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 Beth wrote on August 24th, 2010 at 09:22:53 AM
A quick mid-week update due to the August 25 deadline.
Visit and “Like” WOWIO’s Facebook page and receive a freeBook, Gord Zajac’s Major Karnage.
Synopsis:
It has been 20 years since The War, and Major John Karnage has finally settled into retirement: locked up in an insane asylum, with an explosive device embedded in the back of his neck [...]
 Beth wrote on August 6th, 2010 at 08:35:56 AM
How’s the first week of August treating you? Barnes and Noble is looking to increase its shareholder value, which means that there is a possibility that Barnes and Noble might sell itself to an investor group. As of now, the company is currently committeeing up and exploring “strategic alternatives.” It does not appear that the ominous [...]
 Beth wrote on June 26th, 2010 at 05:15:01 PM
Let’s get right to it–here’s the news post-v1.4 release.
The Calibre team continues its staggering development schedule, with 0.7.4 and 0.7.5 both issued during the week. The two updates include a vast number of bug fixes, along with support for new devices.
Hard science fiction author Rudy Rucker has released a Creative Commons, freeBook edition of his Ware [...]
 Beth wrote on June 1st, 2010 at 10:16:41 AM
One thing you can say about the University of Chicago’s monthly freeBook offerings–they are more diverse than any other bookstore or publisher than I’ve seen in selecting the books they give away.
This month’s free ebook is Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by Joshua Gamson.
Synopsis from the email:
Freaks Talk Back is a classic [...]
 Beth wrote on May 19th, 2010 at 06:23:49 PM
Grab a freeBook edition of Sidney Sheldon’s Rage of Angels “for an extremely limited time” from Barnes [...]
 Beth wrote on May 17th, 2010 at 02:59:01 PM
If you have a brick-and-mortar Barnes and Noble nearby, you may want to grab your nook/NOOK (or smartphone with BN eReader software) and take a drive. Starting this week, Barnes and Noble will be giving away a free eBook if you show one of their booksellers your nook or smartphone. You’ll score a code that you’ll [...]
 Beth wrote on May 14th, 2010 at 12:07:11 PM
Today’s Free Friday freeBook offering from the Barnes and Noble mothership is Executive Privilege by Phillip Margolin. Margolin (according to BN) cites Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon as one of his favorite books, and since I rather dig me some old school Harris, I’ll definitely be picking up this one.
This free edition contains “Bonus Materials,” which usually [...]
 Beth wrote on May 11th, 2010 at 12:27:25 PM
In celebration of the release of Dragon Haven, the second book in Robin Hobb’s “Rain Wilds Series,” Barnes and Noble are offering the first book in the series, Dragon Keeper, as a freeBook.
Publisher synopsis:
New York Times bestselling master fantasist Robin Hobb returns to the world of her Tawny Man trilogy with this first tale in a [...]
 Beth wrote on May 8th, 2010 at 08:38:50 AM
Boing Boing has word of a free MP3 conversion of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World read by Huxley himself. This is a conversion of the original LP and accordingly comes in [...]
 Beth wrote on May 3rd, 2010 at 10:29:25 AM
University of Chicago Press has FreeBooked Mark Monmonier’s No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control. This offer is good only today, May 3. As with all FreeBook selections from University of Chicago Press, you must input your email address, and the UoC Press will email you a link to the eBook. You [...]
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