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There have been several new games added to the Kindle recently, some free and some paid, that are pretty fun. This post lists ten of the most popular Kindle games and puzzles, and this second page lists several more. It turns out that there are a lot more Kindle games and crosswords than I thought.
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Borders just gave everyone a huge incentive to download one of the new Borders apps for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android.
They are giving away 5 free top-selling ebooks that you can’t get free anywhere else. All you have to do is download a free app, sign up an account with an email address and password (you don’t even have to give your home address or credit card), then follow the links below and click “add to library” over on the Borders website.
Then sync whichever app you chose and the ebook will show up in your library. To download the ePub ebook to your computer, you’ll need to go to your Borders account page and then download it from there. This requires Adobe Digital Editions, of course, since the ebooks have DRM.
This offer runs from July 9th through Wednesday, July 14th. So get these free ebooks today!
4 stars, 148 reviews
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz’s Prodigal Son Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death.
He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itselfand that just may be where this case ends up.
For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are moreand lessthan human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniacbut his deranged maker. From the Paperback edition.
4 stars, 153 reviews
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives inno phone, no address, no commitmentsexmilitary investigator Jack Reacher is coming.
In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s arrival will change everythingabout a case that isn’t what it seems, about lives tangled in baffling ways, about a killer who missed one shotand by doing so give Jack Reacher one shot at the truth…. The gunman worked from a parking structure just thirty yards awaypoint-blank range for a trained military sniper like James Barr. His victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But why does Barr want Reacher at his side? There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. But when Reacher hears Barr’s own words, he understands.
And a slam-dunk case explodes. Soon Reacher is teamed with a young defense lawyer who is working against her D.A. father and dueling with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own. Like most things Reacher has known in life, this case is a complex battlefield. But, as always, in battle, Reacher is at his best. Moving in the shadows, picking his spots, Reacher gets closer and closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. And for Reacher, the only way to take him down is to know his ruthlessness and respect his cunningand then match him shot for shot…. From the Hardcover edition.
4.5 stars, 168 reviews
He holds the secret that can end the world. The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty. The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protectsthe Book of Abraham the Mage.
It’s the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That’s exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won’t know what’s happening until it’s too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it. Sometimes legends are true. And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time. From the Hardcover edition.
4.5 stars, 73 reviews
Julia Child has given us answers to these and other questions in the ten masterful volumes she has published over the past 40 years. But which book do you go to for which solution? Now, in this little volume, you can find the answers immediately.
Information is arranged according to subject matter, with ample cross-referencing. How are you going to cook that small rib steak you brought home? You’ll be guided to the quick saute as the best and fastest way. And once you’ve mastered this recipe, you can apply the technique to chop, chicken, or fish, following Julia’s careful guidelines.
And here is equally essential information about soups, vegetables, and eggs, and for baking breads and tarts. It’s all waiting for you in this delicious, priceless, comforting compendium of Julia’s kitchen wisdom.
4 stars, 269 reviews
Does it feel as if you’re fighting your body to lose even one pound – or just to maintain your current weight? Respected health and wellness expert and bestselling author Jillian Michaels has been there, too. So she consulted top experts in the field of metabolism and discovered that she’d inadvertently been abusing her endocrine system for years. After “fixing” her own metabolism, she decided to share what she learned by devising this simple, 3-phase plan that engages all the weight-loss hormones (including the friendly HGH, testosterone, DHEA; and the not-so-friendly: insulin, cortisol, and excess estrogen).
In Master Your Metabolism, discover how to: * REMOVE “anti-nutrients” from your diet * RESTORE foods that speak directly to fat-burning genes * REBALANCE energy and your hormones for effortless weight loss Michaels offers a wealth of information throughout, including: shopping lists and online shopping resources, hormone-trigger food charts, how to eat “power nutrient” foods on a budget, smart strategies for eating out, quick and easy recipes, as well as mini-programs for addressing PMS, andropause, metabolic syndrome, PCOS, and menopause.
