9 Free Kindle Books (8/31 Late Evening update) + Newly Discounted Books Found by Forumners + Amzn Deals

Rabu, 31 Agustus 2011
NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Wednesday, 8/31 - Updated to correct two book links and add a second batch of books (7 more)


Nearly Departed in Deadwood
, by Ann Charles (author) and C.S. Kunkle (Illustrator), 80 customer reviews, 4.8 stars, $0.99

  Winner of the 2010 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense.



Kindle Daily Deal
  (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)
  Wednesday, 8/31
  Poke the Box, by Seth Godin, 186 customer reviews, 4.2 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Wednesday, 8/31:
      Tuesday's Price: $6.64
      Wednesday's Discount: $5.15
      Wednesday's Daily Deal Price: $1.49 (78% off)



Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
  Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
  I've added a separate sorting
by Low-to-High pricing.
Unusual Publisher Sale for August
Publisher Harper Perennial sale: 20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through this last day of August


Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
  . Discussing books posted on discount threads (New)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles



LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "The thread is for discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers."

  Today's includes some finds by Emily Bronte: HarperCollins Pre-orders for Sept. at $1.99 and a top-rated Kindle Store book from Corvallis Press discounted to $0.99, which I've highlighted at the top.
  8/30-31



TEMPORARILY Free-Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the amazing "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is constantly on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are *not* recommendations by this blog -- this is just a daily report of very popular forum alerts.   The eBooks will become no longer free within days, usually - sometimes, hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing all these for us.

Aug 31 - morning, 2 books; Aug 31 - late evening, 7 books

If, on the Home page listing, you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *


' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

 I Shall Not Want : Psalm 23 Mysteries Book Two (The Psalm 23 Mysteries)
Author: Debbie Vigiue
Genre: Religious - Spiritual - Contemporary Fiction

DESCRIPTION: Charity work can be murder! It's Thanksgiving and Joseph Tyler, one of the members of Cindy's church, has organized a new charity that provides homeless people with rescue dogs to love and care for. But one by one, the homeless recipients are being murdered and their dogs stolen. Could an overly competitive millionaire with his prize-winning pooches and a grudge be behind the crimes? Or could it be someone much closer to Joseph who has something sinister to hide? Cindy and Jeremiah must rush to find a killer before he strikes again.

*****

Always the Baker, Never the Bride
Author: Sandra D. Bricker
Genre: Religious - Spiritial - Contemporary Fiction

** Previously offered on January 7, 2011 **
DESCRIPTION: Thirty-six-year-old Emma Rae Travis has been baking specialty cakes and melt-in-your-mouth pastries at The Backstreet Bakery in historic Roswell, just outside of Atlanta, for the last six years. But here's the rub about her job as a baker ... Emma is diabetic. When she tastes her creations, it can only be in the most minute portions. Emma is considered an artisan for the stunning crème brulee wedding cake that won her the Passionate Palette Award last year, but she's never even had one full slice of it.When Jackson Drake hears about this local baker who has won a prestigious award for her wedding cake artistry, he tells his assistant to be sure and include her in the pastry tastings scheduled at his new wedding destination hotel the following week. And for Jackson, that particular day has started out badly with two workmen trapped in a broken elevator and a delivery of several dozen 300-thread-count bed linens in the wrong size abandoned in the lobby. But when the arrogant baker he met a week prior in Roswell stumbles into the dining room with a platter of pastries and a bucketful of orders, he knows for certain: It's going to be a really rotten day. Can these two ill-suited players master the high-wire act and make a go of their new business venture? Or will they take each other crashing downward, without a net? And will the surprise wedding at The Tanglewood be theirs?

*** [Second batch added "Late Evening" Wed., Aug 31 and placed here]

Throwaway
Author: Heather Huffman
Genre: Romance - Suspense

DESCRIPTION: Jessie Jones is living the life--except for the fact that she earns it by working the streets. She's been under pimp Spence's thumb for fourteen years, and she isn't looking to change it. That is, until undercover cop Gabe walks into her life and offers her something she's never had before: a love, a future, a home. But even if Jessie could walk away from Spence, there are darker forces of evil who want her to stay put, or worse, dead. In this romantic suspense, author Heather Huffman delivers an adventure from the vibrant streets of St. Louis to the caves of the Ozarks as Jessie discovers whether she can love another, whether she can love herself, and whether any of it is enough.

  MORE... ( 6 more books: Click just below on "MORE")
*****

The Getaway
Author: Sonya Bateman
Genre: Short Stories - Urban Fantasy

DESCRIPTION: A novella connected to Sonya Bateman's urban fantasy djinn series that includes Master of None and Master and Apprentice. Getaway driver Jazz wasn't exactly thrilled when the thief Gavyn Donatti, her ex-partner -- and the unwitting father of her son -- waltzed back into her life, and then dragged her into the middle of a magical war between a bunch of ancient genies, who'd been hiding among humans for centuries. And as if that wasn't enough, it turned out these djinn didn't choose Donatti for his charm... he's related to them, and has a little magic of his own. Now that they've vanquished their enemies and Jazz has more or less accepted Donatti into her life, he's talked her into taking a weekend trip for her birthday. A "romantic" getaway in a rustic cabin. Unfortunately, Donatti's map-reading skills aren't up to par, and neither is his car -- because first they get lost, and then they wreck on some unnamed mountain road. When Jazz comes to, Donatti is MIA and she's been abducted by a smooth-talking stranger who is more than he appears. There's something magical, and dangerous, going on -- and for once, it's not Donatti's fault. Includes sample chapters from Master of None and Master and Apprentice.

