Last week someone on my network bought an ereader in addition to their Kindle just to read epubs. For a long time, I have seen friends pass up discounts on ebooks because the discount is only available in a particular store ( Read more... )

Kobo now seems to be applying its coupons to Penguin imprints. They're allowing unlimited use of the 30%-off promo code JULY1930 through tomorrow, but they do a lot of coupons, so no rush.


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Some US retailers currently have the ebook versions of the following 90s sf novels at $.99. (I checked Amazon, B&N, and Kobo.)

Maureen McHugh, Nekropolis
Rebecca Ore, Outlaw School
Rebecca Ore, Time's ChildI'm not sure I've read either of those particular books by Ore, but in general she is an interesting, cantankerous, knotty writer, with a lot ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, yesterday I forgot to mention that I finished The Little Hotel by Christina Stead, probably because it is not a very good book. The Man Who Loved Children, by contrast, is a great book, and is currently on sale for $2.99 lots of places.

Patricia McKillip's Wonders of the Invisible World seems to only be on sale for $4.99 at Amazon, but ( Read more... )

It looks like all of Elizabeth Lynn's books have been dropped to $4.99. I particularly recommend The Woman Who Loved the Moon, The Sardonyx Net, and The Northern Girl. (The latter is the third in a trilogy, but you don't have to read the other two; each book has different characters and IIRC they take place centuries apart.)


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Peter Rushforth's Kindergarten is $3.99 at Amazon (and seems to be under $5 elsewhere). The novel interweaves "Hansel and Gretel," "A Winter's Tale," a family recovering from the death of one of its members in a terrorist attack, and the discovery of a cache of letters from German Jews begging an English boarding school to take in their children ( Read more... )

Box.net is offering 25GB of free cloud storage to people who sign up today.

Also, my two favorite Laura Kinsale novels are $2.99 @ Amazon:

The Shadow and the StarThis is the one with the child prostitute who is trained as a ninja so he can retrieve a katana from London, but who also becomes a jewel thief as part of a complicated plan to shut down ( Read more... )

Sony coupon
JAN40: 40% off for eligible publishers, good until 1/23

Discount
Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs is currently $1.99 at all the retailers I checked. This is a middle grade/young adult novel loosely inspired by "The Snow Queen": Hazel's best friend Jack has just stopped talking to her. Her mother tries to tell her this happens with boys and ( Read more... )

Scarce week. Older Kobo coupons still work, I think.

Coupons
DECEMBER35 - 35% off eligible books at Sony until 1/4/13

Discounts
It's been so long since I read Ernest Hogan's Cortez on Jupiter ($.99), a novel about first contact between a Chicano graffiti artist and intelligent life on Jupiter, that all I remember is an anarchic energy and a ( Read more... )

Kobo is having a Boxing Week sale with up to 80% off on selected books. I suspect many of these are also discounted elsewhere.

eta: The Ebook Reader has a much more thorough breakdown of Kobo holiday sales for the US, UK, Canada, AU, and NZ.

These are all Amazon-only:

• Zen Cho's novella The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo is free until Wednesday the ( Read more... )