Content FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - June 2011

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The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago - dropped down further to $15.93 (US Kindle)

Product Description
This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel According to Jesus Christ, through his masterpiece Blindness and its sequel Seeing, to his later fables of politics, chance, history, and love, like All the Names and Death with Interruptions, this volume showcases the range and depth of Saramago’s career, his inimitable narrative voice, and his vast reserves of invention, humor, and understanding.

Originally Posted by luluching

is this available only to certain area? I lived here in Asia

Unless otherwise specified, the free books are usually for the US store. (Asia gets $2.00 tacked on to the US price, usually)

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Gas Smarts by Ronald Weiers PhD (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
Do you get that sinking feeling that you are wasting cash whenever you're driving?
Are you sick of gasoline prices increasing whenever gasoline companies feel like it?
Are you becoming increasingly aware of how your car's gas usage is negatively impacting the environment?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, this is the right book to crown you the king of your own road to savings.

Author Ron Weiers's priceless advice guarantees to save you money in all facets of your driving. Whether you're behind the wheel, planning your next trip, researching a new vehicle, or considering adding aftermarket accessories to your car, this book has the information you need to drive efficiently, safely, and as inexpensively as possible.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Warman's U.S. Coin Collecting by Alan Herbert (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
GET STARTED COLLECTING COINS Have fun and Avoid Costly Mistakes

Want to know just what’s in that box of coins Grandpa Earl left you? Or do you just want to embark on a hobby that will bring you years of enjoyment, and maybe a profit?

Warman’s U.S. Coin Collecting is the book that will tell you everything you need to know about collecting U.S. Coins from author Alan Herbert.

Topics Include:

What is my coin worth?
Don’t clean your coin!
Tools of the trade
Proof coins, proof and mint sets
Commemorative coins
Grading coins
Coins as an investment
Bullion coins

And more than 100 questions and answers about U.S. coins, including little-known facts.

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fYI, free again but currently just for those in the UK

Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Really Want by Gregory Karp (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
As The Millionaire Next Door revealed, building wealth isn’t just about working harder or what you choose to invest in: it’s about spending smarter. Now, award-winning Tribune Company personal finance columnist Gregory Karp shows how to do just that.

This book isn’t about depriving yourself. Instead, Gregory Karp shows how to build real, long-lasting wealth by plugging the money leaks you’re barely aware of and making sure you spend with a purpose.

Karp’s surprisingly painless techniques will help you eliminate wasteful spending in every area of your financial life. You’ll discover how to focus spending on what you really care about...spend less on gifts without becoming a cheapskate...slash your phone bill...pay less for food and still eat what you want...eliminate spending ...

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fYI, free again but currently just for those in the UK

The Truth About What Customers Want by Michael R. Solomon (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
Customers demystified! How you can move them to buy...buy more...and keep on buying!
The truth about what customers really want, think, and feel
The truth about keeping current customers happy—and loyal
The truth about the newest trends and advances in consumer behavior

Simply the best thinking

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

This book reveals 50 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for finding and keeping highly profitable customers

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fYI, free again but currently just for those in the UK

Trading on Corporate Earnings News: Profiting from Targeted, Short-Term Options Positions by John Shon (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
This is the eBook version of the printed book.
Profit from earnings announcements, by taking targeted, short-term option positions explicitly timed to exploit them! Based on rigorous research and huge data sets, this book identifies the specific earnings-announcement trades most likely to yield profits, and teaches how to make these trades—in plain English, with real examples!

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fYI, free again but currently just for those in the UK

Marketing Metrics: The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance (2nd Edition) by Paul W. Farris, Neil T. Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, David J. Reibstein (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
The Definitive Guide to the New State-of-the-Art in Marketing Metrics



Marketing Metrics, Second Edition, is the definitive guide to today’s most valuable marketing metrics. In this thoroughly updated and significantly expanded book, four leading marketing researchers show exactly how to choose the right metrics for every challenge.



The authors show how to use marketing dashboards to view market dynamics from multiple perspectives, maximize accuracy, and “triangulate” to optimal solutions. You’ll discover high-value metrics for virtually every facet of marketing: promotional strategy, advertising, and distribution; customer perceptions; market share; competitors’ power; margins and pricing; products and portfolios; customer profitability; sales forces and channels; and more.



