Free Book - Lose Weight WITHOUT Dieting

Update: Now free in the US Kindle store.

Lose Weight WITHOUT Dieting ($0.99 Kindle), by David Nordmark, a personal trainer out of Vancouver, BC, is free for UK customers in the US and UK Kindle store, as well as on Smashwords (which is apparently where Amazon's pricebots spotted the lower price). He has most of his books priced up at the $10 mark (over-priced, IMO), but you can also find a few others in PDF form on his website, using a google search.

Book Description
Diets don't work. Studies have shown that only 5 percent of people who go on a diet are able to keep the weight off for more than a year. Yet even with this 95 percent failure rate the weight loss industry continues to flood the market with new diets and useless gimmicks. What's the secret to true, long lasting weight loss? The key is to focus on your habits as they relate to food, not dieting. Unlike animals in nature, human beings acquire a whole host of unnatural habits related to food without even realizing it. By changing these habits, most of which you are probably not even aware off, you can start to lose weight naturally and easily. Get off the Diet roller coaster and start losing weight WITHOUT dieting today! Now updated with many natural bodyweight exercises that can help anyone burn fat and build muscle. To learn more about this course as well as others related to natural fitness and health (not to mention special deals!) visit animal-kingdom-workouts.com to learn more.

Free Book - Like Clockwork

Like Clockwork ($3.19 Kindle), by Bonnie Dee, is free direct from the publisher, Carina Press.

Book Description
Victoria's work with automatons has gained her renown and changed the face of London. But her concern that the clockworks are taking too many jobs away from humans, creating social unrest, is ignored. Given the ugly mood of the underclass, she fears more outbreaks of violence similar to the murder spree of the notorious Southwark Slasher.

Dash, unemployed thanks to the clockworks, has pledged fealty to The Brotherhood, a group determined to bring about the downfall of the automatons by any means necessary. His plan to kidnap Victoria goes awry when the unorthodox scientist pledges her assistance to their cause.

Despite their opposite social classes, a bond grows between them, and Victoria begins to feel emotions she never expected for the passionate Dash. But when the Slasher strikes close to home, Dash and Victoria realize that the boundaries of polite society are far from the only threat to their happiness...

Click HERE for the free book and use coupon code CLOCKWORKFREE during checkout (coupon valid until December 31, 2010). The download is in EPUB format, but is DRM-free, so easily converted for Kindle via Calibre.

Game/Book Hybrid on Kindle - Dusk World

First we had books, then we had games. Now, Amazon has a new type of interactive content in the Kindle store: "an Interactive Adventure", which looks like a cross between a comic book graphic novel and a game I might play on my Nintendo DS (or a graphical version of the interactive fiction games made famous by Zork and Infocom). Dusk World ) ($5.99) doesn't list an author and has apparently been created by Amazon themselves.

Book Description
Which path will you choose? It's up to you to claim your destiny...

Dusk World is an interactive story for Kindle devices that combines interactivity with a graphic novel. The story takes place in Dusk City and combines crime, mystery, superhero and classic noir elements to create a vivid landscape full of colorful characters for you to interact with. The choices you make as Agent Patriot will lead you down different paths that determine the fate of both Dusk City and the world, not to mention Agent Patriot himself.

As Agent Patriot - super-powered chameleon, reformed mob enforcer, war hero, convict framed for double murder - you must explore the gritty underworld of Dusk City in an effort to clear your name and find out who set you up. Not only can you read and enjoy the captivating escapades of Agent Patriot, but you can experience them firsthand in this thrilling initial installment of the Living Tales series.

Please note: Dusk World contains content that may be inappropriate for children.

Update on Free Books (Sony/nook)

If you missed these books in the Kindle store Monday (or need EPUB instead), be sure to get over to the B&N, Kobo or Sony store quickly, as they are now free there (but no longer free on Kindle):

• Conspiracy in Kiev, by Noel Hynd
• Unwrapping Christmas, by Lori Copeland
• Jed and Roy McCoy, A Christmas Story, by Andrew McDonough (B&N, Sony only)
• Natalie Wants a Puppy, by Dandi Daley Mackall

This one never managed to get to free on Kindle, but was (and is) free in the B&N store. For those wanting straight EPUB, it's now free in the Sony store, as well:

• Divanomics: How to Still be Fabulous When You're Broke, by Michelle McKinney Hammond

This one is still free on Kindle and is now free at B&N:

• The Great Secret, by L. Ron Hubbard

Half-Price Sale at Kobo

Kobobooks.com is celebrating it's one-year anniversary and is offering a 1/2 price coupon on any non-Agency book (anything that already shows any discount at all and all from Smashwords should be eligible). They've got a great list of suggestions right on the home page, but I've already used the coupon on a book not on the list. This is a one-time use coupon, so you might want to make it count; after you've used it, though, there is still Holiday30 for 30% off (Dec 14 only) and save25kobo for 25% off (until Dec 15), each of which can be used an unlimited number of times..

After you click on the $ Buy Now button (and log in, if you haven't already), then click on the blue YES button just underneath the REDEEM ANY GIFT CARDS OR PROMO CODES section. Use coupon code 1stbirthday, click on Apply and verify your total before completing the purchase. If you've picked an agency priced book or already used the code, you'll see an error message and the order total won't be adjusted.

Also, I see that they have finally added the ability to not only set up gift cards (or send them to other people), but have also added the ability to send a book as a gift. I haven't tried it out yet, so I don't know if the coupons work on those (let me know, if you do).