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Originally Posted by library addict
HarperCollins books currently are not eligible for the 10-for-1 codes. Sadly, due to the buyout now Harlequin, MIRA, HQN, Carina Press, etc are not eligible either  |
That's really too bad. Having all the formerly independent imprints get slowly gobbled up by the Big 6 just seems to keep disimproving the publishing field. Not to mention what it does for the end-reader (especially for those Gentle Readers with small budgets who needs must rely on the local library, who may no longer view it as cost-effective to get their books, and who can blame them? 26 checkouts, bah!).
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Originally Posted by Blossom
Wont be long and they wont be couponable at Kobo either. |
Sometimes non-couponable former Agency publishers keep couponable imprints*, so maybe Harlequin will still be one of them, especially as they like to sell stuff directly off their website with discount sales.
Anyway, I think I'm done with my shopping for today‡. I skipped the Samhain sale and ThinkGeek as well (I did kind of want those plushy
Space Shuttle slippers, but let's face it: I usually walk around barefoot and don't really like wearing things on my feet indoors; and last Boxing Week they had 25% off and free international shipping over $$ amount, so I'm hoping for that again) in favour of Open Road Media's excellent couponable sale, which let me grab a bunch of wants from my old Fictionwise wishlist for dirt-cheap prices, since ORM acquired eReads (and is actually one of the few times one imprint grabbing another worked out, IMHO).
In retrospect, doing silly things like eating and napping to get over the sleep I lost to that damn Dreamspinner Twitter giveaway was not an optimal use of my time, since I ended up doing crazed checkout clicking for a couple of hours right up until the Kobo server switchover at 9. But I did manage to grab most of the stuff I truly wanted, check out a few promising "maybes" which seemed like steals to try out cheap, and overall I'm happy today and hope they a) do this again next year and b) do their regular deep-discount sales on the stuff I kind of wanted and missed†. Preferably while Kobo is handing out the good coupons again.
I hope everyone else was able to get a good chunk of stuff they wanted for good prices, as well, if they happened to do any shopping today.
* E.g. Random Penguin's Vintage Digital is still couponable, for now.
† In retrospect, I should have gotten that dinosaur trace fossil book I'd been thinking of, but $4.99 seemed a bit pricey compared to the $2.99 they were asking for most of their non-fiction, but it turns out that it's pretty recently published and $20+ regularly. Oh well, maybe next year.
‡ ETA: turns out I was wrong about that. Picked up two Damon Knight non-fiction books from ReAnimus' sale, since their 30% off coupon is still working, the books aren't at Kobo, and I feel like reading vintage sci-fi fandom kerfuffles and critical analysis.
Actually I wanted to get something from Kate Wilhelm, who also happens to be his widow and once upon a time wrote what I consider to be the very best time-travel love story ever as well as a really good how-to-tell-stories book, but I'm not sure I want to sort out which of her mysteries looks interesting enough to get, and I think I may already own a chunk of the mini-collected shorts in some paperbacks, and I guess the money from his estate goes to her anyway.