✬ Get yer red hot bargains here! ✬

Thought it might be a good idea to have a specific thread to use for sharing some book bargain info or links. Anyone who spots any book, ebook or audiobook deals that they think the rest of us might be interested, PLEASE let us know.

For instance the kindle and epub version of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is on sale for $1.99 on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Google. This will probably only last for a few days, as the regular price is $9.99.

If you're not interested at all then please just put this thread on ignore. I'm hopeful that enough of us will use it to make it worthwhile. :o)

You may wish to take a look at the MobileReads forum:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=26

I'll offer a good spot, not sure if everyone has it bookmarked or not:

http://www.bookbub.com/

Offers lots of bargains, including free, $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99 books. Popular authors and Indies. It's ebook only, though. :)

>3 gilroy: Yeah, I get their daily emails. I also get Book Riot's, Book Perk's and Early Bird Books' emails. Oh, and I get the Amazon's Daily Deal email. Plus I use Luzme. In fact Luzme emails me when something on my wishlists here on LT or on Amazon has had a price drop. That's how I found out about the book in the first post.

My main reason for this thread is that I still miss things, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. My mail filter eats some of my bookish email, and by the time I find out the deals are done. Plus they don't list everything, obviously that would be impossible. I thought it might be nice to have one thread to use if we saw any book deals that we knew others members were interested in or on the look-out for.

>3 gilroy: cool - I just signed up! I only recently got a Kindle app on my tablet, so I'm still learning the ins-and-outs of e-books.

>2 Maddz: There is an awful lot to sift through there! Not sure I have that kind of time to invest right now.

>4 clamairy: That's why I said I wasn't sure who had it and who didn't. :) You just gave me like 3 more to sign up for in this response. (Oh, my tablet is going to hate me now. :) )

>7 gilroy: Sorry! (Not really.)

There is an awful lot of crap to wade through with these bargain books sites and emails. Again, that's why I started the thread. Hoping at least occasionally someone will post a gem and save me some legwork and some money.

>1 clamairy: I'm glad you started this! Every now and then I see something I know others are interested in and I'm always wondering where the best place for it would be. How are you going to keep it visible here?

>9 MrsLee: I'm not sure, exactly. I guess I could add it to the group description. There's so much stuff there already. Though I did remove some of the obsolete links a month or so ago.

Yes, it's good to have a dedicated place to post. I usually end up putting them in my own thread, but I know that not everyone reads the journals. Too bad Amazon has made it more difficult to compare prices across their different sites, making it hard to tell which countries a deal is available in.

I get emails from BookBub, Amazon and Audible daily deals, because they give me Canadian links. Smart Bitches, Trashy Books also does a daily newsletter, but I have to do some digging to find out whether the books are on sale in Canada. Luzme doesn't seem to be working properly for me anymore. I need to check my settings there. I should check some of the other sites that have been mentioned to see if any of them have Canadian options.

>4 clamairy: I use BookBub and Luzme, and I had no idea it was possible to tie Luzme into my LT and Amazon wishlists. I've gotta rig up that setting stat.

>11 SylviaC: Check Luzme again, Sylvia. After months of issues it seems to suddenly be working perfectly. The main problem with posting them in the journal threads is I sometimes take off a few weeks from reading them, and then when I catch up the price cuts are no longer in effect.

>12 MyriadBooks: Yes, you must do it! That is my favorite feature.

>6 clamairy: I'd agree with that. I really only keep an eye on the first page; luckily I'm mostly only interested in SFF and the crime section.

Are Luzme and Bookbub discounts available in the UK? A lot of US discounts aren't, unfortunately - OpenRoad Media titles are a case in point.

>14 Maddz: You choose the country and retailer in settings.

Most of these things are pretty well known, I think, but I thought I’d post a few SF&F sources I’m aware of:

1. In the U.S. and Canada, Tor is currently offering a free e-book during the first 7 days of each month. This month’s offering is Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. Past offerings (no longer available) have been The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, The Just City by Jo Walton, and Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear. http://ebookclub.tor.com/

2. Cory Doctorow, whose books I believe were originally published by Tor, offers several of his books for free on his web site. I recently read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and it was an interesting experience. http://craphound.com/

3. Peter Watts, author of the Rifters series, offers some of his backlist for free. This includes the entire Rifters series, beginning with Starfish, and Blindsight. http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

4. The publisher Baen has offered had a free e-book library for years, although the selection is no longer as large as it was in the past. Lots of science fiction, and a little bit of fantasy. http://www.baen.com/categories/free-library.html

Aside from the first one, which I know is only available in the U.S. in Canada, I don’t know if there are any country restrictions at these links.

Gail Carriger's Soulless is on sale at amazon for $3.99 for the ebook version.

The Queen of the Tearling is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon Canada, and it seems to be on sale on the US site, too. I haven't read it myself, but I've seen it mentioned a lot around here.

>16 YouKneeK: Thanks for mentioning the Tor ebook club. I signed up, and got Spin downloaded to my iPad Kindle app. (My actual Kindle isn't accepting it, though.)

>19 SylviaC: Did you try e-mailing to your kindle account and then delivering to your kindle via Amazon's 'Manage Your Content and Devices' tool?

Also, under that interface, any kindle books that are not purchased or borrowed directly through Amazon are usually found under 'Docs' instead of under 'Books'.

>20 ScoLgo: I just kept getting emails back from Amazon saying that there was a problem with the document. Which was odd, because it opened directly on the iPad app. But I've solved the problem by downloading the epub version to Calibre and converting it to mobi, then emailing that to my kindle. A couple of extra steps, but it seems to have worked perfectly.

>19 SylviaC: No problem, I hope you enjoy Spin!

This is the first one I haven’t downloaded, because I already read it several years back. My memory of it has faded, but I remember enjoying it quite a bit.

>16 YouKneeK: Yes, many thanks! I snagged it as well.

>19 SylviaC: I went old school after I read your post. I saved the book to my PC and used a USB cable. The book had a .prc file extension which I've never seen before. So my Kindle shows it as a personal document, but it opened without an issue.

>23 clamairy: IS that why it came up screwy? I was wondering how to fix it...

>23 clamairy: Yeah, as far as I could tell with my very limited knowledge, it was the .prc extension that was causing the problem. It wasn't on the list of supported documents in the email from Amazon. I didn't think of using the USB cable. I quickly realized that I would have to use my PC rather than my iPad to get it to my Kindle, though.

.prc is the forerunner of .mobi. It's the old Palm format - I have a lot of ebooks in that format as my first ebook reader was my Palm m500 - sadly missed.

It can be easily converted using Calibre.

