A number of books that were free only on Kindle are now free from a number of other stores the publisher in EPUB and PDF formats. Here's a list to the posts with links for the available formats.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Read an eBook Week 2011 (Tuesday Update)
- The free book at Dorrance today is Sylvia Klope Eller's The Squirrel Who Hitchhiked to Atlanta (short story)
- The free book at Rose Dog Books Christina Sterling's What Makes a Sandwich (short story)
- The free book at Red Lead Books is Ruth Pallock's Mr. Fenly Frog (short story)
- The free book at ireadiwrite today is Geoff Moeller's All In God's Time, My Sons.
- Imajinnbooks has added the two new books for today (My Lord Viking and Winged Victory) and fixed the older PDF listings to be free (they were at $6). be sure to click NEXT at the bottom of the page to find the 2nd book for today. If you are late finding this deal, all six books so far are still free.
- DigBooks Cafe has eight books you can download free this month (scroll down the page a bit, to the March Specials section). You can pick up PDF (convert via Amazon, lit (best choice to convert via Calibre) or html (no cover art).
- R. Scot Johns is giving away drm-free copies of The Saga of Beowulf, Part I: The Land of Death & Shadow, if you either subscribe to his newsletter or friend him on facebook (both forms have a place for comments, where you can let him know what format you want). If you sign up, tell him Books on the Knob sent you (and, hey, I'll get the 2nd book in the series free!).
- Kobobooks.com
has their $1 off coupon going again. It says "selected books"
, but I generally get these to work on any non-Agency titles. The code mar8ww1 is valid today thru March 10; you can get many of the 99 cent short stories or novels by indie authors for free or get a decent discount on books that are under $5; ebookweek2011 gives you 15% and is a better coupon for some more expensive titles. I picked up a couple by Amanda Hocking for free and you can get Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants
for $5.29, Richard Castle's Heat Wave
for $3.99, Sarah Bower's Sins of the House of Borgia
for $1.39 or Elizabeth Chadwick's To Defy a King
for $1.39 or several titles in the Guardians Of Ga'Hoole
series for $3.69, using the $1 off coupon (or get them all; it's an unlimited use coupon).
- [e-reads] has two free books you can download in PDF form: To Tame a Duke by Patricia Grasso and Fool’s Gold (Reid Bennett) by Ted Wood.
- Vanilla Heart Publishing still has a free giveaway of their Valentine's Day anthology.
- While you are digging thru Smashwords, be sure to look for backlist books that a number of authors are now re-publishing on their own (these are traditionally published books, in paper, that are now in e-format and self-published). Authors doing this include Patricia Ryan, Doranna Durgin and Kevin J Anderson (yes, the very one that co-authored a number of DUNE volumes) and I noticed several with discounts for this week.
Free Book (EPUB/Mobi/nook) - The Fortunes Of War
The Fortunes Of War: Four Great Battles Of World War II (out of print), by Andrew A Rooney (aka Andy Rooney), is free over on the B&N website. No doubt this was done just so he could make a point during his 60 Minutes commentary this last week and there is no telling how long it will remain free. I opened it up in nookStudy and it is 124 pages, two columns per page and there are a few areas where it looks like you get hieroglyphics instead of text (around some photos). He says this was his first published book (at $7.50 for a Hardcover), but there is no info on the Kindle or B&N sites as to the content. Rather obviously, from the title, it's a look at four battles during WWII and does include some maps and illustrations. I did manage to find one review, from 1962, in Harper's magazine, but could not read it (it's only available to subscribers). A little more digging located the book on the Internet Archives and Kobo. Originally published by Little and Brown, it's now free in many formats and all of them look like OCR'd scans that haven't been corrected.Click HERE for the free download from B&N.
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Click HERE for the free download from the Internet Archive (there is a Kindle compatible edition there).
Monday, March 7, 2011
New Kindle Game - Word Soup
Word Soup ($2.99), by Fuzzy Bug Interactive. Like all active content so far, requires an updated K2/KDX or any K3 and only available to those in the US.Game Description
Word Soup is a word search game with a tactical twist.
Create words within the grid of scrambled letters. Each word created is removed from the grid and the letters above fall into the gaps left behind, creating new word combinations. With careful play, letters can be strategically brought into play and used to create longer words. You score bonus points if you can successfully clear the grid of all letters. The starting grid is randomly generated, so no two games should ever be the same.
Word Soup offers two modes of play: 'Relaxed' - for those who like to take their time and try to create the longest words, and 'Timed' - where players can test themselves against the clock to see how they score under pressure. Your 'Longest Word', 'Highest Scoring Word', 'Words Made' and 'Total Score' stats are all tracked. Word Soup can be played in Portrait, as well as Landscape view.
If you like word games, you'll love Word Soup.
Read an eBook Week 2011 (Monday Update)
- The free book at Dorrance today is Helmuth Jordan's Fehlschlag Euro (in German).
- The free book at Rose Dog Books today is Nick Yancy's Not In My Country.
- The free book at Red Lead Books today is Dianne M. Hamre Dobrin's A Cameo Collection.
- The free book at ireadiwrite today is Gautam Sen's The Fantabulous Fens.
- Imajinnbooks will be adding two books a day as free downloads; just be careful as some of the earlier books may still appear on the page and not be free in all formats.
- Xcite, an erotica publisher in the UK, is giving everyone a free ebook from a list of eight. To get the book, first Register for an account (no credit card info is required), then click on the banner on the front page. Pick one of the eight books selected and cick on Add to Cart. You will see a message:
Our congratulations! You've been given the following promotion: Read an eBook Week promotion
Click on Checkout, then Continue, and in step 4, you should see a $0.00 total after discount. Click to complete your order, then on Downloads on the right side of the page. It looks like DRM-free PDF and EPUB are the two file formats supported (you can download either or both). - Samhain is giving away Nate, by Beth Williamson, on their site in multiple formats (it' also still free in the Kindle store).
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