The Great Booksale/E-Book Alert: Thread #2

Thought we might start a new thread.

I just obtained The Complete Works of Josephine Tey (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00FKFTUXI?ie=UTF8&ref_=oce_digital_CA) on Amazon.ca for the great price of $3.08. I checked and saw they have it listed in both US and UK, where I don't have access to the listed prices but am told by a UK friend that it's not available there (at least not at that price).

Thinking Fast and Slow USD2.99 on Kindle. It's been on my TBR list for awhile now.

>1 Smiler69: It's also not available in the U.S.

>3 thornton37814: Sorry to hear that Lori. I wish there was a way to check on that info, but Amazon doesn't list the prices for Kindle books on any other site than the Canadian one for me. Can you tell me how much it's selling for in the U.S.?

>4 Smiler69: It's not even listed on their site.

>5 thornton37814: How strange... I get a page when I go to the following page, but don't know what it looks like on your end: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Josephine-Tey-ebook/dp/B00FKFTUXI/ref=sr_1_...

for those who are interested and missed the Amazon deal, all of Josephine Tey's e-books are available from the University of Adelaide's website.

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tey/josephine/

#7 by ccookie> oh thanks for that link!

you are most welcome. For you Josephine Tey what book would you recommend I start with?

One of today's Kindle Daily Deals is Monica Wood's memoir, When We Were the Kennedys. $1.99. Charming, with strong sense of time and place - Maine mill town, 1963. It's very good!

>6 Smiler69: Pricing is not available. It didn't come up when I searched it.

>11 thornton37814: Lori, did you try the link I posted in >6 Smiler69:?

Amazon US: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me Go is $2.99 today.

How did you find out about Never Let Me Go, Laura? I subscribe to the Kindle Daily Deals e-mail, but all I seem to find are young vampire romance novels and other dreck.

>14 kidzdoc: Darryl, I subscribe to eReaderIQ, a daily email for Kindle books. When you sign up you can specify the genres that interest you. It's still hit or miss for me so far, but I've found a few deals that way vs. the Amazon daily deal.

http://daily.ereaderiq.com/

You can sign up to alerts from Harper Collins US here Darryl:

http://bookperk.com/

And on ereaderiq you can add your Amazon wishlist(s) and then you get alerts on specific books you want to know about. ereaderiq's idea of genres isn't always reliable - "literary fiction" means "we don't know where to put it", but I find the wishlist alerts helpful.

>16 elkiedee: ooh, great tips Luci. I didn't know about the wish lists either -- off to tinker with my profile!

Note to Pennsylvania (and beyond!) LTers: the annual AAUW of State College used book sale starts this weekend, running May 10-13. It's one of the largest on the East Coast, and people have been known to come in from out-of-state to attend. I've gone in years past, and it's a great one, worth traveling to. Info:

http://aauwstatecollege.org/bookSale/default.html

Oh wow, I wish I'd known about that sooner although I don't know if I could have wedged it into this weekend anyway. I will have to make a note of it for next year.

>15 lauralkeet: and >16 elkiedee: Thanks for the links! I signed up for both and already got hit by a book bullet.

>19 lauralkeet: I realized too late that the sale is this weekend. I would love to go, but don't think I can. Maybe I can make it to the Johnstown AAUW sale in June, but it's not nearly as fine a sale.

The Book People (www.thebookpeople.co.uk) has emailed me saying it now offers international delivery at per item/weight prices. Obviously shipping costs add a lot to prices and not everything is going to be worth it, but assuming they count boxed or shrinkwrapped sets as one item, it may still be worth looking at for some items, eg a set of paperback books not available in your country that you really want.

Not a book sale - a bookish sale! We now have 75er t-shirts and more for sale. The perfect way to get ready for your next meetup!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/174116

The first 7 books in the Jim Butcher Dresden Files series are on offer at $1.99 as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

    

Sale on Downpour.com this weekend on 3 Alexandre Dumas titles in the Three Musketeers series. I just purchased

The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years After (D'Artagnan Romances, 3)
Louise de La Vallière (D'Artagnan Romances, 4)

They also offering The Man in the Iron Mask, the last book in the series (all three are narrated by Simon Vance).
Twenty Years After, book 2 in the series isn't on sale though.

UK Kindle freebie - The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson

9 Lois McMaster Bujold audiobooks are currently priced $5.95 at Downpour.com, including The Curse of Chalion, Shards of Honor and Barrayar.

Two Maisie Dobbs novels on sale today for $1.99 on Amazon.com's Kindle daily deal.

Allende's Ines of My Soul, which I loved when I read it a few years ago, is $1.99 on Amazon.com's Kindle Daily Deal today.

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter on sale on Amazon.com's Kindle Daily Deal today for $1.99. I enjoyed this story about multiple earths when I received it as an Early Reviewers' win.

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin is today's Audible daily deal.

An ER ARC from last month, Edwin: High King of Britain (which Liz1564 gave 5 stars; she says it's Bede fleshed out) seems to have a permanent price of $1.99 for Kindle at Amazon.

>32 LizzieD: Got it! That review certainly makes it sound appealing!

>32 LizzieD: It's also available at a low price on the UK site - just over £1. I am considering....

Better World Books has 30% off if you buy 4 or more used books. There's free shipping worldwide (they say). It ends tomorrow at 11 Eastern time.

Stefan Zweig's The Post Office Girl is a Daily Deal (99p) at Amazon UK today.

UK Kindle daily deals include The Runaways by Elizabeth Goudge - Linnets and Valerians by another name, 99p.

And a surprise bargain is Louise Welsh, A Lovely Way to Burn, down to £1.29.

Amazon US has The Jules Verne collection with all his works for $1.99.

Amazon has The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks for $1.99 today.

The University of Chicago's free book for this month is Liberace: an American Boy. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

I was looking at deals in the Kindle store (US) and saw The Rosie Project for $1.99 today. I've read good things about that one. Tempting . . .

Go for it, Terri! I picked it up at an earlier e-sale, and I haven't read it yet. Several of us are planning a very informal shared read later this year and we would love to have you join us!

>41 tymfos: Do it! Do it! Do it! I'm (figuratively) shoving that book into everyone's hands. I loved it!

