC, or smartphone with Windows 7
• Beef up your system and back up your files
• Collaborate and share documents and other files by setting up a workgroup network

Click HERE for the book's info and order page and use coupon code DDW7M during checkout. Thanks to David Pogue for the discount code, which he released via Twitter today. In the interests of full disclosure, I have a review copy of this book, courtesy of O'Reilly, but haven't gotten around to cracking it open yet.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Unholy Night

Unholy Night ($3.50 list), by Candice Gilmer, is free today at All Romance eBooks as part of their continuing Earth Day celebration. This one has a content warning (but I suspect many of the ones they have offered free this month have needed one).

Book Description
Can love be found on the unholiest night of the year?

There are some things Marissa Van Dyke won't do -- celebrate Halloween is one of them. When she's guilted into attending a Halloween party, a flamboyant woman dressed as a gypsy claims Marissa will be saved three times before she's finally free.

Foolish Halloween games, according to Marissa. Her life is fine; not perfect, but good enough, and nothing could save her anyway.

All she wants is to leave the party until a man named Neil Drigan materializes at her side, making her forget everything but his hauntingly familiar green eyes. His animal magnetism is a dangerous temptation on a night she's always reserved for mourning.

Can there be salvation under his powerful presence -- even on such an unholy night?

Warning: Some explicit sex, shapeshifting characters, and a tiny bit of psychic abilities.

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 (drm-free) formats: Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Adobe Acrobat, 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 (which is nearly here!). 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.

Iris Johansen Pre-Order for $7.99

You can currently pre-order Eight Days to Live: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller, by Iris Johansen, for $7.99. This is the eighth book in the Eve Duncan series and will be released April 20, 2010, in sync with the hardback, which is over $18. So even though this is a publisher set price, I fully expect this one to increase after release (or even before then).

Book Description
Eve Duncan's adopted daughter Jane has been targeted by a mysterious cult who has decided that she has only eight days to live Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die. It all begins with a painting that Jane, an artist, displays in her Parisian gallery. The painting is called "Guilt" and Jane has no idea how or why she painted the portrait of the chilling face. But the members of a cult that dates back to the time of Christ believe that Jane's blasphemy means she must die. But first, she will lead them to an ancient treasure whose value is beyond price. This elusive treasure, and Jane's death, are all that they need for their power to come to ultimate fruition. With Eve's help, can Jane escape before the clock stops ticking?

How to Cook Everything - $1.99

How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food, by Mark Bittman is $19.25 on Kindle and $21.70 in Hardcover, where it has over 1,000 pages and weighs roughly 5 pounds. However, you can purchase the iTunes App for $1.99 to run on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch (but not on your PC/Mac). The product page says this price is for a limited time, but gives no time limit (the app just posted yesterday). You can get a few of the recipes for your PC from links on the Amazon product pages, as well as view the list of 10 Reasons You Need the New How to Cook Everything (even if you already have the original).

Book Description
Mark Bittman's award-winning How to Cook Everything has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. Now the ultimate cookbook has been revised and expanded (almost half the material is new), making it absolutely indispensable for anyone who cooks—or wants to. With Bittman's straightforward instructions and advice, you'll make crowd-pleasing food using fresh, natural ingredients; simple techniques; and basic equipment. Even better, you'll discover how to relax and enjoy yourself in the kitchen as you prepare delicious meals for every occasion.

Today's Favorite Kitchen Companion—Revised and Better Than Ever

How do you update a classic? For his bestselling, award-winning How to Cook Everything—the modern bible of home cooking—Mark Bittman started from scratch, going page by page, recipe by recipe, carefully blending the best of the beloved original with appealing new recipes and fresh, current information. The result is an even more useful and authoritative cookbook, ready to inform, inspire, and guide new and accomplished cooks alike—the single book to turn to for every kitchen endeavor.

Bittman has added hundreds of new dishes, and completely updated the remaining recipes and every line of guidance. New features abound: Each chapter now opens with "Essential Recipes," a section that highlights the core dishes for every cook's repertoire, such as building blocks for simple soups or ten ways to cook any seafood. He has also expanded the chapters on vegetables and fruits, grains, beans, and desserts. New charts will help you customize recipes with a variety of flavors and ingredients, and new how-to illustrations bring the total to nearly 400. With this revision, Bittman also tags fast, make-ahead, and vegetarian recipes with icons for easy menu planning.

The new How to Cook Everything provides a lifetime's worth of quick, simple, and delicious options. Its 2,000 recipes and variations cover everything from Pad Thai and Carrot Salad with Cumin to Simplest Whole Roast Chicken, Six Ways and Traditional Apple Pie. All of the recipes are easy to prepare—more than half can be completed in 30 minutes (many in even less time)—and none requires special equipment or fancy techniques. Throughout, the emphasis is on fresh, widely available ingredients and healthy, uncomplicated preparations.

As always, Bittman's recipes are instantly appealing, uniquely accessible, and refreshingly straightforward. And many of the special features you loved in the original are still here, too, fully updated. Bittman's thoughtful and inspiring sidebars and lists (like "Twenty-Five Pasta Sauces You Can Make in Advance") and suggested menus for every occasion make How to Cook Everything more valuable and indispensable than ever—the one cookbook you need for fast and flavorful home-cooked food every day of the year.

App Description
This first-of-its-kind app contains all of the content from Mark Bittman’s bestselling cookbook, including 2,000 recipes and 400 how-to illustrations — plus specially designed features for the mobile user. Limited-time: $1.99! Less than a morning Latte.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - My Heart is Within You

My Heart is Within You ($6.99 list), by Marguerite Labbe, is the first in her Triquetra series and is free today at All Romance eBooks as part of their continuing Earth Day celebration.

Book Description
The power of heart and soul holds the key to the survival of the last of the ancient vampires. Kristair is running out of time. His race has faded away, prey to delusion and deterioration, and his only chance to live long enough to find a cure is to bind his psyche to a human vessel in a long forgotten ritual.

Kristair's chosen vessel is Jacob Corvin, a man of passionate stubbornness and fierce loyalty; he has captured Kristair's fantasies so completely that he is both the vampire's greatest strength and most crippling weakness. Drawing upon Jacob's spirit and Kristair's resolve, they each bind a portion of their souls to one other. For as long as Jacob carries Kristair's heart within him, the vampire can continue his quest.

Just when they have hope, their mission is threatened by The Syndicate, a group of younger vampires who attempt to force Kristair to teach them his secrets before he disappears like the rest of the ancients. Battling both The Syndicate's attacks and his unexpected need and love for Jacob, Kristair's strength begins to fade, forcing him to make a decision that will change his and Jacob's lives forever.

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, Mobipocket, 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.