Kobo US & Canada actually have a surprisingly good set of markdowns as part of their Black Friday sale event, which is supposed to be rotating every day.
For Monday, Nov 20th bargains @ $1.99 in the US some 21 novels from publisher Bloomsbury's Bloomsbury USA and Bloomsbury Reader imprints (couponable/VIP-discount eligible; we've gotten some nice mystery and literary freebies from them in the past). I spot-checked against Amazon in Canada and the US, where all the titles I looked at were full price, generally $10 or above. Officially only listed on the US page, but if you switch the country code in the URL to Canada, we also enjoy the discount pricing.
Main
sale page, with categories:
Contemporary Fiction,
Historical Fiction
ETA: ahahaha… now that I've actually posted it, I see that Kobo has pulled their fluctuating pricing glitch early and auto-deleted most of the lists. Here's what was on it, which you may still be able to catch on sale before midnight:
It's mostly literary fiction (much of it from people with assorted literary prizes listed in their bio-blurbs), but there's a couple of mystery/thriller (by Neil Jordan and James Sallis), historical, LGBT drama, romance, and some sfnal (SF by Emma Geen and post-apocalyptic literary horror by Benjamin Warner.)
They've also got some
discount audiobooks listed on this page, and a promo selection at the top for an extra 50% off selected Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Nonfiction, and Thrilling titles using promo code
CYBERUS
In Canada, our official Black Friday offerings for Monday are
40% off box sets (indie authors, it looks like; technically the same as the US sale above, but with an added banner claiming it's expiring today) using promo code
40BOX on these lists:
Romantic Reads,
Mysteries & Thrillers,
Sci-Fi & Fantasy and
50% off Non-Fiction Audiobooks using code
CYBERCA at checkout. We're also supposed to get 3x VIP points on selected books (mainly HarperCollins discount titles from the ones I've spotted, and some francophone books on the French page), but they haven't bothered putting up the actual page for that yet.
NB: technically, the pricing expires at midnight, but sometimes Kobo has this glitchy fluctuation pricing starting at 8 PM Pacific/11 PM Eastern, where books show full price on page listings, but then discounted on the product page, and when you add them to the cart, sometimes it's full price and sometimes discounted. When this happens, usually if you click through to the checkout pre-purchase confirmation page, you'll see the book go down to the discount price, which is what you'll be charged as long as you finish the purchase before midnight. Though if it still shows full price during checkout, then the offer is definitely over and you might as well jest delete it out.