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Originally Posted by koland
Any other publisher imprints anyone has found?
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They've also a
list of other imprints they distribute on their website, but no freebies for the ones I spot-checked earlier.
Probably the best way to go through the listings if one is doing the 0-0 searches is to sort by publication date, since the default Featured tends to shift stuff around, in my experience.
They may also be rotating the selection somewhat, as I managed to pick up at least three new titles this morning that I somehow missed when I went through the listings yesterday.
Also, be warned that some perfectly valid freebies are simply not showing up in the 0-0 searches. Viz this example of Barbara Hambly's
The Witches of Wenshar, which for me at least doesn't show up until
page 2 of a price-sorted author listing where it's still filed with the $6.15 books, even though it is indeed the $0.00 it is listed at (and technically now my 4th copy of this novel). It's been like this for the past day and a half.
NB: a lot of sfnal stuff is actually filed under just the plain Open Road Media imprint, from before they started categorizing newer releases into the genre imprint lines. And some authors such as Andre Norton, Nancy Springer, and Jane Yolen have a bunch of their books filed into Younger Readers and Teen & Tween, even when not strictly YA. And some sfnal thrillers got filed into Mystery and vice versa for other genres (there were some Howard Fast suspense thrillers under ORM Romance, presumably because the plots were centred around love gone sour).
Personally, I suggest one's best bet is to actually hit up Open Road's website for their
catalogue by genre or
ebook categories (scroll down and click See All Categories) or
A-Z authors listings, and then to pick out any authors you like who seem to have promising books in the genres you want, and modify the author search above to see what, if any, freebies they have.
You can save time by using just the first or last name if they've a common one likely to be shared with other authors you're interested in (omit middle names, as Open Road shortens “George Alec Effinger” to “George A Effinger” in the Amazon author listings for some unknown reason and does the same with other triple-named authors like Zilpha Keatley Snyder, although they use the full on the actual copy; incidentally, I recommend his works which are part of the promo, especially
Budayeen Nights and
A Thousand Deaths).
Also, I'll mention that if you get an “Instant Order Update” message after 1-clicking a listing you're pretty sure you didn't have before, and it doesn't come with a “you bought this on [specific date]” and when you go back and refresh you don't see the “bought this on” banner, it tends to mean you didn't get the book into your library at all (and it won't show up in searches of your digital orders and actual archives as available for download), and you'll have to wait probably around 10-30 minutes and try again until you get the proper “Thank you” message (you may need to get to the page again via searching for the ASIN rather than just back-buttoning and reloading).