Well, it's that time of the year, and Read an Ebook Week is upon us once more.
The official site has the
links to the official participants, out of which you should note that Central Avenue Publishing and BookTaste will be rotating their freebies daily, from the looks of it.
(Tip if you missed the Central Avenue books for a given day: sometimes you can access the Google cached version of their RAEBW promo page and still find active download links for the previous day's freebies, depending on when Google last updated.)
Of course, the main venue for freebies and deals has traditionally been the Smashwords RAEBW sale. Participation seems to be considerably more limited this time around (or this being the weekend, authors just haven't gotten around to enrolling their books yet) but we still have some fairly nice stuff.
The really big thing this time around, and the one I'm personally most gleeful about, is the decision by Bev Editions to make their entire Smashwords-available catalogue free.
They've got some truly excellent backlist of Canadiana by established and in some cases renowned authors. There's a Leacock medal winner in there, a backlist antiquities mystery in a rather good long-running series that I've read from the library, some history and litfic, more mystery & satire; basically a bit of everything, much of it with favourable Library Journal, Globe & Mail, and Quill & Quire reviews, and all stuff I'd seriously recommend picking up.
Highlights include:
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, which is a coming-of-age litfic which was
adapted into a film which I vaguely remember watching on CBC years and years ago when they got around to airing it.
The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton. I haven't read this, but I've read others in Hamilton's antiquities mystery series from the library and enjoyed them, and at the apparently $1.99 regular asking price, if any more volumes show up I'd seriously consider scooping the lot.
Anyway, the lot is (for now) free with coupon and it's all linked via
Bev Editions' profile page, and I advise you to scoop them up before they change their minds.
Genre freebies and deals I spotted to follow in the next post.