New Inkmesh Feature: Limited Time Free Ebooks

anurag · 02-09-2010, 12:12 PM

From the blog post at http://inkmesh.com/blog/2010/02/08/n...e-free-ebooks/

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Ebook retailers and self-published authors often offer free in-copyright ebooks for a limited time. These offers can disappear within days, sometimes even hours, but now you can stay on top of these deals with a new Inkmesh feature: Limited Time Free Ebooks.

Inkmesh bots now monitor the free ebook inventory at Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble every hour and keep the free ebook list at http://inkmesh.com/free-ebooks/ up-to-date. Some of these ebooks might not be free outside the United States, but they will still be the cheapest books you can find at these sites.

The results are sorted by ‘deal freshness’ – more recent free ebook offers are listed first along with the date when they were found. Expired deals are removed instantly, so the list on the free ebooks page is always current, at least on an hourly basis.

We will be adding more stores to this list soon; we also plan to allow email signups for free ebook alerts so you don’t have to keep checking the list every day (or every hour if you are so inclined). If there are other things you would like to see on the free ebooks page, let us know. Otherwise, go find your next free-read!

Links:
http://inkmesh.com/free-ebooks/
http://inkmesh.com/free-kindle-books/
http://inkmesh.com/free-sony-books/
http://inkmesh.com/free-nook-books/

dsvick · 02-09-2010, 12:18 PM

Wow, that is a really limited time - the first link is a 404 error ... oh wait you've got the colon at the end of the URL

Great tip (have some karma), I've got it bookmarked now for daily use!!

thanks,

anurag · 02-09-2010, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by dsvick

Wow, that is a really limited time - the first link is a 404 error ... oh wait you've got the colon at the end of the URL

Great tip (have some karma), I've got it bookmarked now for daily use!!

thanks,

Oops - thanks for pointing it out, fixed my URL above!

Bremen Cole · 02-09-2010, 01:18 PM

Great feature.... thanks!

Jonas777 · 02-09-2010, 01:32 PM

I agree, Great feature! Now if it also could show only the books that actually are available to me (due to geographical restrictions)...

dsvick · 02-09-2010, 01:37 PM

One note of caution though, I was just looking at it and it lists the Stars Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith book as being free only from Amazon. It is also available for free from the Sony store as well. http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/joh...00000000198113

anurag · 02-09-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dsvick

One note of caution though, I was just looking at it and it lists the Stars Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith book as being free only from Amazon. It is also available for free from the Sony store as well. http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/joh...00000000198113

Thanks dsvick - we do have it on the free list, but all the free Sony Star Wars ebooks are aggregated together because of one less colon in the title (http://inkmesh.com/ebooks/star-wars-...-miller-ebook/). This needs to be fixed!

Terisa de morgan · 02-09-2010, 04:19 PM

thank you, very useful.

fugazied · 02-09-2010, 04:46 PM

This is a very cool feature!
I need to tell my mom about the freeby romance novels, I am sure she would love them /chuckle.

kindlekitten · 02-09-2010, 06:08 PM

great tool! karma to you!

anurag · 02-10-2010, 12:49 PM

Thanks everyone!

Btw, we will be adding Twitter and Facebook alerting features later this week so if you follow us on Twitter or are a fan on Facebook, you will see new free ebook alerts in your Twitter/Facebook feed as we find them.

anurag · 02-25-2010, 02:43 PM

Quick update: Facebook and Twitter alerts for new free ebooks are live (see signature), and we also added a new 'average rating' filter to all our search results today.

More details here: http://inkmesh.com/blog/2010/02/25/n...lts-by-rating/

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02-09-2010, 12:18 PM	#2
dsvick Wizard Posts: 2,737 Karma: 635747 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Ohio, USA Device: PRS-900	Wow, that is a really limited time - the first link is a 404 error ... oh wait you've got the colon at the end of the URL Great tip (have some karma), I've got it bookmarked now for daily use!! thanks,

02-09-2010, 01:18 PM	#4
Bremen Cole Wizard Posts: 1,115 Karma: 2718 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Texas Device: iPad	Great feature.... thanks!

02-09-2010, 01:32 PM	#5
Jonas777 Groupie Posts: 153 Karma: 364 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Sweden Device: Amazon Kindle 2 Intl	I agree, Great feature! Now if it also could show only the books that actually are available to me (due to geographical restrictions)...

02-09-2010, 01:37 PM	#6
dsvick Wizard Posts: 2,737 Karma: 635747 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Ohio, USA Device: PRS-900	One note of caution though, I was just looking at it and it lists the Stars Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith book as being free only from Amazon. It is also available for free from the Sony store as well. http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/joh...00000000198113

02-09-2010, 04:19 PM	#8
Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,233 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	thank you, very useful.

02-09-2010, 04:46 PM	#9
fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	This is a very cool feature! I need to tell my mom about the freeby romance novels, I am sure she would love them /chuckle.

02-09-2010, 06:08 PM	#10
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	great tool! karma to you!

02-10-2010, 12:49 PM	#11
anurag Addict Posts: 236 Karma: 4066 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California Device: Kindle 1 and DX, iPhone	Thanks everyone! Btw, we will be adding Twitter and Facebook alerting features later this week so if you follow us on Twitter or are a fan on Facebook, you will see new free ebook alerts in your Twitter/Facebook feed as we find them.

02-25-2010, 02:43 PM	#12
anurag Addict Posts: 236 Karma: 4066 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California Device: Kindle 1 and DX, iPhone	Quick update: Facebook and Twitter alerts for new free ebooks are live (see signature), and we also added a new 'average rating' filter to all our search results today. More details here: http://inkmesh.com/blog/2010/02/25/n...lts-by-rating/

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