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Watch Season 1 of Orphan Black for free this Friday Only

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orphan_BlackAmazon is making Orphan Black Season 1 free to watch without a Amaxon Prime Membership on Friday, April 17, 2015. The season is ten episodes long. Season three of the series premieres on Saturday on BBC America. The promotion starts at 12:01 a.m. PT and concludes at 11:59 p.m. PT. The show  can be watched using the Amazon Instant Video app for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/OrphanBlack. 

Seasons one and two of Orphan Black are streaming exclusively on Amazon Instant Video.

Seriously, if you have never seen this this show, it is definitely worth a look. The show is totally addictive!  #cloneclub

Daily Links: Free download Tor 2014 anthology

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torcom14FREE:

Some of the Best from Tor.com 2014 is Free to Download Now! (Tor.com)

The Time Machine is January’s Whispersync for Voice Freebie (eBook Reader)

Digital Life:

World’s first (known) bootkit for OS X can permanently backdoor Macs (Ars Technica)

Newspaper websites and other online forums continue to struggle with comment policies (Talking New Media)

Here’s how a real teenager uses, and doesn’t use, social media (Gigaom)

Yahoo’s U.S. share on Firefox quadruples after deal (Computerworld)

Broadband and telephone news:

At CES, FCC’s Wheeler hints at Title II net neutrality decision (Gigaoam)

AT&T defends unlimited data throttling, says the FTC can’t stop it (Ars Technica)

Finds and Deals:

For the Kindle Daily Deals, Amazon is offering First-in Series novels for $1.99 each or less.

For the Nook Daily Find, I Belong to You by Lisa Renee Jones is $1.99 today.

At the Kobo store, today’s deal is The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro.

If you are looking for a good quality wireless speaker, you can buy a Sonos Play: 3 at Amazon and get a Fire HD 6 for $50 off. This is a limited time offer.

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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 links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links: Over 2300 MS-DOS games Free

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bustamoveToday, there are several must-read stories from Ars Technica:

NYT editor says NYT Now mobile app has not proved a success, but NYT Cooking app is a winner (Talking New Media)

FCC Launches Consumer Complaint Help Site: Says filing complaints contributes to consumer protection (Broadcasting Cable)

Moon+ Reader Pro sporting new Material Design (Teleread)

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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 links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

 

Daily Links: Germans want reduced taxes on ebooks

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file8851243269241From The Digital Reader, Germans call for reduced taxes on ebooks.

Barnes and Nobele has launched their new audiobook app( with free ebooks), via The Ebook Reader.

From Publishing Perspectives, Book Dash uses crowd-sourced publishing to tackle book poverty in Africa.  

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.

 

Free Amazon apps – limited time offer

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app sale 914For a limited time, Amazon is offering 27 apps for free in the Amazon App store. The offerings include tools for productivity like OfficeSuite Professional and Swype keyboard as well as camera apps and games. Many of these have been offered free in the past, but I did manage to find a few new ones.

The offer says limited time and I couldn’t find a end date for the promotion.

Daily Links: Free Photography e-books

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Amazon Fire TVFrom Lifehacker: Over 40 free photography e-books (Note: many of these are in a PDF format and require giving your email address)

Do you know what your rights are if customs wants to search your laptop or smartphone? via MakeUseOf

From the Leftsetz Letter: An interesting article on book availability

The Amazon Fire TV is currently on sale for $84.00. That’s $15 off its regular price of $99.

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.

 

 

Free! 130 e-books from Microsoft

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Microsoft’s Eric Ligman has made more than 130 technical books free to download. Topics include: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365, Office 2010, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, Lync 2013, System Center, Azure, Cloud, SQL Server and more.  The books are in various formats:  mostly PDFs but there are EPUB, MOBI and DOCX as well.

Fair warning: these downloads seem pretty popular. You may encounter a slow server.

 

Where to find Free Audio Books

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One of my most popular posts was one I did on Where to Find Free Ebooks. But did you know that there are also sites that have free audio books available as well?

There is a wide variety of quality and type among free audiobooks. You can find human read books that range from a simple narration to others that are audio performances by groups of actors. There are also machine read books that also vary greatly in the  sound of the computer translation. Some sites offer both human and machine-read audio books.

Human read Books:

Audio Books for Free.com:   http://audiobooksforfree.com/ Free downloads. You can also purchase MP3 discs, CDs and DVDs formatted in various ways.

Audio Books.net:  http://www.audiobooks.net/audiobooks_free.php Free audiobooks. Also has audio books available for purchase.

Literal Systems  http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php Recorded by professional actors under a Creative Commons license.

Librivox:  http://librivox.org/ Audio books narrated by volunteers.

Lit2Go: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ From Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse, K thru 12 children’s stories and poems.

Podiobooks:  http://www.podiobooks.com/ Serialized books presented as podcasts. Oh! And they are read by the authors – How cool is that?

Computer Generated Audio Books:

Books Should be Free:  http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/ Books from Public Domain sources presented in a very visual way. Includes books digitized by Gutenberg.org and recorded by Librivox.org.

Free Classic Audio Books:  http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/ Offers free digitally narrated books. Also offers human-read books on CD for a fee.

Free Christian Audio Books:

Free Christian Audio Books:  http://www.freechristianaudiobooks.com/ Digital Narration

Audio Treasure:  http://www.audiotreasure.com/ The Bible in various languages and translations.

This bolg entry composed while listening to Best of Duke Ellington.

Where to Find Free eBooks

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Surprisingly, there are a lot more sources for legal free books online than one might think.  You can find quite a variety, ranging from plain vanilla text versions to books that have been lovingly formatted by ebook aficionados. Most of these are DRM free.

Amazon and Smashwords both offer free books fairly consistently.  Most titles that are offered are free only for a short time, so it is best to download them when you find them. Sometimes a book may only be free for as little as a few hours; most titles are free for at least a day or more.

Baen Books Free Library:  http://www.baen.com/library/ and http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ This is a great site for Sci-Fi fans. Offers both paid and free books.

Public Domain Books:

Project Gutenberg:  www.gutenberg.org  You can choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

The Internet Archives: http://archive.org  Offers over 2 million items in a variety of  books and texts of all kinds.

Manybooks: http://manybooks.net Offers many Project Gutenberg books as well as public domain and creative commons works from many other sources.

Mobilereads Forum: The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=137 Public Domain works formatted and archived by Mobilereads members.

Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/ Offers free Public Domain and original books as well as new releases from major publishers. Requires registration.

The Free Library: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ Over 16 million items, ranging from literary classics to periodicals from many fields.

 

WikiBooks.org:  http://www.wikibooks.org/ Offers open content textbooks that anyone can edit.

For the Kindle specifically:

Mobipocket: http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/default.aspx Includes a variety of Public Domain non-fiction and academic works.

Free Kindle Books: http://freekindlebooks.org/ Many of the files offered here are Project Gutenberg files that have been reformatted to look better on the Kindle.

Search Engines:

InkMesh: http://www.inkmesh.com/ Ebook search engine to find and compare prices on books for Kindle, Sony, Kobo, Nook and more.

Just Free Books: http://justfreebooks.info/ Audio and ebook search engine.