I don't know how many Mobilereaders like the particular sport, but HarperCollinsPublishers has marked down 7 of their ebooks on the subject of football, I'm sure as a tie-in to the Super Bowl to be played in a little over a week from now. (Duh!) The price is
$1.99 each now.
This is real football--American football--not the one called "football" by, well, the rest of the world I guess (that one Americans call "soccer"). Mobileread has an international membership, and I know that many soccer fans take the sport very, very seriously, so before I cause an international incident (or, perish the thought, World War III!!!), let me quickly say that I am just kidding. Okay? I'm just kidding. So, you non-American-football people can pass over the rest of this post and move on to something else. But, you will miss my humorous (attempted, anyway) take on this promotion. You've gotten a taste of what you're in for . . . er . . . what you will be blessed with from what I've written already. Those of you who do not like humor (you know who you are)--at least my quirky, hyper-inflated one--but like real American football,
you can go down to the last paragraph (unless I change it), click on the link, and get most everything that you need to know. But aren't you curious about what else that I will say? C'mon now, aren't you?
Of course, this offer is intended for those people who aren't tired of hearing about the upcoming football game, football game parties, sales on stuff that you might need for football game parties, football footballs (I have reference to the deflated (possibly) football (the ball, not the game) scandal), and all of the other football-related messages on TV, radio, the Internet, billboards, newspapers, magazines,
et al. ad nauseum.
Back to the subject at hand: you can see the whole list of HarperCollinsPublishers marked-down football titles
here. You can even purchase an ebook directly from there. But, you can only read an ebook that you buy directly from HarperCollinsPublishers "on the HC Reader App for iPhone/iPad, Android, or Kindle Fire" (boo! hiss!). However, I spot-checked one of the seven books, and the price was the same at Amazon. So, you don't have to buy directly from HarperCollinsPublishers and have to deal with an iPhone/iPad, Android, or Kindle Fire; perhaps a proprietary format; perhaps a proprietary ebook reading software; and who knows what other joys [that's sarcasm] like that. My advice? Use the HarperCollinsPublishers website to find out what's on sale, then go somewhere else to buy the one(s) that you want (now you know that you've done that before, c'mon admit it!).
One final thing: the instructions that I got with the announcement of this sale says to enter the promo code FOOTBALL199, but in previous sales by HarperCollinsPublishers' like this, it hasn't been necessary because the promo code is pre-entered for you. If I was a betting man, I'd bet the ranch that it won't be necessary now.
The linky to the webpage for the sale in the text above is pretty hard to see (no doubt, in part due to all of the junk . . . er . . . stuff that I wrote). So, being the kind guy that I am, I'm giving the fuller version:
http://www.harpercollins.com/salespromotion?. Now that one was easier to see, huh?