Free Book and a Contest at Kobo

As a reader pointed out, you can pick up The Scent of Shadows, by Vicki Pettersson, free at KoboBooks in (DRM'd) EPUB format. It isn't the "Free" edition from Amazon, though, so no bonus material, however, you can download it today and start reading.

Book Description
When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert.

By rights, she should be dead.

Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset—a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow—seeking answers to whom or what she really is . . . and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure.

But the nightmare is just beginning—for the demons are hunting Joanna, and the powerful shadows want her for their own . . .

Kobo is also running a contest to win one of 10 Kobo eReaders. Every book purchased during the contest period gets you an entry (remember, they are a Canadian company, so the rules may be a bit different than found at US companies).

CONTEST DETAILS

Duration: Next 2 weeks only (April 22nd - May 6th)

Two weekly draws to be held on the following dates:

* First draw with 5 eReaders available to be won(one per winner): April 29th
* Second draw with 5 eReaders available to be won (one per winner): May 6th

1 eBook Purchase = 1 contest entry

Every eBook you buy is one entry to WIN!

All the official rules can be found HERE, but essentially all you do is buy the books you would have anyway (remember, Kobo's books are not Kindle compatible), up to six entries per person. Since the rules specify clicking on the "Buy Now" button, this and other free books won't count (unless they bring back coupon, which it does not appear they will do, due to the agency model forced upon them by publishers).

Free Book (Sony) - In the Beginning: Hijacking of the Religion of God

Two free books in the Sony ebookstore this morning. As always, you'll need to use their reader software and search by title or author to find the book, as direct links won't work. These are the first two of a three-volume set, although I don't see the third book in the series in the Sony store yet, although you can get it as a Barnes & Noble ebook. None are available for the Kindle (yet), although the first volume is in the Amazon store in hardcover and paperback.

In the Beginning: Hijacking of the Religion of God, Volume 1: Judaism ($19.99 Paperback; $7.99 B&N ebook), by Sami M. El-Soudani & Nabawia J. El-Soudani (Illustrator)

Book Description
Our analysis of three millennia of religious history shows that “the Religion of God” has been hijacked right from the beginning until this day. Men who practiced hijacking long before they had wings have been engaging in the lucrative business of hijacking the religion of God, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, whose members miserably failed to heed the words of our Merciful God.

No irony intended in calling it “a business” and indeed “a lucrative one,” because it brings the hijackers power, enormous wealth, and often glory, which, in the sight of God, translate respectively into arrogance, greed, and infamy.

The author hopes that this presentation of a uniquely critical and candid outlook on religion will be widely disseminated to such people in search of God. This book may also appeal to readers engaged in studies of systems of government, and history of political science.

In the Beginning: Hijacking of the Religion of God, Volume 2: Christianity ($7.99 B&N ebook), by Sami M. El-Soudani & Nabawia J. El-Soudani (Illustrator)

Book Description
This volume illustrates how Jesus of Nazareth was morphed into the Son of God shortly upon his death. Sami M. El-Soudani presents the hijacking of Christianity in a diagram that summarizes how the Christian community was led to believe in a myth created over time.

Pavarotti for $1.99

A great deal for opera fans, Amazon has the MP3 download version of 75th Birthday Limited Edition - Luciano Pavarotti currently marked at $1.99. I'm not going to list the cuts included, as there are 100 of them, a total of just over 7 hours of music.

More Earth Day Specials

Barnes and Noble is running a number Earth Day specials and it looks like their prices on the Planet Earth DVD's are even lower than Amazon's, as they are giving everyone Member prices, right now (then again, they'll charge sales tax in most states, but there is free shipping over $25).

FaveCrafts is giving away a copy of their Recycling Crafts eBook, which contains 42 ways to reuse and recycle common household items thru crafts. I'll probably never make a toilet paper tube napkin ring (but they might be cute for kids), but maybe I'll find a use for all those AOL CD's I've accumulated over the years.

Book Description
This green craft eBook includes:

* Section 1: Paper- Learn how to use junk mail to make paper beads.
* Section 2: Paper Making- Use paper, magazines and greeting cards to create different kinds of crafts
* Section 3: Metal- Use tins and cans to create little critters and luminaries
* Section 4: Plastic- Use those old bottles, cans and containers to create household items and decor
* Section 5: Glass- Don’t break those old wine bottles, create coasters out of them
* Section 6: Clothing- Sweaters and belts don’t have to be clothing items, they can be made into bracelets
* Section 7: Miscellaneous- Take those old CD’s and turn them into ornaments.

Audible for Blackberry and Free Audiobook

For those who have a Blackberry, if you download the new Audible for Blackberry App, you'll automatically receive Divine Justice ($14.99 Kindle), by David Baldacci, for free. This offer only applies to those who have a Blackberry and download the app; however it appears that an Audible App for Android and the iPhone are both coming soon (but not the iPad?).

The complete Audible experience for your BlackBerry is here.

Shop, sample, download, and play audio from over 75,000 titles from every genre, including titles from top new authors and timeless classics.

Limited-Time Offer:

Receive David Baldacci's Divine Justice FREE when you download the app now.

Book Description
Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone's life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.

But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt. Behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He, more than anyone, wants Stone dead.

With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him. Now, as the hunters close in, Stone's flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia-and into a world every bit as lethal as the one he left behind.