I don't recall ever seeing a real sale by the University of Chicago Press! Yes, of course, you would see a couple of marked down ebooks here, a marked down ebook there. And, you could grab a 20% discount quite often if you knew where to look. But no real sale like other ebook publishers have.
Well, UCP has a big sale going on right now--big in the number of books (I estimate that there are about 175-200), and big in discount (averaging probably 80-85%). There are actually a couple of free titles!
If you are not familiar with UCP's books, they are mainly for the academic-minded person (the ones that we get free each month are much more suitable for the general reader than the average UCP book). Probably all of the books in this sale are non-fiction, with the main exception of ancient literature like Greek plays.
I found several books that I had been wanting for some time, but couldn't bring myself to buy them at regular prices, plus a bunch more that, after I perused them, I "had to have." Even with the big discounts, I know that I have busted my ebook budget for the next millennium. ha
I don't know how long the sale will last. Apparently, it just started because I started seeing the markdowns yesterday (Wednesday).
I thought that the best way for you to see the markdowns would be to give you the Amazon webpage with the ebooks sorted by price, low to high. Here it is:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_pr...price-asc-rank.