***

The Vagrant's Tail (OtherWhere)
Author: Garry Grierson
Genre: Fantasy

DESCRIPTION: Arthur Meadows fell into a downward spiral and lost everything after the voices and visions started. His average day consisted of bumming money on the street, and trying to forget his tattered life. But not every person he meets is all that they seem, and a seemingly chance encounter leads to a very different end to the day. This is a Spin-off story from my Novelette 'The Crazies'

***

Bitten (Bitten Series)
Author: Merritt Gemus
Genre: Romance

DESCRIPTION: When Ally becomes a newly single woman, she is determined to meet the man of her dreams. Never truly expecting it to actually occur, she is amaze to find herself drawn to a dark, mysterious stranger leaning against the bar. He was utterly irresistible. Despite her friends' protests, she willingly follows him outside the bar and soon realizes that her world will never be the same again.

***

Flyover Country
Author: Daniel Kohler
Genre: Literary Fiction

DESCRIPTION: In 1962, three intersecting crimes-a patricide, a bank robbery, and a kidnapping-lead to tragedy, secret-sharing, redemption, and a May/September romance in Flyover Country.

***

The Djinn Garden
Author: Stephen Goldin
Genre: Action - Adventure

DESCRIPTION: In a world of Arabian Nights adventure, a band of heroes is on a quest to reunite the Crystal of Oromasd and save the world. One of their number, the beautiful young djinn named Cari, vanishes on a mysterious island in the Central Sea and the others must avoid being enslaved themselves and defeat a powerful invisible demon if they hope to rescue her. This story is an excerpt from Stephen Goldin's epic Parsina Saga.

***

The End of the World
Author: Alexander Lurikov
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories

DESCRIPTION: "I have a lovely view of the end of the world..." So begins Alexander Lurikov's new story, in which the past and present merge as memories become reality. Alexander Lurikov is the author of several other stories available for Kindle, including Demise, Grains of the Golden Sand, and A Continual Farewell. His first work of fiction, Diary of a Discontent, is available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. '


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    press the Kindle's "Aa"-key to Zoom a page of text 200% if on Kindle 3
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  (Thanks for your support of the blog.)



For daily free ebooks, check the following links:
Temporarily-free books - Non-classics - USA: by:
NEW:  June  July  Aug 2011
   Publication Date   Late-listed
   Bestselling   High-ratings

UK: PubDate   Popular
What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care
Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3
Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
USEFUL for your Kindle (U.S. only, currently):
  99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,
  99c Calendar,   99c Converter


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite
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Free Jigsaw Words game released + 99c sale on some Kindle Games

NEW GAME AND A SALE THRU' SEPT. 12, 2011

Jigsaw Words, released August 23, is by Amazon Digital Services at a pretty good price -- $0.00.  It has 19 customer reviews, with an average rating of 4.5 stars.

  Games are still not available internationally, and for that reason I've not featured them as much.  Although Amazon has said on the forums that they intend to distribute them internationally, there's been no word at all on when.

  The following is from the product description:
'...you start with a set of 10 clues.  You also have a set of randomly arranged puzzle pieces with letters on them.  Your goal is to solve the clues in the puzzle by arranging the puzzle pieces so that the letters form the word that matches each clue. Start with the easiest clues first.  As you use each puzzle piece, it is removed from play, making it easier to find the more difficult matches.  You can also shuffle the grid of puzzle pieces at any time for a different perspective.

  Jigsaw Words has 100 puzzles and each puzzle has 10 clues to solve.  The puzzles are organized into 10 themed categories like Holidays and Animals, and you can use the theme to help you solve the clues. '

Kindle Games Sale - $0.99 Ending Sept. 12, 2011
Go to the Games and Active Content page to see the special $0.99 Kindle Games Sale.
 There are 4 "pages" showing 3 games per page. I may as well just list them here :-)
  Doodle, Word Quest; Slingo; KenKen; Triple Town; Panda Poet; EA Soduku;
  Yahtzee; Scrabble; Hearts, Spades and More; Cryptograms; KeeKo's Quest


Popular Kindle Active Content Titles
There are also "Popular $0.99 Kindle Active Content Titles" featured (6 of them) -- and, in the footer of this blog article, I list some of my favorite tools that are 99c also (Notepad, Calendar, Calculator, Converter).



For daily free ebooks, check the following links:


Temporarily-free books -
Non-classics
- USA: by:
NEW:  June  July  Aug 2011
   Publication Date   Late-listed
   Bestselling   High-ratings

UK: PubDate   Popular
What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care
Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3
Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
USEFUL for your Kindle (U.S. only, currently):
  99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,
  99c Calendar,   99c Converter


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite


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Amazon Tablet rumors: Digitimes says 10-inch tablet STARTS mass production in 1st Qtr 2012

DIGITIMES'S LATEST ON ANDROID TABLET RUMORS FROM PARTS MAKERS

  I had mentioned conflicting information on July 27 when Digitimes had reported on July 15 that Quanta was already shipping 7" tablets to Amazon but on July 27 was saying that Quanta "will be solely responsible for assembling the tablet, the sources noted."

Digitimes' Yenting Chen and Joseph Tsai write today a headline that conflicts with earlier information from other sources (one being BYTE magazine's August 10 article on what they described as dual-screen technology on a device that was being pushed up from early 2012 to shortly after Thanksgiving this year).  Par for the course with rumors.

TODAY's Digitimes article says that
' Mass production of Amazon's 10.1-inch tablet PC reportedly will be conducted in the first quarter of 2012 with Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to handle the orders, according to sources from upstream component suppliers. '

  The headline they used -- capitalized emphasis mine:
  "Amazon 10-inch tablet PC to START mass production in 1Q12"

According to Digitimes, the 7-inch tablet to be supplied by Quanta Computer "is expected to start shipping in October, the sources added"

  Many had hoped for an 8.9" display on the first tablet, but articles are fairly consistent that a 7-inch one is coming.

