Free book (Kindle) Meg: Origins [Submarine Fantasy Monster Thriller]

[ATDrake]

Meg: Origins, a prequel to the Meg series of military-encounters-deep-sea-horror fantasy thrillers by Steve Alten, is free courtesy of Gere Donovan Press.

Currently just free @ Amazon (available to Canadians), 99 cents @ B&N and iTunes.

ETA: In the intervening years, this has also become free in the following venues:

Now also free @ Kobo & iTunes (both available to Canadians), as well as Amazon UK (all DRM-free†).

What looks like the original start of the series, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror is regularly priced at $4.99 in all venues and DRM-free @ Amazon (linked for your sample-getting convenience).

Another novel in the series, Meg: Hell's Aquarium is a mere $2.86 for Canadians and also DRM-free, by a different publisher @ Amazon (may also be available elsewhere, this is the limit of my associated bargains checking). Okay, it's #4 in the series, and B&N has it for $2.99, as well as some sort of standalone apocalyptic prophesied-since-medieval-times-end-of-the-world-thriller, Grim Reaper for the same price; other stores, you'll have to lookup yourself.

Description
Commander Jonas Taylor is tasked with piloting the US Navy's most advanced submersible, the DSV Sea Cliff, to the bottom of Challenger Deep — 36,000 feet below the surface — into what is very much an undiscovered country. What he finds there — a remnant population of luminous, prehistoric Megalodons — will change the course of the rest of his life.

In this prequel to his New York Times Bestseller, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, Alten sets the stage for the popular suspense series to follow. Fans of Meg will find it a must for offering insight into key characters' backstories, but the novella-length work also stands alone as a bite-sized tale of deep-sea suspense.

[ATDrake]

Guess what went free in even more places just in time for Shark Week*?

Now also free @ Kobo & iTunes (both available to Canadians), as well as Amazon UK (all DRM-free†).

Requested thread title change that will fit:

Free (nook/Kindle/Kobo/iTunes) Meg: Origins [Submarine Fantasy Monster Thriller]

* Okay, technically the newer ones probably dropped sometime much sooner within the past 3 years since this first became a permafreebie @ Amazon anyway. But I didn't think to check on it again until now, because Shark Week⁑.

† Well, technically only DRM-Free for iTunes if you don't use OS X Mavericks and haven't ever opened the iBooks app, which hijacks your downloaded-into-the-iTunes-Media-Library "purchases" and converts them all into unzipped but encrypted folders in a hidden directory deep within the bowels of your ~/Library, which incidentally is a one-way trip‡, even for any DRM-free ePubs you used to have acquired via the auspices of the iTunes Store.

Most annoying, and I must be sure to tell them so via the Provide iBooks Feedback once the rage subsides.

But at least the store is much easier to search now.

‡ So yeah, even if you have an iDevice, if you're using Mavericks with all the software updates and think you might ever want to read this on another reader, you're going to want to grab the Kobo version too.

⁑ Incidentally, Shark Week itself seems to have become as fictional as this series, given that the Discovery Channel has been lying to reputable scientists to get them to appear on their shows and just plain making stuff up.

It's just sad when there's so much interesting stuff already known about sharks that they don't have to lie about, but they respond to predator pressure by apparently trying to take over SyFy®'s niche. I hope they evolve a new survival strategy.

[peachiekene]

Interesting...
Grabbed the freebie. Looks like the others are couponable at Kobo too. Thanks.