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Originally Posted by petercreasey
I don't want to go all (or any) of the long listings of bargains and freebies.
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Well, you did ask what people could
"do to stay "in the loop" with attractive offerings?"
Now, if you'd rather not avail yourself of them that's quite up to you, but the resources are out there for anyone willing to take advantage of them instead of relying on the kindness of strangers, which quite frankly, works out especially badly for a Sony user since most of the Sony-available freebies don't get posted/updated here anyway regardless of what thread they might end up in.
Anyway, it's rather baffling how a lot of posters seem to think that without the prospect of being able to affiliate-link, the supply of freebies which get posted on MR will suddenly dry up and blow away because of lack of financial incentive and we're all doomed, DOOMED to seeing the Deals dry up like tumbleweeds and blow away.
Arcadata is still taking the time to post Kindle freebies sans affiliate, and even should s/he get sick of it and stick to bargains-only, in the past and even now, MR has had plenty of unaffiliated posters who've shared freebie/coupon alerts without even the prospect of maybe making 4 cents on the dollar if they're lucky.
Hell, the Threads Started By search run on my profile will literally dredge up the fact that 99 and 44/100ths of all the threads I've started, ever, on MR are for free books right here in the Deals forum, and I wasn't certainly getting any compensation beyond maybe a little break in my insomnia-boredom from posting those half-to-a-dozen new FT Press/Christian fiction freebies in a row most Monday mornings for months on end.
And Susan Crealock who's been here even longer used to find and post many more of the Big 4 store freebies and still manages to post a lot of smaller press/bookstore finds for everyone, with no greater compensation than maybe having you visit her nicely-maintained permafreebie Free Online Novels blog via the link in her sig.
You should all go give her karma right now.