>42 rosalita: >43 Morphidae: Julia and Morphy, I'm just thinking I might prefer buying it hard-copy, so I can donate it to the public library when I'm done with it.

ETA to add I just checked, and I have library access to it via Overdrive, so I'll probably save the money and spend it on a book I can't get from the library.

Amazon UK monthly deals include a few spy novels:

John Lawton, Then We Take Berlin - this was a great read - £1.49
David Downing, Jack of Spies - one from my most wanted wishlist - £1.49

I also bought
Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore for £1.99 - replacing a paperback, but also this edition has an intro by Alan Hollinghurst
Natalie Haynes, The Amber Fury
a book called An Englishman in Madrid

Macmillan have cut the price of some of their Bello Kindle offerings - there are 60 at 89p, a few even less, and lots more at varying prices but I grabbed a few

I didn't see any specific promotion for this, but just found out that several Kindle Georgette Heyer titles are offered on sale, at least on Amazon.ca, all at around $3:

These Old Shades
The Corinthian
Cotillion
Venetia
The Quiet Gentleman
The Black Moth
Black Sheep
The Foundling
Royal Escape

Thanks for confirming if they are available in other regions too!

Ilana, I can confirm that several Heyers are available for $2.99 or less at Kindle US, though the list is different than yours. Well, actually the only difference seems to be that The Foundling is not on sale at Kindle US.

Black Sheep was the only title for sale at Kobo, my preferred e-book vendor. I tried to check Nook but was unable to access the Barnes and Noble website for some reason.

Thanks for checking on this Julia! I checked iBooks for good measure, but no-go there either. I have an iPad, but now mostly buy Kindle books because if ever I get a Kindle Paperwhite I'll be able to read my ebooks on that device too, because iPad+sunshine are not a good combo unfortunately!

Yes, I love reading on my iPad but it really only works indoors. I do love my Kobo Touch, though, and it is possible to load Kindle books onto it so I'm fairly discriminate in my e-book buying.

Didn't know that about the Kobo (i.e. ability to read Kindle books). Any reason you prefer that e-reader? Other than not wanting to encourage Amazon, that is? ;-)

Well, that was part of it, to be honest. :-) But I am not in any position to call for a boycott of Amazon nor would I want to, because I do buy a fair amount of stuff there, not just books and I don't think they are inherently evil or anything. But I also chose the Kobo because it supports the EPUB format which seems to be more or less the standard nowadays for e-books. Kindle uses a proprietary format which locks users into their hardware even more than the regular digital rights management (DRM) software used by everyone.

Well, it locks them in unless they are willing to use a third-party application to convert the file to an EPUB file that can be read by any e-reader. I suppose it's not for the squeamish if you are very concerned about legalities, but because I only use it for my own personal use and I am not making copies to sell or give away (I do think that sort of pirating is absolutely wrong) my conscience is clear. I buy one copy of a book and I read one copy of a book. The only thing I'm changing is where I read it.

In terms of the technical specs of the e-readers, I think they are all pretty much on the same level. The Kindle Paperwhite is very good, and the new Kobos and Nooks are, too. So it really comes down to personal preference, I suppose.

Just one damned thing after another by Jodi Taylor is currently 0,88€ on Amazon.fr and possibly other places as well

Randomly found on sale at Amazon US: Dare Me by Megan Abbott for $2.99. I believe I've heard it described as "Bring It On" meets "Heathers" meets "Mean Girls". I've seen it positively reviewed by several LTers, including Mark (msf59).

Harper Perennial e-book sale: https://www.facebook.com/HarperPerennial?sk=app_206541889369118&ref=woobox

>54 katiekrug: Looks like it's only valid in the US, ah well!

Amazon UK - Kindle

Bello, the Macmillan reprint imprint, has cut the price of some books to 59p/89p and there are more for £1.19/£1.79 - there are books by lots of writers including series mysteries and historical fiction such as Natasha Cooper (first 2 Willow King books), Robert Barnard, Jill McGown, Jo Bannister, R C Sheriff (a couple of his other books have been reprinted by Persephone). A lot of the crime novels are the first couple in the series at 59p.

Longitude by Dava Sobel is a Kindle Daily Deal today, 1.99 I read this book about six years ago. Excellent.

>56 elkiedee: Thanks for pointing out the Bello sale. We don't have nearly as many Bello titles available in North America as you must do in the UK, but I see that both Amazon.com and .ca have 2-3 dozen selections available for Kindle, all under $5. Perhaps available from other e-vendors as well, though I didn't take time to check yet.

I got the following today:
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45 by Hermione Ranfurly
Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson

Also picked up another Ibbotson title, not a Bello edition but still a $5 eBook
The Secret Countess aka A Countess Below Stairs

Heidi (cobscook) alerted me to a monster Kindle US daily deal with classic, classic first books of series in science fiction and fantasy for $1.99 today. For a run-down of my take on them on my thread, go here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/173837#4722721

UK Kindle

Harper Collins under various imprints seems to be offering a few freebies at the moment, and a lot of really good books at £2.99, a few things for less.

Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy is £1.99

Today's Kindle daily deals include May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes, last year's Women's Prize for Fiction winner, and well deserved too (and I liked all the other books on the shortlist a lot, so that is saying something) for 99p.

Not ebooks but Audiobooks. There is a site called Humble Bundle where they offer books and games for "pay what you want". Partial proceeds go to charity. They are currently offering their 2nd Audiobook bundle

Among others, you can get DRM free version of

The Perfect Storm
Fight Club
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Right now you can get 8 books if you pay more than $10 (4 books for paying whatever amount you want). They will probably add 1 or 2 more before the offer ends.

Here's the link... https://www.humblebundle.com/books

Night Swim is the Free Fridays selection for Nook at Barnes and Noble. I haven't read it yet but it has good reviews here on LT.

UK Kindle - 4 Ben Macintyre books including A Spy Among Friends and Operation Mincemeat for £1.99/£2.05 each.

>63 elkiedee: Grrrr. Sigh.
USA Kindle a tasty looking little scifi goody called Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer (his first book). I read some of the sample, and it looks like fun.

Clara and Mr. Tiffany is $1.99 for Kindle, Nook, and Kobo today. I really loved this fictionalized true story of the woman who was a key creative force in the Tiffany stained glass company.

Also just discovered: Amazon has a number of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels on sale right now. It's part of their Big Deal 85% off sale, which runs through June 28.