A few older, out of print titles that are now available for free from the authors' sites:

Helen S. Wright's wonderful, twisty space opera A Matter of Oaths: http://www.arkessian.com/

Katherine Blake/Dorothy J. Heydt's domestic fantasy The Interior Life: http://www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

Melisa C. Michaels' parallel-worlds urban fantasy World-Walker (this is a RTF text file so will probably not work on many ereaders without Calibre conversion): https://www.sff.net/people/melisa/downloads.html

The Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam is currently on sale on the U.S. Amazon site. $1.99 for each book. The books are Nexus, Crux, and Apex.

I haven’t read it myself, so I can’t vouch for it. It was a club read in a group I’m a member of on another site, and I’ve seen some favorable reviews from people I follow. I had it on my eReaderIQ list as something to try if it went on sale.

Book Riot always lists a deal of the day; today's title is Cryptonomicon, but a couple of the deals from earlier this week may also still be active. Book Riot also sometimes has giveaways, if you're willing to sign up for yet another book related e-mail newsletter.

http://bookriot.com/2016/11/11/book-riots-deal-day-november-11th-2016/

When Women Were Warriors is always free.  The author uses the first of the trilogy as a pitch so you buy the other two.  It worked on me.

Octavia E. Butler's
Lilith's Brood omnibus is on sale for $2.99 right now.
(It consists of Dawn Adulthood Rites & Imago.)

I already own the first one for Kindle so I don't think I'm snagging it, but... okay. I have to admit I'm tempted.

>31 clamairy: For what it’s worth, that one seems to go on sale pretty often, so the odds are good that you’ll get another chance at it if you decide to wait. I really enjoyed the entire series, though. It was my first experience with her work.

The Kindle version of The Magic of Recluce by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. is currently $2.99 on the U.S. Amazon site. I decided not to buy it myself, mainly because it’s an 18+ book series that still seems to be ongoing. I know a long, incomplete series would just languish on my TBR shelf while I chose other things to read.

>32 YouKneeK: Yes, I did notice they seem to have something of hers on sale rather often. I'm trying to resist temptation since my Kindle is already well stocked.

For those who are interested in Golden Age mysteries or mid-century domestic fiction, Dean Street Press offers a few free Kindle ebooks every week. They announce them every Monday on Twitter, and probably Facebook. You can also find them by searching Amazon for "Dean Street Press" and "Furrowed Middlebrow". Availability can vary by country.

Jody Lynn Nye's Mythology 101 is free on Amazon, B&N and Kobo. This seems to hold in the US & UK, don't know about other territories.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00Q3B5SDE?storeType=ebooks

Andrew J Offut's Sign of the Moonbow, ditto.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sign-Moonbow-Cormac-mac-Fantasy-ebook/dp/B01MDQP1W4/ref...

Graham Diamond's Samarkand omnibus also.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samarkand-Omnibus-Books-Graham-Diamond-ebook/dp/B01MTLV...

The Kindle edition of A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin is currently on sale for $2.99 on the U.S. Amazon site.

I read this series for the first time earlier this year and really enjoyed it.

>36 YouKneeK: Thanks. It was $3.09 on the Canadian site. I read it a long time ago, but don't own a copy, so I added this one to my Kindle.

Have just seen that the book on Terry Pratchett: The Spirit of Fantasy I noted in my reading thread is listed at 1p by Amazon.co.uk. Don't know for how long.

Not very long - it's now £2.99 for the Kindle edition.

Sadly still $14.99 for the US.

Some nice bargains on audible.com today through the 29th. I bought Howl's Moving Castle and The Graveyard Book for $4.95 each.

>41 MrsLee: Nice! I'll check it out in the morning.

3 titles of interest in Amazon UK Award Winning Books:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=s9_acsd_al_bw_brwse?_encoding=UTF8&node=47251...

Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind
Cixin Liu: The Three Body Problem
Cixin Liu: The Paper Menagerie

(Note amazon.co.uk -I don't if this is available in the US.)

Today's deal on Amazon UK is film tie-ins:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=sr_aj?node=4725112031&ajr=0

Probably most interesting is Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five for £3.79.

Todays Big Deal on Amazon UK includes Genevieve Cogman The Masked City (The Invisible Library 2) and Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Utopia (The Long Earth 4)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=sr_aj?node=4725112031&ajr=0

The U.S. Amazon site has a bunch of Kindle e-books (over 440) on today’s daily deal.

There are a variety of genres on sale, including some SF&F. Here are a few of the books I saw:
The Girl With All the Gifts $3.99
Seveneves $2.99
A Game of Thrones $1.99
The Hunger Games $2.99
Wool Omnibus $1.99
The Forever War $1.99

Audible has added another 100+ books to their sale. There is a pretty impressive selection, including mystery, sf, a lot of classics, and nonfiction.

QUOTETwo fantasy bundles from Open Road at the moment

If you haven't already bought the individual books when they were on sale then this Katherine Kurtz bundle is a great deal
The Legends of Camber of Culdi Trilogy:
Camber of Culdi, Saint Camber, and Camber the Heretic for $3.99 in the US

urlhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXGL10L/url
urlhttps://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-legends-of-camber-of-culdi-trilogy/url

(The other bundle is Sara Zettel)
/QUOTE

Not available in the UK, but The Bishop's Heir is currently £1.99:

urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Bishops-Heir-Histories-King-Kelson-ebook/dp/B01AYTUPYW/.../url

>47 SylviaC: There's a Great Courses audio there I keep ogling called 36 Books That Changed the World.

>49 clamairy: That's one of the dozen that I bought! I got a Neil deGrasse Tyson course, too. I only have a super cheap Audible membership with no credits, so whenever there's a sale, I make the most of it.

Neal Stephenson Reamde is £1.19 today

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reamde-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B005IPRQGS/ref=lp_54009...

>50 SylviaC: Same here. I only belong through my Amazon Prime membership. Oh, there's a freebie today: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-A-Novel/dp/B004H0H4Y4/ref=as_li_ss_tl?

>51 Maddz: Rats. That one isn't for the US, sadly.

Neal Stephenson's Anathem £1.59 today:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0040QE3A8/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_c_x_1_w?pf_rd_...

Here in the USA, Amazon.com has a couple of different Stephenson titles on sale today, (Kindle format):

- Seveneves is $2.99
- Cryptonomicon is $1.99

>54 ScoLgo: Many thanks!!!

I mainly lurk in this group, but I wanted to drop by and say the fabulous Midnight Riot (US title)/Rivers of London (UK title) Kindle version is $0.99 on US Amazon.

Oh I snagged a copy of Stoned:Jewelry, Obsession and How Desire shapes the World by Aja Raden. It was 1.99 on Amazon US.

