FREE/BARGAIN - Science Fiction, Fantasy - 2016

[PurpleStar]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Monthly Star Trek eBook sale

This month is Voyager and IKS Gorkon.

Voyager
Full Circle
Unworthy
Children of the Storm
The Eternal Tide
Protectors
Acts of Contrition
Atonement

IKS Gorkon
A Good Day To Die
Honor Bound
Enemy Territory

On sale in the US for $1.99 and on sale in the UK for £.99. Might be on sale in other countries But You'll have to look to find out.

Kirsten Beyer's Voyager books are awesome. Highly recommended!!!!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by PurpleStar

Kirsten Beyer's Voyager books are awesome. Highly recommended!!!!

Kristen Beyer has been hired to write for the new Star Trek series. She's also contracted for two more Voyager books. She says she will write these two books although it's possible they could be late but the publisher understand this and will make allowances.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by Manabi

Quite a few of them are showing as having run out, but as I recall, they restocked the giveaway at least once last time. I'm pretty sure I got some of them that people had reported as out of stock after those reports. So might want to leave the page up in a tab and check again periodically.

Thanks for the post apesmom!

All of them had a message that the giveaway had ended for me.

[tlc]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

All of them had a message that the giveaway had ended for me.

You'd think they'd link the book descriptions and purchase options, just in case someone thought a cover was intriguing. Nope, just a "giveaway over" message.

[PandathePanda]

Patty Jansen is running a big "promo" on Sci-fi books: between 4-5 June 2016 and includes 100 books (maybe a few repeats :P)
http://pattyjansen.com/promo/

[TrevorViking]

^ Must be European time because it started already.

[cromag]

Not all of the ones I checked are free yet, so I'll be checking back tomorrow.

[murg]

Originally Posted by PandathePanda

Patty Jansen is running a big "promo" on Sci-fi books: between 4-5 June 2016 and includes 100 books (maybe a few repeats :P)
http://pattyjansen.com/promo/

All but one of the Kobo's are free (or that I had previously gotten).

While there are many of the same books on each of the retailers, there are some books that are only on one or a few of the retailers.

[datcha]

Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Kobo has a new month-long offer up for 3 for the price of 2 on assorted sf/fantasy (includes some paranormal romance & YA, clearly marked into their own subcategories), with separate pages and selections for Canada & the US.

It's actually a pretty good sale, with stuff from HarperCollins that doesn't get discounted very often and backlist publishers like Jabberwocky Literary Agency (who are offering some of Tanya Huff's old DAW books), and apparently an entire section of L. Ron Hubbard if you're feeling really nostalgic.

In Canada, there's some Tolkien in it (both The Silmarillion and his more obscure non-Middle-Earth stuff), which is not offered as part of the Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale in the US since apparently Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has the rights to it there instead of HarperCollins.

Linkage for the respective country-specific dedicated sale pages: Canada & US

Also, French publisher Bragelonne's featured sale author of the month is Australian multiple Aurealis Award-winning fantasy author Trudi Canavan (ISFDB, Wikipedia), with all her works in translation priced at just $4.99 CAD at Kobo Canada (presumably matched in the other CA stores which carry francophone books), and should also available in France and whatever other countries also sell Bragelonne ebooks, which are DRM-free from Kobo at least, by the way.

Linkage to the dedicated page if you're interested: Tout Trudi Canavan maître du fantasy à 4,99$ ch. en juin

Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?

I am in an absurd position. I live in France, but I read mostly in English. I will certainly not read a French translation of an English original.

Now Kobo (and others) will have special low prices for English books available only in the USA and Canada apparently. Not relevant for me, as I live in France. Actually, many low price offers that one can see here and there for US and Canada are not available in France, not even visible on the sites of Kobo or Amazon (B&N does not do digital business in Europe). The price you see depends on where (they think) you live.

They also have low prices, available in Canada (I am told, see quoted post) and in France (I checked), for Bragelonne books (prices actually at 2,99 €), which are largely translations in French from English (of book I have to buy for 7,99 € in English - I have to conclude that translation costs are negative). Not relevant for me as I read in English.

Note that the Bragelonne deal seems better in France (2,99 €) than in Canada (4,99$ ch).

Note also that the prices at Kobo are always in euros for me. No way to change that, afaik.

So I have been wondering how people are treated in the UK. They live in Europe and they read English.

Are there special sales for the UK customers? How can one be informed about it? (I do not recall seeing it on this forum, but I have a poor memory).

I subscribed to various US services that inform me about good deals, bargains, freebies, with very variable accuracy. Are there similar services in the UK for UK customers?

I am trying to understand the rules of the game, so that I have a chance of not being always on the losing side.

I am not giving links, since they are most likely to show you web pages that are different from those I see with the same URL.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by datcha

Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?

They certainly do, though not nearly as often, and often the discounts aren't nearly as deep as in North America. EreaderIQ has a UK version of the site you could use for putting books on your alert wishlist.

