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Old 12-06-2019, 04:42 PM   #3391
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Swordheart by T. Kingfisher is $1.99 on Amazon.com this month.

This shares a setting with Kingfisher's (aka Ursula Vernon) Clocktaur War series but is a standalone.

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Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate... and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws... and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all...
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Old 12-06-2019, 08:03 PM   #3392
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In the US, I'm seeing two Kindle editions. One for $2.99, no publisher listed, and the preview doesn't show any TOC. At $3.99, there's a Hatchette/Gateway version which looks like it's definitely worth the extra dollar...YMMV.
The Hachette/Gateway for $3.99 appears to be the same book as the Gollancz hardcover (Hachette owns Gollancz). It has the same cover.

The $2.99 book with no publisher listed appears to be a generic copy that shares the same title. It has a completely different cover. Does not have the illustrations. Probably does not have the afterword. May have the same Lovecraft stories.

This is not too unusual for Amazon. You can never assume that the Kindle version that shares a page with a hardcover or paperback is actually the same book.
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Old 12-07-2019, 02:54 AM   #3393
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Why are you spending so much time talking about which Lovecraft collection of stories is the same as another? I thought they're all in the public domain, and already available in many other collections, some for free.

Fluribus, the Hachette/Gateway edition quotes Wikipedia for its description. Not a sign there's a good editor behind it, which is the only reason to prefer one edition over another.
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Old 12-07-2019, 05:00 AM   #3394
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Why are you spending so much time talking about which Lovecraft collection of stories is the same as another? I thought they're all in the public domain, and already available in many other collections, some for free.

Fluribus, the Hachette/Gateway edition quotes Wikipedia for its description. Not a sign there's a good editor behind it, which is the only reason to prefer one edition over another.
If you look at the previews, I'd say the Hatchette edition is definitely preferable. The other looks like someone threw the public domain text together in imitation of the collection and didn't bother to make a toc which would make it pretty unwieldy.
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Old 12-07-2019, 05:25 AM   #3395
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If you look at the previews, I'd say the Hatchette edition is definitely preferable. The other looks like someone threw the public domain text together in imitation of the collection and didn't bother to make a toc which would make it pretty unwieldy.
I'm saying both of these editions are probably not worth paying for
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Old 12-07-2019, 02:40 PM   #3396
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I'm saying both of these editions are probably not worth paying for
As I already had The Necronomicon in hardback (and the companion volume of non-mythos stories - Eldritch Tales), 99p was a good deal for me. This edition has some nice black & white illustrations; I am guessing the Gateway/Hachette edition is the same as the UK edition (Publisher: Gateway; Export Ed edition (18 Sept. 2008)). I was happy to get the Kindle edition as it means I don't have to lug around a nice collectible edition.

Even though the text is now public domain, you have to hunt around to get it; Project Gutenberg only has The Dunwich Horror and The Shunned House, the Faded Page (PG Canada) has 9 stories, I think there's others over in PG Australia (and Roy Glashan's library).
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Old 12-07-2019, 04:15 PM   #3397
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Try this free collection by the Arkham Archivist. It says it's complete. Formatting looks good to me, but maybe they are typos and scanning errors.

I did notice there's no sub-TOC for chapters in the novels, and it uses web-style paragraphs (with a spaces between them) but that can be fixed if you care about it.
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Old 12-07-2019, 05:36 PM   #3398
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Old 12-08-2019, 12:14 AM   #3399
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Today's Amazon.co.uk Big Deal is 12 books in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series at 99p each:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Big-...ode=4725112031

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth 1)
Stone of Tears Sword of Truth 2)
Temple of the Winds (Sword of Truth 4)
Soul of the Fire (Sword of Truth 5)
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth 6)
The Pillars of Creation (Sword of Truth 7)
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth 8)
Chainfire (Sword of Truth 9)
Phantom (Sword of Truth 10)
Confessor (Sword of Truth 11)
Note that book 3 (Blood of the Fold) isn't in the deal.

And two prequels:
Debt of Bones (novella)
The First Confessor

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Old 12-08-2019, 09:33 PM   #3400
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I snoozed and loozed the last time this book was discounted.

Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon on Amazon.com for $2.99.

While I was there....

Gene Wolf - The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas on Amazon.com for $2.99.

Deal of the Day tag on these.
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Old 12-08-2019, 09:51 PM   #3401
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Also "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman is $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IEJZRY/

EDIT: Also, "The Fall of Gondolin" by J.R.R. Tolkein and Christopher Tolkein is $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CFKN31Z/
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Amazon.co.uk has some Last Minute Deals (prices good until Dec 22nd):

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett (DiscWorld 20) is 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hogfather-D...868340&sr=1-15

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K Dick is 99p REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Androids-Dr...AZJ14F&sr=1-50

The Princess Bride, by William Goldman is £2.19 REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-Br...AZJ14F&sr=1-92

Provenance, by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch 4) 99p REPEAT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Provenance-...ZJ14F&sr=1-101

The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury is 99p REPEAT
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Also "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman is $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003IEJZRY/

EDIT: Also, "The Fall of Gondolin" by J.R.R. Tolkein and Christopher Tolkein is $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CFKN31Z/
Got Fall of Gondolin
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The Princess Bride is $3.99 CDN at Amazon Canada.

I'm torn. This is the first time in ages I've found a book I'd like to own with a major price difference between Amazon.ca and Kobo.ca. I could do a price match, I suppose, or I could just use the Apprentice plugin in Calibre. I dislike buying ebooks from Amazon unless they're Kindle exclusives though (a silly bias, I know, but real nonetheless.)
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I wanted to read Princess Bride but it'll have to wait until I can figure out how to extricate myself from this land war in Asia...
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