>55 clamairy: You are welcome! I already have both titles in hardcover but am tempted to pick up the e-books too, (I can't bring myself to mark up an actual printed book so e-books are nice to have on hand for their highlighting feature).

>58 ScoLgo: I own Cryptonomicon as a beat up crappy mass market paperback that I think I paid 25¢ for almost 10 years ago. I still haven't read it. (And I'm not even sure which room/bookcase it's in.) So I snagged that for my kindle. I'm not getting Seveneves yet.

>54 ScoLgo: Well, shoot! Get the Kindle for $1.99 and add the Audible for an additional $3.99! I might have to ignore my Holiday Wishlist and get this myself...

Spotted Lee Killough's Wilding Nights on Amazon UK Countdown Deal for 99p, and checked other titles. The Garreth Mikaelian Trilogy is £3.03 (individual volumes are about £2).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?ie=UTF8&text=Lee+Killou...

>56 -Eva-: Thanks for uncloaking and telling us about that! :)

>56 -Eva-: Ditto what MrsLee said. I'm tempted to snag that one though I've never heard anything about it before.

>56 -Eva-:

I can thoroughly recommend the series; I have all and have been paying full price for the later ones as they've been published.

For those who know nothing about them, they're basically Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes (UK tv police series starring Philip Glenister) meets urban fantasy. So basically a UK version of The Dresden Files except the hero works for The Met not as a PI.

Check www.the-folly.com (however, it seems to be down at the moment).

Aaronovitch has also done a lot with Doctor Who (scripts and novelisations).

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin is only $1.99 on Amazon (US) right now:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007978NKG/

Tor’s free e-book for December is The Towers of the Sunset by L. E. Modesitt. It will be available for one week. http://ebookclub.tor.com/

The U.S. Amazon site also has the new batch of SF&F e-books on sale for the month of December. There are 47 of them, including a couple by Arthur C. Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama and Childhood’s End.
Here’s the link. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_dnav_ft_ct03_s?node=11552285011,668010011&se...

>56 -Eva-: Cool! that book was at the top of my wishlist. (AAronovitch sorta has that position staked out, alphabetically. ;-)

A couple of repeat freebies:

Juanita Coulson's The Web of Wizardry (Krantzin #1)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Wizardry-Krantin-Book-ebook/dp/B0199VTDX0/?tag=mr06...

Harry Turtledove's Over the Wine-Dark Sea ("Hellenic Traders" #1)
http://www.phoenixpick.com/botm/Turtledove.htm

>66 YouKneeK: Lots of Vonnegut there!!!

>63 clamairy: I began reading it last night. Loving it so far. What >64 Maddz: says. :)

>70 MrsLee: Grabbed it. :o)

>70 MrsLee: Glad you're enjoying it!

Kindle Deals: A pair of stories from the archives of Octavia Butler are on sale today. Unexpected Stories is $2.26

Amazon.fr and presumably other local retailers are running a sale of a number of #1 and #2 in series published by Bragelonne and its imprints (mainly SF/Fantasy/Romance in translation from the English language or by French authors) for 0.99€.

Outward Bound, book 2 of The Children of The Stars series by Juanita Coulson is currently 99p on a Countdown deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Outward-Bound-Children-Stars-Book-ebook/dp/B016R3X0CI/r...

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin is $2 today at Amazon. It's a terrific thriller.

Various deals from the BookView Cafe:

http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/category/specials/

Danielle Jensen's Malediction trilogy (Stolen Songbird, Hidden Huntress, Warrior Witch) is on sale today, $1.99 each. I had the first volume so I went ahead and picked up the next two as well!

Tolkien's children's book Roverandom is on sale for kindle today for $0.99.

https://www.amazon.com/Roverandom-J-R-Tolkien-ebook/dp/B00B6TS7XQ/

I don't own it in any form and I've never read it before so I snagged it.

Necrochip, a short story by Liz Williams set in her Inspector Chen background, is currently free on Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Necrochip-Liz-Williams-ebook/dp/B0063G5W62/ref=sr_1_4?s...

Originally published in the short story collection, A Glass of Shadow, edited by the late Tanith Lee.

The Past of Forever (Children of the Stars Book 4) by Juanita Coulson is 99p on Countdown:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Past-Forever-Children-Stars-Book-ebook/dp/B017YT29VM/re...

(Book 2 is also still at 99p as previously posted, but Books 1 & 3 are still full price - roughly what I paid for the DTE all those years ago...)

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is on sale for Kindle at Amazon US for $1.99.

Humblebundle have a Neil Gaiman bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/neil-gaiman-book-bundle

It's mosly comic-related.

Audible US has half off on all books. Always a few I want that will be less than the cost of the monthly pass.

>84 majkia: Thanks for that info! I get an email from audible with their daily deal, but they did not mention this sale at all. I'm sure I'll find something.

The 5th Wave is $1.99 for Amazon, B&N and Google today. I think I'm grabbing it because I waited about 6 months for this on OverDrive before I gave up and dropped it off my Holds list.

>84 majkia: Is that for members? I didn't see anything about it on the site. However, I did pick up two mysteries from my wishlist, both for a total of under $9, and narrated by two of my favorites.

Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Ruth Downie, narrated by Simon Vance
The Red Door by Charles Todd, narrated by Simon Prebble

>84 majkia: & >86 MrsLee: There is no notice on the site and there is no Sale category. Didn't there used to be one in the drop down menu?

However I did see that The Martian is only $2.99 right now. If I hadn't already read it and seen the film I'd be all over that. http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Martian-Audiobook/B00B5HZGUG/ref=a_...

I saw the Audible sale banner. Snagged a short book from my wishlist for less than the price of a credit so I'm happy. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark.

All, I got an email fro Audible saying 50 percent off site wide as a Xmas present. Didn't see a banner, but looking at my wishlist everyone was half price as well as other books I've been looking at.

Well if anyone who is not an Audible member could post a link that would be great.

>90 clamairy: I think it is for members only, but go to http://www.audible.com/

Can I read a kindle purchase on my iPad?

>92 catzteach: Yup! You can download the free Kindle App and read them on there.

>93 clamairy: cool! I want the Small Angry Planet

*heads to the app store*

The OpenRoad Media omnibus of Katherine Kurtz's Legends of St Camber trilogy is £11.39 on Amazon.co.uk (individual volumes are around £5.62):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legends-Camber-Culdi-Trilogy-Heretic-ebook/dp/B01LXGL10...

Not a brilliant deal, but 3-for-2 is the best we're likely to get this side of the pond.

>93 clamairy: I downloaded the app and bought Small Angry Planet. Question: what is Kindle Unlimited?

>96 catzteach:
Like a lending library stocked out of copyright authors and authors nobody has ever heard of (i.e. new authors). You'll find some mid-list authors too.

