Music Deals

Holiday MP3 Album deals (some may be repeats)

• Christmas Piano Masterpieces, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• Christmas Hymns & Carols, by Christian Faith Singers & Orchestra ($0.99)
• Big Christmas Box, by Vanguard Classics ($0.99; 13+ hours classical)
• The 99 Most Essential Christmas Piano, by X5 Music Group($0.99)
• 99 Must-Have Christmas Meditation Classics, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• Christmas Pickins: A Banjo Christmas, by Lifestyles Records ($1.29)
• Celtic Christmas, by Celtic Christmas($1.99)
• The 99 Most Essential Christmas Masterpieces (Amazon Exclusive), by Various artists ($1.99)
• Gregorian Christmas, by CantArte Regensburg & Hubert Velten ($1.99)
• Christmas With The Mormon Tabernacle Choir ($2.99)
• 99 Must-Have Christmas Classics, by Cobra Entertainment ($3.99)
• Christmas In The Sand, by Colbie Caillat ($3.99)
• Christmas with Scotty McCreery ($3.99)
• A Blue Collar Christmas, by Slidawg And The Redneck Ramblers ($5.49; as you can guess from the cover, this one is non-traditional)
• 100% Christmas - The Greatest Artists 100 Hits, by Vista Music ($5.99)
• NOW Today's Christmas, by Various artists ($5.99)
• 75 Christmas Songs Remembering Children's Favourites and Junior Choice for Kids of All Ages (Some Weird and Wacky!), by Various artists ($5.99)

And some not-so-holiday bargain albums

• Healing Piano Music for Massage, Meditation, Reiki, 7 Chakras, Relaxation & Better Sleep, by Steven Cravis ($0.99; listen while practicing with today's free book!)
• The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe, by DENON Classics($0.99)
• 50 Must-Have Beethoven Masterpieces, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• 50 Must-Have Strauss Family Masterpieces, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• 50 Must-Have Handel Masterpieces, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• 50 Must-Have Tchaikovsky Masterpieces, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• 100 Must-Have Waltz & Dance Classics, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• Orchestral Suites, by Cobra Entertainment ($0.99)
• Brandenburg Concertos, by Berlin Chamber Orchestra & Peter Wohlert ($0.99)
• St. John's Passion, by Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra ($0.99)
• St. Matthew's Passion, by Jeunesses Musicales Chorus ($0.99)
• Thanksgiving - Great Chrisitian Hymns Collection, by Christian Gospel Choir ($0.99)
• 40 Must-Have Favorite Hymns: I Stand Amazed, by Christian Gospel Choir ($0.99)
• A Salute to America, by 101 Strings Orchestra ($1.89)
• 50 Must-Have Violin Concertos, by Cobra Entertainment ($1.99)
• Meditation: Classical Relaxation, by Cobra Entertainment ($1.99)
• Big Gustav Leonhardt Box The Bach Guild Recordings 1952-1955, by Gustav Leonhardt ($2.79; 8+ hrs, 144 selections)
• 100 Must-Have Piano Concertos, by Cobra Entertainment ($2.99)

Be sure to check for any credits, now and then - Amazon is giving away Movie Credits for those with prime that let their items ship slower than 2-day and also MP3 credits with various items, including many Kindle accessories.

Now, if only 100 Christmas Blues - Songs to Get You Through the Cold would drop in price...

Today's Deals

It's CyberMonday, but try to remember to do a little work in between the shopping!

Today Only, Amazon has the Kindle Fire (not HD) for $129 ($30 off); enter coupon code FIREDEAL during checkout (no one-clicking). Limit one per customer/account. Be sure to order the charger at the same time (see box at top/right of product page), so you get it for half off.

Amazonlocal has another Kindle deal today: a voucher for 30% off all Kindle accessories. As before, you have to check out at Amazonlocal, but won't be charged. Then wait for your voucher code to be ready and enter it during checkout.

Tantor managed to get their servers rebooted and now has a $4.99 sale on ALL downloaded audiobooks! No codes, nearly 2,000 choices.

Kobo has an 80% off coupon for all Open Road titles and it appears to be good more than once: 80Cyber . If you manage to get thru that list, then you can use 50Cyber for 50% off selected non-agency titles.

