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Google Play has a lot of good promotions running at the moment. If you like to rent movies, especially new releases, this promotion is a good way to get one for a more reasonable price. Pay attention to the slideshows of the various offers inside the Google Play store, whether you are using an Android device or a Web Browser. This is how the promotion teaser looks:
March 2016 is here, so if you are an Amazon Prime member, it means you can get another pre-release e-book for FREE! You have six pre-release ebooks to pick from. You get to read that one right now. The rest of the books will be available to everyone on April 1st in 2016. Many of these eventually make it to Kindle Unlimited as well, so that’s another thing to consider.
If none of them speaks to you right away, just give them a week or two. More and more people will read them and publish reviews, and you can use the reviews to better help you make a pick. It is a use it or lose it monthly freebie, so you lose nothing by picking a 50-50 ebook versus picking nothing.
So here we go, the choices for March 2016 are:
So I was on an Audible membership plan that was about to expire. I didn’t need any additional audiobooks, and nothing new is on the horizon for me, so I used their website to cancel the service. Before I was able to cancel, their system offered me two separate offers.
First up, was an offer to continue for an additional three months at half price of the regular monthly fee. Screenshot below:
It’s February already, and with it, we have the Superbowl and Valentine’s but also, if you are a Prime member, you get one FREE pre-release e-book from a choice of six options. The one you get for free, you can start reading immediately. The rest of them will become available for purchase to everyone on March 1st, and they will also be added to Kindle Unlimited (if you are a subscriber).
If none of the ebooks below speak to you just yet, you may want to wait for a week or so for more people to read them and write more reviews. Often (but not always) the reviews can be helpful in figuring out which one to get. You have until February 29 (2016) to make a choice:
You can see all the selections at the Kindle First page. Keep in mind, the selections change at the 1st of every month, so if you are reading this in the future, you will see a different list of ebooks over there.
If you are like me and have jumped on the Cordcutting Bandwagon (I even picked up a $30~ OTA DVR (check my unboxing blog post on it, with a lot more coming up), you may be thrilled to learn of a new pro-Cordcutter development. If you purchase a Season Pass of the Mercy Street Season 1 show, you will be able to watch the last three episodes BEFORE they air on TV. The season pass is $15 in HD or $10 in SD.
If you are interested in the show, but don’t want to pay, but you are a Prime member, new episodes are added to the Prime Video Library seven days after their air on TV. This is part of Amazon’s larger Prime deal with some of the PBS shows.
NOTE: this offer is only available if you purchase the whole Season Pass, not if you purchase the episodes individually. Season Passes have changed over time, you now prepay the whole season ahead of time. The price total typically includes a discount over buying the episodes individually. For some of the 10-episode seasons, for example, you pay $25 (HD) for a Season Pass versus $30 if you buy them individually.
If you have a Samsung Galaxy device, depending on which one and when you bought it, you may be eligible for a free Kindle e-book per month, typically from a choice of four e-books, either for 1-year or as long as you have the device. The featured ebooks are almost always part of the Kindle Unlimited program, so if you are subscribed to that, that’s another way to get those ebooks.
To get them, you need to download the Kindle app from Samsung’s own Android app store. Not the Google Play, not the Amazon App store. But the one from Samsung, whatever name it has now – I think it’s Galaxy App store but who knows they may have changed it yet again 🙂 Once you download it and login with your Amazon account, if you are eligible, one of the options in the left hand side menu are the Samsung Book deals.
TIP: do not get an ebook unless the price you see is $0.00. If the price is not $0, you will be charged! If you just signed up, wait for a few minutes for things to sync up or restart the app or the device to force a sync up.
It’s a new month, and that means, among many other things, if you are a Prime member, you can a get a new free e-book before the rest of the world. January 2016 brings six different choices. You get one for free now. The rest of the books become available for everyone February 1st. They are all pre-release now. If you are not a Prime member, you can buy one of the six right now for $2.
The choices for January 2016 are mostly beginnings of new book series, four out of six of them are so. Here’s the list:
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