Here’s a free kindle book with reflections for the 40 days of Lent -
- Devotions for Lent by Tyndale House. It’s a devotional drawn from Holy Bible: Mosaic NLT (Meditations).
Made the mistake of missing out on sharing a free religious book Lady of Milkweed Manor with you – was waiting for another offer to appear and the free offer disappeared in a day or so of arriving.
So sharing this one before it disappears. Also via MobileRead -
- Harlequin has a free book – All the Pretty Girls by J. T. Ellison. Haven’t been able to figure out how to get these to work on Kindle. Let me know if you do.
- Saving Mankind by Don Stallman has sold 3,000 copies and he’s giving it away free to mark the release of his new book.
Free to read online -
- Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism by NY Times bestselling author Georgia Byng.
- Side by Side by Dr. Charles Sophy.
More free titles -
- Lawrence Lessig has made all his books available in free versions (always has – just to be clear – it’s not a marketing gimmick).
- Best Description Ever for a Vampire book – It’s like Twilight completely devoid of sparkles. Vampires Book One by Valerie D’Orazio.
It also seems that Amazon are offering 2 day free shipping on Kindle and Kindle DX. There are claims that it is for Valentine’s Day and for orders between February 3rd and 11th – However, Amazon itself doesn’t specify any dates.
Bothered by the Randomness of the duration of Free Kindle Offers
There should be at least a week before free book offers are withdrawn.
- The preorders at the end of last month were pulled in less than a day.
- The Milkweed Manor book was pulled after a day or so.
- Lots of free offers disappear in a couple days.
- Even places outside the Kindle Store (the University of Chicago Press, for example) are getting this ‘free book for a day’ disease.
The whole point of a free book offer is to get it to a lot of users and the last thing you want to do is have readers feeling that they missed out.
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Maybe you do want to have readers feel like they missed out. That way you can re-offer it for free at a later date and the buzz created by those who got it free initially might get more downloads while it is re-offered for a week or more? Almost seems like good business to me.
I don’t mind when they disappear in a day or two. It gives me good reason to check daily and sometimes two and three times a day. It gets me to buy non free stuff, too.
The site says their mobiread books cannot be used on a Kindle. It’s way at the bottom of their help section. They can only be read on PDAs and PCs, according to their site.