The new Suze Orman book is a free download for Kindle users until 5 PM today.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OI0G48/ref=cm_plog_item_link

or http://tinyurl.com/yop27x ]

Here's Amazon's explanation:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK30B227N6UJIQS

Ugh... well, nice that its free. It'd be nice if Amazon gave us a choice of one free book, instead though. Not sure I need "Women and Money" :)

Amazon isn't giving it away. Oprah's book club is.

Oh, well THAT'S better... I'll just put it on my list of other books to avoid like "The Secret" and "Eat, Pray, Love."

Yeah, I know.... occasionally she picks something good, but she's gotten a lot of people reading some pretty bad books.

Don't mind me... I'm just bitter that so much of the New York Times Bestseller list looks like a list of "things you don't let your loved ones read."

People don't let loved ones read anything Oprah picks.

Argh, I'm so frustrated not to have a Kindle now !!!!

(just joking :))

LOL. Though if anyone did want the book for free and they don't have a Kindle, I think it's available at Oprah.com, too.

Not sure I need "Women and Money" :)

Hmmm... women and money are two of my favorite things in life!

BOB

I changed the title and moved this thread to the front page. A joke like this doesn't present itself that often.

Alas, I cannot believe such words passed my... er.... fingers.

It is also available as a PDF on oprah.com for today - on http://www.oprah.com/xm/gking/200802/gking_20080214.jhtml
click on download the book.

That title is irresistible ! you made me look !!

To paraphrase Robert Heinlein;

TANSTAAFW

I want free men and money (though not necessarily in that order).

Whoever came up with this thread title was a genius...

I was totally tricked in. Man, did I say that I really didn't like Suze Orman's style and advices?

Well I am a bit of a loser, so any book that I can legally get free...:)

I want free men and money (though not necessarily in that order).

I'm with Patricia, but I waited for a poster with more seniority to say it ;)

I've always had a problem with the "Modern Men" stores too. They don't actually sell any. :(

You can keep the men, I'll take the free money.

That title is irresistible ! you made me look !!

Whoever came up with this thread title was a genius...

I was totally tricked in.

Thank you.

I've always had a problem with the "Modern Men" stores too. They don't actually sell any. :(

i *know* ! whatever happened to truth in advertising ??? it's scandalous.

Yahoo news has a very interesting article about the fact that more than 1 million copies of Suze Orman's "Women & Money" free ebook have been downloaded. Interesting to see that they briefly touched on the debate of offering something for free and if it affects sales or not. In this case, it seemed not to take away from printed sales at all. Maybe more publishers will take notice: :)

Article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_hi_te/books_free_download;_ylt=AoqECDmluzJc0Fly7mu1qV8RS LMF

I was going to start a new thread for the Yahoo new article, but I'm not sure there's much point. I thought the quote from the publisher of the 9-11 Report was pretty interesting.
"I can tell you that with respect to the `9-11 Report,' the free download did not seem to hurt sales at all," Norton publisher Drake McFeely told The Associated Press on Saturday. "There were people who wanted it quickly, in a less convenient form, and that was clearly a different market from the people who wanted the traditional book."

So what happens when ebooks are no longer "less convenient," as will soon be the case with eink readers and other improved technologies for ebooks. The masses may find ebooks less convenient now, but it just takes that one "iPod of ebooks" (which the Kindle hasn't yet come close to becoming) to change everyone's perception. For the most part, people still think of ebooks as something you read on your computer. I really hope publishing companies don't shy away from using free ebooks as a promotional tool as this view begins to change. I don't think ebooks will ever replace pbooks the way mp3s have mostly replaced CDs.

we have a Kindle and still didn't get that book :)

I don't have a kindle and didn't care that I didn't get it.

Don't know if it was the power of Oprah or the power of this forum but a million or more flocked to the download
http://media.www.dailyvidette.com/media/storage/paper420/news/2008/02/18/Features/Many-People.Purchasing.New.EBook.Worldwide-3215428.shtml

Must've been Nate's title change.:chinscratch:

Suzi O. is a bat fart. Her kind of advice is what caused my father to become a inveterate drunkard.

I accidentally downloaded a sample of "The Secret" while demonstating the wireless feature to a friend. After I read the first sentence I started to sneeze and convulse violently and It wouldn't stop until I ran my kindle through the Hobart.