First, we have our free kindle book -
- Cybil Disobedience by Cybil Shepherd and Aimee Lee Ball.
‘How I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, Hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what you think.’
From wholesome beauty queen to saucy cover girl, from heartbreaking movie star (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, TAXI DRIVER) to one of television’s most loved comediennes (MOONLIGHTING, CYBILL), Cybill Shepherd is renowned as sassy, shocking and sexy. In CYBILL DISOBEDIENCE, she opens her heart with the wit and honesty of a star who’s seen and knows it all.
Then we have two $1 Kindle book deals -
- A Woman named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler. Rated 5 stars on 4 reviews and just $1.
Sophronisba Smith, known as Sophy, inherits a large mansion, Hynds House, from her great-aunt-by-marriage, Sophronisba Scarlett. She and her closest friend, Alicia Gaines, decide to move into the house.
The house, they learn from the servants, who rejoice in the names Mary Magdalen and Queen of Sheeba, has a reputation for being haunted by an ancestor of the great-aunt who disappeared in mysterious circumstances. And, there is rumour of the family fortune being hidden somewhere within the house.
- Texas Tangle by Leah Braemel is rated 4 stars on 3 reviews and priced at $1.
Thanks to her cheating ex-husband and her thieving brother, all horse breeder Nikki Kimball has left is a bruised heart, an overdrawn bank account and an empty home. When sex-on-legs Dillon Barnett and his brooding foster-brother Brett Anderson start showing more than just neighborly attention, Nikki is intrigued…and a little gun-shy.
Dillon and Brett have a history; back in high school, the two friends fought a bitter battle over Nikki.
Next, we have a few good indie books –
- Reunion by J. L. Penn is not $1 (it’s $3) but it’s very well rated with 4.5 stars on 32 reviews.
Meet Jessica Stratford, a level-headed girl next door with an enviable life of professional and marital success … well, except for that one little uncharacteristically impetuous detail that changes everything. When a friend talks Jessica into finally embracing the digital age, Jessica’s life slowly turns upside down.
You see, Jessica finds her old high school crush on Facebook. In fact, she finds him quite attractive even after twenty years. A simple hello seems harmless enough until he suggests that they meet for lunch. Of course, lunch is … just lunch. Then harmless lunch becomes harmless text messages, late night chats, and dinners.
- IVRRAC by Peter Robert Jordan sounds really interesting. It’s $2.99.
Simon, a convicted serial killer of the rich, undergoes treatment at a fledgling private criminal rehabilitation firm, IVRRAC. Simon is then sent to the alpine village of Trentsworth, a town full of rich socialite women, to ascertain whether he is cured of his murderous impulses or not.
“One mistake, one tiny error in that psych report, the treatment won’t hold and that will spell disaster. Suicide, massacre or most likely both! I’ll stay with him and watch events carefully, but I won’t be held responsible.” – Alistair Wall
- Finding Margo by Susanne O’Leary is rated 5 stars on 7 reviews. It’s also $2.99.
When Margo misreads the map while travelling through France, her husband Alan flies into a rage. Tired of his constant bad moods, Margo walks out on him in the middle of the motorway, into the French contryside. She hitches a lift with a woman truck driver and what follow are adventures and romance far beyond her wildest dreams.. Will Alan find her before she finds herself?
Finally, we get some free books from outside the Kindle Store -
- Manual of Style from the University of Chicago. It’s only readable in Adobe Digital Editions or using an app that allows DRMed ePub.
The Chicago Manual of Style has evolved to become the definitive reference work for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers.
- Harper Collins has The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett and United States of Americana by Kurt B. Reighley available to read online for free. Click on the ‘Full Access’ tab to get to the books.
- Suvudu Free Library has two free short stories - The Literomancer by Ken Liu and The Precedent by Sean McMullen.
The ‘Free Bestsellers List to Paid Bestsellers List’ Trick
Once a book goes from free to paid it automatically gets a slot in the Top 100 Paid Bestsellers list.
It seems that when a free offer ends Amazon takes some of the ‘purchases’ made when the book was free and uses those to assign the book a spot in the top 10-20 spots on the Paid Bestsellers list.
This becomes especially interesting when you see a book be offered free for a few days, then become paid, and magically show up at #15 in the paid bestsellers list. It gets a ton of free publicity and more sales as a result. So, in addition to the free marketing due to it being a free offer, it gets the added bonus of being a pretend Paid Bestseller.
Perhaps Amazon shouldn’t be counting free downloads of a book when compiling the paid bestsellers list.
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Have you checked out Tor.com? This site is affiliated with Tor books, and offers free science fiction short stories available to download in multiple formats, including mobi (Kindle).
Thanks. Will check it out.
The book cited above, A Woman named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler. Rated 5 stars on 4 reviews, is also available for free via the Kindle Store. This is out of copyright, so you it’s available at:
Free version of A Woman Named Smith.
Thanks for the tip on the free book version of “A Woman Named Smith”. I got it. I liked the reviews on it.
…and, while I was there, I found 2 more free books that might be good for college people.
These books are both by Kaplan. One is about Better Writing, and the other is about Better Vocabulary.
On Amazon Kindle Books, do a search on “Kaplan” and you will find these two. They are on the “Top 100 Kindle books” list, too.
thanks Lucy.
Hello,
I am new on your site and have learned a lot on it already. Thanks !
Up to now I read eBooks on my iPaq with Mobipocket.
Now I have an iPhone and I ordred recently a Kindle.
I am intereste to read the recommended “Manual of Style from the University of Chicago”. I notice that “It’s only readable in Adobe Digital Editions or using an app that allows DRMed ePub.” How can I read it on either of my devices ?
Thanks for your help?
Bo Jin
You can read it on iPhone using iBooks or Nook eReader.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the Chicago Manual that’s free is the original 1906 edition. Parts of the latest edition are free, but that’s a different offer. I wish it were the latest that’s free.
Not sure. The email they sent did mention something about it being the 1906 version but haven’t checked myself.
Look at my comment above about the two free books by Kaplan. These are modern books.
When I checked the Chicago Manual website this morning, it said the free offer was the 1906 edition. I don’t know the Kaplan books, but the Chicago Manual is the stylesheet, the ‘bible’ for publishing houses (books, fiction and non-),university professors and students, editors, copyeditors, indexers, researchers, and writers and serious writing professionals everywhere–along with the New York Times Manual of Style and the Modern Language Association manual. It would be very, very unlikely that the latest edition of the Chicago Manual would be a free offer anywhere to anyone. But of course theoretically anything is possible.