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Below is a list of free audiobooks from Audible.com. If you haven’t tried audiobooks before, now’s a good time to try some for free—they’re great to listen to while driving and working.
Audiobooks from Audible work with any computer, all of Apple’s device, the Amazon Kindle, and a laundry list of other PDA’s, cellphones, and other devices.
Another way to get a new free audiobook from Audible is to click the banner to the right and sign up a free trial. There’s no obligation and you can cancel before the free trial ends.
Audible has some other free titles too (interviews and excerpts for the most part) that can be found here.
Note: Sometimes linking to Audible.com’s individual titles seems to stop working after a time. If you get an error message, just copy the book title and paste it into the search box on Audible’s website to find the listing.
3.88 stars, 901 reviews
Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award-winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman.
A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting detective and his narrator friend solve the mystery of a murdered German noble. But with its subtle allusions and surprise ending, this mystery hints that the real fun in solving this case lies in imagining all the details that Gaiman doesn’t reveal, and challenges listeners to be detectives themselves.
Length: 49 minutes – Unabridged
3.63 stars 159 reviews
It was supposed to be a fun day, shopping at the mall with her best friend. Then the panic attack started and Kaylee Cavanaugh finds herself screaming, unable to stop. Her secret fears are exposed, and it’s the worst day of her life….Until she wakes up in the psychiatric unit.
She tries to convince everyone she’s fine – despite the shadows she sees forming around another patient and the urge to scream that comes burbling up again and again.
Everyone thinks she’s crazy. Everyone except Lydia, that is. Another patient with some special abilities….
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes – Unabridged
4.15 stars 517 reviews
The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary best seller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that, in many instances, businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.
Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company’s survival. The costs associated with the growing online economy are trending toward zero at an incredible rate. Never in the course of human history have the primary inputs to an industrial economy fallen in price so fast and for so long.
Just think that in 1961 a single transistor cost $10; now Intel’s latest chip has two billion transistors and sells for $300 (or 0.000015 cents per transistor – effectively too cheap to price). The traditional economics of scarcity just don’t apply to bandwidth, processing power, and hard-drive storage. Yet this is just one engine behind the new Free, a reality that goes beyond a marketing gimmick or a cross-subsidy.
Anderson also points to the growth of the reputation economy; explains different models for unleashing the power of Free; and shows how to compete when your competitors are giving away what you’re trying to sell.
In Free, Chris Anderson explores this radical idea for the new global economy and demonstrates how this revolutionary price can be harnessed for the benefit of consumers and businesses alike.
Length: 7 hours, 2 minutes – Unabridged
3 stars 16 reviews
Yaran Blackencloak, a bard with bad luck and a poor reputation, is ripped violently from his mundane existence when he is tempted into the service of a demon goddess. He gets more than he bargains for, though, for when Yaran tries to return to the life he knew, he finds it permanently, tragically changed.
Length: 1 hour, 11 minutes – Unabridged
no rating
Horrid Henry helps himself to all the money he needs to win his favourite board game. Then he comes up with another spectacular money-making scheme for launching a newspaper with all the school gossip. He vows vengeance on Perfect Peter when Peter nicks his birthday party theme and has his own Pirate Party – and gets it by taking over as Head Teacher when Peter plays school with his goody-goody friends.
Length: 1 hour, 16 minutes – Unabridged
3.07 stars, 72 reviews
In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of “nanny state” policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It’s time for the rules to change. Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes: decent wages, good jobs, and affordable health care.
Length: 6 hours, 31 minutes – Unabridged
2.23 stars 396 reviews
Summer’s Path is the remarkable story of Don Newport, an engineer that comes face to face with his personal destiny under extraordinary circumstances. After losing his job and his health insurance, Don learns he has a terminal disease with only a few months left to live. On his death bed, he meets Robert, a brazen angel of death that promises to help Don with a graceful exit.