O'Reilly has 50% off on All Ebooks & Videos and 60% on orders greater than $100; use discount code CYBERDAY. Print books not included

Mundania Press, originally set up to print some of Piers Anthony's non-traditionally published works, but now with a large author selection, is having a 50% off sale which ends today. Use coupon code BLACKFRIDAY during checkout.

Samhain Publishing has a 40% off Cyber Monday sale using the coupon code CYBERMONDAY.

Today only, get a 50% rebate on ALL eligible titles at Allromance & Omnilit (including HarperCollins titles).

ChiZine Publication is running a 50% off sale for a large portion of their catalog. Sale prices are shown in red, no coupon needed.

B&N is giving away a $20 gift card with purchase of select Nook devices (if you use Mastercard). If you don't mind a refurbished unit, 1SaleaDay has the nook tablet for $99 (their 2nd gen unit).

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Girl's Best Friend ($1.99), by Leslie Margolis.

Book Description
Dogs are disappearing in her neighborhood, and Maggie Brooklyn Sinclair knows all about it. After all, she has a semi-secret after-school gig as a professional (ok, amateur) dog-walker. Maggie hates to see a pup in trouble, so she's even willing to help her ex-best friend Ivy recover her rescue-dog, Kermit. Kermit's being held for ransom, and Maggie has noticed some suspicious behavior lately. But she never suspected her crush Milo could be involved . . .

Leslie Margolis's pitch-perfect voice and rich characters have endeared her to tweens, and her fans will flock to this hip new series featuring a clever and lovable new heroine, Maggie Brooklyn.

Grade Level: 3 and up

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Save 80% or More on Kindle Books, with thousands included. It looks like Open Road, at the least, with many prices comparable (but often a bit higher) than the Kobo prices, using the coupon above (and Amazon keeps adding books and has done some price matching). There are way to many to list, so click the link and explore by genre. I know I will be (and I'll need a new gift certificate, I can tell already).


The Pure ($1.19 / £1.91 UK), by Jake Wallis Simons, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).

Book Description
Buckle up… there’s a new Bourne in town. The time is now. The place is London. Meet Uzi, a disaffected, deadly ex-Mossad agent with revenge on his mind. When he gives details of a top-secret Israeli assassination operation to WikiLeaks, he makes himself a sworn enemy of the Mossad. But a mysterious, sexy woman known as Liberty is becoming strangely interested in him. Meanwhile, Iran is getting ever closer to building a nuclear weapon . . . What follows threatens to change the power balance of the Middle East and endanger the security of the world. The Pure is a high-octane, action-packed, adrenaline-pumping espionage thriller. Read it. Now.

In the Woods ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle, where the companion audiobook is $3.95 or $4.95 on Audible's current sale, even without buying the Kindle book first.

Book Description
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.

Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones. And look for French's new mystery, Broken Harbor, for more of the Dublin Murder Squad.

Audiobooks Sales

Audible has 100 Audiobooks on sale for $4.95 apiece (it's likely limited just to those with subscriptions). So long as the "regular" price shown on them is over $14.95, these will count towards your Buy 4, get $10 Listening Rewards for the month, too.

Blackstone Audio is moving their retail site to a new domain, Downpour.com; they have several sales going on, with some classics up to 90% off and over 200 more audiobooks at 40% off.

Tantor Media is also having a 50% off sale this weekend, but currently their server is down. Hopefully they'll get it back up by later this evening.

Get a Holiday MP3 Album for $1.99

Thru Tuesday, or until they sell out, you can get a Free Voucher to Purchase One Top Holiday Title for $1.99 on Amazon MP3 at AmazonLocal. You do have to go thru a "purchase", which means having a credit card on file, but you aren't charged for the voucher itself. Once your voucher is ready, you open it (at AmazonLocal), apply it to your account, then go shopping for one of the eligible titles in the Amazon MP3 store. Click to buy the MP3 album and you'll only be charged $1.99.

Various rules apply, including that your must be a US customer at Amazon and the voucher expires if not used by Dec 2.