This edition introduces essential new metrics ranging from Net Promoter to social media and brand equity measurement. Last but not least, it shows how to build comprehensive models to support planning—and optimize every marketing decision you make.

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Amazon has the Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture series discounted to $2.39 (US Kindle) *B&N has these guides priced at $7.96

Here's a link for the 60 discounted books

Product Description
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.

Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include

* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do's, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken

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fYI, free again but currently just free for those in the UK

Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World by Jon Queijo(Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description

10 World-Changing Revolutions in Medicine...and the Remarkable Human Discoveries That Made Them Possible
The unforgettable life-or-death stories behind antibiotics, vaccines, DNA, X-rays, and more
What happened, how it happened, and what it means to you today
A colorful cast of characters whose discoveries were often driven not only by personal tragedy, curiosity, and hard work, but petty bickering, dumb luck, and a healthy dose of humor
For anyone interested in science, medicine, and beyond...

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fYI, currently just free for those in the UK

The Message: The Book of Proverbs by Eugene H. Peterson (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description

"A manual for living, for learning what's right and just and fair." --Proverbs 1:3 The Bible isn't just about getting people into heaven. That's part of it, but that's not the whole story. The Proverbs represent God's "manual for living"--for practical, everyday living. These truths teach us how to honor God with our words, our work, and our money; there's advice on how to handle temptation and gain wisdom. Rephrased from the original Hebrew into a riveting, modern language, the Proverbs resound with uncompromising insight into real life.

fYI, currently just free for those in the UK

The Message Promise Book by Eugene H. Peterson (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description

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MONEY.
WORK.
SELF-IMAGE.
RELATIONSHIPS.

These are issues we deal with in our day-to-day lives. And we're bombarded with messages about how to respond to them. But what does God have to say about how we should face these challenges?

The Message Promise Book arranges verses by topic, making it easy to discover the Bible's wisdom about a wide range of issues. The Message Promise Book will help you see your situation from God's perspective, expressed in everyday language that you can easily understand and apply to your life.

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Now free for those in the US:

Gas Smarts by Ronald Weiers PhD

Warman's U.S. Coin Collecting by Alan Herbert

Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Really Want by Gregory Karp

The Truth About What Customers Want by Michael R. Solomon

Trading on Corporate Earnings News: Profiting from Targeted, Short-Term Options Positions by John Shon

Marketing Metrics: The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance (2nd Edition) by Paul W. Farris, Neil T. Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, David J. Reibstein

Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World by Jon Queijo

The Message: The Book of Proverbs by Eugene H. Peterson

The Message Promise Book by Eugene H. Peterson

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Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide by Maurice Wozniak

Product Description
Whether your collection is focused on images of presidents and musicians, colorful photos of flowers, historic sites, or emblems honoring those who have waged battles for freedom, health, and love, U.S. stamps offer a unique glimpse at history.

Warman's U.S. Coins & Currency Field Guide by Arlyn G. Sieber

Product Description
This handy guide will help novice and experienced coin collectors make profitable decisions about everything from pennies to dollars. Filled with 450 brilliant color photos and illustrations, advice on coin grading, detecting counterfeits, and properly handling coins and notes, this compact reference is big on information. Readers will discover details about everything from U.S. nickels, dimes and quarters, to gold coins and gold bank notes, and treasury notes, among others.

Warman's Companion U.S. Coins & Currency by Allen G. Berman

Product Description
This new edition of this coins and currency guide serves both experienced and entry-level collectors in your search for updated values and answers about U.S. coins and paper money. Written in a comfortable instructional tone, this book walks you through the evolution of U.S. money, spotting mint marks, and grading and handling coins; en-route to identifying and pricing all types of coins including State Quarters, new Nickels, gold coins, and paper money including treasury notes, silver certificates and demand notes, among others.

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There's a bunch of discounted kindle game apps today:

Word Soup (A Word Game for Kindle) by Fuzzy Bug Interactive is $0.99

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

Word Soup is a word search game with a tactical twist.

Create words within the grid of scrambled letters. Each word created is removed from the grid and the letters above fall into the gaps left behind, creating new word combinations. With careful play, letters can be strategically brought into play and used to create longer words. You score bonus points if you can successfully clear the grid of all letters. The starting grid is randomly generated, so no two games should ever be the same.