As Don prepares to say his last goodbyes to his loving wife, Robert attempts to change Don’s perspective about his mortality and proposes an exceptionally unique option. Robert leads Don through an astounding meditation of life and death and reveals various healing and spiritual concepts including walk-ins, embodiment and soul destiny. On this magical journey of self realization, Don discovers that it’s never too late to learn profound life lessons about ourselves and our loved ones.
Length: 4 hours, 4 minutes – Abridged
(Audiobook images and descriptions via Audible.com)
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The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman is free in both ebook and audiobook form for a limited time from Cemetery Dance Publications, the leading specialty press publisher of horror and dark fiction.
The hardcover is currently available for pre-order from several sites like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and will be released in November.
You may recall, Cemetery Dance is the publisher that released the First Edition Hardcover of Stephen King’s Blockade Billy, becoming the first small press publisher to debut a new Stephen King book in decades.
Aside from publishing books, there’s the Cemetery Dance Magazine, which has been around forever (I used to read it all the time). I found this quote from the CD website very interesting, given the current state of publishing:
“Our flagship magazine, Cemetery Dance, has won every major genre award and is healthier than ever — with a higher newsstand and subscriber circulation than ever before, ever-increasing advertiser support, and a continuing reputation for superb content and design. We’re well-known for publishing the biggest and the brightest stars in the genre, often before they’re discovered by the rest of the world.”
Cemetery Dance Magazine is so popular among contributing authors that it can take well over 1 year just to get an acceptance (the odds are less than 1% so don’t get your hopes up) or rejection letter for a submitted short story.
The ebook below is in PDF format—don’t worry, it’s formatted quite well—and will work on virtually any ebook reader. The ebook includes an exclusive interview with Ray Bradbury: ‘We Have Too Many Inventions!’, an afterword by the author discussing the free ebook promo, an interview with the author by Bram Stoker Award winning author Norman Prentiss, and a coupon for $5 off the hardcover edition at CemeteryDance.com.
Follow the link for the audiobook as well; it streams from the website. The narrator sounds slightly like Adam West. Spooky.
PDF eBook and MP3 Audiobook
When Henry was a child, something terrible happened in the woods behind his home, something so shocking he could only express his terror by drawing pictures of what he had witnessed. Eventually, Henry’s mind blocked out the bad memories, but he continued to draw, often at night by the light of the moon.
Twenty years later, Henry makes his living by painting his disturbing works of art. He loves his wife and his son, and life couldn’t be better… except there’s something not quite right about the old stone farmhouse his family now calls home. There’s something strange living in the cramped cellar, in the maze of pipes that feed the ancient steam boiler.
A winter storm is brewing, and soon Henry will learn the true nature of the monster waiting for him down in the darkness. He will battle this demon and, in the process, he may discover what really happened when he was a child — and why, in times of trouble, he thinks: I paint against the darkness.
But will Henry learn the truth in time to avoid the terrible fate awaiting him… or will the thing in the cellar get him and his family first?
Written as both a meditation on the art of creation and as an examination of the secret fears we all share, The Painted Darkness is a terrifying look at the true cost we pay when we run from our grief — and what happens when we’re finally forced to confront the monsters we know all too well.
Download The Painted Darkness »
The FAQ for the free ebook is funny and informative at the same time. Here’s part of what the author says . . .
Q: But why are you doing this?
A: I decided I really wanted this book to be read by as many people as possible. The Painted Darkness incorporates many of the themes that are important to me and it uses a style that is pretty familiar to my regular readers, so I want to see whether this free download will attract NEW readers to my work in general and help increase sales of the print version thanks to increased word of mouth.
Q: Aren’t you afraid that giving the book away for free will hurt sales of the print edition? Isn’t this a little crazy?
A: Well, we wouldn’t be doing this if I thought that was a serious possibility. I guess it is possible I went crazy and no one could tell the difference? I guess we’ll see.
Q: Are you an idiot?
A: I sure hope not. Would that be better than being crazy?
Q: About the story itself… is this a gory horror story?