Summer House with Swimming Pool, the new book by Herman Koch (author of The Dinner), is available for Kindle in the US for $4.99.

Also, the most recent horror novel by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King), NOSA42 is $1.99 for Kindle, Nook, Kobo and iBooks.

Herman Koch's Summer House With Swimming Pool is also available through Barnes & Noble Nook for $4.99. For those who prefer that format over Amazon.

Thanks for the heads up Julia!

Today in the USA The Coroner's Lunch is the Kindle Daily Deal.

>70 LizzieD: And also on Nook and Kobo. I am resisting starting this series, but I know it is very popular here on LT.

The Kept by James Scott is $1.99 for Kindle, at least in the US. Don't know about other platforms. It's historical fiction that got some good buzz when it came out, but I didn't hear much about it here on LT. It's been on my WL since its release, so I snapped it up!

>70 LizzieD: >71 rosalita: I definitely recommend it!

>70 LizzieD: *shakes fist* damn you, temptress!
>71 rosalita: I am resisting starting this series, but I know it is very popular here on LT
yeah, I was too :)
>73 Smiler69: and this tipped me over the edge :)

>72 katiekrug: The Kept is also e-vailable for Nook and Kobo at $1.99 today.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North is available as an ebook on Amazon UK for £1.49. Claire North also writes as Kate Griffin and Catherine Webb (and I still haven't read any of her books but I keep meaning to).

If you like drama, I see a collection of three plays by Thornton Wilder is an Amazon Kindly daily deal today (US).

Just purchased The End Is Nigh for $1.99 as an Amazon Kindle daily deal (US). Looks good for readers of apocalyptic fiction. An anthology with a lot of well-known SF writers contributing.

On Basilisk Station, the first book in the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, is free for Kindle today. It's a decent example of military sf, not without its faults but I found it interesting enough. The tree cat helps.

Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man on sale for $1.99 as a Kindle Daily Deal (US). This is a surprisingly good piece of speculative fiction.

>79 ronincats: It's part of several Baen ebooks that have been available free for a while. Liked it as well but didn't pursue the series further than #2, Honor was becoming a bit too fast and a bit too much of an infallible one-woman army for my taste.

UK Kindle There's a rather ludicrously titled mini-sale - Remember 1966 (when England won the World Cup!) but it includes some very interesting modern classics from the 1950s and 60s, including The Golden Notebook, Revolutionary Road and Colin Macinnes' trilogy set in 1950s Notting Hill, City of Spades, Absolute Beginners and Mr Love and Justice. Oh, and Stan Barstow, A Kind of Loving.

There's also some football books on offer.

In White Pine, Tennessee (near Morristown and Jefferson City, east of Knoxville):

White Pine Used Books

60% OFF ALL WEEKEND (today & tomorrow)! LAST Moving Sale! Although we will be open the next three weeks we will be packing up too. Secret password is "Batman" please WHISPER this to the cashier to get your discount! Like/share post to enter a $20 gift certificate drawing Monday! Store credit & westerns excluded, EVERYTHING ELSE is 60% Off! Extended hours, open 9 to 8 both Saturday and Sunday. Store is very stocked, help us move it out!

They are moving to a larger space. I know we have a few East Tennessee people on here so I thought I'd mention it.

TODAY ON US KINDLE!

All $1.99
American Gods
The Golem and the Jinni
Only Time Will Tell
The Sins of the Father
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Beautiful Ruins
Bradbury Stories

And, for only $2.49, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to the Present!

There are some amazing bargains on there.

Wow at the Howard Zinn book, I'm envious of that.

Two of the novels have been bargains here, the Jeffrey Archer probably has but even I wouldn't buy it, though I would buy The Golem and the Jinni at those kind of prices.

>84 richardderus: Thanks, Richard! I've just added A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present to my library.

>86 kidzdoc: That's a great book, Darryl.

A classic! Educated so many people with one book!

On Amazon US, NOS4A2 and Neverwhere for Kindle are $1.99 today.

For those who are into Montalbano and who like audiobooks, Downpour.com is having a 70% sale on the whole series. Definitely worth checking out (just click on the blue link to go to their page). Prices are mostly $5 and less. Really worth it.

#90 by Smiler69> oh, thanks for that great resource!

>91 majkia: Don't mention it Jean, it was too good a sale to keep it all to myself!

US Kindly folk, two $1.99 standouts today:

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America--the late Christopher Hitchens is a master at the concise, cutting line. Under 200pp, deft, and unsparing.

Queen of the Dark Things--Faerie goins-on, majgickq galore, a phauntaisee nawvelle in truth. Why am *I* of ALL people recommending it? It's set in Austin, Texas, mah hometown.

And don't forget, the first of the month brings a whole slew of new monthly Kindle deals for $3.99 or less.

(Scroll down the page for the complete, uncategorized list of 121 titles.)

There are several appealing e-books on sale today, for US customers. The ones that interested me the most are 1776 by David McCullough, which I already own, The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy by David Halberstam, which I just purchased, and Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens, which Katie mentioned above; I bought it as well.

Over here in the UK, our monthly offers include

The Golem and the Djinni for £1.99
Two of the Patrick Melrose books, Never Mind and Bad News for 99p and £1.59
The Luminaries is £2.99

The University of Chicago's free ebook for July is Reprisal, a novel by Bonnani. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

I got The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurty and What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan from the Kindle monthly deals. Both come highly recommended.

Oryx and Crake
The Virgin Cure
A Fine Balance

are just three of the titles offered at $5 eBooks (in Canada) from my wishlist. I found the deals via iBooks, but also on Amazon, so it seems to be across multiple platforms.

There's also

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear ($2.99)
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

and many others. Worth checking if this is valid in the US too.

I regret to say there are several fine ebooks for sale today in the US (and possibly elsewhere):

The Lord of Discipline by Patrick Conroy
Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron
Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda

I found these for sale at both Amazon and Kobo, so presumably Nook as well.

I went for (US Kindle, probably available on other platforms):
Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens
Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to reclaim Her Heritage Mary-Ann Kirkby
Operation Mincemeat Ben Macintyre
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong James R. Hansen
A Dog Named Slugger Leigh Brill

There are three Margery Allinghams, two of them Campions for USD4.99 each.\

ETF: touchstones - well, I tired anyway

Audible US has The Coroner's Lunch, book 1 in Dr. Siri series, by Colin Cotterill as the Daily Deal for $2.95 It is narrated by Clive Chafer.

