Free Book (EPUB) - How to Be a Gentleman

How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners ($8.54 Kindle), by John Bridges, is free from Kobo as part of a Father's Day promotion (expires June 28), courtesy of Christian publisher Zondervan.

Book Description
How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners is the revised and updated edition of the smash-hit How to Be a Gentleman and offers practical advice on being a gentleman in the twenty-first century.

Should you take your BlackBerry on vacation? What is the best way to accept a compliment? Is an e-mail an acceptable means of writing a Thank-You note? While the tenets of gracious behavior never change, the situations a gentleman faces do and have changed significantly in the last ten years. In this revised, updated, and expanded version of the bestselling How to Be a Gentleman, Bridges addresses new issues such as airport security, Bluetooth and BlackBerry usage, and appropriate internet and instant message communication. Still featured are topics ranging from how to receive a compliment to how to act at funerals. Certain to be the must-have guide for the modern gentleman, this revised edition will echo the success of its predecessor.

Click HERE to get the free book from Kobo. Be sure to use coupon code GENTLEMAN and double check the total after clicking Apply; if it's anything other than $0.00 when you click Buy, that's what you'll pay (and it can be difficult to get a refund from Kobo, just like most non-Amazon ebookstores).

Free Book (noDRM) - Demon's Fall

Demon's Fall ($2.39 Kindle), by Karalynn Lee, is free as a DRM-free EPUB from Carina Press, today only.

Book Description
She was an angel at the gates of Hell.

When Kenan, an incubus, finds a caged angel for sale in the Hellsgate marketplace, he sees her as a challenge. Certain that his skills in seduction will work as well on a heavenly creature as they do on mortal women, he buys Jahel, intent on having her soul as a novelty in his collection.

Knowing he must gain Jahel's trust if she is to come to his bed willingly, Kenan treats her more as his guest than as his slave. When she reveals what brought her to the mouth of Hell in the first place—retrieving the soul of a young girl she was guarding—he even offers to help her complete her mission.

Though he has promised Jahel freedom, Kenan soon realizes she has captured his heart instead. And as their passion for one another grows, they find themselves caught in a struggle between Heaven and Hell, one that will lead them to the very edge of the apocalypse...

Click HERE to get the free book from Carina Press. Use coupon code DEMONFREE during checkout to drop the price to $0.00 before completing checkout (you should not have to enter any payment info).

KSO Offers Update and Video Game Day at Amazon

First, for all of those that didn't get the $20 off $30 Tools offer (and a few that didn't get the $20 gift card offer that I heard from), go check your offers again this morning. It took a few days to get a reply from Amazon, but here is what they said when I complained about being skipped on an offer:

... In general, the special offers are updated regularly when your Kindle is connected wirelessly and sent to all our customers with no individual restrictions....

So, the offers should go to everyone, not to selected owners (as happened with this offer). Frankly, I think they may have done this on purpose, to see if anyone noticed, but it could have been a glitch at their end that "forgot" to send this offer to anyone who had had their KSO for more than a couple of weeks. In any case, this morning my KSO finally downloaded the Tools offer (it has WiFi on all the time and I checked it late last night before turning in). Today is the last day to sign up for that offer, so be sure to check your KSO if you want to get in on it (we have a month to use the credit, but only today to sign up).

The other big news this morning is that it appears to be Video Game Day for Amazon's Gold Box and Lightning Deals today. They have a great deal on the Xbox 360 Console with Kinect ($299.99), which comes with a $100 credit today (only). I like several of the exercise and other games on Kinect (hey, I can beat the pro bowler in the house using the bowling game!). The first game up in the Lightning Deals is for the Wii, but I see both XBox and PS3 represented in the upcoming selections.

Get a $100 Credit
Order the Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect and receive a $100 promotional credit toward the purchase of items shipped and sold by Amazon.com (certain exclusions apply, including Kindle books, MP3s, and video rentals and downloads). The promotional credit will be added directly to your Amazon.com account within two days after your order ships. Limit one per household. Offer valid when shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Amazon reserves the right to change or terminate this promotion at any time.

