Just got this in my email to my former Sony accounts:
save90bk for 90% off a selected list until Dec 12th, 1-time use valid in Canada, US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, & South Africa.
- US list which is mostly Harlequin & Sourcebooks romances, but has some Forgotten Realms tie-in novels and some Scholastic YA stuff and a couple of other genre things
- Canadian list with a much broader selection, including a lot of mysteries (cozy & thriller-type from Pan Macmillan & Kensington & Open Road), some Amish-looking Christian fiction from Barbour, some nice-looking historical non-fiction (I'll probably wind up getting the book on Canadian inventions or the Catherine of Aragon biography), etc.
Once again, these were sent to the accounts in which I'd never bought anything (and the email said Save 90% off your first ebook), so I tested a book that was only on the US list in my regular Canadian Kobo account and the discount applied just fine.
My personal recommendation out of the lot is Barbara Hambly's (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia)
Dragonsbane, an excellent and entertaining high fantasy novel with engaging characters and well-thought-out worldbuilding and adventurous problem-solving and realpolitik intrigue, originally out from Del Rey in 1986, which placed 3rd on the Locus Award list for Best Fantasy Novel that year (and later, the French translation won the translator a prize) and also happens to be one of my personal favourites. This is technically the 1st in her Winterlands series, but the rest of it are sequels written much later and this one can be read perfectly well standalone (and it may be useful for the Gentle Reader to pretend that the sequels don't exist, since frankly they're not nearly as good and rather depressing, although they do have some interesting ideas and you find out what happens next to the characters; and I say this as someone who did enjoy reading the interesting ideas and character catch-up).
However, it's out from Open Road Media and in Canada & the US, at least, they have a habit of periodically offering their stuff for $0.99-$2.99 as daily/monthly sales, so if you're not outside North America, you may want to wait for this one's turn and use the 90% off on a less-likely-to-be-future-deep-discounted title.