Category Archives: Daily Deals

Daily Deals: Ed McBain Mysteries

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cop_haterDeals for today, December 15, 2015:

Today, Amazon is featuring 31 titles in the Ed McBain classic 87th Precinct mysteries for $1.99 each. (Pictured is book 1, Cop Hater.) I also found Francine Pascal’s beloved Sweet Valley High series – an ebook bundle with volumes 1-12 for only $7.99.

Barnes and Nobles Daily Find is offering the three books in Robert Llewellyn’s News From trilogy:  News from Gardenia,  News from the Squares, and  News from the Clouds for $1.99 each. Rough Rider by Victoria Vane is the Romance Daily Find priced at $1.99.

At Kobo, the Daily Deal is The Swimmer by Joakim Zander for $1.99.

(Note: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.)

Daily Deals: Sapiens, American Gods and C.S. Lewis

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sapiensDaily deals for Monday, December 14, 2015:

On Amazon, the Kindle Daily Deals include Mary Monroe’s Bad Blood and a paranormal romance by Maya Banks.I also found some really good prices on some other bestsellers:

At Barnes and Noble, Sky Raiders (Five Kingdoms Series #1) is the Daily Find. The Christmas romance trend continues with today’s romance Daily Find, Blame it on the Mistletoe. Both ebooks are priced at $1.99 each.

Guidebook to Murder  by Lynn Cahoon is the Kobo Daily Deal, price at $1.99. Kobo also has a special on best-selling YA for $4.99 or less through December 21, 2015.

If you are a Woot shopper, you may be interested in a refurbished Trio TrioAXS4G 7.85″ Quad-Core 16GB Android Tablet that is selling for $39.99. This tablet is labeled with the Free 200MB T-Mobile 4G Data For Life plan.

(Note: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.)

Finds and Deals: Kindles, Fires and Victorian mysteries

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perryFinds and Deals for Sunday, December 13, 2015:

In Sunday’s Kindle Daily Deals offers a selection of books for just $1.99 each. Included are several titles by James Patterson as well as 9 books in Anne Perry’s Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series of Victorian mysteries, starting with the series opener, The Cater Street Hangman. This is a good jump start if you are interested in this 31 volume series. 🙂

And just in time for Green Monday, Amazon has once again marked down prices on Kindle e-readers and Fire Tablets. The $50 Fire is not included (it is out of stock until after Christmas, anyway), but you can find:

You can also still save $25 on the Fire TV Gaming Edition, priced at $114.99. Deal ends December 20, 2015

Barnes and Noble’s Nook Daily Find is Save Me by Kristyn Kusek Lewis for$1.99. The Romance Daily Deal is The House of Hardie (Hardie Family Series #1) Anne Melville, also $1.99.

I am experiencing a glitch with the Kobo Daily Deal which is is also supposed to be Lewis’ Save Me for $1.99. Instead of coming up at $1.99, the price is showing as $9.99 on both the deal page and when I put in in my cart. This is very strange as the book is normally $4.99.  If you see that the price gets corrected, please leave me a comment below. 🙂

Did you know that Kobo has a whole section of ebooks in Spanish? I didn’t know that until I stumbled on it today. I thought that was a neat find! 🙂

(Note: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.)

Daily Deals: 99 cent cookbooks, more

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royal_cookingToday’s ebook deals:

Saturday’s Kindle Daily Deals feature Kay Brat’s Tales of the Scavenger’s Daughters Series, Books 1-4, for $1.99 each, amongst others. There are also some interesting 99 cent cookbooks, including titles by Jennifer Chandler (The Simply series) and Wolfgang Puck, as well as several classic books on Southern cooking. It is an eclectic collection that ranges in style from Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook (from the Andy Griffith TV show) to a volume by Princess Diana’s former chef, Darren McCrady.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is The Onion Presents Christmas: Exposed. The Nook Romance Daily Find is Lia Riley’s Best-Worst Mistake (Brightwater #3). There is also a special $50 off promotion on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook 7″ tablet. The tablet is currently $99 through December 26, 2015. Supplies are limited.

