I agree that B&N could do a better job of emphasizing that these are basically nicer editions with special extras, both in their press releases and the actual website page.
That said, I'm pleased and grateful that they're offering selected B&N Classics free all summer.
I was impressed enough with the ones I tried out of the "All-American" promo batch that I was going to buy a few more that I wouldn't mind having when I had both the spare cash and time to read them, because $1.99 a pop is pretty cheap for good books with decent commentary and useful annotations.
As it is, I'm going to wait until they've cycled through the freebies and then pick up any leftover that were on my list. Or if there aren't, then I'll just pick a couple that look reasonably interesting and try them out.
Least I can do, given that they're not really making money off me otherwise.
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Originally Posted by Jonimeesermann
On a related note, does someone know how to avoid entering credit card number to get free ebook from B&N? I fooled Amazon just fine with hotspot shield
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Perhaps you could get one of those disposable pre-paid credit cards and only use it with the B&N books? You do need the number for their DRM scheme, but they don't actually check to make sure it goes with a valid US billing address or anything.