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Originally Posted by sufue
Unfortunately none of these show up as free for me right now (Amazon US or Kobo US), but the first four are all at $2.99, and for this series/publisher that's still pretty good.
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I think this may have been a weird glitch freebie, since the first 3 books all exist under 2 different ASIN/publisher names and mitford13 mentioned in the Mystery megathread that they were seeing an apparent price fluctuation on the 1st one they posted in the mid-afternoon yesterday, and in the past, Lion Hudson/Monarch Books has given a couple of days for their official freebies.
The ones which were still free late last evening were from "Monarch Books" and are now $2.99 with Kindle publication dates from 2010-2012 or so, the ones which pop up when you search for the author name are $9 CAD each, out from "Lion Fiction" (as are #4-7 in their sole editions) and say that they're the 2nd edition out in 2013-2014.
No idea what they could have changed (maybe they fixed that auto-Start thing and the books now begin at the actually useful preface material) or why they couldn't have updated in situ (unless they were really bent on rebranding the entire series as coming out from Lion Fiction and maybe Amazon requires a new ASIN for that) or even why they didn't turf the older editions with a 404 page once they put the new ones up (as most publishers we've seen change their ASINs, i.e. Baker going from Topaz to AZW, do).
That said, with your assurance that these don't get obtrusive or preachy, I'd be willing to also pick up the rest of the series at $2.99 if they also go on sale, since as an atheist living in the officially most agnostic city region in my country which made something like top 25 for least overall percentage of religious belief/observance surveyed, I don't care for overt religiosity in my reading either (well, except occasionally from the more obscure less-often-written-about faiths or once in a while in sfnal settings with made-up stuff, for the novelty value).
And I'm liking all the lovingly-described medieval medical practice/beliefs bits so far.