  They also put out an impossible to substantiate statement (volume-wise) that Foxconn, to which Amazon is said to outsource the production of its Kindle readers, is involved with "an estimated volume of 15-18 million units, accounting for 60-70% of global e-book reader shipments of 25-30 million units in 2011"


For a history of earlier tablet-rumor articles: see the ongoing List of stronger Amazon tablet rumors with dates, titles, and links to the Kindleworld blog articles with sources.


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite

Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.


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Free Kindle Books (8/30 Late Evening, 48 total) + Newly Discounted Books Found by Forumners + Amzn Deals

Selasa, 30 Agustus 2011
37 NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Tuesday, 8/30 - Updated "Late Evening" to add 11 more free-book listings


The Abbey, by Chris Culver, 69 customer reviews, 4.6 stars, $0.99

  This is from the 'hard-boiled mystery' genre and has good word of mouth



Kindle Daily Deal
  (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)
  Tuesday, 8/30
  Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, by William Styron, 171 customer reviews, 4.3 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Tuesday, 8/30:
      Monday's Price: $9.84
      Tuesday's Discount: $8.35
      Tuesday's Daily Deal Price: $1.49 (85% off)
From Library Journal: "Lean prose, wit, and humanizing sidebars lend credence to both plot and setting..."





Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
  Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
  I've added a separate sorting
by Low-to-High pricing.
Unusual Publisher Sale for August - 8/3
Publisher Harper Perennial sale::20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through the month of August



Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
  . Discussing books posted on discount threads (New)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles



LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "The thread is for discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers."
  8/28-30



TEMPORARILY Free-Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the amazing "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is constantly on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are *not* recommendations by this blog -- this is just a daily report of very popular forum alerts.   The eBooks will become no longer free within days, usually - sometimes, hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing all these for us.

Aug 30 - morning, 37 books; Aug 30 - late evening, 11 more (total 48 for 8/30)

If, on the Home page listing, you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *


' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

Garden of Darkness by Anne Frasier
Author: Anne Frasier

***

Nannie's Moon: a children's book
Author: Janice Daugharty

***

Escaping Entry
Author: Benedict Martin

***

Dead? Three Short Stories by Joshua Scribner
Author: Joshua Scribner

  MORE... ( 33 more books: Click just below on "MORE")
*****

Demonsouled
Author: Jonathan Moeller

***

Shep Dreams Of Home
Author: Jason Matthews

***

Inevitable, a Paranormal Romance (The Inevitable Trilogy #1)
Author: Jason Letts

***

A Flash of Inspiration: A Collection of Very Short Stories by Indie Authors
Author: Helmy Kusuma

***

The Converging
Author: George Straatman

***

Elvira / Sex Erotica Short Story Surprise Ending
Author: Joe Brewster

***

The Brain Machine
Author: Chris Turner

***

A Slight Scar / Short Story Sex Erotica
Author: Joe Brewster

***

The Gift of Illusion: A Paranormal Thriller
Author: Richard Brown

***

The Current Rate of Exchange
Author: Jacqueline T. Lynch

***

Spying in High Heels (High Heels Mysteries)
Author: Gemma Halliday

***

Touched by Angels
Author: Peggy Webb

***

Plain Jane: Brunettes Beware
Author: Cristyn West

***

The Price of Liberty
Author: Keir Graff

***

Growth
Author: Karin Cox

***

Redstone Stories: Vision Quest
Author: Ann Levingston Joiner

***

Dinosauria - Part I : Garden
Author: J. Rock

***

Magical Entities Are Not For Sale
Author: Chris Turner

***

33 A.D. (Bachiyr, Book 1)
Author: David McAfee

***

Heirs of Mars: Preludes
Author: Joseph Robert Lewis

***

The Curse of the Winged Terror (A Dragolescu Vampire Hunter Story)
Author: Robert Davis

***

Late Night With Elaine / A Short And Sweet Sex Story
Author: Joe Brewster

***

People Of The Tiger - USA Kindle Edition (The Rational Future Series)
Author: Wayne Edward Clarke

***

One On One Time With Wendy Williams In Jelly Land
Author: German Alcala

***

Sleep Tight
Author: Anne Frasier

***

Bleeding the Blind (A Short Story)
Author: T.S. Welti

***

Staked (Time Brokers: Book One)
Author: Sandra Edwards

***

The Maine Event (Josh & Dana)
Author: Alex Wilson

***

The Evolution of Man Scientifically DisprovedIn 50 Arguments
Author: Jess C. Scott

***

PALE IMMORTAL by Anne Frasier
Author: Anne Frasier

***

It Could Happen Again
Author: Sonia Rurnzi

***

Regression (Book One: Infinion Series)
Author: Kathy Bell

***

Tiffany Gets Her Boobs
Author: David H. Bawdy

*** [ADDED LATE EVENIKNG TUESDAY"]

Lissie
Author: Belinda N. Siodacain

***

Redstone Stories: Incident at Bandera Pass
Author: Ann Livingston Joiner

***

The Rumblin: A Short Story
Author: Jeff Bennington

***

Fancy Farmer
Author: Pam Uphoff

***

Coping With Breast Cancer.
Author: Ricky Sides

***

>Bored in the Breakroom
Author: Jay DiNitto

***

>Love for Sale!
Author: Joe Brewster

***

Sweetwater American
Author: Eileen Cruz Coleman

***

A Simple Lens
Author: Chris Turner

***

Tortured Spirit: A Short Story
Author: Joshua Scribner

Love from the Ashes
Author: Denise Agnew 
'


Kindle-edition blog subscribers can access these by
clicking on any forum-alert link above, with Wireless 'On'...
  (the daily updates of forum alerts/discussions are readable on the Kindle-edition -
    press the Kindle's "Aa"-key to Zoom a page of text 200% if on Kindle 3
    or to increase font size on Kindle 2)
    The Aa key gives a Landscape-view option also.)



