For Free Fridays, in addition to the
Fodor vintage travel guide, B&N are double-dipping into the retro nostalgia vault for a hat trick of freebie offers.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic
The Secret Garden is being offered free from them in two editions:
- the B&N Classics version from their series of very nice annotated editions with scholarly introductions and essays,
- and an illustrated abridged version from their Classics Starts series, meant especially to introduce the story to younger children.
Whether you enjoyed this book yourself or know some kids with e-reader access who do (or just collect freebies like a hoarder), you've now got two versions to put on your Nook or Nook-equivalent, courtesy of B&N who owns both imprints.
I rather hope they do more of these "classics" Free Fridays backups to the regular offered books. Maybe this will cut down on the complaining/fake-review-trolling about genre/selection (hah!) and provide people with steady incentive to at least consider a Nook/shopping at B&N.
Competition for our e-buying dollars is A Good Thing™.