UK Kindle - a number of Bloomsbury titles for 84p including books by

Ben Macintyre (including the latest on Kim Philby, grr, and I thought I was getting a bargain at £2.99)
Lisa See - Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy, On Gold Mountain, Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Parker Bilal - 3 books
Stella Rimington - 2 Liz Carlyles, nos 6 and 7
Justin Cartwright - several inc Lion Heart
Several Richard van Emden on WW1
Anna Reid's book on the Leningrad siege (another grrr from me)
Margaret Atwood, Payback
Will Self, Umbrella
Richard Ford (10 books inc The Sportswriter, Independence Day, several collections of short stories
Rafaella Barker

Edward St Aubyn, Lost for Words came out in May and is just £1.79

>102 luvamystery65: I listened to one of the Dr Siri books done by Clyde Chafer. (I can't recall offhand which one) The pace was a little slower than my normal reading (true of most audiobooks of course) but it fit the mood of the story. The best part was the pronunciations of the various places and peoples names. Some were very different than I would have thought. I may buy that one from audible and "re-experience" Dr Siri. Great series.

Interesting list of lesser known books by well-known authors, on Kindle (Amazon US) for $1.99 and up (most under $3). Authors include Michael Chabon, Alice Walker, Pearl Buck, Sherman Alexie, many others.

Some great titles on sale as part of the Kindle Daily Deal. My email alert only highlighted Water for Elephants and then the four category ones, but it turns out WfE is only one of about 20 on sale, all for $1.99.

Amazon US and I didn't check other platforms.

I am really unhappy because my email for YESTERDAY'S books only came in at 2:30 this morning, and one of my very favorite fantasies of all time was on it. However, the very hard to find The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs is available on Kindle now, for $7.99.

Also, The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George are two of the books for $1.99 this month, as is What Matters in Jane Austen.

>108 ronincats: Roni, you should try contacting Amazon with this issue, I'll bet they'll let you buy it at the DD price if you complain about it.

Wow! Lots of $1.99 Kindle deals today (Amazon US): Tales of the City, The Round House, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Alas, Babylon, The Lacuna, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Golden Notebook, many more.

I'm so envious of that list!

Kindle Deal (US): 20 $1.99 Teen Books
Kindle Daily Deal (US): American Woman by Robert Pobi
Kindle Deals (US)
Romance Blank Slate ($1.99) by Tiffany Snow
SciFi & Fantasy Resurrection ($1.99 Kindle; $0.99 companion audiobook) by Arwen Elys Dayton
History Escape from Sobibor ($1.99 Kindle; $1.99 companion audiobook) by Richard Rashke
Kids Silly Tilly ($1.99) by Eileen Spinelli
Nook Daily Find How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk ($1.99 Kindle, B&N) by John Van Epp
Kobo Daily Deal Chill Factor ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Sandra Brown
...found via Books on the Knob

Kindle Deals (UK)
How to Develop Your Family Mission Statement (£0.99 UK; $0.99 US) by Stephen R. Covey
Dustlands: Blood Red Road (£0.99 UK; $6.03 US) by Moira Young
Murder Squad: The Yard (£0.99 UK; $9.99 US) by Alex Grecian
...found via Books on the Knob

>112 lesmel: Thank you for the tip about Books on the Knob. I had never heard of that site before but it looks useful (and dangerous)!

Not really a sale, but free ebooks or ebooks you can "unglue" for everyone: https://unglue.it/

To Kill a Mockingbird is free on Kindle today (UK and US), I think to mark the 50th anniversary of publication.

Humble Bundle has a Sci-fi book bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books

>114 rosalita: Oh yeah. BOTK almost always "makes" me buy something.

>116 Eat_Read_Knit: - I don't think that deal is available in the US. Amazon is showing me $3.95 for To Kill a Mockingbird :(

>119 katiekrug: Yes, I'm pretty sure it's UK only, doggone it. Not that $3.95 isn't a steal for that book.

>116 Eat_Read_Knit: Ooh! Thank you. Although I now have absolutely no excuse for not having read it.

>119 katiekrug: >120 rosalita: Ah, sorry. It was showing as free on Amazon US when I checked, so it must have been picking up on my geographical settings or something. :(

I snagged A History of the World in 6 Glasses as a Kindle daily deal today for $1.99 (Amazon US).

Amazon US has several Leslie Charteris The Saint books for 1.99

The audible $3.99 daily deal is a great Nevil Shute book Trustee From The Toolroom. Great being relative of course. Read the book ages ago.

Humble Bundle is having a pay-what-you-want sale on a bunch of sci-fi novels.



ETA the link to the Humble Bundle website: https://www.humblebundle.com/books

Kindle UK - the summer sale has started:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=amb_link_182320447_1?ie=UTF8&node=3017941031&a...

Bargain Offerings include

Peter Robinson, Wednesday's Child - #6 in his Alan Banks series
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
Andrew Taylor, The Scent of Death

I spent a bunch of Amazon vouchers including one for my birthday 2 weeks ago and splashed out for Sarah Moss, Bodies of Light at more than £6 - I really loved Night Waking by her. It's just dropped to £1.39.... grrrrr.

Audible is having a children's book sale with over 250 titles at $3.99 and less until July 24th (most are $2.99): http://www.audible.com/mt/jul14_kidssale/?source_code=AUDOREM0716149A4S

>127 elkiedee: Also included in the summer sale

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Fowler
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain

Does everyone know that Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim books are all $1.99 for US Kindle users today? All four. Time to start the series if you haven't!

#130 by richardderus> It's a great series. I scarfed up the two I was missing.

Two great deals today! Anathem by Neal Stephenson is $1.99 for the US Kindle. I have the paperback (thick!) in my tar stack--wish I'd waited for this.

And Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is also $1.99--a lot of people have liked the trilogy of which this is the first book.

Free Audiobook alert!

If you are/were or want to be a Dungeons and Dragons nerd, the short story anthology Legend of Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore is free on audible right now.

Here's the link : http://www.nerdist.com/2014/08/dungeons-dragons-audiobook-featuring-ice-t-felici....