I've not bothered because I'd sooner own on the grounds I can download and keep the work safely backed up. (Yes, I know you can back up your Unlimited titles as well, but that's technically piracy.)

Also, I believe there may be a limit to how many titles you can have downloaded at once.

In all honesty, I didn't think it was worth the subscription fee, especially as I have a massive reading backlog on titles I own (or obtained legitimately via Baen - there's only so much Mil SF I can tolerate reading at any one time).

>96 catzteach: Exactly what >97 Maddz: said. Unless you have a bottomless bank account and no shelf space it's not worth it. I get enough freebies and sale books to keep my Kindle well stocked already. I do have Amazon Prime, though. That let's me read several from a selected bunch* at a time and if you own a Kindle you get one of six choices free from the Kindle First selection each month.

*That's through Prime Reading. You can do this without a Kindle.

>97 Maddz: >98 clamairy: Thanks for the info. I've been wondering if Amazon Prime would be worth it, too. So, I'm thinking I won't do the Kindle Unlimited but I'll have to think on Amazon Prime. I don't order enough stuff from Amazon to make it worth it, but maybe the tv part of it might make it worth it. I already have Netflix, though, so ...

>100 catzteach: I do order a lot of stuff, and my son gets some of his text books through Prime as well. I use the video almost as much as I use Netflix. And not a day goes by that I don't stream Prime Music. It's commercial free and you can pick a station or individual albums to play.

>100 catzteach: >101 clamairy: There is also the Kindle Owner's Lending Library, (KOLL). Amazon has gotten pretty good at hiding KOLL e-books, (coincidentally, that obfuscation began when they rolled out Kindle Unlimited), but they can be found if you're willing to do a bit of digging. For instance, I recently read Vanishing Point for free using KOLL.

One rather large caveat: KOLL does not work with the Kindle App - only actual Kindle devices.

Like clamairy, I have both Amazon Prime and Netflix streaming...

Amazon Prime is $99.00 per year. Where I live, that's $107.81 after tax is added, which translates to $8.98/month for video streaming, music streaming, prime books, KOLL, and free 2-day shipping on many physical items.

Netflix charges me $9.99 per month for video streaming only. With tax, that adds up to $10.90/month or $130.80 per year.

To my way of thinking, Amazon Prime is, by far, the better bargain. But they don't have all the same content as Netflix. Both together are less than half the monthly cost of my cable TV service.

>102 ScoLgo: Yes, the KOLL is a bit of a pain to search through. I always have one on my Kindle. Sadly, sometimes I forget about a KOLL book until I attempt to borrow another and I get a reminder that I have to return the unread one I already have.

I agree that cable is ridiculously over-priced. If it weren't for HBO I'd get rid of it.

>100 catzteach: I love Prime. It easily pays for itself in the free shipping alone if you order enough. Amazon also offers Prime Reading now which is a reduced version of Kindle Unlimited that's included in your Prime membership. I think there are couple hundred titles available in total but it's a very nice perk. It does not have the caveat that KOLL has as it can be used with the app.

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/fd/prime-pr/ref=nav_shopall_ods_eink_con_pr_t1

Yeah, Amazon Prime has been a godsend this holiday season. Free 2-day shipping on almost every order totally changes the way you shop. And remember, you can always get a free 30-day trial of Prime to test it out. (It's what I'm on right now.)

Free: Magic Casements (The Wells of Ythan Book 3) by Marc Alexander

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Realm-Wells-Ythan-Quartet-ebook/dp/B01M0YPT0A/re...

Hmm, maybe I should do the thirty day trial. I need to set it up so I'm not paying the $99 in December, though. :)

Today's Audible Daily Deal is The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language for $3.99. It looks like my cup of tea so I snagged it.

Sold! I have The Etymologicon as an audio and it's a hoot. Also a History of the English Lanugage series of lectures by Michael Drout. He has a specialty in Anglo-Saxon and I love to hear him speak it. Book link because of touchstone failure - http://www.librarything.com/work/3138787/book/107767315

>109 Bookmarque: I started listening to The Etymologicon and then had to leave it to listen to a digital loan from OverDrive and never got back to it. Thanks for the reminder.

>108 clamairy: I grabbed that one, too.

A few nice book bundles for cheap on Nook today--Dorothy Sayers and Octavia Butler: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/nook-daily-find/_/N-1hda?sourceId=L000017720&amp...

>112 Marissa_Doyle: I am tempted by that Pat Conroy collection. I don't even have a Nook, but I do have the app on my tablet. Hmmm.

Ack, why does the touchstone point to a 'pat Conroy' with a small p. It's killing me!

>113 clamairy: I've found that if one ebook store has a special the others generally match it. So check Amazon too, if that's what you usually use.

>114 majkia: Yeah, I checked right away. Nope. Not this time.

quoteNinefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee is on sale at Amazon for 99 cents. It's one of the better SF novels out this year. Look for some recognition at the next awards season./quote

And on Amazon UK for 99p:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ninefox-Gambit-Machineries-Empire-Book-ebook/dp/B01EBE0...

>116 Maddz: Snagged it! Thanks for the tip.

I meant to post about this the other day when I first saw it mentioned elsewhere, but I got distracted with random madness and forgot…

On the U.S. Amazon site, the Kindle edition of The Dreamblood Duology by N. K. Jemisin is available for pre-order for $6.99. The duology includes The Killing Moon and its sequel The Shadowed Sun.

Since it’s two books and thus about $3.50 per book, and since the paperback version is $12.81, I figure that counts as a deal. It’s being released on 12/20, so I don’t know if the price will go up after the release date, but I imagine it might.

I snagged this one myself since I’ve been wanting to try this author’s work for a while.

A number of Orbit titles seems to be at 1€99 now on Amazon.fr and maybe others, noticed Promise of Blood and A Crown for Cold Silver among others.

Dragonshadow by Barbara Hambly is currently 99c in the US
This is the second book in the series and is published by Del Rey and gets some mixed reviews

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dragonshadow
https://www.amazon.com/Dragonshadow-.../dp/B002IPZHA8

Note that it does not appear to be available in the UK...

Apparently, Open Road Media have a massive free sale - but it's US only.

A couple of Juanita Coulson in Amazon UK countdown:

urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_in_-2_p_lbr_books_authors__32?fst=as%3Aoff&amp.../url

Unto the Last Generation
Legacy of Earth (Children of the Stars #3)

Also for UK readers only Gollancz have a sale on their SF Gateway imprint:

http://blog.sfgateway.com/index.php/the-return-of-the-gateway-christmas-sale/

Here's a link to some (but not all- there doesn't seem to be a central page) of the Open Road Media science fiction and fantasy books currently free on Amazon US that @Maddz mentioned above. The sale seems to be Amazon-only (at least Kobo isn't matching it).

