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Old 06-30-2016, 11:05 PM   #15638
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The francophone portion of Kobo Canada is also having a "Lectures d'été" holiday long weekend sale, for a rotating selection of different titles every day, it seems. They're all marked down to $3.99, and will give you 5x super bonus points, and it's "100 romans différents chaque jour" (100 different novels every day) spread across 8 categories. A lot of them seem to be from publisher Bragelonne, who are DRM-free, and normally price their stuff starting at $8.99 CAD and above.

It's actually a really good selection today if you read science fiction in French, whether translated or otherwise: they have some Pierre Pevel and Fabrice Colin (both winners of the Prix Imaginaire) as well as other French-native sf/fantasy authors, and translated titles by Connie Willis, Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Newman, Tanya Huff, and more. I'd rather a stable list to choose from at my leisure over the weekend, but if they really are going to switch in a bunch of new $3.99+5x Bonus Points SF/F titles every day, I think I'll actually be buying a lot more from the French Canada sale than the English one.

Linkage to the promo page, and categories for easy browsing of the lists without having a Canadian IP/account: SF, Fantasy, Littérature, Romance contemporaine, Romance historique, Thrillers, Bit-lit (which seems to be the term for paranormal romance), Jeune adultes, Terreur.

ETA: this is until July 3rd, according to the notice at the bottom, and appears to be roughly coincidental with a broader #GrosseOP sale event by Bragelonne which their blog says ran from June 27th to July 1st (but definitely did not seem to be up at Kobo Canada in the past couple of days, since I was checking some francophone stuff a couple of days ago and don't recall seeing the banner then), so the prices (minus the bonus points extra offer) are probably available at other retailers worldwide which sell Bragelonne e-books.

There are also lingering French Canadian promos for up to 60% on Canadiana, 3 books for the price of 2, and the general promotions page has a bunch of markdowns, generally to $7 CAD or below (which is cheap for French books in Canada), including a lot of translated mystery/thrillers and science fiction, if you were looking to try some of your favourite authors in French to practice.

These will probably get rotated at the beginning of the month (the Trudi Canavan ones from Bragelonne have already had their sale prices expire).

ETA: There's also a 1st-in-series for $1.99 sale for francophone titles, all translated works from the looks of it, across multiple genres including historical romance and YA adventure and others, good through July 1st.

Last edited by ATDrake; 07-01-2016 at 04:37 AM. Reason: I accidentally a word. And they moved the categories around.
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