Kobo Discounts: Coupon Codes + Discussion

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

When I checked earlier this morning, Kobo US had a pretty good sale for today (Nov 23rd) which seems to be mostly just a spotlight of existing publisher sale titles, conveniently located in one place, at $4.99 USD and under (mostly $1.99-$2.99).

A bunch of stuff from major publishers such as HarperCollins and Random Penguin House imprints, plus some Kobo-only discounts from small presses like Dundurn and the Hoover Institute and of course, reprints from Open Road Media. Many, but not all, of the discount prices are also available in Canada if you switch the country codes in the URL.

For some incredibly bizarre and probably inexplicable reason, they took it down while leaving today's spotlight title up, but the categories (and prices) are still live @ Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Thriller, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror (Orbit and Del Rey titles, and Douglas Adams' The Salmon of Doubt is just $2.99), Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction (some Jewish interest stuff in here, plus a bunch of nice science books), Kids

Thanks. It's not an incredibly bizarre and probably inexplicable reason, it's Kobo being Kobo.

[davidfor]

Kobo DownUnder has added another deal for the weekend - "Save up to 75% Plus get 5X the points.". The page for it is https://www.kobo.com/au/en/p/blackfridayanz17. That has links to lists for Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Nonfiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Kids & Teen.

[datcha]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

There is a Kobo mailing list. In your account settings "My Account", check the "Yes please" radio button under "EMAIL UPDATES"

I went to my Kobo account : the "Yes please" radio button was checked ....

Maybe they were unhappy about my birthdate which made me over a century old. I just corrected it. I will see if I now get the info.

But that is not my only problem with Kobo. I wrote a review of an excellent anthology ("Soulmates" by Resnick and Robyn) but the review never appeared on the page. I posted it twice, the second time under the supervision of one of their chat people.

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Otherwise, subscribe to this thread, and check the first post of this thread. I try to keep it up to date with current discount codes.
I've just added the 40BOX code.

Was done too ... and BTW, thanks for your work keeping this info up to date.

[cadele]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Kobo AU has "Make a booklover's day with the perfect gift".

Give a $50 dollar eGift card to a friend and get a $10 eGift card by email.

I think I'll be friendly with myself.

Did you receive your $10 eGift card?

I took up this offer and the $10 was to be received within 48 hours. Not received yet after 3 days....

Love Kobo....

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by cadele

Did you receive your $10 eGift card?

I took up this offer and the $10 was to be received within 48 hours. Not received yet after 3 days....

Love Kobo....

Not yet, but I did read it as after the time the card was redeemed. I didn't do that for a day or so, 48 hours isn't up. And I also assumed they meant 2 working days, so that isn't up either.

[Terisa de morgan]

I haven't received it either, and I redeemed it on Thursday.

[Loosheesh]

After months of no emails from Kobo (so lovely to be spared the angst of defective coupons!), I get a message from them, informing me that my Super Points will expire on Dec 27. My first reaction was to be irritated they even contacted me but I suppose this message doesn't fall under "... info on the latest eBooks, offers, and app updates."

They can keep my measly points, just like they've kept all the codes I was unable to use

[Hemmi]

Why does Kobo's Black Friday promo say today only save on these books? The romance selection is the same every single day! I know, I've been checking it out every day.

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by Hemmi

Why does Kobo's Black Friday promo say today only save on these books? The romance selection is the same every single day! I know, I've been checking it out every day.

There's been a few books that were only for a day plus new books in the nonfiction section although most of the books have been around the whole time.

[cadele]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I haven't received it either, and I redeemed it on Thursday.

Hi Terisa. I redeemed on Friday and not a squeak since. Hmmm

[ATDrake]

In Canada & the US, Kobo is having an additional 1-day sale of discount titles from Macmillan imprints for $2.99 and less, including Tor and St. Martin's Press, which is probably also available at other retailers.

There's a whole stack of Janet Evanovich in her popular Stephanie Plum series, and a few Dana Stabenow titles in her Kate Shugak series (the 1st one is a long-term freebie offered by the author herself), some cozy mysteries, thrillers, a few romances, and sf/fantasy.

