Free Fridays novel from Barnes & Noble - Dark Legacy

[Susan Crealock]

Title: Dark Legacy by Anna DeStefano

Description: Fans of the blockbuster film Inception will love this week’s Free Fridays selection: Dark Legacy.

Anna DeStefano’s complex novel relies on a similar framework of dream theory and questions of identity that made Inception such an irresistible film. In Dark Legacy, sisters Maddie and Sarah share a unique psychic gift that puts them at great danger from a covert government agency called Trinity. The agency has kept the sisters apart for ten years, intent on harnessing their shared powers. But when their dual-consciousness is restored, the sisters find that there’s a new, dangerous element that wasn’t there before. DeStefano’s novel is an insightful psychological thriller of the first order.

You can continue the adventures of these powerfully gifted sisters in the just-released sequel, Secret Legacy.

[jbcohen]

Please tell me something about the Free Fridays program: Does BN make a different selection available each week? What genre of books are selected or does the genre vary based on the week? What sorts of novels are selected I take it that NY Times best sellers are not selected? Is there a section of the bn web site that details the program and will always point to the current selection?

[MV64]

They are a variety of books. I think I've seen mysteries and so forth, but it's 90% of the time romance, it seems. Probably because women are such a huge part of the e-book market. And they are a dime a dozen so it's easy to sell them for free.

[koland]

Sometimes it is a book already free, sometimes a book newly free that day (and often not free at Amazon, in that case). Sometimes it is annotated classics.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by jbcohen

Please tell me something about the Free Fridays program: Does BN make a different selection available each week?

Yes, and what genre they have depends on the selection. They do sometimes have NY Times bestseller-ish stuff (they had an Armistead Maupin novel a while ago), but generally the selection seems to be picked mostly from pre-existing freebies that are already on promotion in the other stores.

Occasionally they do a double-freebie feature by supplementing the regular one with a B&N Classics edition or something from their in-house "Sterling Publishing" imprint.

Mind you, lately they've gotten more "exclusive" freebies, such as the sf/fantasy novels from Night Shade Books and some feature-to-promote-new-release-sequel stuff from other publishers which doesn't pop up in the other stores until later/not at all.

And I think they might be trending towards doing more of that, with the new "Free Fridays Recommends" where they now ask the feature author to recommend some favourite e-books for the reader to buy.

Originally Posted by jbcohen

Is there a section of the bn web site that details the program and will always point to the current selection?

Yes, the Free Fridays category on B&N's official "Unbound" blog where they promote new and featured NOOKbooks (or however they're spelling it nowadays). Be warned, if you see a Friday freebie you want, pick it up immediately (after reading the comments to make sure there are no surprise-billing issues). They tend to expire pretty quickly and may not make it even as far as the full weekend.