A: No, not at all. Although much of my work has dark themes, I think you’ll see that much of the darkness is internal. Blood and guts aren’t my thing. I usually dwell on themes of loss and loneliness and small town life. I think readers of many kinds of fiction will like The Painted Darkness, which is one of the reasons I wanted to try this experiment. If you read the sales copy and the blurbs, you’ll get a pretty good feel for the type of story this is. And did I mention it’s free? Why not download the book and see if you like it?
Source: MobileRead
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Books-A-Million, one of the nation’s leading book retailers with 227 stores in 23 states, is giving away a shiny new Sony PRS-505 each day this month to promote their new ebook store.
In order to win the Sony Reader, you have to purchase an ebook from the Books-A-Million website to be entered into the daily drawings. Or you can send a self-addressed stamped envelope along with your email address to Books-A-Million (the address is listed on the contest rules page).
An interesting note from the contest rules, entries are not carried over to the following day. Meaning you have to enter the contest each day to win. Better odds of winning, but more ebooks to buy or letters to send.
It’s a bit odd that they are giving away an ereader that Sony stopped making about a year ago, but the fact is the Sony PRS-505 is still a highly-coveted ebook reader; many people will probably enter the contest just to try and get one since they are no longer sold in stores and are way over-priced on the web (right now a new 505 is going for $249 on Amazon.com, while the newer 600 with several more features is just $165 on Amazon through Buy.com).
A quick look at the prices for Books-A-Million’s ebooks reveals that quite a few are higher priced than competing ebooks stores. A lot of the main-stream bestsellers are the same price as Amazon and B&N, but some of the general titles appear to be more expensive. However, they have some sort of club to join where you get more $$$ off purchases—not sure if it applies to ebooks or not.
Also, their ebooks are in Adobe EPUB format. And most say they are only available to US and Canadian billing addresses.
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Here’s a list of 10 bestselling free ebooks from B&N. Barnes and Noble ebooks have their own form of DRM encryption that requires the use of Barnes and Noble’s eReader software for iPad, other iProducts, the Blackberry, Mac and PC. B&N ebooks also work on the iRex DR-800, Pandigital Novel, and of course the Nook.
3.5 stars, 126 reviews
Six young men and women are called to protect the living world from the dead in Hieber’s Gothic romance debut. Mysterious powers give Alexi and his peers the mission of keeping the restless dead in line and seeking a prophesied seventh guardian. Miss Percy Parker, an albino orphan with a talent for languages, fills none of their expectations, but Alexi is drawn to her all the same.
Hieber draws Victorian London as beautiful and grim, with depictions of Jack the Ripper as a nightmarish many-headed hound alongside charming descriptions of the Athens Academy, Percy’s boarding school, and Greek mythology that smartly draws together various elements of the story. The supporting characters are nuanced and appealing but given short shrift by the narrow focus on Percy and Alexi, though future sequels may give them more room to play. Hieber’s debut shows great potential, and readers will want to revisit her intriguing world.
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3.5 stars, 469 reviews
One week of mind-blowing sex on a beautiful Caribbean island. Of all the business proposals financial tycoon Dominic Saxon has heard, Taylor Steele’s is definitely the most tempting. All Taylor wants in return is for Dominic to father her baby. No strings, no commitments…just a mutually satisfying arrangement. Make that very satisfying. For a man with no intention of marrying again, it sounds ideal.
Taylor wants a baby, not a relationship. And sexy, intelligent Dominic seems like a man with perfect genes. Turns out, Dominic has perfect everything. Their “procreation vacation” is a whirlwind of sensual ecstasy. But when it’s over, will either of them be able to say goodbye?
3.5 stars, 304 reviews
It was supposed to be a fun day, shopping at the mall with her best friend. Then the panic attack started and Kaylee Cavanaugh finds herself screaming, unable to stop. Her secret fears are exposed and it’s the worst day of her life.
Until she wakes up in the psychiatric unit.