The Kobo Daily Deal is the PBS tie in edition of Simon Schama’s Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD for only $1.99 (formerly $17.99). The Kobo Glo HD e-reader is also on sale for $119.99 with free shipping.

(Note: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.)

Daily Deals: The Rook, The League and more

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RookChristmas is a huge book buying season, and that certainly includes ebooks. I will be posting the deals I find daily for those of you looking for reading bargains.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals include supernatural thriller The Rook: A Novel for $2.99, the classic Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education for $1.99 and a animal-lover’s romance, The Dogs of Christmas for $2.99. There are also  over a thousand titles in all genres at up to 85% off in the Holiday Deals section.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is offering the first three books in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s bestselling The League series for $2.99 each. They also have several special pricing sections: 101 Nook Books Under $2.99 and Nook Books for under $5.00.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Mistletoe Murder by Leslie Meier for $1.99. The store also has a section of Great Reads for $4.99 or Less.

(Note: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.)

Finds and Deals: Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition

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Amazon hkindle hd 8 bundleas announced the Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition. This is an exclusive bundle, priced at $249.99 with free shipping. The bundle includes:

  • The new Fire HD 8 tablet, normally retailing for $149.99.
  • One year of Kindle Unlimited, normally retailing for $9.99 per month (a $120 value)
  • An exclusive Reader’s Edition brown leather cover for the tablet. According to Amazon, the cover is designed to give the look and feel of a real book cover as well as protecting the tablet.

The bundle is available for pre-order and will begin shipping on December 9, 2015.

Note: There is no specified end date for this promotion. Generally, Amazon only makes these bundles available for a limited time.

 

 

Finds and Deals: Kindle Bundles and Fire Tablets

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fire_6_2If you are still thinking about a tablet or e-reader, Amazon is listing discounted prices for most of the Fire line of devices under its 12 days of Deals. You can can find discounts on the following:

Fire Tablets:

Fire HD 6, 6″ HD Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB – Includes Special Offers, Black ($79.99)

Fire HD 8, 8″ HD Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB – Includes Special Offers, Black ($129.99)

Fire HD 10, 10.1″ HD Display, Wi-Fi, 16 GB – Includes Special Offers, Black ($179.99)

Amazon also is offering discounts on several other models of Fire Tablets, including the HDX:

Kindle Fire HD 7″, HD Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB (Previous Generation – 3rd) ($99.99)

Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″, HDX Display, Wi-Fi and 4G LTE, 16 GB – Includes Special Offers (Previous Generation – 3rd) ($429.99)

Fire HDX 8.9, 8.9″ HDX Display, Wi-Fi, 64 GB – Includes Special Offers ($429.99)

Fire TV:

Amazon Fire TV ($84.99)

Bundles:

Fire HD 6 Kids Edition, 6″ HD Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB, Blue Kid-Proof Case ($79.99)

E-Ink Kindles:

Kindle Paperwhite Essentials Bundle including Kindle Paperwhite 6″ E-Reader with Special Offers, Amazon Leather Cover – Onyx Black, and Power Adapter ($159.97)

Kindle Voyage Essentials Bundle including Kindle Voyage 6″ E-Reader with Special Offers, Amazon Leather Cover – Black, and Power Adapter ($249.97)

And a note for those of you looking for book bargains: Stay tuned! In my experience, a lot of e-books go on sale on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so that all those folks who just got a shiny new e-reader can find lots of goodies!

Daily Links: Why people stick with outdated technology

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daily_links_1Why People Stick With Outdated Technology (Scientific American) – Yep. There are a lot of good points here (says the lady who still uses her old  iPod Classic alongside the newer tech).

This app is changing the way Tanzania reads the news (Quartz) – Interesting look at the newspaper/paywall problem.

Frustrated publishers to Twitter: Give us our share counts back (Digiday) – I don’t think this article gives enough validity to social proof on the reader’s end of things. What do you think?

