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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Get $20 Off Select Vehicle GPS (KSO)

Update: This offer is back on my Kindle. Looks like it expired after only six hours, rather than the 4 days it should have and Amazon figured out how to send it back out, with proper dates. So, if you were wanting a new GPS, be sure to sign up before it disappears again!

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 should see this new offer:

Get $20 Off Select Vehicle GPS

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 25.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Special Offer GPS page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until July 25 to complete your purchase. 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.

This particular offer, I wasn't sure if I would take advantage of (I have GPS on my phone and in my car, but hubby keeps wanting to upgrade his handheld GPS). Not that it matters, as this one appeared on my View Special Offers page, but once I clicked on it, I received an error message that the offer materials were no longer available. I don't know if it downloaded with a bad ending date and thought the offer had expired or if some of the offer files didn't download properly. In any case, my "choice" was limited to clicking OK and then the offer disappeared from the list. If this happens to you, be sure to call Kindle support (having this happen isn't on their list of "things that can go wrong" on the KSO offers, so they wrote up a ticket to send to their marketing and tech depts). For my trouble (and rather long times on hold), I did get a $20 credit on my account ... which I can use on anything at Amazon, not just the GPS!

Two Free Books (nook/noDRM) - The Message

Both Barnes and Noble and ChristianBook have two free titles in The Message series by Eugene H. Peterson this morning, Both are produced by Christian publisher NavPress. One of the two isn't on Kindle and the the other, The Book of Proverbs, is $1.59. If you pick these up from ChristianBook, you'll get a DRM-free EPUB, which is easily converted for Kindle via Calibre. (ChristianBook / B&N)

Book Description
Updated in a riveting, modern paraphrase, let this practical wisdom transform your life--at home, at work, at play.

"A manual for living, for learning what's right and just and fair." --Proverbs 1:3 The Bible isn't just about getting people into heaven. That's part of it, but that's not the whole story. The Proverbs represent God's "manual for living"--for practical, everyday living. These truths teach us how to honor God with our words, our work, and our money; there's advice on how to handle temptation and gain wisdom. Rephrased from the original Hebrew into a riveting, modern language, the Proverbs resound with uncompromising insight into real life.


The Book of Psalms (ChristianBook / B&N)

Book Description
The ancient hymns, poems, and prayers found in the Psalms teach us how to communicate with God. As Eugene Peterson writes, this book "gives us a language adequate for responding to the God who speaks to us." Translated directly from the original Hebrew, the Psalms come alive in the heart-stirring words of The Message.

"I hold on to you for dear life." --Psalm 63:8 The ancient hymns, poems, and prayers found in the Psalms teach us how to communicate with God. As Eugene Peterson writes, this book "gives us a language adequate for responding to the God who speaks to us." Translated directly from the original Hebrew, the Psalms come alive in the heart-stirring words of The Message. Read them, pray them, and hold on to them for dear life.

Free Book (noDRM) - The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale

The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale ($2.39 Kindle), by Christine Bell, is free as a DRM-free EPUB from Carina Press, today only.

Book Description
I'm a time pirate—born in 1810, now a 21st-century woman. I travel through time trying to right wrongs without disrupting the fragile balance between what is and what can never be.

That's why it's vital that I go to 1836 and find the man who conned my brother out of his Time Travel Mechanism as quickly as possible. If the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could change the world as we know it. The notorious Duke of Leister definitely qualifies as the wrong hands. An amateur scientist of the slightly mad variety, he's bound to figure out how to use the TTM sooner rather than later.

I knew this wouldn't be easy. But I wasn't counting on him being as sexy as hell. Or winding up chained to his bed...


Click HERE to get the free book from Carina Press. Use coupon code TWISTEDFREE during checkout to drop the price to $0.00 before completing checkout (you should not have to enter any payment info). If you are having problems with the coupon code, try cutting and pasting the code, rather than typing it in, making sure you don't have a space at either end of the code. Also, check the time - these coupons are ONE DAY ONLY and the company cuts them off at midnight where they are (eastern time, US).

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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).