Open Road Media Kindle Freebies - Page 6

issybird · 12-18-2016, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ATDrake

LGBT: Paul Monette, Jane Rule, William J. Mann, Helen Eisenbach, Diana Souhami

Also, Doris Grumbach and May Sarton.

melmac · 12-18-2016, 09:04 PM

Thanks to all those who have posted Mystery/Crime/Thriller recommendations I was unfamiliar with most of open roads catalogue so I have found your posts incredibly helpful

Cinisajoy · 12-18-2016, 09:38 PM

You are all so fantastic.

Manabi · 12-18-2016, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Catlady

Too bad there's not a "download all" option!

You can sort of make your own for new purchases. Setup Kindle for PC, then set it as your default device (go to Manage Your Content & Devices, Devices tab, then click on the Kindle for PC. You'll see a link underneath it to set as default device.) Leave Kindle for PC running, and it will automatically download all the new purchases you make. Doesn't help for old stuff, but is making life significantly easier for downloading all these new freebies!

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Originally Posted by ottdmk

Of all times to be away from MobileRead for a couple of days. A number of my favourite sci-fi/fantasy authors are with Open Road these days. Of course, for all I know I wouldn't have been able to take advantage being in Canada, but it would have been nice to find out...

The sale is good through at least the 20th, so you haven't necessarily missed out. I'm not sure if it's good in Canada or not.

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Originally Posted by Req13

I don't think I could do a better job than ATDrake. I got most of what he recommends.

Add Joe Haldeman to his list. He's written some really great books, including the Hugo & Nebula award winning The Forever War (which isn't part of this sale). I saw at least one of his books in this giveaway, a short story collection.

GtrsRGr8 · 12-18-2016, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ATDrake

^

For you, some ORM non-fiction I noticed while sorting through my acquisitions. This is only a tiny fragment of what's available for non-fic, though, and a lot of fiction authors wrote in multiple fields and/or have memoirs and essay collections.

Biographies: Diana Souhami, Marion Meade, Catherine O'Sullivan Shore, Ruth Gruber, Fred Kaplan
Cookbooks: James Beard, Marlene Dietrich, Gioietta Vitale
Essays/Autobiographies: Alice Walker, Rebecca West, Iris Murdoch, John Gardner, May Sarton, Geoffrey Householder, Candy Darling
History: Rebecca West, Walter Lord, Ernie Bradshaw, Emily Hahn
Investigative, Journalism, True Crime: Ruth Gruber, Gordon Thomas, Joseph DiMona
Mythology, Folklore & Legend: Bernard Evslin, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Sorche N Leodhas
Industry Retrospectives/Advice: Richard Curtis (writing and literary agency), Richard Kirshenbaum (advertising), Helen Gurley Brown (relationship advice), Herbert Warren Wind (sports)
Literary/Arts Criticism: Mary McCarthy, George Steiner
Travel Writing: Laurence Durrell, Tristan Jones, Emily Hahn

Mix of Fiction & Non- for particular subject interest

LGBT: Paul Monette, Jane Rule, William J. Mann, Helen Eisenbach, Diana Souhami
Feminist & other activist: Alix Shulman, Robin Morgan, Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Indigenous & African-American & Jewish & other cultural: Ray Young Bear, Alice Walker, Virginia Hamilton, Peter Singer, Clancy Sigal, Howard Engel, Johanna Kaplan

More helpful information, I think. I say, "I think," because I bought so many books so fast that I can't remember if I got all of the ones that you mentioned. I'm going to have to go back and check.

Sometimes I wish that I had a photographic memory . . . .

GtrsRGr8 · 12-18-2016, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by melmac

Thanks to all those who have posted Mystery/Crime/Thriller recommendations I was unfamiliar with most of open roads catalogue so I have found your posts incredibly helpful

Being an Alf fan, I would think that you would be more into science fiction or comedy. ha

ottdmk · 12-18-2016, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by koland

still going on - two more days

A few I checked for CA and UK were not free, so may be US only.

Yeah, looks like US only. Pity.

kwork · 12-19-2016, 02:02 AM

Holy cow! What a sale! What fantasy authors would people recommend? I'm primarily looking for something more epic and quest oriented, or sword and sorcery. No sex getting in the way of the plot, and no bad language as knights who say f**k will knock me out of a story, no matter how good it is. I'll leave the cussing for my horror reads.
I'd also be interested in some classic, or classic style sci-fi recommendations. I have a harder time getting into much sci-fi outside of the styles of Asimov, Clarke, or Heinlein's earlier juvenile novels.
I'll also take supernatural and occult horror recommendations. If there is a logical explanation, I'm not interested.
Thanks for any help.

Dr. Drib · 12-19-2016, 05:42 AM

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Originally Posted by koland

Nice to know. Thank you.

Amazon must have added that back when they started requiring exact matches in publisher names (quite a pain if you are looking for all the Harlequin imprints, of course).

So, this one gets them all, now:

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...date-desc-rank

Yesterday, there were 183 pages using this link.

Today, there appear to be 400 pages!

I wonder if they've added more titles or if Amazon has corrected something.

JSWolf · 12-19-2016, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Yesterday, there were 183 pages using this link.

Today, there appear to be 400 pages!

I wonder if they've added more titles or if Amazon has corrected something.

I see 186 pages with that link.

Dr. Drib · 12-19-2016, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I see 186 pages with that link.

Perhaps all the pages I'm seeing are not active. (I meant 186, rather than 183.)

Red Falcon · 12-19-2016, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Yesterday, there were 183 pages using this link.

Today, there appear to be 400 pages!

I wonder if they've added more titles or if Amazon has corrected something.