If you wish to give an album as a gift, the credit will be applied; you can see it on the very last page before you finalize the order (unlike with book gifts, any gift balance is used first). I also suggest you first check your credit balance in the MP3 store (you can do this on any song or album, there is a link just under the buy button) and use up any existing credits first, so that they don't try to mix with the voucher. I've had trouble with this in the past and had to get Amazon involved in order to get my credits back.

Today's Deals

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is My Mother Was Nuts ($1.99), by Penny Marshall; the companion audiobook is $4.99.

Book Description
Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don’t know is her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir, Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955 to Hollywood’s star-studded sets, offering up some hilarious detours along the way.My Mother Was Nuts is an intimate backstage pass to Penny’s personal life, her breakout role on The Odd Couple, her exploits with Cindy Williams and John Belushi, and her travels across Europe with Art Garfunkel on the back of a motorcycle. We see Penny get married. And divorced. And married again (the second time to Rob Reiner). We meet a young Carrie Fisher, whose close friendship with Penny has spanned decades. And we see Penny at work with Tom Hanks, Mark Wahlberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert De Niro, and Whitney Houston.Throughout it all, from her childhood spent tap dancing in the Bronx, to her rise as the star of Laverne & Shirley, Penny lived by simple rules: “try hard, help your friends, don’t get too crazy, and have fun.” With humor and heart, My Mother Was Nuts reveals there’s no one else quite like Penny Marshall.

Taliban ($1.91 / £1.19 UK), by Ahmed Rashid, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
The American bombing of terrorist bases in Afghanistan under the protection of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement has brought the Taliban into sharp focus as the most radical and extreme Islamic movement in the world today. Little is known about the Taliban because of the deep secrecy that surrounds their political movement, their leaders and their aims.

The geo-strategic implications of the Taliban are already creating severe instability in Russia, Iran and the five Central Asian republics where the Taliban have become a major player in the new Great Game, as Western countries and companies compete to build oil and gas pipelines from Central Asia to Western and Asian markets.

The Taliban's implementation of their extreme interpretation of Islam poses new challenges to the Muslim world and the West’s understanding of radical Islam in the post-Cold War era.

Cake Pops: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes for Irresistible Mini Treats ($9.99 $2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Bakerella, is the Nook Daily Find. Update: Now price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
What's cuter than a cupcake? A cake pop, of course! Wildly popular blogger Bakerella (aka Angie Dudley) has turned cake pops into an international sensation! Cute little cakes on a stick from decorated balls to more ambitious shapes such as baby chicks, ice cream cones, and even cupcakes these adorable creations are the perfect alternative to cake at any party or get-together. Martha Stewart loved the cupcake pops so much she had Bakerella appear on her show to demonstrate making them. Now Angie makes it easy and fun to recreate these amazing treats right at home with clear step-by-step instructions and photos of more than 40 featured projects, as well as clever tips for presentation, decorating, dipping, coloring and melting chocolate, and much more.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Three "Horrid Henry" Books by Francesca Simon for $0.99 apiece.

Francesca Simon is one of the world's best-loved children's authors and winner of the Galaxy Book Award in the United Kingdom. Each book in her best-selling Horrid Henry chapter book series contains four easy-to-read stories with hilarious illustrations by Tony Ross, and today only they're just $0.99 each (80% off).

Grade Level: 2 and up

Horrid Henry

Horrid Henry and his neighbor Moody Margaret decide to make the most sloppy, slimy, sludgy, sticky, smelly, gooey, gluey, gummy, greasy, gloppy glop possible. Is it the best glop in the world or the worst thing that's ever happened to them? Plus three other stories so funny we can't even mention them here.

Horrid Henry's Underpants

Horrid Henry makes a deal with his parents in return for eating his veggies; accidentally wears girls' underwear to school; tries to prove he is sicker than his brother; and writes the meanest thank-you cards ever (and makes money on it too)

Horrid Henry Rocks

Henry is up to his usual mischief: annoying his younger brother, ruining Moody Margaret's sleepover, and irritating his teacher, Mrs. Battleaxe-not to mention trying to manipulate his family into seeing his favorite band-the Killer Boy Rats.