I don't know how many sites there are that will send you online newsletters for reduced price and free books, but I think I must belong to most of them!
It takes at least an hour just to scroll through them every day. Some days I just have to hit delete and let any good deals pass me by.
There is Book Bub, of course. Everyone's heard of it, I'm sure.
Then there are The Fussy Librarian, eReaderiQ daily, and Ebook bargain UK (but you can sign up for different countries including the USA). Add to that Ereader News Today, the Kindle Book Review, and Readfree.ly. There are also Free Kindle Books and Tips along with Peoplereads.com...
And I also subscribe to Digital Book Spot, which I don't often look at because it lists so-o-o-o many books, it takes all my allotted time!
I found these when one of my books went on sale for $.99, and I wanted to do a little advertising. Unfortunately, ads run anywhere from eight dollars to four hundred. I did put a couple in some of the cheaper sites but didn't get much of a bounce in sales.
But I certainly have picked up a lot of book bargains!!!
Showing posts with label bargain books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bargain books. Show all posts
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Sunday, June 29, 2014
SPECIAL ON LOSING DAVID
My vintage mystery, LOSING DAVID, is on a Kindle special deal. Today it's $1.99 and tomorrow it'll be a dollar more, and so on till it gets back to its regular price.
When his father died in 1946, sixteen-year-old David Harmony should have inherited a fortune. Instead, he vanished at sea.
In 1962, an elderly attorney hires an actor to pretend to be David. He says the man in line to receive the Harmony estate killed David.
The actor suspects the attorney is scheming to claim the estate himself, but agrees to act as bait.
Then he falls for a woman who realizes he’s an imposter, and who may reveal his identity to the one person she shouldn’t.
David's murderer.
In an era of clacking typewriters and rotary phones, gentlemen tip hats and ladies wear gloves. But evil still hides beneath the most refined exteriors.
Here's the link:
It's about an attorney hiring an actor to impersonate a missing boy so that his murderer can be caught. This is the blurb:
When his father died in 1946, sixteen-year-old David Harmony should have inherited a fortune. Instead, he vanished at sea.
In 1962, an elderly attorney hires an actor to pretend to be David. He says the man in line to receive the Harmony estate killed David.
The actor suspects the attorney is scheming to claim the estate himself, but agrees to act as bait.
Then he falls for a woman who realizes he’s an imposter, and who may reveal his identity to the one person she shouldn’t.
David's murderer.
In an era of clacking typewriters and rotary phones, gentlemen tip hats and ladies wear gloves. But evil still hides beneath the most refined exteriors.
Monday, June 23, 2014
CHEAP BOOKS
I was looking at some books Amazon suggested I buy since I'd bought another one similar. I'm sure we all get these reminders from time to time, and I'm always willing to check them out. I did buy one for $1.99. I looked at a couple more, but they were $8.59 and $9.99 so I passed. After all, I could buy nine $1.99 books, with the money saved by not buying the higher priced ones. And I will.
Author David Gaughran had an interesting blog on this subject the other day in his post: Who's Afraid of Very Cheap Books?
He gives the reasons that he isn't at all afraid of them, and I agree. Totally.
Before ereaders, we had used book stores where I bet most of us spent a lot of our book budgets. At least, I did. Those and libraries, along with occasional purchases at the grocery store or an actual bookstore, helped me get most of the books I wanted. If I'd had to rely on bookstores, I would have read maybe twelve books a year versus that many a month. I simply couldn't afford the high costs.
Today, I subscribe to several bargain/free ebooks sites where I get listings each day that I can scan. If a book catches my eye, I read a sample. If it's interesting (and appears to be edited!), I buy it. Prices range from free to at most $5.99. And the higher priced books tend to be by authors I know.
Strangely enough, I've found the self-pubbed/small press pubbed books have about the same ratio of good/bad reads as the "big" publishers put out. And the lower prices mean I can buy more of those authors' books.
So...I'm in favor of cheap books. Probably most readers are, too. I wonder about other authors.
Author David Gaughran had an interesting blog on this subject the other day in his post: Who's Afraid of Very Cheap Books?
He gives the reasons that he isn't at all afraid of them, and I agree. Totally.
Before ereaders, we had used book stores where I bet most of us spent a lot of our book budgets. At least, I did. Those and libraries, along with occasional purchases at the grocery store or an actual bookstore, helped me get most of the books I wanted. If I'd had to rely on bookstores, I would have read maybe twelve books a year versus that many a month. I simply couldn't afford the high costs.
Today, I subscribe to several bargain/free ebooks sites where I get listings each day that I can scan. If a book catches my eye, I read a sample. If it's interesting (and appears to be edited!), I buy it. Prices range from free to at most $5.99. And the higher priced books tend to be by authors I know.
Strangely enough, I've found the self-pubbed/small press pubbed books have about the same ratio of good/bad reads as the "big" publishers put out. And the lower prices mean I can buy more of those authors' books.
So...I'm in favor of cheap books. Probably most readers are, too. I wonder about other authors.
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