Word Soup offers two modes of play: 'Relaxed' - for those who like to take their time and try to create the longest words, and 'Timed' - where players can test themselves against the clock to see how they score under pressure. Your 'Longest Word', 'Highest Scoring Word', 'Words Made' and 'Total Score' stats are all tracked. Word Soup can be played in Portrait, as well as Landscape view.

If you like word games, you'll love Word Soup.

Mahjong Solitaire (A Matching Game for Kindle) by Mobigloo is $0.99

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

Newly updated navigation! Now you can guide your cursor directly to a tile in v1.1!

Play the popular matching game Mahjong Solitaire on Kindle - anytime, anywhere.

In Mahjong Solitaire, you match pairs of identical tiles in order to remove them from the board. Only free tiles can be matched. Tiles are considered free if they do not have other tiles to either the left or right of them, or on top of them. The objective of the game is to clear all the tiles from the board. The game ends when all tiles have been removed or when there are no more free tiles left to match.

Mahjong Solitaire tracks the number of pairs of free tiles available to be matched for you. In addition, the game allows for unlimited undos, and contains a Hint feature that will give you suggestions for your next move, as well a Shuffle feature that will rearrange the tiles when you get stuck.

Mahjong Solitaire provides 10 different game board layouts to choose from. The game maintains game statistics that track your best time for each layout finished.

Enjoy Mahjong Solitaire on Kindle today!

EA Sudoku (Play Sudoku on Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc.

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

Play Sudoku on Kindle - anytime, anywhere.

EA Sudoku contains thousands of built-in puzzles, as well as the ability to enter and play a puzzle from your favorite newspaper or magazine in "Newspaper" mode.

With five difficulty levels from "Easy" to "Insane," Sudoku offers plenty of fun for Sudoku players of all skill levels. Built-in game features let you make "Notes," "Undo" moves, and apply "Error Checking." If you get stuck, you can use the "Hints" feature to fill out a cell for you, or use "AutoFill" to display the notes on all open cells on the game board. You can even track your game stats to see how you progress over time.

EA Sudoku lets you exercise your mind in a fun way.

EA Solitaire (12 Card Games to Play on Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc.

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

Play Solitaire, on Kindle - anytime, anywhere.

EA Solitaire contains 12 different modes of play--the Klondike game you know and love, as well as 11 other variants: Pyramid, Yukon, Golf, Freecell, Wasp, Peaks, Canfield, Spiderette, Eliminator, Easthaven, and Baker's Dozen. It's a lot of card-game fun for both experts and novices alike.

This version of Solitaire comes with handy features such as a "Tutorial Mode" that will get you started on the different game play variants, optional in-game "Tips" as well as an "Auto-Move" feature that will help you out when you're stuck and don't know what to do next. For the Klondike game, there is even a "Vegas" mode to track your winnings in (virtual) dollars.

Enjoy the card game you know and love on Kindle.

EA Texas Hold'em (Play the Popular Poker Game) by Electronic Arts Inc.

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

With EA Texas Hold'em for Kindle, you can play the popular style of poker - anytime, anywhere.

EA Texas Hold'em is easy to play whether you're a poker pro or brand-new to Texas Hold'em. Choose between 3 difficulty levels and challenge 6 unique in-game characters in Career Mode. Sharpen your poker skills in Practice Mode, or Pass 'N Play with up to 4 friends. Earn 16 different awards, track your stats, and even get help from the in-game Advisor.

Play the best odds and rake in huge pots in EA Texas Hold'em.

SCRABBLE (Play the Popular Word Game on Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc.

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

Now with improved graphics and enhanced contrast, play SCRABBLE on Kindle anytime, anywhere.

Simple controls make it easy to play any way you want, whether you're a casual or experienced SCRABBLE player. Pass N' Play with a friend, challenge the Kindle, or play a solo game. If you need help, use the Best Word feature to create the highest scoring word possible. You can even pause the game anytime and pick it up later.

Follow your progress game by game with instant statistics tracking. As your game-play and strategy improves, you'll find more ways to rack up double and triple word scores.

Enjoy the number one name in crossword games, and sharpen your vocabulary in a fun new way.

MONOPOLY (Play the Popular Board Game on Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc.