For daily free ebooks, check the following links:


Temporarily-free books - Non-classics - USA: by:
NEW:  June  July  Aug 2011
   Publication Date   Late-listed
   Bestselling   High-ratings

UK: PubDate   Popular
What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care
Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3
Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
USEFUL for your Kindle (U.S. only, currently):
  99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,
  99c Calendar,   99c Converter


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite


Read More >

Amazon site redesign, accessible by a few, is more tablet-friendly, it's said

AMAZON TESTING "SLICK NEW SITE DESIGN"

TNW has a report on an apparently new, "vastly improved version of [Amazon's] massively popular shopping website" to be launched in "the near future" and which has been designed to appeal to tablet owners.

They say that "only a small number of users have been granted access to the new design" but that some of them have been describing their surprise via Twitter.  Here's a sample Twitter thread about the new redesign and the reactions of those who have access to it.   The reaction is very positive.

As TNW says,
' Gone are the blue menus and buttons, making way for a slicker white and grey interface that reduces clutter and makes navigation a lot easier.  From the screenshots that were shared with us (thanks Derek), Amazon has stopped its navigation menu from loading on page load, now displaying it when the user mouses-over the “Shop By Department” button. '

Also, there seems to a large focus on tablet-friendly products, such as "Instant Video, MP3 Store, Cloud Player, Kindle, Cloud Drive, AppStore for Android, Game and Software Downloads and Audiobooks..."

Conjecture which follows that, in the article, is what we've been reading for the last month in several articles that report industry rumors.

As for the look of the store, I don't pay enough attention because in comparing their examples of the new look vs the current one, it looks similar except that I still do have the blue tool bars and separators (which make it a bit easier for me to see categories than the new-style vanilla-looking gray/black-white version of the toolbar might).

At any rate, take a look.  It's almost September, and most estimates for the first type of tablet is 'by October' although some of the shipping of parts reported the last week seem to indicate a delay, but maybe that's because they want to produce more. Who knows?


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite

Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.


Read More >

Free Kindle Books (8/29 -late afternoon, corrected ) + Newly Discounted Books Found by Forumners + Amzn Deals

Senin, 29 Agustus 2011
NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

Monday, 8/29

Untouchable, by Scott O'Connor, 11 customer reviews, 4.9 stars, $0.00

  "O'Connor tells a wisp of a story, but in a voice so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word." --New York Times Book Review.
  "'O'Connor's prose is as beautifully terse as his plot... It's an affecting mix, squeezing the reader's emotions..." -- Booklist



Kindle Daily Deal
  (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
      Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)
  Monday, 8/29
  Hidden in Plain View (Darryl Billups Mysteries), by Blair S. Walker, 14 customer reviews, 4.1 stars - published by AmazonEncore July 26, 2011
    Daily Deal until the end of Monday, 8/29:
      Sunday's Price: $7.99
      Monday's Discount: $7.00
      Monday's Daily Deal Price: $0.99 (88% off)
From Library Journal: "Lean prose, wit, and humanizing sidebars lend credence to both plot and setting..."





Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
  Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
  I've added a separate sorting
by Low-to-High pricing.
Unusual Publisher Sale for August - 8/3
Publisher Harper Perennial sale::20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through the month of August



Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
  . Discussing books posted on discount threads (New)
  . What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . Unique Uses of Kindles



LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.  "The thread is for discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers."
  8/27-29



TEMPORARILY Free-Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the amazing "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is constantly on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

  NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are *not* recommendations by this blog -- this is just a daily report of very popular forum alerts.   The eBooks will become no longer free within days, usually - sometimes, hours.  Thanks to Joyce for gathering and organizing all these for us.

Aug 29 - morning - 8 books (Corrected the URL and updated list), Aug 29 - afternoon - 1 book discussed, Aug 29 - late afternoon - 1 book (Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage.

If, on the Home page listing, you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *


' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times, New and Expanded Edition
Author: Jon M. Huntsman
Genre: Business - Leadership

DESCRIPTION: Author royalties from this book go to the Huntsman Cancer Foundation "The way Jon conducts his business and lives his life will not only inspire you to be a better person, citizen, and entrepreneur, it also will give you hope that the good guys don't finish last." Glenn Beck, CNN "Jon Huntsman is a different breed. He believes business is a creative endeavor, similar to a theater production, wherein integrity must be the central character." Larry King, CNN "Jon Huntsman's own life and personal values lend credence to his words. He walks his ethical talk." Neil Cavuto, Fox News "This book could put me out of business. Nobody would be happier about it than me." Wayne Reaud, Trial Attorney. The nationwide bestseller--fully updated for today's tough times and worldwide financial crises "Everyone does it." Everyone cheats. Cuts corners. Tells lies. Maybe it was different once. Not today. If you want to succeed in thiseconomic climate, you simply have to make compromises. Right? Wrong. You can succeed at the highest levels, without sacrificing the principles that make life worth living. The proof? You're holding it. Jon M.Huntsman built a $12 billion company from scratch, the old-fashioned way: with integrity. There were short-term costs and difficult decisions. There were tough times. Times just like today. But ultimately, leading with integrity wasn't just personally right for Huntsman, it also proved to be the best business strategy. In Winners Never Cheat, Huntsman tells you how he did it, and how you can, too. This book is about remembering why you work, and why you were chosen to lead. It's about finding the bravery to act on what you know is right, no matter what you're up against. It's about winning. The right way. Think about the kind of person you want to do business with. Then, be that person--and use this book to get you there.