Free Book (noDRM) - The Debutante's Dilemma

The Debutante's Dilemma ($2.39 Kindle), by Elyse Mady, is free as a DRM-free EPUB from Carina Press, today only.

Book Description
One woman in search of passion

Miss Cecilia Hastings has achieved what every young lady hopes for during her first London season...in duplicate! She’s caught the eye of not one but two of England’s most eligible bachelors. Both Jeremy Battersley, Earl of Henley, and Richard Huxley, Duke of Wexford, are handsome, wealthy and kind, the epitome of proper gentlemen. But Cecilia doesn’t want proper, she wants passion. So she issues a challenge to her suitors: a kiss, so that she may choose between them.

Two men in love with the same woman

Friends since childhood, and compatriots on the battlefields of Spain, Jeremy and Richard have found that falling for the same woman has set them at odds and risks destroying their friendship forever. But a surprising invitation to a late-night garden tryst soon sets them on a course that neither of them could have anticipated. And these gentlemen quickly discover that love can take many forms...

Click HERE to get the free book from Carina Press. Use coupon code DEBUTANTEFREE during checkout to drop the price to $0.00 before completing checkout (you should not have to enter any payment info).

Get $20 off Power & Hand Tools when you spend $30 (Selected KSO only)

This offer is for those with selected Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers or Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi with Special Offers only. Turn on your wireless, click Menu, Sync & Check for New Items, then on View Special Offers after the sync has completed. You may see this new offer (see comments below):

Get $20 off Power & Hand Tools when you spend $30

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and get an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on June 21.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Power and Hand Tools page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until July 21 to complete your purchase. Details and terms are on this page. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

Once again, this offer can be used more than once per accounts, so long as you have more than one KSO registered:

4. Limit one promotional code per device.

Just click on the ad on each device to receive the individual promotion codes via email.

Some of you won't see this offer (I didn't), no matter how many KSO's you have on your account. This particular offer was only sent to "selected" customers and their KSO's. So, those customers get the offer on each KSO in their account and the rest of us got left out in the cold. So far, no one seems to know how Amazon chose the customers for the offer. Was it just those who are not Amazon Mom's or Students, only male sounding names, those who made certain purchases in the past? I do know that I've had my KSO WiFi since the beginning and have taken advantage of several of their offers (actually, I've had them all sent to my account, so far, I just haven't used them all). I have bought power tools in the past, just not recently (although I have looked at them recently). I have Prime (but not the $80/year version, which may make some difference) and do spend money at Amazon regularly (heck, so do most Kindle customers, but I also buy other things there). None of that apparently qualified me to get this offer. For those that do get the offer, the codes are non-transferable, according to the rules, so you can't get a code and then give it to someone else with a KSO that didn't get this particular offer.

This harkens back to the uproar when it was discovered that Amazon was showing different prices on books to different customers, based on a formula that took buying habits into account. Those of us that agreed to get the Kindle with Ads and Special Offers did so with the understanding that as compensation for putting up with the ads (and I've put up with a lot of Oil of Olay ads, at this point), we would get Special Offers to make up for it -- and that we would all get the same offers, not that some people would get the "good" offers and others would only get a more limited number of generic offers. It probably won't make much difference for this particular offer, but I suggest emailing (or calling or both!) Kindle support if you didn't get this offer and complain. Everyone should get the same offers and judge for themselves if they want to take advantage of them or not; we all paid the same price and put up with the same ads (technically, those who don't get the selected offers, put up with more ads, as we see the ads more often than the offers, which isn't true for those with additional offers). And, it isn't just this offer: once person just received his KSO last Thursday and when he turned it on, he had only the Tools offer and not the $20 for $10 Gift Certificate offer that it seems everyone else received (and which is promoted on the product page and was promised in an Amazon press release).

At least it looks like I will be getting the $10 off offer on video games and possibly two different offers for a $10 off or gift card on Kindle books (I can see those ads already loaded on the Kindle file structure); the product pages are also still claiming that a "$1 for a Kindle book, choose from thousands of books" offer is coming up at some point, as well, so we will hopefully all get that one (even if it won't work on an Agency title).