Additional formats on free books:
If you have an Android Phone or an iPhone (or iPad, I suppose), Amazons is running a special deal tomorrow - use their
Price Check app to check a price in Electronics, Toys, Sports, Music, or DVDs (with location info enabled) and optionally let Amazon know the store price, putting up to three items into your cart using the Price Check app. If you purchase the item within 24 hours, you'll get 5% off (up to $5 each) at checkout. The promotion actually starts tonight (to hit midnight on east coast) and runs all day: starts 9:00 pm (PST) December 9, 2011 and ends 11:59 pm (PST) December 10, 2011.
This won't work with your Kindle Fire, though, as you don't have location services and the Amazon branded app won't install on the fire (although if you have rooted it, you might get the one from the Android Market running, I'm not sure if the lack of location services might not be an issue).
I checked
today's 10 cent apps over in the Google Market and none of them are marked down at Amazon (yet - I reported the lower price on several); the good news was that I already had several of them in my Amazon library (from past free App of the Day finds), which only left four that I was really interested in -- they'll still play on my tablet or phone (or on the Kindle Fire, if I ever get around to rooting it, which looks fairly easy). If you are into games, it looks like
Jakyl, makers of one of today's featured apps, has all their paid apps marked down to 99 cents for the 10BN sale (just in the Google market, though).
Book Description
All She Ever Wanted (
$1.49), by Barbara Freethy, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author comes a romantic and suspenseful story of three best friends and a terrible, life-changing secret.
She was their closest friend, or so they thought -- until years later, when her secrets send them on a perilous search for the truth about who she really was ... and why she died ...
Ten years ago, during a party gone out of control, beautiful, vibrant Emily plummeted to her death, leaving her three best friends and sorority sisters -- Natalie, Laura and Madison -- devastated. None of them has ever forgotten that night -- or the role each may have played in Emily's death, the guilt that has pursued them, and the loss they still suffer.
Now an unknown writer has rocketed onto bestseller lists with a novel that eerily mirrors their own story. Who is he? How does he know the intimate details of their lives? And why is he accusing one of them of murder? As they begin to unravel the startling truth about their friend, each will rediscover a love she lost long ago and uncover secrets that will forever change her life...
The Graveyard Book (
$1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell (Illustrator), is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $7.99).
Book Description
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?
Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.
A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life (
$3.75 Kindle,
B&N), by Jon Kabat-Zinn, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, the book continues to change lives.
The author of Full Catastrophe Living explains how anyone can use mindfulness--the art of living each moment fully as it happens--to reduce anxiety, achieve inner peace, and enrich life, offeing the most enlightening exploration yet of the principles of mindfulness--the ancient Buddhist method of stress reduction. Kabat-Zinn blends stories, anecdotes, poems, images, and scientific observations with easily followed instructions in the art of "capturing" the present and living fully within each moment in order to achieve inner peace.
Skipped Parts, the first title in the GroVont Trilogy by Tim Sandlin, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and Sony. Right now, you can also pick up the next title in the series, Sorrow Floats, for $1.64 (Kindle) and the third, Social Blunders, for $6.76 (Kindle; $6.56 Kobo