***

Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise
Author: Joyce Magnim
Genre: Religious - Inspirational

DESCRIPTION: Newly widowed Charlotte Figg purchases a double-wide trailer sight unseen and moves to the Paradise Trailer Park with her dog, Lucky. Unfortunately, neither the trailer nor Paradise are what Charlotte expected. Her trailer is a ramshackle old place in need of major repair, and the people of Paradise are harboring more secrets than Bayer has aspirin. Charlotte's new friend Rose Tattoo learns that Charlotte played softball and convinces her to rally the women of Paradise into a team. Reluctant at first, Charlotte warms to the notion and is soon coaching the Paradise Angels. Meanwhile, Charlotte discovers that the manager of Paradise, Fergus Wrinkel, abuses his wife, Suzy. Charlotte sets out to find a way to save Suzy from Fergus and in the process comes to a difficult realization about her own painful marriage.

***

Invitation to the Jesus Life: Experiments in Christlikeness
Author: Jan Johnson
Genre: Religious - Inspirational

DESCRIPTION: It's easy to learn a little something about Jesus, but to encounter him on a daily basis changes everything. No longer can we live with the same earthly behavior or attitude. Our focus becomes eternal. Jan Johnson helps readers experience Jesus in such a way that his love-drenched, others-focused nature shapes their character. Readers of all types will find the spiritual practices in each chapter inviting and challenging.

***

Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality (FT Press Science)
Author: Samuel Barondes
Genre: Science - Personality

DESCRIPTION: Leading neuroscientist Samuel Barondes shares scientific frameworks and tools for improving your intuitions about people, and sizing them up more consciously, systematically, and successfully. He shows how to use the latest research about personality and character to get along better, choose great friends, decide whom to trust, and avoid narcissists and sociopaths.

  MORE... ( 4 more books: Click just below on "MORE")
*****


A Beginner's Guide to Using Your iPhone as a Business Productivity Tool
Author: Dave Caolo
Genre: Business Life - Investing - Ethics

DESCRIPTION: The quickest, easiest, and friendliest guide to using your iPhone 4 for business.
After spending hundreds of hours on dozens of computers, the iPhone 4 is the best computer I've ever owned. This tiny machine runs Apple's powerful iOS and features a huge number of fantastic business apps. In this book, I describe the business deployment of the iPhone, how to complete common business tasks such as working with documents, presentations, and the calendar, how to use travel apps...and yes, of course, phone calls.

***

Love's Magic
Author: Traci E. Hall
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance - Mystery

DESCRIPTION: While her sisters are tall and beautiful, Celestia Montehue is the misfit in a royal family-petite, with one green and one blue eye. The only thing she has in common with her ancestors is her magical healing ability. Fearing no one will ever accept her, she vows never to marry. Meanwhile, Nicholas Le Blanc, a haunted man, was trained as a knight but his childhood has convinced him he is a bastard. He is captured while on crusade and eventually forced to kill for his freedom. An arranged marriage between the two does not bode happiness, nor does Celestia's new home-a broken-down keep haunted by the ghost of Nicholas' mother. Soon a curse is set upon them, and they must decide if their love will save them or, ultimately, doom them.

***

Social Media Marketing with Established Technologies (Collection)
Genre: Business - Investing

DESCRIPTION: Six great mini-guides show you how to drive maximum profits from proven social media platforms and tools - easily, quickly, painlessly! Robert Scott Corbett's How to Make Money with Social Media Optimization helps you master "SMO": the strategic use of social media engagement to supercharge brands, extend reach, influence conversations, build share, and increase profits. In How to Make Money with Email Marketing, Corbett reveals how to use email to reach more prospects, retain more customers, and make more sales. Next, in How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on YouTube, top content marketer Jamie Turner walks you step-by-step through growing revenues with user-generated video. Turner's How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on LinkedIn introduces powerful new techniques for attracting clients and customers on LinkedIn, even on a microscopic budget. His How to Make Money Marketing Your Small Business on Twitter offers step-by-step techniques for tweeting your way to profits, and transforming negative customer tweets into business-building opportunities. Finally, in How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on Facebook, legendary social marketing pioneer Clara Shih distills all you need to win on Facebook: strategy, systems, policies, and execution.

***

Let's Get Real About Money!: Profit from the Habits of the Best Personal Finance Managers
Author: Eric Tyson
Genre: Business - Personal Taxes

DESCRIPTION: Tyson, syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Dummies guides to personal finance, investing and mutual funds, provides a solid guide to breaking counterproductive money habits and adopting a healthy approach to personal finance. His first suggestion-assess your money knowledge-is simple for readers to implement, thanks to several handy quizzes that identify the gaps that lead to common mistakes. Tyson offers tips for dealing with procrastination, money avoidance and disorganization, as well as assessing money beliefs and practices. The book's gem is a personal financial action plan that allows easy assessment of current assets and retirement goals. Common sense advice on budgeting strategies, reducing expenditures and taxes, and borrowing and debt management adds up to an effective, if familiar, plan for achieving control over and maximizing financial assets. Chapters on investing, managing risk, insurance and hiring financial help round out this comprehensive approach. This book demystifies the many obstacles-from the logistical to the conceptual-to smart financial planning.

*****

[Emily Bronte added:
  "The complete edition of Girls to the Rescue Book #1 is also free. (I picked it up January 20, 2011.)

  Interesting that there's a free Pre-order for GirlsGirls to the Rescue Book #1 - 1 free story when the whole book is free."

 [Joyce removed the unusual pre-order item released today for one short story in the book because the full book is free at this time.  Maybe it means the book won't be free much longer.   At any rate, it's considered by customer reviews a good book for young girls.]

