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Old 09-03-2015, 07:30 PM   #14008
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I just got a double-surprise at Kobo.

I went to see if I could get a discount on The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition which itisbomb posted in the FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015 thread for $1.99 at Kobo and Amazon.

I still had the only decent code I got from last month's contest, which I wanted to test before deleting it and surprise - it worked. It was doubly surprising since it worked on a Penguin ebook, which AFAIK aren't discountable in the US.

So I did a little experimenting. I tried a couple of other July codes and they still appear to work on discountable ebooks. (I tested low value codes because others have reported that trying codes without making a purchase may still render them unusable.)

I had trouble getting codes to work on other Penguin ebooks that I tried from my wishlist. These were from other Penguin imprints - Ace, Berkley, and Putnam. It appears though that ebooks specifically from "Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin" are discountable. Here are 2 more examples I tried:
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry

Great Battles: The Battle of Isandlwana (Penguin Specials)


While experimenting, I remembered a previous glitch that allowed codes to be used by multiple people but once per account. Has anyone tried using already used July or August codes on another account?
This is interesting .....
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