New Kindle Game - Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz

Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz ($1.99, by HandyX, is a new game in the Kindle store.

Game Description
Whether you like Shakespeare, are interested in history or just love a good story, this game challenges you on all things Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's works come to life in this engaging title where you can match lines with plays and plays with lines, fill in missing words to famous quotes, identify characters, and guess plays from clever clues. And it's not just about lines and plays. You will also be asked questions about life in Elizabethan England, and even some questions about modern interpretations of Shakespeare's classic plays.

Filled with 1000 questions, you can just dive right in and start answering them, or you can play Round by Round, in which you must get at least 5 of 10 questions correct to move on to the next round of 10 questions. You can always come back to a game in progress, and the Quiz Progress screen will let you know your highest round cleared and how many of the 1000 questions you've answered correctly. So whether you long for a challenge and want to play under the pressure of a timer or just a beginner seeing how far you can get, this multiple choice quiz will inspire and entertain.

Test your knowledge of the Bard on your Kindle today!

Free Book (nook) - Dark Legacy

Dark Legacy ($2.99 Kindle), the first in the Legacy series by Anna DeStefano, is free from Barnes and Noble (it was free on Kindle this past May).

Book Description
Maddie Temple finds her life spiraling out of control as the mental link she shares with her twin sister pushes her closer and closer toward madness and her only hope for redemption lies with a psychiatrist who could end her career.

Click HERE for the free book from B&N.

Free Book (ADE-PDF) - Spiral Jetta

The University of Chicago Press' free book this month is Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West ($9.99 Kindle), by Erin Hogan.

Book Description
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey.

A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get link to an .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the EPUB book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF and is not compatible with the Kindle.

Buy a "Humor" Book for $1 (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers:

Buy one of 100 Humor titles for $1

To take advantage of this offer:

1. First, turn on your Kindle with Special Offers, click Menu, then View Special Offers.
2. Find the offer: Buy one of 100 Humor titles for $1. Click on it, then on the link to Email Me This Offer. Repeat for each KSO on your account, as you'll get a separate code for each one and can take advantage of this deal more than once.
3. You will get an email from Amazon with your promotional code, right away.
4. Once you have the promotion code (and have selected your book; see below), click this link, then on the button labeled Enter Your Code, at any time up to the expiration date of September 4.
5. Enter your code and follow the directions.
6. Choose any of these books and you'll pay only $1.

You'll have a promotion code on your account that will apply to the FIRST book you buy (from the list) after that. Note that even if the book is free, you'll pay a dollar, so be careful which one you pick after you enter the code -- make sure you don't grabbing a low cost title by accident, which can happen if you apply the code right away, before you are ready to buy the book. Current prices range from $4.79 to $15.30. You should save the code and not enter it until you are ready to buy a book.

To recap: you must claim the offer by August 4 and must do so from your Kindle with Special Offers. You'll get a promotion code via email and you have until September 4 to enter and redeem the code. Once you enter it, it will work on the next book on the list that you purchase.

There is new language on the offer page that says that Amazon can modify or withdraw this offer at any time - I suspect because a few of the books on the last offer were pulled by the publishers before the offer period was up. So, I would not count on waiting until the last day, if there is a title you see that you really want. There is at least one volume of poetry (Ogden Nash), mixed in, so you might want to scan the full set of titles, even if you are not a big Humor fan. Between the current offers and the pile of free books this morning, I think I'll slink off and read for the rest of the afternoon. Maybe I'll even get thru the samples I have downloaded and read one of the books!

Save $40 on a Printer (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers:

Save $40 on select printers from Amazon.com

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on August 4.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Special Offer page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until September 4 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).

This offer can be used more than once per account, so long as you have more than one KSO registered. Just click on the ad on each device to receive the individual promotion codes via email.

The choices on this offer are a bit limited, but all the printer types are represented and by clicking on the individual links of the offer page, you can see all of each type of printer at one time. If you were about to replace a printer anyway (or buy one for a student going off to school), you could look at this as a $40 discount on a new KSO, if you don't already have one, so long as you get it 2nd day or faster and sign up before the deadline.

Combine this with the offer of $100 off a combined purchase of a Toshiba laptop and a Canon printer for even greater savings. Some printers will also come with an MP3 credit, as do a number of other electronics items (see list).