You can also check Kobo's UK website, which usually lists daily deals and special offers via links on the front page, either by firing up a VPN IP proxy before visiting, or just being logged-in to an account with a billing address filled out for a UK location, in order to see their UK offers in the first place. And there's Amazon UK's Kindle Deals pages, some of which are sometimes multi-store publisher promos that will be available at Kobo UK and thus obtainable by "traveling".

Holiday weekends are good times to check for sales, as usually Kobo tries to do about one a month. Right now they've a 3 for 2 offer in the UK (presumably to tie into Father's Day) on "pulse pounding American thrillers" with titles by Preston & Child, Eric van Lustbader, C. J. Box, etc.

I'll also note that for anyone who does want to read original French-language books Kobo Canada (and presumably France) also semi-regularly run promo sales on non-translated stuff, with sf/fantasy authors such as Pierre Pevel (Prix Imaginaire), and a whole bunch of Québécois thriller and tearjerker novel writers that I don't read. And some imprints have backlist of francophone authors starting relatively cheaply at their "regular" prices, such as Élisabeth Vonarburg (Aurora Award) at $7.99 CAD.

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by datcha

Now Kobo (and others) will have special low prices for English books available only in the USA and Canada apparently. Not relevant for me, as I live in France. Actually, many low price offers that one can see here and there for US and Canada are not available in France, not even visible on the sites of Kobo or Amazon (B&N does not do digital business in Europe). The price you see depends on where (they think) you live.

They also have low prices, available in Canada (I am told, see quoted post) and in France (I checked), for Bragelonne books (prices actually at 2,99 €), which are largely translations in French from English (of book I have to buy for 7,99 € in English - I have to conclude that translation costs are negative). Not relevant for me as I read in English.

I can't answer your question on UK deal notices, but I did want to note that the lack of sales you see in France is due to the laws there. Book prices cannot be discounted more than 5% off the fixed price printed on them (in the case of printed books), and this applies to e-books as well. This has been done deliberately to prop up independent book stores so that competition with originally supermarket chains, and now Amazon, won't kill them off. France also made free shipping on books illegal a few years back.

So that's why your book costs are higher in France.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by datcha

Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?



I subscribed to various US services that inform me about good deals, bargains, freebies, with very variable accuracy. Are there similar services in the UK for UK customers?

I am trying to understand the rules of the game, so that I have a chance of not being always on the losing side.

I am not giving links, since they are most likely to show you web pages that are different from those I see with the same URL.

I can only really speak about Amazon.

The only Amazon site that shows different prices for the same URL according to your location is Amazon.com

Amazon.de and Amazon.fr (say) normally only show different prices from each other because of different rates of VAT/ TVA

Most of the US sites that inform about good deals, bargains, freebies have a Country selection. I use Luzme.com
http://uk.dailyfreebooks.com
http://uk.ereaderiq.com

Quite often US books have a different publisher in UK so no common prices either way. The US publisher's edition is often available elsewhere in the EU but special offers may or may not carry over.

Even when it's the same publisher's edition, prices this side of the Atlantic may be the converted price + tax or much higher (Open Road is like this).

For Smashwords and for publishers that sell direct like Bookview Café or Baen, going direct may be simplest.

[septentrion]

Originally Posted by datcha

Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?



Do Kobo, and other ebook providers, have special sales in the UK ?

I am in an absurd position. I live in France, but I read mostly in English. I will certainly not read a French translation of an English original.

Now Kobo (and others) will have special low prices for English books available only in the USA and Canada apparently. Not relevant for me, as I live in France. Actually, many low price offers that one can see here and there for US and Canada are not available in France, not even visible on the sites of Kobo or Amazon (B&N does not do digital business in Europe). The price you see depends on where (they think) you live.

They also have low prices, available in Canada (I am told, see quoted post) and in France (I checked), for Bragelonne books (prices actually at 2,99 €), which are largely translations in French from English (of book I have to buy for 7,99 € in English - I have to conclude that translation costs are negative). Not relevant for me as I read in English.

Note that the Bragelonne deal seems better in France (2,99 €) than in Canada (4,99$ ch).

Note also that the prices at Kobo are always in euros for me. No way to change that, afaik.

I am in the same position as you. The trick I'm using is providing amazon with a US billing address so that I can see and take advantage of the promos. So far amazon has had no difficulty in charging my French credit card with a US billing address.
As for kobo, I just change the country and add a fitting zip code in the billing info. So far, I didn't have to use a VPN. But I don't use kobo that much, mostly I buy French discounted ebooks from french-speaking authors. I you are ever interested in what Bragelonne has to offer, check this link: http://bragelonne-le-blog.fantasyblog.fr/ once a week.

[HarryT]

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[datcha]

Originally Posted by TrevorViking

^ Must be European time because it started already.

Patty Jansen is Australian