I've picked up titles by Ru Emerson, Jane Yolen, Virginia Hamilton, Marianne de Pierres, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Barbara Hambly, Mindy Klasky, Marta Randall, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Susan Shwartz, Sean Williams, Nancy Springer, Patricia Wrede and a handful of others.

I just received an eReaderIQ alert that the Kindle edition of Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey is on sale for $2.99. This is on the U.S. Amazon site.

>123 sandstone78: Thanks for the link. My kindle is complaining about the sheer volume of downloads I am inflicting upon it... ;)

>125 ScoLgo: Mine too, and I keep forgetting what I've got on mine. Whenever I look closely I am both pleased and discouraged!

>123 sandstone78: & >124 YouKneeK: Thank you.

>124 YouKneeK: Dang it! That one is on my wish list. Have to wait to see if someone gifted me first...

>127 gilroy: I hope you’re able to get it one way or another!

I just received another eReaderIQ alert that the Kindle edition of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke is on sale for $2.99 on the U.S. Amazon site.

>128 YouKneeK: Thanks! I've read it, but I'm going to help spread the word.

It's also on sale at B&N... http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell-susanna-clarke/1...

Dark Eden by Chris Beckett is 99p at Amazon.co.uk today:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Eden-Chris-Beckett-ebook/dp/B006G0VGEM/ref=lp_5400...

This is a repeat in the Daily Deal.

>128 YouKneeK: snagged this one! I've been wanting to read it for a while. Thanks for the heads up.

The 12 Days of Kindle sale is on until Jan 3rd: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=amb_link_1?ie=UTF8&node=8517542031&pf_rd_...

The following caught my eye:

The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski. At least the first 2 or 3 books.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

A load of Mistborn and The Reckoner series and standalones by Brandon Sanderson

The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

V E Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic and sequel, along with the standalone This Savage Song

Maurice Druon's The Poisoned Crown (Book 3 in The Accursed Kings). A historical, but one of the influences on A Game of Thrones.

I snagged a Susan Howatch from iBooks/iTunes for $2 - Cashelmara. I haven't read her in 25 years or something, but needed a big, juicy family saga so now I have one!

Re the 12 Days of Kindle sale - check in daily as there's one-day only deals (which include the Daily Deal) - today includes a Brandon Sanderson today.

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments Books 1-6 £1.19 in the 40 Days of Kindle/Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=amb_link_1?ie=UTF8&node=8517542031&pf_rd_...

One of today’s daily deals on the U.S. Amazon site is the Kindle edition of American Gods by Neil Gaiman for $2.99.

ETA: This is the tenth anniversary edition which has some extra content (the author's preferred text) versus the originally published version.

A number of Gollancz books are discounted on Amazon.com, .fr and .co.uk at the moment.

Includes some Brandon Sanderson, Andrzej Sapkowski (Witcher) and Joe Abercrombie books.

The Brandon Sandersons and Andrzej Sapkowskis are in the 12 Days of Kindle sale mentioned by yours truly up-thread. The Joe Abercrombies aren't.

I picked up a non-fiction book I've had my eye on, Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay from Amazon Kindle US for $1.99 today.

Looks like a bunch of Dorothy Sayers' books are on sale for $1.99.
This page contains links for Amazon, Google, B&N, Kobe and Apple books.
http://link.openroadmedia.com/view/574a0dee1acbcded598b58b4512md.2lxz/2b93e542

I-book store (UK?) has The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, and a bunch of Brandon Sanderson's books e.g. The Hero of Ages & Shadows of Self, along with some other books for 99p. Also The Longest Holiday by Paige Toon for free.

This isn’t a huge sale, but the Kindle edition of Watership Down by Richard Adams just dropped from $11.99 to $4.99 on the U.S. Amazon site.

I assume this is in honor of the author's recent death. I’m not sure how long the sale will last, but I don’t think it normally goes on sale very often.

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch is £1.99 for today only in the 12 Days of Kindle sale:

urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004K1EC1S/ref=s9_acsd_al_bw_c_x_3_w?pf_rd_m.../url

UPDATE: all the series apart from The Hanging Tree are £1.99 today.

I received an eReaderIQ alert that the Kindle edition of Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko is on sale for $1.99 on the U.S. Amazon site.

Ebook sales: The Harlan Ellison short story A Boy and His Dog is $0.99. One Corpse Too Many from the Brother Cadfael series is $1.99; Pratchett's The Wee Free Men is also $1.99.

Not sure if these are US only, but they're discounted on multiple platforms (Amazon, B&N, Kobo).

>146 Euryale: Thanks for the info about The Wee Free Men! I’ll be getting to that book eventually, so I went ahead and snagged it.

>146 Euryale: & >147 YouKneeK: Crivens! :o) If I hadn't already listened to that Pratchett I'd probably snag it.

Various in the Kindle Monthly Deals:

Tad Williams: The Dragonbone Chair is 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragonbone-Chair-Memory-Sorrow-Thorn-ebook/dp/B00YET9WS...

William Goldman: The Princess Bride is £1.89
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-Bride-William-Goldman-ebook/dp/B00BWJC5F6/ref=...

Adrian Tchaikovsky: The Tiger and The Wolf is £1.29
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Wolf-Echoes-Fall-Book-ebook/dp/B018SIYVAU/ref=sr_...

Gena Showalter: The Darkest Night is 99p (paranormal romance?)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darkest-Night-Lords-Underworld-Book-ebook/dp/B003ZDORP8...

VE Schwab: A Darker Shade of Magic is 99p (currently in the 12 Days of Kindle sale as well)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darker-Shade-Magic-V-E-Schwab-ebook/dp/B00SEU9TZK/ref=l...

There are a couple science fiction books on today’s daily Kindle deal from the U.S. Amazon site:
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood for $1.99 (This was one of my top "5" fiction reads for the year.)
Dune by Frank Herbert for $3.99

There’s also a new batch of SF&F deals for the month of January here. One of them is The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales for $2.99.

I wonder if Tor is done with their free e-book of the month club for now. When I went to the site to see what this month’s offering was, it said to come back on August 1. I can't remember if they mentioned an end date in their original announcement.

>150 YouKneeK: I hadn't seen anything about Tor.com stopping the ebook club. I imagine it's just late with the announcement because of the holiday.

>151 Euryale: You're likely right, although it's strange that it lists an August date instead of January.

>150 YouKneeK: I'm tempted by Dune, but I'm also very wary of rereading that series. I fear the Suck Fairy might be flitting about.