She tries to convince everyone she’s fine–despite the shadows she sees forming around another patient and the urge to scream which comes burbling up again and again. Everyone thinks she’s crazy. Everyone except Lydia, that is. Another patient with some special abilities….
4 stars, 369 reviews
DOWNTRODDEN SERVANT OR GRACIOUS LADY?
When Max, Earl Blakehurst, meets Verity he sees a downtrodden servant. He doesn’t recognize her as the daughter of a colonel under whom he used to serve, the girl he’d once helped years before. The life Verity’s now living is untenable. So he proposes a shocking solution–he will set her up as his mistress.
It’s only once that Verity’s finally agreed, once Max is beginning to lose his heart to her, that he discovers her true identity. Max is taken aback; he would never have suggested this lady become his mistress. Now, to avoid scandal, they’ll have to marry!
2.5 stars, 301 reviews
Linda’s had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike won’t tell her what he did with her body, and she can’t find the stupid thing herself. There’s only one thing she can do – torment the bastard until he coughs up the information.
3 stars, 175 reviews
A Jedi ambush leaves the Sith ship Omen marooned on a remote alien world, its survivors at the mercy of their desolate surroundings and facing almost certain death. But Sith will no more bow before the whims of fate than they will yield to the weapons of their enemies. And Omen’s cunning commander, Yaru Korsin, will let nothing keep him and his crew from returning to the stars and rejoining the Sith order’s conquest of the galaxy. Murdering his own brother has proven Korsin’s ruthless resolve-but now an entire race stands in his way.
The primitive, superstitious Keshiri worship unseen gods called the Skyborn, shun science, and punish unbelievers with death. Branded a heretic, the widowed young geologist Adari Vaal is running for her life. Among the mysterious Sith castaways she finds powerful sanctuary-and her saviors find the means of survival. With Adari as their willing pawn, the Skyborn as their Trojan horse, and the awesome power of the dark side of the Force at their command, the lost tribe of the Omen set out to subjugate a planet and its people-and lay the foundation for a merciless new Sith nation.
4 stars, 251 reviews
This is Maddy Turner’s lucky day. The civilized society girl just bid on sexy rogue Jake Wallace at a charity bachelor auction–and won! But Maddy knows Jake’s dirty little secret. And it should keep her from trying out her new boy toy. Too bad she can’t stop herself from indulging in raw, quite uncivilized sex all the same….
Jake Wallace is utterly bewitched by Maddy–and utterly bewildered. How can this tantalizing woman melt so rapturously under his ministrations one moment, then turn into a haughty queen the next? He’s determined to get to the bottom of Maddy’s agenda. One slow, delicious inch at a time…
3.5 stars, 125 reviews
When Martin Lancaster was eighteen, his father was mysteriously lost at sea during a yacht race. Years later Martin discovers long-lost logbooks in his mother’s attic and vows to find out the truth. But he meets implacable resistance from family, business colleagues and officials, who seem prepared to stop at nothing to prevent him discovering what really happened all those years ago.
4 stars, 218 reviews
Vic has two loves in her life, her cat, Mister, and reading books from her bookstore. Her future looked set, until one night when she’s saved from probable danger by a mysterious stranger. Cole has moved around a lot during his life, never finding a true home, until he buys an old house, and fate steps in to change his future. A light romance with a paranormal twist.
3.5 stars, 201 reviews
The Unsuspecting Mage is the first book in The Morcyth Saga, a new epic fantasy series by Brian S. Pratt. From beginning to end, it’s jammed pact with action & adventure. Not knowing what is going on from the antagonist’s viewpoint gives this book an excitement others lack. An avid reader for years, Mr. Pratt brings his own original slant to the genre that has entertained millions.
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Digital textbooks are becoming more popular with students and universities as paper textbooks cost more and can be cumbersome to carry around everywhere. Below is a list of free textbook websites and digital textbook retailers. Also, make sure to check this earlier post about getting free ebooks from libraries, since there are a lot of options for downloading digital textbooks from schools and universities.
eBooks.com sells more than just fiction. They offer academic ebooks from all the world’s leading scholarly and academic book publishers and have over 50,000 titles to choose from in a wide variety of academic disciplines.
