YMMV $2 Google Play eBook Credit

Google Play is more subdued in their offers than other online stores, but they have some offers flying the radar. Case in point, if you are subscribed to their emails (or wondering about within the Play Store), until September 30 (2016), you can opt-in for a $2 credit to be used towards your next e-book purchase until that date. If you are subscribed to their emails, look for this at the bottom of one of their recent emails (screenshot below):

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Or you can wonder about the Play Store, the offers are usually buried somewhere there within…

But that’s not all, you can verify that the offer has been added to your account by going to the “Account” part of the Google Play store and paging down to the “Rewards” section. There you will see all the active offers on your account. Here’s a screenshot of mine:

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September 18, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

Samsung Book Deals Options for September 2016

If you have an eligible Samsung device, you get a free e-book every month from a choice of four. Almost all of these are part of Kindle Unlimited and previously released, unlike Kindle First that has pre-release ebooks. Since all these have been out for a while, they have an established review profile…

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September 18, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

New Prime Benefits: Audible Channels and 3-4 Dozen Audiobooks

Amazon continues to add more features to the Prime membership, in their attempt to make every person on earth sign up for it 😉 The latest new addition is a big boon for fans of “radio programs” and audiobooks. It’s an Audible two-pronged feature added to the Prime membership and it is accessible only using the Audible iOS and Android and Windows Store apps. The two new benefits under this are:

  • Audible Channels – radio programs, radio plays, podcasts, etc available through Amazon’s Audible Channels (previously only available to Audible members with an active/paying membership)
  • Streaming Audiobooks – about 3-4 dozen of them at a time, may be rotating over time

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September 16, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Free Audiobook (pre-order): Scalzi’s The Dispatcher

If it’s free, I’ll take three they say, but in this case, you can only get one. For a limited time only, Audible is offering free pre-orders (in other words you pay $0.00) for the audiobook of John Scalzi’s The Dispatcher. This will be narrated by New-Trek’s Spock (Zachary Quinto). It is an unabridged edition and will come out on October 4 in 2016.

Screenshot below:

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This is yet another production at Amazon’s Audible studios, which is probably why they are able to give it away for free, as part of their renewed attempt to get every single person in the universe to sign up for their services 🙂

September 13, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

Kindle First Choices for September 2016 are up: pick one from six ebooks

A new month is here, which means, among many other things, that Amazon Prime members can get another free pre-release e-book from a choice of six that as participating in the Kindle First program. You can read one of those six books for FREE right now. The rest of them will become available on October 1st. Non-Prime members can purchase one for $2. The rest are priced $5 for all.

Without further ado, here are the six choices for September 2016:

  • “The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things” by Courtney Elizabeth Mauk in Literary Fiction
  • “The Unbroken Line of the Moon (The Valhalla Series Book 1)” by Johanne Hildebrandt and Tara F. Chace in Historical Women’s Fiction
  • “The Age of Daredevils” by Michael Clarkson in Historical Nonfiction
  • “Who We Were Before” by Leah Mercer in Family Life
  • “Exhume (Dr. Schwartzman Series Book 1)” by Danielle Girard in Psychological Thrillers
  • “Blood on the Tracks (Sydney Rose Parnell Series Book 1)” by Barbara Nickless in Police Procedurals (because you can’t get enough of them on TV!)

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As usual, if none of these jumps out at you, you can simply wait for a few days until they get more reviews. The more reviews, the easier it may be to decide. Remember, they won’t run out of these, so you don’t have to hurry up and get one. You have until September 30 in 2016, but don’t wait until 11:59pm on that day 🙂

You can see them all at the Kindle First page.

September 1, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

20% off Digital Movie Purchase at Google Play

Google Play is running a new promotion, you can get 20% off the purchase of one digital movie. The offer can be found through their emails, with a big hint in the email title, “Introducing Family Library with 20% off any movie purchase”. Or you may find it while browsing around the different sections of the semi-organized Google Play store 🙂

Screenshot of the popup below:

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Once you manually activate the coupon on your account (you just have to press the button), it will be applied automatically to your next purchase. IF not used, it expires 8/31/16.

