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Originally Posted by AlanE
Whilst doing my weekly check of the price of the forthcoming title Gulls (still showing as £39.99!) in the Collins New Naturalist series, I realised that many of the titles in the series have been reduced in price.
Many titles are now £5.49 (e.g. Fungi, Lichens, Moths), £6.49 (e.g. Plant Galls, Dragonflies, Bird Migration), or £6.99 (e.g. Bats, Northumberland, The New Forest) rather than the usual £19.99. This applies to both Amazon UK and Kobo UK. I don't imagine these reduced prices will last for long.
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After doing a quick check, I found that there is at least one ebook in the
HarperCollins Naturalist series that sells in the U.S. It is
Collins Mushroom Miscellany, by Patrick Harding. The price is
$3.99. That
might not be a sale price.
HarperCollins has a good reputation, of course. I viewed part of the sample for this ebook, and was a little disappointed in the quality of the images, however. The images that I saw were obviously taken out of some(an) old, out-of-copyright book(s). I simply have not read enough of the sample of the book to comment on the accuracy, style, etc. of the text.
Despite my misgivings about the book, the
GoodReads crowd bestows a 4.30 average rating, from 23 ratings, on it! That average is an
excellent one at
GoodReads.
A couple of items from
HarperCollins which may potentially sweeten the deal . . . . A
big ad will appear when you go, at least for the first time, to
the Mushroom Miscellany hits webpage (whose link I have given below, also). The ad offers 20% off of (an) order from a new customer; I don't know if ebooks on sale qualify. Also, you might want to look for a line of text in one or more of the webpages, offering a
free ebook from
BookPerk (at this writing there are four choices). All that I know for sure about
BookPerk is that 1) it is a
HarperCollins company, and 2) you can get a daily list of specials from them (and, surprise, surprise: all of the ebooks appear to be from
HarperCollins or from
HarperCollins imprints).
Gotcha'
your starting link right here. Turn off all of the filters to find the entirety(?) of
HarperCollins' publications, at least their so-called sale books.
Now, would someone be willing to take the baton from me, and do further research into books in The
HarperCollins Naturalist series that are sold in the U.S.?
I've got to say that I'm really into mushrooms, now--I think that they are cool. If it was the late 1960's and early 1970's in the U.S., not so much; today, yes.
ADDENDUM: The
$3.99 price
is considered a sale price. There is a group of
HarperCollins webpages showing items on sale by
HarperCollins. These include everything from paper-based books to ebooks to digital audiobooks. Finding the collection of webpages is a little tricky for now--navigate to
the Mushroom Medley webapge; then clear all filters. Bada Bing, Bada Boom!--you've get the group of
HarperCollins webpages showing items considered to be "on sale" by
HarperCoIlins. There must be a more straightforward method, but at this writing, I don't know what it is. I am thrilled to find this set of webpages; I don't think that I've run across them before!