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Sunday, June 20, 2010

$2.00 Coupon Plus Sale Prices at Kobo

For those with multiple ereaders or who read on their PC (but not compatible with Kindles), Kobo has some very good prices on ebooks for Father's Day. Each of the books on their list can be had for an additional two dollars off using coupon code books4dad or 2fordad during checkout; offer valid thru June 27th.

Be sure you enter the promo code, click on Apply and SEE the change in total price before clicking the final purchase button or you won't get the discount. Some have reported getting the coupon to even work with non-Agency books that are not on the list; your mileage may vary. Below are a few highlights from the list.

Blockade Billy ($2.99 with coupon; $4.99 Kindle), a novella by Stephen King.

Book Description
Even the most diehard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely.

He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first -- and only -- player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history.

Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse...and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.

This eBook edition features both the cover illustration by Glen Orbik and the interior artwork of Alex McVey from the limited hardcover edition published by Cemetery Dance Publications.


The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest ($7.99 with coupon; $9.99 Kindle), by Stieg Larsson

Book Description
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy.

Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge—against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.

Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.


Tinkers ($3.99 with coupon; $5.99 Kindle), by Paul Harding.

Book Description
An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney failure.

A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him, menacing and awe inspiring.

Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation to the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.


Let the Great World Spin ($4.75 with coupon; $6.75 Kindle), by Colum McCann

Book Description
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.

Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.


You can see the complete list of Father's Day titles, HERE. You can also get a dollar off any Harlequin books at Kobo by entering the code 1harlequin during checking, valid thru the end of July.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Game of the Day - Alpha Prime

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $4.99 download of Alpha Prime (regularly $9.99), currently the #1 game download in the Action Shooter category. Reviews are running to 4.5 stars and one reviewer said they would have paid $50 for it (and liked it better than COD4).

Game Description
  • 10 Levels Of Fast-paced, Unrelenting Action.
  • 8 Futuristic Weapons.
  • Bullet Time Allows Players To Temporarily Slow Down The Action.
  • Vehicles Can Be Used To Move To Different Locations Quickly.
Somewhere deep in space, on the lifeless asteroid Alpha Prime, something has gone terribly wrong... The miners were warned that the hubbardium they were mining was too dangerous, but the lure of unimaginable wealth was too strong. Now, something has happened to them and it's up to you to save them and face an unknown threat. Armed with an assortment of hi-tech weapons and the ability to hack into the station's own automated defenses, your mission is simple: Get in, Get 'em and Get out!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Free Game - Super Slyder

The free game this week at Sandlot Games is Super Slyder ($6.99 Amazon Game Downloads), a "topsy-turvy" puzzle adventure game, a follow-up to the Slyder Adventures ($6.99) game that was offered free this past March.

Game Description
  • The Loveable Blue Hero Is Back.
  • 9 Uniquely Hilarious Characters.
  • More than 280 Mind-Bending Puzzles.
  • Easy To Use Level Editor.
Welcome to Super Slyder! Our lovable, blue, spherical hero is back with an all-new addictive adventure containing level-altering new items, 9 unique characters with hilarious animations, more than 280 challenging levels and an easy to use level editor! Play the levels at your own pace, with level-skipping ability or try constantly updated user created content. The choice is yours and Slyder is waiting!

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

Free Book (nook) - The Long Tail

This is the last week of the free in-store books at Barnes and Noble. They've concluded the series with The Long Tail, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More ($9.56), by Chris Anderson, which I originally got as a free bonus book from Amazon during their B1G1F sale on FREE: The Future of a Radical Price ($9.99).

Book Description
The New York Times bestseller that introduced the business world to a future that-s already here-now in a new edition with a new chapter about Long Tail Marketing and a new epilogue.

Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book of the Year

In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn-t in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses-the endlessly long tail of that same curve.


Once you have your coupon, log into your account at bn.com (do this first, or you'll have to enter the code twice, at least on an iphone using the Safari browser), then to bn.com/redeem and enter the coupon code to add the book to your account.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

11 James Bond Movies on Blu-Ray for $99.99

Just saw this deal on the James Bond (11-Movie Collection) [Blu-ray], which regularly sells for $269.99. If you enter the code AMZNBOND during checkout, you get the collection for $99.99, which is $200 off list. To get the deal, you can't use the 1-Click feature. Instead, add the item to your cart, then click on Proceed to Checkout. Look for the box underneath the text Have any gift cards, gift certificates or promotional claim codes and click on Apply. Check the that the Order Total is $99.99 before clicking on Place Your Order.

This deal is only valid today, but that gives you until 3:00 AM EST (or midnight in Amazonland) to take advantage of it.

Description
This ultimate collection includes: Die Another Day, Dr. No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, License to Kill, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, The World Is Not Enough, and Thunderball.

As an added bonus, Amazon will also give you a $4 credit for Amazon Video On Demand after you order your item. Limited to one promotional credit per customer; valid for "eligible" movies and TV shows.