8 Tips to Help You Get More Reading Done (Time Management Ninja) – It is interesting how e-readers fit into the equation.

Amazon has some very competitive prices on Samsung tablets. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 (the non-Nook version) is only a few dollars more new than the price for refurbs. And the just-released, giant 18.4″ Samsung Galaxy View is already reduced to $499.

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Morgue Drawer Four mystery series on sale

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morgueIf you like to read mysteries and crime novels in general and translated titles in particular, you may enjoy today’s Kindle Daily Deal. Amazon is offer all five English translations of German author Jutta Profjit’s Morgue Drawer Series  for just $1.99 each.  In the opener, Pasha, the ghost of a small time car thief, inhabits Morgue Drawer Four with his body. Rather than move on into the afterlife, he is determined to solve his own murder. To do so, he joins forces with the only human who can hear him, Cologne’s uptight coroner, Dr. Martin Gänsewein.

The book was shortlisted for the Friedrich Glauser Prize, the highest crime novel prize in Germany. The series is part of the AmazonCrossing imprint which specializes in translated titles. That means this one is an Amazon exclusive.. All five books are translated by the same translator,  Erik J. Macki, who, I thought, does a great job with this series. It is very readable, but still retains it sense of German identity. 🙂

One of my goals over the last two years has been to read more translated works. This series is one of my personal favorites. What about you? Do you like to read translated works?

Daily Links: Netflix comes to Australia

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daily linksDigital Life:

Google Play Books Expands into Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland, Slovenia, And Slovakia (Ink, Bits & Pixels)

Atria Halts Publication of ‘The Whole Pantry’ (Publishers Weekly)

Get ready for Optimus Prime shipping: FAA approves Amazon drone experiments (Ars Technica)

An Open Letter to Parents From a Teenage YouTuber (Recode)

Better World Books Will Sell You a Used Book, or a Scanned Copy for $2 More (Ink, Bits & Pixels)

Security:

Oh, Crap: Apple is Pulling Antivirus Apps from iTunes App Store (Ink, Bits & Pixels)

OpenSSL warns of two high-severity bugs, but no Heartbleed (Ars Technica)

Pernicious Mobile Ads Now Hijacking, Redirecting Some Users From Safari to iTunes (Ink, Bits & Pixels)

Telephone and Broadband:

NYC official wants Comcast to offer $10, 10Mbps Internet after merger (Ars Technica)

Comcast’s gigabit technology is ready for field testing (Ars Technica)

Gaming and Streaming:

Netflix New Releases for April 1st, 2015 (Gear Diary)

HBO GO comes to the Amazon Fire TV Stick  (Android Central)

Netflix Launches In Australia With Prices Starting At A$8.99 A Month (Android Police)

The NFL Will Stream a Game on the Web Next Year. Don’t Get Used to It. (Recode)

Tips, Tricks and How-to:

How to play and pause content on Chromecast with a TV remote (Google Chromecast)

Best iPad Bluetooth keyboards (Tab Times)

How to turn photos into Android wallpapers (Android Central)

Too Embarrassed to Ask: Wi-Fi v. Bluetooth (Recode)

In choosing a tablet, what screen size is right for you? (Tab Times)

Apps:

20 best kids’ educational apps and games on Android tablets (Tab Times)

Finds and Deals:

Amazon Kindle Daily Deals include the classic Mrs. Mike, as well as romance, science fiction and business titles.

Nook Find of the Day is Ruhlman’s Twenty: 20 Techniques, 200 Recipes, A Cook’s Manifesto by Michael Ruhlman, Donna Turner Ruhlman (Photographer) for $3.99. This is a super deal!

Kobo Daily Deal is Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult for $1.99.

There are some great promotional offers available with the purchase of a Chromecast streaming player. Offers include free trials of Quello concert service, DramaFever, Sesame Street Go and more. The offers appear after you have activated your device (see details here).