Officially, the deal only has a promo page for Canada: The Savings Aren't Over: Bestsellers starting at $2.99 (actually $1.99 for some of the Tor novellas), but changing the country code in the URL shows that most of the prices are also available in the US.

The Janet Evanovich portion of the sale does have a dedicated US promo page: Janet Evanovich Mysteries for $2.99.

[zelda.owns.link]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Kobo AU has "Make a booklover's day with the perfect gift".

Give a $50 dollar eGift card to a friend and get a $10 eGift card by email.

I think I'll be friendly with myself.

I did this here in Canada and did receive my $10! I was gobsmacked!!!

[ATDrake]

Through December 4th, Kobo CA, UK, and US are having a rather nice weekend sale on Chilly Thrillers, which in some cases includes Horror and SFnal ones, under £2.99/$4.99 CAD. Most are priced under £1.99/$2.99, with a substantial number at the £0.99/$1.99 mark. Some of the prices are just current publisher markdowns being spotlighted, but some of the things from the smaller presses are Kobo-exclusive markdowns and usually couponable/VIP discount-eligible.

The selection is actually pretty good, with a mix of stuff from large (the many divisions of Macmillan & Hachette) and small publishers (Head of Zeus, Orenda, House of Anansi, and other specialty), with a few indies thrown in, and a generous selection of translated works if you're into international authors, and many well-known authors and/or awards-recognized series in the lot. A fair chunk of my wishlist is in this.

In Canada, main page with categories: Thrillers, Mysteries, Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Hard-Boiled Mysteries (a good selection of 3-book omnibuses from Canadian small publisher ECW Press), International Mysteries, Historical Mysteries, Horror, Crime, Espionage, Cozy Mysteries, Romantic Suspense, Young Adult

US looks like it's got different categories but overall the same selection as Canada, barring some geo-restrictions. Main page here with categories: Crime Thrillers, Suspenseful Thrillers, Action & Espionage Thrillers, Supernatural Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Detective Fiction, Mystery Thrillers, Romantic Suspense, Thrilling Thrillers (which seems kind of redundantly redundant), Hard Boiled Mysteries, Kids & Teen Thrillers

In the UK, main page with categories: Chilling Crimes, Nordic Noir , Foreboding Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Hair-Raising Horror

I should probably note that this being Kobo, some of the titles and authors aren't filed in the categories one might expect. Quite a number of foreign-language authors are filed outside of the dedicated International Mysteries and Nordic Noir cats, and some non-Nordics/domestics in, so it's probably worth making a trawl through the adjacent categories of whatever you're regularly interested in as well.

Semi-related to that, Quentin Bates and Michael Ridpath are English authors writing series set in Iceland—I really enjoyed Ridpath's Fire & Ice series, for which the 1st has been a freebie and the later novels not available as e-books in North America were on my wishlist (I read them in paper from the library and have been waiting literally years for them to pricedrop), and Bates' series was also pretty decent. ETA: I should probably also note that Bates' Frozen Out (in the UK sale) was published in North America as Frozen Assets, and has been a $1.99 Soho Crime bargain a few times in the past which you might already have, in case you travel. Also, the handful of tie-in novellas by Bates and Ridpath are both at what IIRC are regular prices, so you can wait to pick them up later.

I would recommend them both without hesitation for readers interested in trying faux-Scandicrime (especially if you happen to be a Tolkien fan, since the 1st-in-series Ridpath novel has a reasonably substantial connection to his works in the plot).

[Cootey]

From what I've learned from interacting with Kobo, the Big 5 don't give them wiggle room on discounts. What Kobo does is create a discount code (GIFT50 just the other day), then only allow certain books to be discounted (https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/dec50?u...=00003&utm_id=). So we have to visit a specific list, then remember to add the code ourselves to get the discount.

This might explain why codes shared on here don't have a high success rate. They aren't often global codes. Don't you think?

[Josieb1]

I have a 50% off VIP code if anyone wants it. Valid to December 20th.

For a limited time only: become a VIP Member for only £3 when you use promo code VIPDA4SVH