I am pretty sure they either added more books or the search is showing up more books. I am on my third go around. At first I was just looking for specific stuff. Now with my sister and niece's help I am doing a blanket grab of certain genres. We figured we could go through the books later and sort through them to get the ones we are most interested in. We are up to over 1100 books. We pretty much decimated the Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery and any book featuring a strong female lead.

My jaw is on the floor at this gift from Open Road Media. They have given us a free giveaway the likes of which I have never seen before.

Little.Egret · 12-19-2016, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by kwork

Holy cow! What a sale! What fantasy authors would people recommend? I'm primarily looking for something more epic and quest oriented, or sword and sorcery. No sex getting in the way of the plot, and no bad language as knights who say f**k will knock me out of a story, no matter how good it is. I'll leave the cussing for my horror reads.
I'd also be interested in some classic, or classic style sci-fi recommendations. I have a harder time getting into much sci-fi outside of the styles of Asimov, Clarke, or Heinlein's earlier juvenile novels.
I'll also take supernatural and occult horror recommendations. If there is a logical explanation, I'm not interested.
Thanks for any help.

Anything by Patricia C Wrede would fit your fantasy requirements
The two omnibuses and/or the individual volumes

The Lyra Novels: Shadow Magic, Daughter of Witches, The Harp of Imach Thyssel, Caught in Crystal, and The Raven Ring 11 Sep 2012 by Patricia C. Wrede

https://www.amazon.com/Lyra-Novels-D...dp/B0092G1BOC/

The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician 18 Nov 2014 by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cecelia-Kat...dp/B00NVZPCUE/

ottdmk · 12-19-2016, 12:03 PM

Wrede also does a very interesting trilogy set in an alternative Old West, the Frontier Magic series. I recommend it.

GtrsRGr8 · 12-19-2016, 12:45 PM

If they're adding more books to their sale all along, that is really annoying. I'd like to be "one and done" with my searching. Instead, I'm having to go back through the whole sale selection over and over.

They must have taken their cue from the great University of Chicago sale (I use "great" sarcastically) of a couple of years ago. Those of you who monitor the Non-Fiction thread may remember it. They put out a bunch of sale books. Then a few days later they put out some more. Then a few days later, still some more. Then, the same thing maybe a couple of more times. What we had to do is to go back and look through the entire selection each time that they put out additional books, just in order to find the new ones. There apparently was no way to search for just the newly-added ones.

I've had some other bones to pick with UCP about their marketing, too. Just because you have a world-class department or two in academics at the school, doesn't mean that you know beans about publishing or marketing (I don't know beans about publishing, myself; but my academic background and most of my professional career has been in marketing). To their credit, it seems like they may have learned their lesson, because I haven't seen any more sales from them like that since that debacle.

All of that created a lot of ill will in me toward the University of Chicago, and especially their Press, and especially the marketing department (if they have one--I wonder) of their Press. I'm developing the same toward Open Road because of their shenanigans.

12-19-2016, 12:45 PM	#90
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	If they're adding more books to their sale all along, that is really annoying. I'd like to be "one and done" with my searching. Instead, I'm having to go back through the whole sale selection over and over. They must have taken their cue from the great University of Chicago sale (I use "great" sarcastically) of a couple of years ago. Those of you who monitor the Non-Fiction thread may remember it. They put out a bunch of sale books. Then a few days later they put out some more. Then a few days later, still some more. Then, the same thing maybe a couple of more times. What we had to do is to go back and look through the entire selection each time that they put out additional books, just in order to find the new ones. There apparently was no way to search for just the newly-added ones. I've had some other bones to pick with UCP about their marketing, too. Just because you have a world-class department or two in academics at the school, doesn't mean that you know beans about publishing or marketing (I don't know beans about publishing, myself; but my academic background and most of my professional career has been in marketing). To their credit, it seems like they may have learned their lesson, because I haven't seen any more sales from them like that since that debacle. All of that created a lot of ill will in me toward the University of Chicago, and especially their Press, and especially the marketing department (if they have one--I wonder) of their Press. I'm developing the same toward Open Road because of their shenanigans. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 12-19-2016 at 12:48 PM.

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12-18-2016, 09:04 PM	#77
melmac Wizard Posts: 1,399 Karma: 5573651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Perth AU Device: Sony PRS650, Sony T3, Kobo Forma	Thanks to all those who have posted Mystery/Crime/Thriller recommendations I was unfamiliar with most of open roads catalogue so I have found your posts incredibly helpful

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Cinisajoy Just a Yellow Smiley. Posts: 19,161 Karma: 83862859 Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Texas Device: K4, K5, fire, kobo, galaxy	You are all so fantastic.

12-19-2016, 02:02 AM	#83
kwork Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 12800 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: none	Holy cow! What a sale! What fantasy authors would people recommend? I'm primarily looking for something more epic and quest oriented, or sword and sorcery. No sex getting in the way of the plot, and no bad language as knights who say f**k will knock me out of a story, no matter how good it is. I'll leave the cussing for my horror reads. I'd also be interested in some classic, or classic style sci-fi recommendations. I have a harder time getting into much sci-fi outside of the styles of Asimov, Clarke, or Heinlein's earlier juvenile novels. I'll also take supernatural and occult horror recommendations. If there is a logical explanation, I'm not interested. Thanks for any help.

12-19-2016, 12:03 PM	#89
ottdmk Wizard Posts: 1,220 Karma: 3804496 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo Libra 2, Lenovo Tab M10 FHD Plus, Lenovo Tab M9	Wrede also does a very interesting trilogy set in an alternative Old West, the Frontier Magic series. I recommend it.