CengageBrain.com, formally iChapters, is one of the world’s largest providers of tailored learning solutions. They offer a wide selection of print and digital textbooks. They also sell “eChapters” if you don’t need an entire ebook, and even rent out textbooks. CengageBrain has some audiobooks as well.
Textbooks.com has over 10,000 eTexts available on their site. They also buy and sell used textbooks. Formats: PDF, works with Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Reader 7.1 (allows text-to-speech), and VitalSource Bookshelf Reader.
CourseSmart has over 6,000 college textbooks from 14 leading textbook publishers. According to the website, the average price of an etextbook is $60 less than the printed version, and students can annotate, highlight, and run searches within the textbook. The website is setup for Instructors and Students. Instructors can go online to research and compare textbooks and course materials to determine the best options for their students. Formats: Requires CourseSmart Bookshelf software for your computer. There are two forms of eTextbooks: an online version and a downloadable version. Also works with iPhone and iPod touch.
Zinio provides service for publishers to offer digital content through its multi-channel content network. Zinio provides over 1500 magazines from more than 350 publishers. They also offer digital Textbooks and non-fiction ebooks and guides. And they have several international sites. Formats: Requires Zinio Reader software for your computer. Content is available in both online and offline modes. They have an app for iPhone and iPad.
FreeTechBooks.com has been online since 2003 and specializes in free computer science and mathematics ebooks. They also have free tech books like computer programming and engineering, physics, marketing, business etc. Most books’ contents you can view online or generally download in HTML and PDF formats.
BookBoon is an online publisher of free textbooks, travel books, and business ebooks. Textbooks are in PDF format and are written exclusively for Bookboon.com by university professors and lecturers. The books have relevant advertisements on every third page on average. They also have an app for downloading the books directly from facebook.
OnlineComputerBooks.com has a wide range of free technology ebooks in science, math, computer programming, etc . . . This site also has links to free trade magazine subscriptions and technical document downloads, as well as other types of free ebooks.
Wikibooks is an open-content collection of textbooks that anyone can edit and contribute to. There are currently over 2400 etextbooks covering dozens of subjects.
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free textbooks. They provide links to free online etextbooks and other educational materials.
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Before the agency model went into place, Kobo used to offer all kinds of coupon codes and discounts for their ebooks.
Now that agency ebooks have a fixed price, you’ve got to hand it to Kobo for coming up with new promotions to keep things interesting.
This time they are giving away an Apple iPad. Every ebook purchased is entered into the contest. Unfortunately I was a bit late in finding this promotion—it ends on Thursday, June 10th.
Secondly, on Kobo’s homepage there’s an animation that says “Buy any Stephenie Meyer eBook and you’re entered to win a Kobo eReader!” I can’t find the details, however, so I’m not sure when that promotion ends.
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Came across this on Twitter, Kobo is giving away 5 Kobo eReaders this week and 5 more next week (May 18th-31st).
All you have to do is buy an ebook from the Kobo ebook store to be entered in the contest. Actually, I skimmed over the rules and you don’t even have to buy an ebook. You can send a fax instead.
Here are the entry rules:
No purchase necessary. To enter the Contest, simply go to Kobobooks.com, find the eBook of your choice and click on the ‘Buy’ button to purchase. Complete your purchase and you will automatically be entered for a chance to win (“eBook entries”) OR participate without having to buy an eBook by sending a Fax (“Fax Entries”) to: 416.977.2889 setting out your full legal name, city or town of residence, age, daytime telephone number with area code, email address and a description in approximately 35 words why you like Kobo. eBook Entries and Fax Entries must be received during the contest period. The sole determinant of time for the purposes of receipt of a valid entry will be the sponsor’s server machine (s). Limit of six (6) entries, regardless of method of entry.
More information can be found on the contest details page.
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