Just wanted to share

A few Diana Wynne Jones bargains are available for UK Kindle owners - Charmed Life has been available for a while or before at 99p but I just bought Hexwood (though I already have the pb) and two I didn't have - Black Maria and The Islands of Chaldea - the last one was finished by her sister after the author's death at that price. There are 4 more at £1.49-£2.51 and most of the rest are £2.99.

>134 elkiedee: Ooh, thank you. I nabbed a couple of the £1.49 books last month and now have the £0.99 ones to keep them company :-)

I can't really believe I'm recommending books from a religious publisher, but UK Kindle today - a reprint of Angels and Men by Catherine Fox, and the same author's new novel Acts and Omissions are £1.18 each. The first was originally published by Penguin and I loved it.

Found a few random titles for Kindle on sale:

The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer - $2.99
The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer - $2.99
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - $2.99

Kindle UK, US and AUS - Deborah Swift, Shadow on the Highway, 17th century historical, is free at the moment.

Humble Bundle is having a sale on Harper Collins books:



https://www.humblebundle.com/books?utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_c...

via Books on the Knob:

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is 10 Books in the Joe Gunther mystery series for $1.99 each.

Other Kindle Deals:
Huckleberry Summer ($1.99) by Jennifer Beckstrand
Greybeard ($1.99) by Brian W. Aldiss
Red Eagles: Americas Secret MiGs ($1.99) by Steve Davies
Tara Duncan and the Spellbinders ($1.99) by Princess Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian
All Quiet on the Western Front ($3.99 Kindle; $2.95 Audible) by Erich Maria Remarque (read by Frank Muller)
Four novels in J. D. Robb’s In Death series for $1.99 each
* Naked in Death ($1.99 Kindle, B&N)
* Glory in Death ($1.99 Kindle, B&N)
* Immortal in Death ($1.99 Kindle, B&N)
* Rapture in Death ($1.99 Kindle, B&N)
How to Be a Woman ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo) by Caitlin Moran

Amazon UK is giving a £1 promotional credit for their digital music store with every Kindle book purchase - details here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000821373

I bought one of the Kindle Daily Deals this morning and even got it for that! It's running until 19 September 2014 and is limited to one per customer.

On Amazon today, 1,000 ebooks for students on sale: http://smile.amazon.com/b/ref=xs_gb_l-1_0942_af7b0f79?ie=UTF8&node=994684501...

>142 sturlington: Thanks for pointing out this sale Shannon.

For Canadian residents, I've checked on several titles from this "Gold Box Deal" sale which are geared more toward the general public, and they are discounted as well, though not identified as being part of any promotion. Titles I've checked on are:

Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master
Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
Yes, I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk

The latest batch of Kindle Monthly Deals in the UK include The Wake by Paul Kingsworth from this year's Booker LL and The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.

UK Kindle: I still have to look at the monthly deals properly - I think Henning Mankell's first Wallander, Faceless Killers is also one.

Anyone who likes historical novels set in Nazi Germany and hasn't already got Black Roses by Jane Thynne, it's 99p but only for the next 3+ hours as it's a Daily Deal.

Mary Poppins - The Complete Collection is 99p - I'm very pleased because the paperback copy I have is a very unwieldy shape and size.

It's a little more expensive but the Penguin Classics edition of Clarissa, another very large book, keeps dropping in price. I nearly bought it for over £5 - was considering it for ages, then it started dropping - I paid £3.97 last week (28 August) and have just returned it and bought it again for £3.23.

Just got Breakfast of Champions on Amazon US for Kindle: $1.99 daily deal.

William Gibson's Neuromancer is Amazon US Kindle daily deal today for $1.99.

Three E. M. Forster audiobook titles available to download at $4.95 as a Weekend Spotlight at Downpour.com: http://www.downpour.com/weekend-spotlight/

Powell's: Save 30% on select horror titles for a limited time. http://www.powells.com/subjects/fiction-and-poetry/the-fictioning-sale/?utm_sour...

For anyone interested in animal cognition, Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
by Virginia Morell
is $1.99 on Amazon US daily deal

I read this book and found it very interesting.

If you have Prime, Amazon is currently offering $1 book/ebook credit when you choose no-rush shipping rather than two-day.

If you like audiobooks as well, Amazon offers matching audiobooks at reduced prices when you buy an ebook. There are even some free ones. See this link for a list of free - out of copyright - ebooks with matching free audiobooks:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/amazon?utm_source=MSE_Newsletter&utm_...

There are also some very cheap audiobooks matching other free ebooks. They use the Whispersync system so that if you read on your phone or tablet you can easily swap between the audio and reading versions without losing your place.

Today only on Amazon uk, all 20 Ellis Peters Cadfael mysteries for 99p each.

450 Kindle books up to 85% off on Amazon US through Oct 5: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=pe_170810_124153580_pe_row2_ptr/?ie=U...

The Audible daily deal today is for The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer at $3.95

>155 Smiler69: One of my favorite Georgette Heyer's.

>156 MDGentleReader: I know it's a popular title, so I hope some people took advantage of the sale. It had been on my wishlist for a long time, so I jumped on it myself.

The 20th Century in Poetry -- an 800 page anthology -- is only $2.99 across multiple US platforms.

Those who are members of the FictFact website (great for keeping track of all kinds of series, for those who don't know it yet - http://www.fictfact.com/ ) and also sci-fi fans: 20 free classic sci-fi ebooks available from SciFi365.net to FictFact members if you subscribe to SciFi365's newsletter (there's a link/advert on FictFact website).

These include titles by Andre Norton, David Lindsay, Jack London, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jules Verne and H G Wells. I haven't looked at the unfamiliar to me titles in any detail, but I guess they are mostly out of copyright titles that one can get elsewhere but it's a convenient bundle.

For UK people: The Good Girl by Mary Kubica is available for 99p. I'll be reading it for the October TIOLI "dark" challenge.

UK - may be worth looking in US as well - many (not all) of the Akashic Noir series of crime short stories set in various US and world cities, and some countries, on Kindle for £1.79 each, for example Manhattan Noir (1 and 2), Brooklyn Noir (1, 2, 3), Wall Street Noir, other NYC ones, Boston Noir 1 & 2, San Francisco Noir 1 & 2, Manila Noir, Mumbai Noir, Paris Noir, London Noir, Copenhagen Noir and lots of others - LT lists 62 titles in the series, not including several new coming out this month. The new ones and some older ones aren't included in the offer but maybe 40-50 are.