August 23, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

Pre-order deal: Green Day’s new “Revolution Radio” for $5 [mp3 LP]

If you like to buy music albums in the MP3 format, we have good news for you, especially if you are a fan of Green Day! Their new album “Revolution Radio” comes out on October 7 and right now the Google Play store has a pre-order deal, you can get pre-order it for just $4.99 through Google Play or the Android Play Store app. This album has a total of 12 tracks. If you want extras and bonuses, they have various offers at the band’s own website but they cost a lot more than $5 🙂

August 11, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With:

Free eBooks from Samsung Book Deals for August 2016

If you have an eligible Samsung device, and IF you have downloaded the official Kindle app from Samsung’s own app store (not from Google Play), you may be eligible to get a FREE e-book every month. How long these offers run depends on which device you bought and when you bought it. If there’s one thing certain about Samsung is that they always change their “Perks” 🙂

Unlike Kindle First which features pre-release ebooks, the Samsung Book Deals typically feature ebooks that have been out already and they are almost all part of Kindle Unlimited, so they often have plenty of reviews to help you decide which one you want.

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The four choices for August 2016 are:

  • “Letters to Love” by Soraya Lane
  • “The Towers of Tuscany” by Carol M. Cram
  • “Rewinder Book #1” (a series) by Brett Battles
  • “A Cold and Broken Hallelujah (Long Beach Homicide)” by Tyler Dilts”

BIG REMINDER: when you look at the ebook’s page, the buy button must say get it for free (not the Kindle Unlimited button but the regular buy button). If it doesn’t say it’s free, you will be charged. Not a big deal, you can always reverse the purchase at amazon.com/myk (mnemonic = my kindle) but if you don’t want the extra step, simply pay attention to what the buy button says 🙂

August 8, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

Kindle First Choices for August 2016 are up!

It’s that time of the month again, a new month is upon us, and a new selection of e-books has been loaded at the Kindle First page. These are new e-books that are scheduled to be released to the general population on September 1st, but if you are a Prime member, you get one of the six for free AND you get to read it right away. If you are not a Prime, you can buy one for $2 and read it right away.

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Without further ado, the choices for August 2016 are:

  • “The Shelf Life of Happiness” by David Machado, Hillary Locke in Modern Fiction (this is not in self help despite the teaser title)
  • “After Disasters” by Viet Dinh in Literary Fiction
  • “Black Rain” by Matthew B.J. Delaney in Thrillers
  • “Interference” by Amélie Antoine, Maren Baudet-Lackner in Psychological Suspense
  • “The Things We Wish Were True” by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen in Contemporary Fiction
  • “Tier One (Tier One Series Book 1)” by Jeffrey Wilson in Military Thrillers

Strategically, it’s best to wait a few days before you pick one unless something calls out to you. Since they are pre-release, the only ones reviewing them are other fellow KindleFirsters, so it will take a few days for them to build review profiles that have enough of them to be helpful in deciding. You have until August 31st in 2016 to pick from these, but don’t wait until 11:59pm on that day 🙂 They will change on 9/1/16.

Surprisingly perhaps there are no fantasy or science fiction books in this month’s choices either 🙁

August 1, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , , ,

Free Digital HD movie (limited time): The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

If you like free Digital HD movies, we have good news for you! FandangoNow (formerly MGo, which is the service that picked up the remnants of Samsung’s pre-Milk video service) is offering for free in digital HD the 2007 “The Bourne Ultimatum”. Simply add it to cart with your FandangoNow account and it will show as $0.00. Here’s a screenshot of the shopping cart:

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This is digital ownership, not a rental. You can watch it as long as the FandangoNow service is alive or Ultraviolet is alive, so there’s some extra protection there 🙂 Offer ends 7/17/16 at 11:59pm pacific.

