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10-18-2018, 08:27 AM | #1967 |
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free at kindle us
both free at kindle us --or were yesterday evening.
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10-18-2018, 12:55 PM | #1968 |
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Woo! That made me look at amazon.co.uk and it's free there too: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Hall.../dp/B07J67FMQL
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10-22-2018, 02:30 PM | #1969 |
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Sorry I'm not giving links with this, but there are several books of interest on sale presumably at all the major retailers, but I only checked Amazon and Kobo, and these are in the Amazon Daily Deal:
Leviathan Wakes, $2.99: Book 1 of the Expanse series, which is also a series on SyFy channel. The Robots of Gotham, $2.99: Takes place in war-torn Chicago of 2083, after AIs become transcendant and rule many countries. I just finished reading it from a library copy, and liked it enough that I bought it. While it is self-contained, there are a lot of open threads that I expect a sequel. Slade House, $1.99: By the author of Cloud Atlas, a sort of haunted house story. Lovecraft Country, $1.99: Jim Crow America with Lovecraftian horrow from a black perspective. The End of the World Running Club, $2.99: Post-apocalyptic novel about a guy stuck about 500 miles from home. Joyland, $0.99: Stephen King novel about a murder in an amusement park, with a little bit of supernatural. |
10-22-2018, 03:20 PM | #1970 |
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Mirror of Her Dreams, by Stephen Donaldson, is on sale at Amazon US for $1.99.
Donaldson's books don't go on sale often so grab quickly if you want it. This is the first book of his "Mordant's Need" duology. I haven't read it in decades but remember enjoying it perhaps a bit more than the Thomas Covenant series. |
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10-23-2018, 12:10 PM | #1971 |
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The downside is, the second half of the story, A Man Rides Through is overpriced and never discounted.
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10-23-2018, 12:19 PM | #1972 |
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Wow. I wonder what mirror Random House believes the world has slipped through that they think this is a universe where people will pay $15.99 for an ebook copy of a Stephen R. Donaldson backlist title?
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10-23-2018, 01:34 PM | #1973 | |
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ETA: Just noticed that the omnibus edition of the two books is also £3.99 . https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mordants-Ne.../dp/B005694TKW I think this must be some kind of sale, because I see I bought this book in 2013 and paid £8.99 (for the omnibus, that is). Last edited by HarryT; 10-23-2018 at 01:51 PM. |
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10-23-2018, 02:24 PM | #1974 |
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There isn't an omnibus in the US; there's just a bundle with the two books in it. "A Man Rides Through" is $11.99 in the US, which is definitely more than the typical novel that is decades old.
Edit: I grab the sales priced books partly as a way to vote with my dollars to let the book companies know that I'm willing to buy more books at lower prices. Last edited by GlennD; 10-23-2018 at 02:29 PM. |
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Yet another reason for me to find time to travel to the UK... like being physically in England will let me purchase an ebook or ten there.
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Kobo makes it very easy to "travel" if one wishes. When I tried doing an AmazonUK account I got a nastygram from Amazon.
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I set up my Kindle UK account while I was in the UK on business, and just used my hotel's address. I didn't really think it would work, because I thought that even though I was actually in the UK right then, having an address that didn't match my credit card would probably cause trouble with the charges. But so far, and it's been many years, no issues. I've even been able to update the credit card twice for new expiration dates. Fingers always crossed, but so far, so good.
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