>160 Chatterbox: I look forward to your reaction to it Suz. I read it this summer and was none too impressed.

>161 elkiedee: Many of those are available for $2.99 in Canada too. What to choose though??

I read a lot of them a few years ago and ones I liked included Bronx Noir, Baltimore Noir, DC Noir (1 and 2) and some in California - Los Angeles and San Francisco. Seattle was a bit of a disappointment. I might be biased as some - Bronx, Baltimore, DC - were edited by favourite writers. I may have written more about those I read in 2010/2011.

Hot Rock, the first Dortmunder book. Multiple reader platforms, 1.99USD, CDN.

Sisters of Treason by Elizabeth Fremantle is a Kindle Daily Deal in the US for $1.99. Very good book for historical fiction fans, especially Tudor-era addicts.

>166 Chatterbox: Many thanks, Suz. I came by to research it, and now I can just pop it on the old Kindle.

>166 Chatterbox: Thanks for the recommendation Suz, it was part of the Daily Deal here in Canada too, but I didn't touch it until I saw this note. It's on the bottomless (or should I say topless?) tbr now.

>166 Chatterbox: Another thanks from me, Suz. I just picked it up as well.

You are welcome! She's a good author to watch, I think...

Lots of Kindle offers on UK Amazon today, including:

- Miriam Toews' newish novel All My Puny Sorrows - £2.39
Deirdre Madden, Authenticity £1.28
Viv Albertine - a feminist punk memoir with a really long title
Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White £1.29
several by Tove Jansson, including her memoir, the first Moomintroll book and several others for £1.79, a couple more at £2.39
a whole series of Cotswold mysteries by Rebecca Tope

I picked up Fourth of July Creek and The Girl Next Door for the Kindle for $1.99 today from US Amazon.

Just saw that All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is being offered for $4.99 on US Kindles.

These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer is $1.99 today on Amazon US for the Kindle.

MANY thanks, Katie for the Doerr tip. It is now mine - or at least my Kindle's.

Free on BN The Fifth Man by James LePore

Kindle Daily Deal for $2.99: Edward III: The Perfect King by Ian Mortimer. (Will I read it? Maybe. Probably. For $2.99 how can I not take the chance?)

>177 LizzieD: I wasn't sure about that one Peggy, but now you've recommended it...

Vintage has been reducing some of its classic mysteries since they started issuing e-books. Gladys Mitchell's titles were originally about a fiver (GBP) and seem to have settled recently at 3.59 or 3.99. I've just noticed a couple of further reductions. The Saltmarsh Murders and When Last I Died are 2.99(GBP) or 4.81(USD) at the moment.

There's also some Margery Allingham titles at 2.99/4.81 at the moment. Flowers for the Judge, The Case of the Late Pig, Sweet Danger and Coroner's Pidgin.

Today's eReaderIQ Daily lists several enticing e-books that are on sale (I bought two of them):

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid ($2.99)
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter ($1.99)
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins ($1.99)
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai ($1.99)

>180 kidzdoc: - The first three are offered as part of Amazon's Kindle monthly deals under $3.99. I snapped up several titles from that list of 100+. As usual, there is a lot of dreck, but I found more worthwhile ones than usual....

>181 katiekrug: Thanks, Katie; I'll have to look at the Kindle monthly deals then. I bought House of Stone and The Tragedy of Liberation. I already own The Inheritance of Loss, but Duel with the Devil wasn't that appealing to me.

John Williams' Stoner is an Amazon daily deal today at $2.24. Wonderful book.

Tan Twan Eng's books, The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening Mists (short listed for the Booker Prize) are both available for $1.99 on Kindle (US).

>184 katiekrug: You are a menace KAK!

For those North of the border, the Eng books are also on special!

>185 luvamystery65: - You're welcome, Ro ;-)

Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is £1.79 for kindle on Amazon UK. It looks like it's $2.80 on Amazon US but no price drop on Amazon CA.

>188 souloftherose: Duly purchased, many thanks!

>188 souloftherose: You've done your homework Heather! I'm already covered, having gotten the audiobook from the library.

>188 souloftherose: I just got it yesterday for $5.99 and thought that was a bargain! Grr.

>191 sturlington: It's still $5.99 at Amazon US.

>192 lesmel: - Yeah, I didn't see it for $2.80 either :-(

>192 lesmel: That makes me feel better. :-)

>194 sturlington: I can make you feel even better - Station Eleven is $13.99 on Amazon in Canada! :(

>191 sturlington: - >194 sturlington: Sorry, I did wonder whether the Amazon US site could tell I was shopping from the UK and had adjusted the price accordingly. I'll know for next time.

Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken is $2.99 for Kindle on Amazon US today.
ETA: and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl -- same price.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed is $2.99 for Kindle at Amazon US. Same for:

Outlander
Fault in Our Stars
Dark Places

and 50ish other titles: http://www.ereaderiq.com/drops/?lp=200&hp=300 ETA: with a price drop in the last 24 hours.

>198 lesmel: Thanks, I picked up Wild!

More $2.99 Amazon US goodies:
A Walk In the Woods
Me Before You
Under the Dome
Divergent
Orange is the New Black
If I Stay

Amazon UK

The God of Small Things is 99p

Amazon US - To Serve Them All My Days for $1.99 - one of my all-time favorite comfort reads.

Heartsick -- the first Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell book -- is $2.99 on Amazon Kindle US.

Oranges are not the Only Fruit -- Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction -- is $1.99 on Amazon Kindle US.

>202 LizzieD: I may have to nab To Serve Them All My Days. Sounds great.

>202 LizzieD:: I'm jealous!

>203 lesmel:: You should.

$2.99 Amazon Kindle US Salvage the Bones

The Kindle version of the superb translation of Don Quixote by Edith Grossman is on sale for $1.99 in the US.