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

Enjoy the original MONOPOLY board game on your Kindle.

You can play against your Kindle or with a combination of up to 3 friends with Pass 'N Play multiplayer. Choose between 3 different difficulty levels for your opponents - Easy, Medium, and Hard. You can even customize your house rules to change how Free Parking, Taxes, Get Out of Jail and other rules work within your game.

Featuring all the classic properties like Park Place and Boardwalk, you can buy, sell, and build houses and hotels all around the MONOPOLY board.

And just FYI, here's a new game from EA:

YAHTZEE (Play the Classic Dice Game on Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc. ($4.99)

Product Description
Now you can play YAHTZEE, the classic dice game on Kindle.

Roll the dice with YAHTZEE, a game in which players roll five dice to try and make 4-of-a-kinds, full houses, and straights. Keep the dice you want and re-roll the rest, but think carefully to score the best combination and the most points!

YAHTZEE for Kindle has three modes to enjoy. Play in Classic Mode and brave the luck of the roll, or remove luck from the game and play in Duplicate Mode where each person plays with identical die rolls and only your strategy can make the difference. You may also compete in Battle Mode, where your goal is to reduce your opponents score.

Play solo or Pass 'n' Play with up to 3 other players. Track stats like best scores, total victories, win ratios and more. Share the fun with 3 difficulty levels: easy, medium and hard.

One of the world's favorite dice-driven game scores again. Now play it anywhere you take your Kindle.

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These are also discounted to $0.99:

NY Times Crosswords Vol. 5 (30 World Famous Easy Puzzles) by The New York Times

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

NY Times Crosswords, Vol 5, comes with another unique bundle of 30 world famous easy puzzles handpicked by The New York Times and edited by Will Shortz.

You can solve unassisted or get help using the 'reveal one letter' or 'reveal entire answer' functionality. You can even check your work for errors.

Enjoy the gold standard of crossword puzzles on your Kindle!

NY Times Crosswords Vol. 6 (30 World Famous Challenging Puzzles) by The New York Times for $0.99

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

NY Times Crosswords, Vol 6, comes with another unique bundle of 30 world famous challenging puzzles handpicked by The New York Times and edited by Will Shortz.

You can solve unassisted or get help using the 'reveal one letter' or 'reveal entire answer' functionality. You can even check your work for errors.

Enjoy the gold standard of crossword puzzles on your Kindle!

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These are specially discounted pre-orders with bonus material:

Hush with Bonus Material: A Novel by Kate White for $1.99

Product Description

New York Times bestselling author and Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief returns with a sizzling, page-turning thriller in which an ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder—and realizes it's not just the law that's hunting her.

When Lake Warren learns that her husband, Jack, is suing for full custody of their two kids four months after their separation, she's pretty certain that things can't get any worse. The upside is that she's working with the Advanced Fertility Center as a marketing consultant, alongside the attractive, flirtatious Dr. Keaton. But the morning after their one-night stand, Lake finds Keaton with his throat slashed and discovers that things can indeed become worse—they can become deadly.

So as not to jeopardize her case for custody, Lake is forced to lie to the police. Having just been intimate with a man who has been murdered, and wanting to protect herself from being charged with the crime, she begins her own search for the truth. Meanwhile, the police start looking at her closely, people at the clinic start treating her with hostility, and strange clues begin dropping—quite literally—on her doorstep, and Lake realizes that she is dangerously close to dark secrets, both about Keaton and the clinic. But can Lake stop what she's started before it's too late?

A Quick Bite with Bonus Material by Lynsay Sands for $1.99

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That hot guy tied to Lissianna Argeneau's bed? He's not dessert—he's the main course!

Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there's another, more pressing issue: her tendency to faint at the sight of blood . . . an especially annoying quirk for a vampire. Of course it doesn't hurt that this man has a delicious-looking neck. What kind of cold-blooded vampire woman could resist a bite of that?

Dr. Gregory Hewitt recovers from the shock of waking up in a stranger's bedroom pretty quickly—once he sees a gorgeous woman about to treat him to a wild night of passion. But is it possible for the good doctor to find true love with a vampire vixen, or will he be just a good meal? That's a question Dr. Greg might be willing to sink his teeth into . . . if he can just get Lissianna to bite.