*****
The Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection)
Author: Agatha Christie
Genre: Mystery - Women Sleuths

DESCRIPTION: James Saxon delivers a memorable and absolutely masterful performance of Christie's first Miss Marple mystery. When the wildly unpopular Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar's study, it seems that everyone-his unhappy wife, his daughter, a visiting artist, an embittered poacher, the vicar-has a motive in a mystery that confounds the authorities, consumes the village and can only be untangled by observations and deductions of our heroine: the elderly gossip-cum-sleuth Miss Marple. Saxon's artful and enthusiastic portrayal of a host of characters-male and female, guilty and innocent, young and old-will delight Christie fans, mystery lovers and anyone lucky enough to listen. '


Kindle-edition blog subscribers can access these by
clicking on any forum-alert link above, with Wireless 'On'...
  (the daily updates of forum alerts/discussions are readable on the Kindle-edition -
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For daily free ebooks, check the following links:


Temporarily-free books - Non-classics - USA: by:
NEW:  June  July  Aug 2011
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UK: PubDate   Popular
What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care
Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3
Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
USEFUL for your Kindle (U.S. only, currently):
  99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,
  99c Calendar,   99c Converter


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Kindle Add-on's Recommended on Forums - Covers, Lights

Minggu, 28 Agustus 2011
ACCESSORIES RECENTLY RECOMMENDED BY KINDLE OWNERS

The rooCase Flip (Black) Leather Case for the Kindle 3 comes in other colors also, but they have their own listings, shown under the "...Also Bought" row further down the page.

Only $11.98, as opposed to almost $40 for the usual, this is for the budget-conscious who are also looking for decent-quality add-ons.  The black one has 38 customer reviews with an average rating of 4.5 stars and, while sold by PC Micro (fulfilled by Amazon), it's eligible for Amazon Prime shipping.  Many of us do like flip style cases for hand-free use when busy with something else.

The SimpleLight for Kindle3 attaches to the Kindle, NO Batteries are needed.
  I first saw this one mentioned on the forums also, and that was probably less than a month ago.
  So far it has 29 customer reviews, with an average rating of 4.8 stars, which is quite unusual for any light.  It's $22.99, is sold by Grantwood Technology, fulfilled by Amazon, and is eligible for Amazon Prime shipping.
While I'm recomending the above newer popular items, I'll repeat my older recommendation for the very separate lighting I use, worn around my neck all the time when home, and include an older post with information that still holds true for different needs.


VIDEO OF LIGHTED COVER
On the left is an excellent video on the Amazon cover with light.

BEAM N READ 3-Led light, made by ASF Lightware Solutions.


  I'm including a couple of photos below to show light coverage on my Kindle 3 with the Amazon cover with built-in light and when using my new favorite light for the Kindle, by BEAM N READ.

This is worn around the neck and has a light, adjustable strap.  The light is said to last about 120 hours, and I've been using it for weeks and it's still going.  The 3 leds are the type that will likely go for forever, as long as there are batteries powering them.

  It comes with 4 standard alkaline AA batteries and a clip-on red filter to minimize night blindness and soften the light if needed, they say (I've never needed that).  Really lightweight and flexible with a patented flip-up design, reflector, and the adjustable strap, I now usually have it on when I'm home.  Going downstairs at night or to a darkened room, or when I just can't see something well enough, I can save on lights by just turning this on, which is done by flipping up the hood/reflector.

For reading a book or an e-book reader, you can also reverse it if you prefer (as I do) to hold the book higher than on your lap, and then flip the reflector down instead, so that the light angles up.  But if someone is sitting across from you that may not be very comfortable for that person, as the Led lamps would be directed at their eyes too.

 I love that it's always available when I need extra light.  No, I'm not associated with the company that makes them.  I was just tired of clipping on a light and adjusting it, as much as I love the ease of the Mighty Bright Xtraflex 2 which has the little foam pad where the clip-on meets the top of the Kindle's bezel.  The Beam N Read is pretty good at keeping the light from reaching the other person for night reading in bed.  There are times that I would like a somewhat brighter light, and when I do:

The 6-led version
 They also have a 6-led version that is VERY bright and probably overkill for reading a Kindle 6" reader, though I sometimes use it for situations where the light is just dim.  I am trying one for other uses, and for my DX in Landscape mode.  The batteries for this will last, they say, about 48 hours.  This one doesn't come with batteries included but has a magnifier for short-session, detailed craft work, but I found the texture quite hard to see through and I don't do crafts and probably wouldn't use the magnifier.

  I DO use both Beam N Read units for piano music though.

  I had bought a head lamp for a trip I took October 2009, since we needed to go into some unlit places, but I don't like wearing something around my head just to read so I wondered if there was anything like this.  Amazon doesn't make this easy to find, but it is extremely useful, in my view, for any e-reader.

Clip-on lights
My favorite Kindle clip-on light (I now prefer the separate light) the Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 Clip-On (Black, Kindle Version) for which they added a foam pad where the top clamp meets the Kindle's bezel and protects it from scratches from that clamp.  That's been $20 at Amazon (you might be able to get it elsewhere at $13), and I like that I can clip it right onto the Kindle instead of having to use the cover while reading, and the neck is very flexible so that I can bend it to avoid glare on the screen.  Some find it too bright for those sharing a bed at night although there is a 2nd, lower setting which is bright enough and maybe not as bothersome for another person nearby.  I did use it on a 10-hour airplane flight and needed to be careful it wasn't shining onto other people's areas.  It requires 3 AAA batteries,

A year ago, I actually bought also the "Travelflex" by Mighty Bright because it uses only one Led lamp and one AAA battery (vs the XtraFlex2's 3 AAA batteries), is extremely light and clips onto a pocket in my purse for use with the cover for the Kindle if needed, when I'm out, and I sometimes keep it in my car.
  That was before I got the Amazon case with light, but I've loaned that to someone who really likes it.  It of course is less bright than the XtraFlex2, preferred by some for that reason, but the Travelflex takes very little room in a purse or briefcase (or in the glove compartment of a car).

Screen coverage
Here are some pictures of the effect of some of these lights on my Kindles.