There's also a UK Kindle sale - a lot of repeats but I bought:

several Inspector Morse books
a first 3 in crime series omnibus by Linda Castillo
Bernard Malamud's The Assistant
The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
several Judy Blume books
a book published by Eland (literary travel writing and reportage) on Naples in 1944 by Norman Lewis

and may or may not be of interest, a book by the controversial newspaper columnist Julie Burchill on her Philosemitism

First six of the Charles Lenox Mysteries by Charles Finch are $2.99 each on Amazon Kindle US. First book is A Beautiful Blue Death. There is a $.99 short story as well.

The Kindle version of the recent translation of Thomas Mann's classic novel Death in Venice by Michael Henry Heim is on sale for $1.99 in the US.

A Burnable Book is $1.99 on Amazon Kindle US!

A Test of Wills, the first Ian Rutledge book, is $1.99 on Amazon Kindle US.

The Sisters Brothers - Amazon Kindle US for $1.99.

Various M.C. Beaton titles also $1.99.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown $2.99 (AMZ K US).

Murder as a Fine Art $2.99 (AMZ K US)

I have got to stop stalking the eReaderIQ site. Really, I do.

Bookoutlet.com is having a BF sale starting today and everything is 30% off (or more in a few cases) off already steeply discounted prices. I bought 15 books and had to slap myself to stop. These are real paper books - no digital.

>212 lesmel:: ereaderiq is addictive

UK Kindle bargains - 5 J G Ballard books, the reissue versions with introductions by John Lanchester, Ali Smith and others, and including Empire of the Sun

Maria McCann, Ace, King, Knave - a literary historical novel

Amazon US is giving 30% off any one book by entering HOLIDAY30 in the discount code box during check out.

Amazon UK has nine Ken Follett books for 99p each as today's Kindle Daily Deal.

Audible.com is having a massive sale. Sigh.

Amazon is also having a massive "Cyber Monday" sale... Merry Christmas to me :)

>218 katiekrug: Most/all of them are Kindle Unlimited books, so if you have signed up for that, the sale probably won't be that interesting for you. On the other hand, I added some Brother Cadfael mysteries to my Kindle, and a few other books that i had stumbled across. I'm not sure I see the value in Kindle Unlimited when these are the books that most often are offered for permanent ownership for $2...

Pearl Buck, Laurie Colwin, Philippa Carr, Anne Perry are among other author names I can remember off the top of my head. A good cross section. The usual Miss Silver mysteries and some other frequently-appearing sale items.

>218 katiekrug: and >219 Chatterbox: - I actually ended up not getting anything, as the offerings were kind of weak IMO. Some of the mystery series looked interesting but I have an unofficial ban on buying more in a series that I haven't even started yet. Plus, by the time I checked out the books, I had already done some more online shopping and was feeling a little light in the wallet :)

>220 katiekrug: The Brother Cadfael series are so wonderful!

>220 katiekrug: I have an unofficial ban on buying more in a series that I haven't even started yet.
Me too, but I rationalized one purchase because I recently finished off a couple series and it was for a series I plan to start soon. Plus, it was the only book I bought. :)

>221 luvamystery65: - I have the first two in the series, Ro :)

>222 lauralkeet: - I'm all for rationalizations, Laura!

I bought a lot. I'm hopeless.... addicted... broke...;)

I'm in the UK but I think that after a few sales, a lot of the content is recognisable and repeated, or from Amazon's own imprints - occasionally they do reprint or publish books I'd like to have, eg a lot of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct books, and some less well known crime writers whose work I've come across but which had since gone out of print. The best this year was one which offered a bunch of late 50s/early 60s classics reprints - Colin Macinnes' Notting Hill trilogy, The Golden Notebook and some other stuff I was quite excited about. And there were a lot of very brief and random offers in early January, including lots of quite new books, some of them 99p instead of £20 - they weren't even a formal sale which normally lasts a few days or weeks, more blink or you'll miss it stuff.

>224 majkia:: Although I'm a bit cynical, I buy rather a lot. Looking forward to the new monthly offers, and then a Christmas sale, hope there's something inspiring.

Current UK bargains - Monique Roffey, House of Ashes published this year - 98p
Ann Cleeves, Harbour Street is £1.19 - 6th Vera Stanhope book

UK Kindle - 2 volumes of Maya Angelou's memoirs are available cheaply - vols 2 and 3

Gather Together in My Name is 49p
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas £1.49

There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You by Lynda Bellingham is 0.99GBP/1.55USD. Loved her acting. RIP, Lynda.

>227 patchygirl:: I saw that this morning, but is it really available in the US too? One of her novels is also only £2.25.

elkiedee - I've just rechecked Amazon.com and it's there.

>228 elkiedee:, >229 patchygirl: but no pricing available. Sigh.

I did get Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade for 1.99USD just now. Looks like 4.35 in British pounds (don't know how to do the pound symbol).

>229 patchygirl: and >230 MDGentleReader: I've tried this and I can't see what someone in the US with an Amazon.com account will see. Auntie Mame clearly isn't on offer here - you're right that it's 4.35 here, whereas I think 1.99 would be about 1.50 or so - I've not looked at exchange rates very recently but that sort of figure seems to make sense from looking at prices.

UK Kindle again: Daily deal 8 Ann Cleeves books, including the first 4 Vera Stanhopes, 2 of her first series and a couple of others, all 99p - Vera Stanhope #6 is also still only £1.19 at the moment. They seem to be doing a lot of lots of books by one author daily deals at the moment, some better than others.

>231 elkiedee: Yes, the no pricing available message comes up based on your location. What is annoying is that until you go to the page it looks like it is available. Cruel, I call it.

MD - I'm sorry to disappoint - I really thought the book was available stateside :-)

Another UK offer I've just noticed is The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries. I've just read the sample and it looks to be excellent value at 2.99.

Edit - I forgot to say 'thank you' for the Angelou titles, elkiedee :-)

Thanks for telling me you found my post useful - it's good to know when you've been able to spot something that someone else wants.

Looking at the Christmas Mysteries anthology, I notice that several Mammoth crime anthologies of stories by current crime writers, historical and contemporary, are available at 84p each, which if you like crime fiction and the writers involved, is brilliant value - I have most of these already and paid a lot more for some of them. Look for Mammoth and Mike Ashley or Maxim Jakubowski (warning: the latter also edits lots of erotica anthologies).

>237 sturlington: - Thanks for posting!