>153 clamairy: I’ve actually never read Dune, as horrifying as that may be! I do want to eventually, but I decided to pass up the sale for now because I think it will be a long time before I get to it. I want to finish Discworld before I tackle any of the longer series on my TBR list.

I did grab Grimm’s, although I see there are free versions out there also. I might read that one throughout 2017, a few stories at a time. I don’t think I could handle 750+ pages of fairy tales all at once, but I’ve never read the original versions so it may be interesting.

Some other SFF ebook deals today (on multiple platforms/sites): The Rainbow Abyss by Barbara Hambly and Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley, both for $1.99.

>155 Euryale:

Sadly not reduced in the UK. We rarely get any Open Road Media deals - the pre-Christmas freebie was a case in point. It's thought that ORM don't have the UK rights in many cases.

>153 clamairy:

I still own the 1st 3 Dune books but got rid of (if I ever bothered buying in the first place) the later books. In all honesty, stopping after #3 isn't a bad idea. At some point, they'll be replaced by electronic editions.

>156 Maddz: I kept everything I bought, which were the first the first six. I think his son was co-author on everything after that. I loved the first one, but thought the 2nd & 3rd were not as good. I thought 4 - 6 were quite good.

>154 YouKneeK: Yes, that's how I feel about series that are new to me in general. I'm afraid to start them... There truly is not enough time for everything I want to read. :o( I have to learn to stop diddling around online and on my phone & tablet so much.

Sean Krick's Beneath the Surface is currently free on Amazon.fr/.com/.co.uk.

Alternate world Fantasy, dreamy and dark, still YA-appropriate as far as I remember despite not being labeled as such. Enjoyed it though as one of the reviews says it has (or had at the time) a couple rough edges.

Open Road Media got me with this one - Never Cry Wolf


$2 at your favorite ebook outlet.

>159 Bookmarque: One of my all time favorites!

>150 YouKneeK: I tried Dune long long ago. Felt it too dry for my young and tender tastes. (Dated someone who read it over and over. Then again, we disagreed on the Wheel of Time series too...)

Is it bad that the list of deals for Sci Fi and Fantasy, the one drawing my attention is called Venom and Vanilla?

>161 gilroy: Ha, I can see why that title caught your eye! I missed it, though. I intentionally skim through those lists really quickly, just looking for familiar titles/authors that I already know I want to read.

>161 gilroy: :o)

>162 YouKneeK: Same here. There's so much to wade through.

Had some good comments over at Mobilereads:

Laura Kirwan's City of Eldrich trilogy is £1.98

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=node%3D341689031&field-keywo...

Probably more paranormal romance, but the twist is that the main character is a 50+ yr old woman. The first book is free, the other two are 99p each.

This is one of those times I think "I should download the Kindle app for my tablet". Then I remember how much I dislike reading on devices (also, it's a 10.5" - heavy sucker!).

>152 YouKneeK: Yeah, it's odd that it gave that message. Anyway, they just announced Off Armageddon Reef as the January pick.

http://www.tor.com/2017/01/04/off-armageddon-reef-by-david-weber-is-the-tor-com-...

>166 Euryale: Well dang. I already have that hardback.

Amazon US has Trigger Warning for Kindle at $1.99 today.

>168 Euryale: Thanks for the reminder. I bought that almost a year ago when it was on sale and still haven't read it!

>168 Euryale:, >169 clamairy:

One thing I didn’t realize before reading Trigger Warning is that the last story in the anthology, “Black Dog”, features the main character from American Gods. I was a bit iffy on the rest of the anthology, but that was one of the stories I did enjoy. There's also a fun Sherlock Holmes story in there.

I thought I’d mention it in case it helps anybody decide whether or not to pull the “trigger”. :)

>170 YouKneeK: Is the Holmes story you're referring to 'A Study in Emerald' by any chance? Because that was part of the audio version of Fragile Things. I wonder if there is some overlap.

>171 clamairy: I haven't read Fragile Things (although I did read the other American Gods-related short story in that one), but the Holmes story in Trigger Warning is "The Case of Death and Honey".

I should probably turn in my bibliophile card because I can't stand Gaiman's writing.

>173 gilroy: Which ones have you tried? First one I read was American Gods and I was not impressed at all. But then I read Stardust because I got it for $1 and I absolutely adored it. Since then I've really enjoyed everything else of his I've read or listened to.

>173 gilroy: No author can be everyone's cup of tea. For me it's Michael Chabon; I keep thinking, "oh that sounds like a good story," but never make it more than a chapter or two.

I'm not sure whether anyone but me uses Kobo, but they just made some more titles from traditional publishers eligible for their "super points" loyalty program (get a certain amount of points based on each book you buy, redeem them for free books, pay $10 a year to double the points you get per dollar spent).

They seem to mostly or all be series starters, I saw Ancillary Justice, Fortune's Pawn, Priestess of the White, The Magician's Guild, and Fortress in the Eye of Time in the list.

>173 gilroy: It's not just you! Gaiman is one of those popular authors that I feel like I should like and keep trying every so often (short stories, comics, novels, Doctor Who episodes) but have never gotten into. (His calling a collection "Trigger Warning" was such an eyeroll-inducing decision that I may have finally given up trying, though. :)

>176 sandstone78:

Superpoints are available on the UK site as well, 200 points per £10, VIP membership £6 per year. Although I have a Kobo, I really use it to sideload ebooks I've had since my Palm m500 days and have no desire to repurchase just to load into various reading app libraries.

>173 gilroy: You are not an island! ;)

With two exceptions, the handful of Gaiman titles I have read left me feeling rather 'meh'. I think it's because those stories exuded a YA type of sensibility. I am (mostly) an adult but I am no longer young so that type of thing does not always resonate with me.

The two exceptions?
1) I really enjoyed the leather-bound Absolute Sandman compilations, (massive wrist-breakers - but the artwork is gorgeous and the stories are clever mashups of legendary and biblical tales).
2) I thought he wrote a pretty great version of the Snow White fairy tale in the short story, Snow, Glass, Apples.

>174 clamairy: American Gods was my first Gaiman too. I was underwhelmed. Felt like I was reading a 2nd-rate Tim Powers novel. I might have to try Stardust. I liked that movie pretty well!

Well, I don't feel as bad. :)

>174 clamairy: My first was anansi boys which left me lost and bewildered for more than half the book. I have picked up American Gods twice, get five pages in and put it down again... Won't touch anything else.

Had a roommate who loved him and purposefully displayed his books next to my presently reading shelf, just to taunt me.

>179 gilroy: The roommate would be enough to turn me off for decades. LOL

>178 ScoLgo: I think he has a tendency to explore a lot of different styles. I would never have thought that American Gods was written by the same author as anything else of his I've read except for the occasional short story.