PS: you can find and link your Ultraviolet to FandangoNow by going to the LIBRARY menu and clicking on Ultraviolet. As usual with anything that the entertainment industry is involved, it is slightly convoluted as to which one of your shows and movies show up in which Ultraviolet compatible services. Because why keep it simple when you can have it be all complicated? 🙂

July 15, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Season 1 of 20+ Scifi TV Shows for $10 each in HD

If you like to watch movies online or through your favorite streaming box or mobile device, and you like to digitally-own the TV Seasons, and you like scifi and fantasy, we have good news for you! For a limited time only, Vudu is offering the first season of 21 TV Shows for $10 per season.

This is in full HD. It is a mix of current and classic TV shows, all of them season 1, including Syfy’s “12 Monkeys” and “Killjoys” and MTV’s Shannanara, and Season 1A of Starz’s Outlander, along with classics like the rebooted Doctor Who (Christopher Eccleston), Fringe, Babylon 5, Farscape, and more.

But wait, there’s more! You can combine this promotion with two different offers:

  • If you are a T-Mobile customer, you get a $5.50 Vudu credit every Tuesday as part of the T-Mobile Tuesdays
  • If you have Discover Cashback, you can use $20 in Cashback to get a $25 Vudu electronic gift certificate

PS: I do not know when this offer expires.

July 8, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

99c HD Movie Rentals for Prime members (47 choices)

If you like to rent movies online, and if you are a Prime member, Amazon has launched yet another promotion, a total of 47 movies are available to rent for 99c each in HD. The usual rental terms apply, you have 30 days to start watching the movie. Options include “The 5th Wave” and Lord of the Rings (all three available separately), Sherlock Holmes, older Mad Max movies, and a mix of recent and classic movies. Remember you can also use your “digital credits” if you have any in your account, so you could end up watching them for free! Check the selections at Amazon Instant Video.

PS: the promotional banner says “this weekend”, but does not provide a specific expiration date.

July 8, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

$5 Digital HD purchase: The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

The price of a Digital HD purchase is about the same as a movie rental, so you are better off buying it instead of renting it. I am talking about the movie “The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”, the second in the rebooted 21st century version of this film saga. This offer is available at Amazon Instant Video. If you have any Amazon digital credits (eg, if you select slow shipping as a Prime member), they will be applied automatically to your order, so you may end up paying even less.

July 7, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With:

[DEAD] Prime Members Only: $10 Amazon Credit and 3-Month Audible Trial for FREE

Stingy Amazon 🙂 As of 7/8/16, the free $10 Amazon credit part of the promotion expired. The free 3-month Audible trial for Prime members who’ve never done this promotion before continues…

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July 7, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,

Free ebook for select Samsung devices for July 2016

Amazon is not the only one giving away a free e-book every month (for Prime members). Samsung does that too and their freebies are not universal either. Only select Samsung devices are eligible for this promotion and only if you download the Kindle app from Samsung’s own app store ~ whatever name they call it this week 🙂

When you download the app, there is a section on the left hand side menus that says Samsung Book Deals. When you click on that, you will see the four free monthly options. For July 2016, these are ebooks:

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Or if you prefer the options in text, here they are:

  • “Atlas” by Isaac Hooke
  • “Just one thing” by Holly Jacobs
  • “Flying Blind” by Max Allan Collins
  • “600 Hours of Edward” by Craig Lancaster

You can pick one of the four for FREE. If your device is eligible, you will see a price of $0 on the ebooks. If you don’t see $0, it means your device is not eligible. If you buy it with anything other than $0, you will be changed! (you can easily reverse it by going to amazon.com/myk, but it’s wasted effort if you don’t see $0).

All these ebooks are part of Kindle Unlimited, so they have enough reviews out there to help you device whether to get them or not.

July 3, 2016 Filed Under: media Tagged With: , ,