Amazon (US) Kindle Science Fiction Titles: $1.99 each: http://amzn.to/1w7xI6t

Amazon UK - Just Like Annabel is FREE. Clouds of Witness is 79p.

Several good classics are Amazon US Kindle deals today for $1.99 each:
The Good Earth
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Color Purple
The Keepers of the House
The King Must Die

Plus a few more.

To Sir, With Love $1.99 (AMZ K US). Is the book better than the movie? Hmmmmm...

For Gabaldon fans: Dragonfly In Amber is $0.99 at AMZ K US.

20+ titles by Arthur C. Clarke for $0.99 or $1.99 and then four titles for $2.99 (AMZ K US).

Betsy-Tacy Treasury 1.99USD. Looks like it is not available in Kindle format at all in the UK :-(. Not to worry, someone has the paperback on offer for a mere £999.99. Amazon in Canada has the Kindle version for CDN$ 11.99. Well, it's a bargain compared to £999.99, anyway. Sigh.

ETA: Canadian pricing

http://www.nook.com/gb/ebooks/lila-by-marilynne-robinson/9781405516693?cmpid=tw_...

Lila for £1.69 from Nook

Just discovered this: Amazon offers a free audiobook each month with the download of the Kindle version. This month is Phantom of the Opera: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0084AXZRI/ref=amb_link_420460782_4?pf_rd_m=A...

>246 CDVicarage: Also for Kindle.

>247 sturlington: Thank you!!

Amazon UK - By Book or By Crook by David Crystal is 2.99. (I've deleted touchstone brackets for this as I can only get links to other books of the same title) No Time for Romance is 2.62.

Also, two books flagged up by members on the kindle forum at Amazon that are very reasonable at the moment.

Lovely Bits of Old England is 59p and The Hobbit is 1.07.

>250 patchygirl: Isn't it By Hook or By Crook -- I had to use the leftbracket work#::title rightbracket workaround to get it to touchstone.

Several Strangers is an anthology of essays and reviews by literary biographer Claire Tomalin, and is £2.62. I'm quite tempted to get her bio of Thomas Hardy for the same price. There are several others at reasonable prices, I think, for someone wishing to buy them, but I do have them in paperback already.

UK Kindle - Nicci French appears to be the Daily Deal author today (Monday 15 December) with 12 of her books on offer at £1.49 each, although the Daily Deal listing doesn't yet show anything. I found one of the price drops on ereaderiq and when I looked at it on Amazon, I found all the others!

lesmel - thank you (trust me to get the title wrong for a book about words!) I was just looking at some of David Crystal's other books and By Hook or By Crook is reduced further to 2.48.

HarperPerennial is offering 10 books about books, in various e-book formats, for $1.99 each until January 6: https://www.facebook.com/HarperPerennial?sk=app_195646697137509&ref=woobox

>255 sturlington: So VERY tempting!

US Harper Collins have their own offers alert email - lots of very tempting offers there that are no use to me, but well worth signing up for if you want to know about bargains in the US.

see www.bookperk.com to subscribe.

Quite a few Agatha Christie titles for $1.99 on AMZ K US.

Also, The Bees by Laline Paull for $1.99 US and Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates for $2.99 US, on Kindle.

I finally uploaded my Amazon wish list to eReaderIQa couple weeks ago and I'm loving getting the alerts when one of my items drops in price. Sometimes it's only by a little, but these two were major drops :)

>259 katiekrug: If there was a way to import my GR wishlist (b/c I don't keep that on LT) into eReaderIQ...I would be in so much trouble. LOL

Does anyone use https://luzme.com/ ?

From LifeHacker: Ebook search site Luzme is a handy tool for comparing book pricing among various stores. In addition to showing you prices for a given title across several services (including Kindle, Google Play, iTunes, Nook, Sony, and others), it also shows you how the price has changed over time so you can see if it's at a particular low point or if it it's likely to fluctuate at all.

yes, I use it all the time.

lit_chick just reviewed a book that I thought looked fascinating. It's Elizabeth is Missing, a first novel told from the POV of an 80-something year-old with dementia. It's on Kindle at $1.99.

A Clash of Kings for $2.50 AMZ US K.
The Golem and the Jinni, $2.99, AMZ K US.
There's a funny mix of titles that had a price drop in the last seven days. Anyone find anything worth a purchase?

I don't know how long $3.75 has been the price at AMZ US for a Kindle copy of Doctor Sleep, but that's what it was when I just downloaded it.

Verso Books, left wing publisher of mostly history and social science type books, has an amazing sale - paper books are on offer too, but ebooks, available for Kindle or other ereaders in mobi or epub format, are available for 10% of the normal price, starting from 80p! I believe many are available in the US too. Thanks Darryl for apparently mentioning it originally and Susan whose thread I saw it on. I think the sale is on until New Year, so just another couple of days. Fab prices and you're not even having to use Amazon, for those who feel guilty about spending there.

My purchases (just over £40 for 33 books!) include a couple of books each by Sheila Rowbotham and Mike Davis (famous for City of Quartz), the up to date edition of Seamus Milne's The Enemy Within about the miners' strike of 30 years ago. These are books that I've never seen on the Kindle Daily Deal, and probably never will.

www.versobooks.com

Amazon UK Kindle:
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is £1.69
White Sky, Black Ice - an Alaskan mystery from Soho Crime £1.32
The Big Both Ways - John Straley £1.32 - another Soho Crime

The Luminaries is on sale today in the US for $2.99--I decided to go ahead and pick it up.

Amazon UK

Lots of Margaret Forster and Mary Wesley titles are 2.62 each, and so is Julie and Julia.

Port Out, Starboard Home is 2.99. (If you haven't met it, the author Michael Quinion has a wonderful website about etymology - World Wide Words.)

Kindle UK monthly deals

Oxford World's Classics edition of War and Peace £1.29
Lynne Reid Banks, Dark Quartet about the Brontes (including Branwell presumably) 99p
Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements

I have it already but Peter May's Entry Island is currently on offer at 99p - this isn't a monthly deal so might not last so long

$1.99 AMZ K US:
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The Last Policeman
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
A Morbid Taste for Bones 1st Brother Cadfael.

>270 elkiedee: and |>271 lesmel: oops wrong year - am reposting both these on 2015 thread

Donna Tartt's The Secret History is 2.99 on Amazon US.