>179 gilroy: American Gods was a DNF for me. Boring for me, and found no real interest in the characters. Stardust was okay but I thought the movie was much better than the book!

But then we know I'm weird. I don't like Stephen King either.

>181 majkia: You're not weird. Well... not any more than the rest of us, anyway! :o)
I only enjoy some King. Stopped reading him decades ago, but 11/22/63 was recommended to me by so many people I felt I had to give it a shot. I'm glad I did.

>182 clamairy: Yeah, I do want to read 11/22/63.

>175 Euryale: I've not tried Chabon's writing yet. He keeps popping into my "You'll like this" recommendations from Amazon, but I resist.

>181 majkia: Don't worry. King is an acquired taste. I've not gotten it either. :)

Today's Big Deal is a bunch of Terry Goodkinds at £1.19 each:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=s9_acsd_al_bw_clnk_r?_encoding=UTF8&node=4725...

More Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth at £1.19 in the Kindle Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_clnk_r?node=341677031,!425595031,!...

Amazon
T.C. Boyle's latest The Terranauts is $2 today - attention clamairy!

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is $3

I liked them both.

>187 Bookmarque: I was just coming in to post this info because I'd bought it! :o) After all, it is almost my birthday week. I'll check out the other one...
(I've put The Last Painting of Sara de Vos on hold through OverDrive, and took The Terranauts off my hold list. Thanks for the heads up on that one. It does look good.)

Looks like Hidden Figures is $1.99 for the Kindle today. I think I'm grabbing that one, too.

Oh and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is also only $1.99 on Amazon. Loved that one. Paper copies are probably a penny on Alibris these days.

The Singing Stones by Juanita Coulson is 99p in the Kindle Countdown deals:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Singing-Stones-Juanita-Coulson-ebook/dp/B01A27FYEC/ref=...

>190 clamairy: I really enjoyed that book! I wasn't sure I was going to, but it's one of my all time faves.

>189 clamairy: Hidden Figures is an excellent book.

>192 catzteach: It is wonderful, right!

>193 jnwelch: I'm very happy to hear that!

The Horse Lord by Peter Morwood (Book 1 of The Book of Years series) is 99p in the Kindle Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NAFAEGE/ref=sr_1_24?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&am...

Some of the Best from Tor.com 2016 is available as a free download:

http://www.tor.com/2017/01/10/free-ebook-giveaway-of-some-of-the-best-of-tor-com...

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The 21 Brother Cadfael books by Ellis Peters are todays Big Deal on Amazon.co.uk:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=sr_aj?node=4725112031&ajr=0

Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is £1.29 in todays Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jonathan-Strange-Norrell-Susanna-Clarke-ebook/dp/B003DV...

Anyone interested in Sherilynn Kenyon? Born of Night is on sale at all major ebook retailers for $1.99 US

https://smile.amazon.com/Born-Night-League-Nemesis-Rising-ebook/dp/B002Q7H7MY/re...

Any U.S. mystery fans, it looks like several Ellery Queen ebooks are $1.99 right now (on Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and Apple).

I picked up two Amazon Kindle deals today - Time and Again by Clifford Simak (to pursue my intention to read more of his) and Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck. This is in addition to the Wool Omnibus I got yesterday on Kindle Unlimited. My Kindle TBR is growing to match my IRL TBR shelf!

>201 Darth-Heather: I thought about the Steinbeck, but I own a nice hardcover copy so I took a pass.

>202 clamairy: I hadn't heard of it before, so it was a lovely surprise in the Kindle daily deal email.

>201 Darth-Heather: I bought Time and Again for my husband's Kindle. He is a big Simak fan. Bonus, it was advertised for $1.99, but we got a .01 discount!

Comics fans: Humble Bundle's doing a big Image Comics 25th Anniversary package.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/image-comics-book-bundle

The Paper Magician series is on sale at Amazon Canada. Harry Kemelman's Rabbi Small mysteries and a pile of James Bond books are on sale, too. I think these are all on for the month.

Bruno, Chief of Police, which has been recommended by discerning GD members, is on sale at Amazon Canada for 99 cents.

I received an eReaderIQ alert today that the Kindle edition of Weaveworld by Clive Barker is on sale for 99 cents on the U.S. Amazon site. This has been on my list to try, so I grabbed it.

Some of the Best from Tor.com 2016 is currently free on Amazon for those who hadn't already picked it up from Tor's own website.

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five is 99p on the Kindle Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003XVYLDU/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_c_x_2_w?pf_rd_...

Clive Barker Weaveworld is 99p / 99c on Amazon:

UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KD4ZDJQ/?tag=mr061-21

The 2 books of Teresa Edgerton's Mask and Dagger series are 99p each in Amazon.co.uk Countdown at the moment:

Book 1 Goblin Moon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goblin-Moon-Mask-Dagger-1-ebook/dp/B00NA9YCDO/ref=sr_1_...

Book 2 Hobgoblin Night:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobgoblin-Night-Mask-Dagger-2-ebook/dp/B0147CMT3C/ref=s...

Also Peter Morwood's Firebird, Tales of Old Russia Book 2, is a repeat Countdown
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Firebird-Tales-Old-Russia-Book-ebook/dp/B01E158FKQ/ref=...

The Valentine Sale includes Kate Forsyth's The Wild Girl for £1.09:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Girl-Kate-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B00CW0G5A0/ref=sr_1_82?...

Also, Bitter Greens:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bitter-Greens-Kate-Forsyth-ebook/dp/B00APDWTFQ/ref=sr_1...

Garth Nix Goldenhand (The Old Kingdom bk 5) is £2.39 today (reduced from £14.99):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldenhand-Old-Kingdom-Garth-Nix-ebook/dp/B01ELL5DIM/re...

>213 Maddz: Thanks for the heads-up! I've just bought it.

The Great Santini is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon today. I haven't ever read it and I owned a crappy mass market paperback that has yellowed. So, YAY!

Audible is having a daily special for Real Food Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It by Larry Olmsted.

I've read this and found much of interest in it. If you are a foodie who cares about the authenticity of what you are spending big bucks on, you should definitely read this book.

This sounds like something I really want to put my eyeballs on as opposed to listening to, though.

There are a bunch of science books on sale today, too: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/r.html?C=OKT15J3YHFBL&R=1C616B6ZBQX0Q&T=C&am...

>217 clamairy: I was tempted by some of those, but I'm really trying to set some limits.

Kindred by Octavia Butler is a kindle daily deal at Amazon Canada.

>218 SylviaC: Same! I was tempted as well, but I actually need to read at least some of the ones I've already bought before I buy any more.

