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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Please tell me something about the Free Fridays program: Does BN make a different selection available each week?
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Yes, and what genre they have depends on the selection. They do sometimes have NY Times bestseller-ish stuff (they had an Armistead Maupin novel a while ago), but generally the selection seems to be picked mostly from pre-existing freebies that are already on promotion in the other stores.
Occasionally they do a double-freebie feature by supplementing the regular one with a B&N Classics edition or something from their in-house "Sterling Publishing" imprint.
Mind you, lately they've gotten more "exclusive" freebies, such as the sf/fantasy novels from Night Shade Books and some feature-to-promote-new-release-sequel stuff from other publishers which doesn't pop up in the other stores until later/not at all.
And I think they might be trending towards doing more of that, with the new "
Free Fridays Recommends" where they now ask the feature author to recommend some favourite e-books for the reader to buy.
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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Is there a section of the bn web site that details the program and will always point to the current selection?
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Yes, the
Free Fridays category on B&N's official "Unbound" blog where they promote new and featured NOOKbooks (or however they're spelling it nowadays). Be warned, if you see a Friday freebie you want, pick it up immediately (after reading the comments to make sure there are no surprise-billing issues). They tend to expire pretty quickly and may not make it even as far as the full weekend.