Lit by the Amazon cover with light, the upper right hand corner is lit more than the lower-left of course, and the light isn't as bright as I like but it's useful if you're out and need a light for reading.  The light needs no batteries but runs off the Kindle's own battery, and it shuts off automatically if the Kindle goes into sleep mode after about 10 minutes.

Lit by the Beam N Read (at the right), the lighting is very even and brighter overall than the one built into the cover, but one would seldom wear the Beam N Read when out, probably, though I've done it :-).

It's worth remembering that the Amazon case without a ligh is $35 and the one with the built-in light costs an additional $25.  Clamp-ons usually run $10 to $20+.


This is an older shot of a silver Mighty Bright Xtraflex2 used on my Kindle DX (the latest DX is only in Graphite color and has the new Pearl screen also used in the Kindle 3  (UK: K3).

Click on any of these three images to get the larger versions.

I hope that helps some who are looking for good add-ons to use with the Kindle.  The choice of a light is one of the most asked questions on the Kindle forums.


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite

Check often: Temporarily-free late-listed non-classics or recently published ones
  Guide to finding Free Kindle books and Sources.  Top 100 free bestsellers.  Liked-books under $1
UK-Only: recently published non-classics, bestsellers, or £5 Max ones
    Also, UK customers should see the UK store's Top 100 free bestsellers.

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Free Kindle Books (8/28 ) + Newly Discounted Books Found by Forumners + Amzn Deals

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS
Sunday, 8/28

You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir!, by Danny Bent, 38 customer reviews, 4.7 stars, $0.00
  From the Product Description: Danny Bent bicycled 9,320 miles (15,000 kilometres) from the UK to India to raise money for ActionAid.  "...a real and compelling blow-by-blow account of Danny's trip across Europe, the former Soviet Republic, Russia, China, Pakistan and India."


Kindle Daily Deal
  (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
   Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)

  Sunday, 8/28
  The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly, 514 customer reviews, 4.6 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Sunday, 8/28:
      Saturday's Price: $7.99
      Sunday's Discount: $5.00
      Sunday's Daily Deal Price: $2.99 (63% off)





Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
  Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
  I've added a separate sorting
by Low-to-High pricing.
Unusual Publisher Sale for August - 8/3
Publisher Harper Perennial sale::20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through the month of August


Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
  . What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . In the Kindle Kitchen with Annie and Joyce (popular recipes thread)



LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.)  "The thread is for discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers."
  8/27-28
  These include many Marion Chesney/MC Beaton books discounted 20% to $5.59 and a discussion of the Audible books program.



TEMPORARILY Free-Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the amazing "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is constantly on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are *not* recommendations by me -- this is just a daily report of very popular forum alerts.   The eBooks will become no longer free within days, usually - sometimes, hours.

Aug 28 - morning - 3 books

If on the Home Page and you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *


' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen: A Dix Dodd Mystery (Dix Dodd Mysteries)
Author: Norah Wilson
Genre: Fiction - Mystery - Humor

DESCRIPTION: Tired of getting no respect at the big P.I. firm where she's worked for years, Dix Dodd has hung out her own shingle at the ripe age of 40. There are plenty of cheating husbands to go around, and Dix has a knack for busting them. Problem is, it doesn't always pay so well. Conscious that the guys back at the old firm are laying bets about how soon she'll come crawling back, she figures she's got six months to make a go of it. The going gets even tougher when she hires Dylan Foreman. But when he told her about getting fired from his law firm and disbarred for putting common decency before the firm's interests, she hired him on the spot. In addition to being smart, he's gorgeous enough to remind her she's a woman. And at 28, young enough to make her feel like a total cougar. Things start looking up when Dix gets hired by millionaire businessman Ned Weatherby's wife Jennifer Weatherby, to tail Ned 24/7 for a week, for a cool ten grand. Easy-peasy, right? Wrong! The job lands Dix in the middle of a murder investigation - with her as the prime suspect and her arch-enemy Detective Richard Head (one of the cheating husbands she'd nailed) gunning for her. Dix will need all her ingenuity, as well as the help of Dylan and her oddball cast of supporters to extricate herself from this one.

*****

The Oak Leaves
Author: Maureen Lang
Genre: Religious - Inspirational

DESCRIPTION: After Talie Ingram finds an old family journal while helping clean her mother's house, she enthusiastically settles down to read about the life of her ancestress Cosima Escott Hamilton, whose diary dates as far back as 1849. From the very beginning, Lang, a romance novelist and author of Pieces of Silver, deftly navigates back and forth in history between Cosima's 19th-century confessions about the strange circumstances surrounding her family and betrothal to Sir Reginald Hale and Talie's growing, present-day fears about her heritage and its potential impact on her beloved son, Ben. With each passing day, Ben shows more signs of struggle with tasks that even the smallest toddlers usually have mastered; waving goodbye, chewing food, and crawling are beyond his grasp. This causes Talie to wonder if the family "curse" Cosima writes about-that the women on her father's side only produce "slow-witted children"-is more than mere legend. The bulk of this tale is really Cosima's, centering on the complications that ensue regarding her postponed marriage to Sir Reginald and the deep feelings she develops for another man. And it's Cosima's lingering voice-her determination and faith-that inspires Talie to reconcile her son's diagnosis of fragile X syndrome (a disability Lang's own son suffers from) with her belief that God is merciful.

*****

Soon (Underground Zealot Series #1)
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins
Genre: Religious - Inspirational

DESCRIPTION: Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion--flush it out, expose it, and kill it--until his life is turned upside down and he is forced to look at life in a different way. As Paul begins to unravel the truth about what he has found, events taking place around the world start to make sense. Something big is coming--something that can't be stopped. And it is coming soon. '


Kindle-edition blog subscribers can access these by
clicking on any forum-alert link above, with Wireless 'On'...
  (the daily updates of forum alerts/discussions are readable on the Kindle-edition -
    press the Kindle's "Aa"-key to Zoom a page of text 200% if on Kindle 3
    or to increase font size on Kindle 2)
    The Aa key gives a Landscape-view option also.)