The Amazon.co.uk February Kindle Monthly Deals include:

Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games (bk1) £2.69
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunger-Games-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B0083JCCX8/ref=lp_43.../url

Garth Nix:
Lirael (The Old Kingdom bk2) £1.99
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Lirael-Old-Kingdom-Book-2-ebook/dp/B00KK6FJXM/ref=sr_1_.../url
Abhorsen (The Old Kingdom bk3) £1.99
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Abhorsen-Old-Kingdom-Book-3-ebook/dp/B00KK6FJKA/ref=sr_.../url

Patricia Briggs: Moon Called (Mercy Thompson bk1) £1.49 (repeat deal)
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-Called-Mercy-Thompson-book-ebook/dp/B00486U2TG/ref.../url

Mercedes Lackey: Closer to the Chest (Herald Spy)
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Closer-Chest-Herald-Spy-Book-ebook/dp/B01L9ZS4T8/ref=sr.../url

Jeff Wheeler: Legends of Muirwood at 99p each
Bk1: The Wretched of Muirwood
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Wretched-Muirwood-Legends-Book-ebook/dp/B008EYUJDW/ref=.../url
Bk2: The Blight of Muirwood
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Blight-Muirwood-Legends-Book-ebook/dp/B008EYULE4/ref=sr.../url
Bk3: The Scourge of Muirwood
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Scourge-Muirwood-Legends-Book-ebook/dp/B008EYUP6I/ref=s.../url

Evan Currie: Odyssey One Series at 99p each
Bk1: Into the Black (Remastered edition)
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Into-Black-Remastered-Odyssey-Book-ebook/dp/B005ML0EZS/.../url
Bk2: The Heart of Matter
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Heart-Matter-Odyssey-One-Book-ebook/dp/B005ML3B0S/ref=s.../url
Bk3: Homeworld
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Homeworld-Odyssey-One-Book-3-ebook/dp/B00CKY8SVM/ref=sr.../url
Bk4: Out of the Black
urlhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Black-Odyssey-One-Book-ebook/dp/B00F0SI3EM/ref=sr_1.../url

Some Kindle Countdown Deals:

Juanita Coulson Space Trap at 99p (repeat)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Trap-Juanita-Coulson-ebook/dp/B018AUND4Q/ref=sr_1...

Michaela Roessner Vanishing Point at 99p (repeat)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanishing-Point-Michaela-Roessner-ebook/dp/B01B7MLOAE/r...

Jeff Wheeler The Lost Abbey (The Covenant of Muirwood bk4/Banished of Muirwood prequel) at 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Abbey-Banished-Muirwood-Covenant-ebook/dp/B01B0095...

The U.S. Amazon site also has the new February deals up on their Digital Deals page. Below are three that stood out to me, but there might be others of interest.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - $1.99
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - $2.99
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (“box set”) by Douglas Adams - $1.99

For those doing Tor’s e-book of the month club, February’s book is The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross, which apparently contains the first two books from the Merchant Princes series.

>223 YouKneeK: Good bargains, thanks.

>223 YouKneeK:

Unfortunately, I can't take advantage of the Tor ebook deal being the wrong side of the Atlantic...

The first Wexford novel is $2 at iTunes today - From Doon with Death. After the Elizabeth George series is done, this might be my next one.

I also received an eReaderIQ alert that The Silent Tower by Barbara Hambly is on sale for $1.99 on the U.S. Amazon site. It's book 1 in the Windrose Chronicles.

*hides face* See, everything that looks good is the first some something. :o( I have about 10 series I have to finish before I start yet another.

*Checks budget, looks at cost of new house/wedding/engagement parties, puts books back*
Just can't swing it right now...

This is what libraries are for, people!

I'm not sure this counts as a bargain exactly but Tor.com is holding a giveaway to win one of three tablets loaded up with books: http://www.tor.com/2017/02/01/sweepstakes-loaded-tablet-tor-com-the-portalist/

Unfortunately US residents only.

Today only, the Kindle edition of The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski is on sale for $2.99 on the U.S. Amazon site. I think I see this one go on sale fairly often, though.

I also noticed that Goldenhand by Garth Nix is one of today’s deals (again, today only) for $1.99. This is book 5 in the Abhorsen series which I seem to see people talking about quite a bit lately.

On the U.S. Amazon site, today’s daily Kindle deals include The Black Prism by Brent Weeks for $2.99. This is for today only.

If I hadn’t already bought this when it went on sale for $1.99 almost exactly a year ago, I would have bought it today. I’ve been looking forward to Weeks finishing this series so I can finally read it. :)

>234 YouKneeK: Same, only it was three years ago that I bought it as a Daily Deal. I will get to it eventually!

I've seen Gilded Cage by Vic James mentioned on threads in these parts - it's in the I-store for 99p at the moment if anyone else is interested (I've just nabbed it myself).

HTML & CSS: For Beginners currently free on Kindle.

https://www.amazon.com/Html-Beginners-Guide-Easily-Programming-ebook/dp/B01MR5V1...

All five currently released books in Max Gladstone's Craft series (Three Parts Dead, Two Serpents Rise, Full Fathom Five, Last First Snow, Four Roads Cross) are currently $2.99 at US retailers. In addition, the complete omnibus of the Bookburners Season 1 serial of which Gladstone is one of the authors is currently $1.99 at US retailers.

>238 sandstone78: These are also on sale at amazon uk. Thanks for the heads-up, I've just bought Four roads cross which brings me up to date on the series.

I'm sorely tempted to buy A Book of Bees. It's only $2.99 and has a high rating here on LT. Anyone read this one?

Octavia Butler's "Earthseed" books (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents) are on sale at Amazon for $0.25 each!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WTIWAUE/

>241 saltmanz: WOW!!!

>239 Sakerfalcon: I did too, I've picked them up as they've gone on sale based on everyone's good reviews even though I haven't even read the first one yet :)

>240 clamairy: I haven't, but as it's set in Missouri I feel a need to now!

>241 saltmanz: Fantastic deal!

>241 saltmanz: Zoinks! I already have these in print form but am seriously tempted to get them in digital too.

>244 ScoLgo: :o) Zoinks? :o) I think you just one-upped my 'dagnabbit.'

>243 sandstone78: I think I'm snagging it.

>245 clamairy: Hehe... Given the opportunity, I cannot stop myself from using the word, 'Zoinks'.

>246 ScoLgo: LOL They are lovely. Love the expression on the face of the right hand dog. There's a question mark in the bubble over it's head. Danes are a wonderful breed.

>246 ScoLgo: I like the photo with you (?) in it, for perspective. :)

You can also get Kate Elliott's entire 4-book Jaran sequence for just $2.99!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GH2G8BA

Well, we're up to 250 posts, so I'm going to continue this to a new thread...