FreeBook: Gord Zajac’s Major Karnage at WOWIO

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 [...]

Weekly Roundup: August More In Store, Strategy, FreeBooks and Customer Service Kerfuffle

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 [...]

Late Week/Early Weekend News Roundup

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 [...]

FreeBook: Freaks Talk Back by Gamson

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 [...]

FreeBook: Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon

Grab a freeBook edition of Sidney Sheldon’s Rage of Angels “for an extremely limited time” from Barnes [...]

FreeBooks for Five Weeks

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 [...]

Free Fridays @ BN: Executive Privilege by Phillip Margolin

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 [...]

FreeBook: Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

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 [...]

Free Audio Book: Brave New World by Huxley

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 [...]

FreeBook Alert: No Dig, No Fly, No Go

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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