For daily free ebooks, check the following links:



Temporarily-free books -
Non-classics
- USA: by:
NEW:  June  July  Aug 2011
   Publication Date   Late-listed
   Bestselling   High-ratings

UK: PubDate   Popular
What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care
Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3
Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
USEFUL for your Kindle (U.S. only, currently):
  99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,
  99c Calendar,   99c Converter


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite


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Kindle Daily Deal for Saturday, August 27

Sabtu, 27 Agustus 2011
An interim post


Kindle Daily Deal
  (This Daily Deal link changes at MIDNIGHT each day,
   so will not point to the current book, when seen the next day.
   Click it to see what the daily deal book is at any time.)

Saturday, 8/27
Food Inc, by Karl Weber, Participant Media, 60 customer reviews, 4.6 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Saturday, 8/27:
      Friday's Price: $8.52
      Saturday's Discount: $7.03
      Saturday's Daily Deal Price: $1.49  (83% off)

Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It



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4 Free Kindle Books (8/26 ) + Newly Discounted Ones Found by Forumners + Amzn Deals

Jumat, 26 Agustus 2011
NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS
Friday, 8/26


The Man of Their Lives, by Françoise Bourdin, 4 customer reviews, 4.5 stars, $0.00
"...explores two very timely themes: the difficulties of starting over at age forty and the day-to-day worries that arise from joining two separate families."


Kindle Daily Deal
  (This Daily Deal link changes at MIDNIGHT each day,
   so will not point to the current book, when seen the next day.
   Click it to see what the daily deal book is at any time.)

  Friday, 8/26
  Elizabeth Street, by Laurie Fabiano, 173 customer reviews, 4.5 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Friday, 8/26:
      Thursday's Price: $7.99
      Friday's's Discount: $6.00
      Friday's Daily Deal Price: $1.99 (75% off)




Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
  Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
  I've added a separate sorting by Low-to-High pricing.
Unusual Publisher Sale for August - 8/3
Publisher Harper Perennial sale::20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through the month of August


Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
  . What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . In the Kindle Kitchen with Annie and Joyce (popular recipes thread)



LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.)  "The thread is for discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers."
  8/25-27
(Last week, some lucked out and got a $43 non-fiction book for $.01 but it went back up to $43 within minutes.


TEMPORARILY Free-Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the amazing "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is constantly on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are *not* recommendations by me -- this is just a daily report of very popular forum alerts.   The eBooks will become no longer free within days, usually.


Aug 26 - 4 books

If on the Home Page,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *


' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

** Pre-Order for September 27 **
The Leak
Author: K'wan
Offered by: MacMillan

DESCRIPTION: The Leak is a complimentary short prequel story that leads into K'wan's hit novel, Welfare Wifeys.

*****

** Pre-Order for October 12 **
Between the Panels: An Inside Look at the Making of Eleven Exciting New Graphic Novels
Author: Various
Offered by: MacMillan

DESCRIPTION: Have you ever asked yourself what goes on in comics between the panels and behind the scenes? Now, you can get an inside look at the making of eleven exciting new graphic novels and learn more about how they're put together.

*****

The Do's and Don'ts of Holiday Parties: From International Etiquette Expert Jacqueline Whitmore
Author: Jacqueline Whitmore

DESCRIPTION: This special digital e-book contains an excerpt from Jacqueline Whitmore's forthcoming book POISED FOR SUCCESS: MASTERING THE FOUR QUALITIES THAT DISTINGUISH OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONALS, on sale November 8, 2011. How To Entertain With Elegance And Ease. Rest assured: in today's fast-paced world, where most of us are short on time and resources, there are no absolute rules about parties. But the best rule to keep in mind is the five Ps: prior planning prevents poor performance. After all, the purpose of entertaining for business or pleasure is to show your guests a good time without getting too stressed out. In The Do's and Don't of Holiday Parties, Jacqueline Whitmore serves up ten tips to help you get started. How To Be The World's Best Guest. To ensure that you stay in the good graces of others this holiday season, Jacqueline Whitmore gives you a few simple yet often forgotten tips, covering everything from when to show up, how to ask permission to bring an uninvited guest, to what to bring, how to dress, what to discuss, and how to thank your host. Whitmore, using her 15 years of experience as a protocol and etiquette expert, will arm you with the skills to become more self-aware, more confident and comfortable in your own skin, and better able to communicate with others in a credible, authentic manner.

*** EDIT TO ADD: 4:00 p.m. CST

Mutiny
Author: Artist Arthur

DESCRIPTION: One minute Franklin Bryant is a normal teenager in school with his girlfriend, Krystal. The next, a reaper leaves him in Trance, the place between worlds where his destiny will be decided. Franklin has been summoned by the demon Charon to help destroy the Mystyx, a group of classmates including Krystal, with supernatural powers that can defeat Charon. Franklin loves Krystal, but he faces an impossible choice: join Charon and be rewarded with powers beyond his dreams, or refuse and die. A Mystyx series novella. '


Kindle-edition blog subscribers can access these by
clicking on any forum-alert link above, with Wireless 'On'...
  (the daily updates of forum alerts/discussions are readable on the Kindle-edition -
    press the Kindle's "Aa"-key to Zoom a page of text 200% if on Kindle 3
    or to increase font size on Kindle 2)
    The Aa key gives a Landscape-view option also.)



For daily free ebooks, check the following links:


Temporarily-free books -
Non-classics
- USA: by:
NEW:  June  July  Aug 2011
   Publication Date   Late-listed
   Bestselling   High-ratings

UK: PubDate   Popular
What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care
Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3
Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
USEFUL for your Kindle (U.S. only, currently):
  99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,
  99c Calendar,   99c Converter


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite

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