University of Chicago Free e-book for October is Veggies!

Eat your Veggies. Or rather, …read your veggies! The University of Chicago free e-book for October 2017 is the 128-page 2012 e-book “Vegetables: A Biography” by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

You have to give them your email address to get this free e-book. This book also uses Adobe DRM, so you either need the Adobe DRM satanic software on your computer or an iOS/Android app that is compatible with that nonsense.

The book (in all its formats) has just three customer reviews at amazon.com with an average of 3.9 out of 5.

Speaking of free ebooks, if you are a Prime member, don’t forget to scoop up your October 2017 freebie. As previous months, you can get one out of six pre-release options for FREE!

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Kindle First October 2017 options are up!

Prime members, your hard dollars at work! Good until October 31st in 2017, you can pick up one FREE pre-release e-book from a choice of six options as part of the Kindle First program. If you are not a Prime member, you can purchase one of the six for $2 and read it right away. If you need more than one, Prime or not, you have to wait until November 1st 2017 when all six of them will be released.

The October 2017 choices are:

  • “A Tangled Mercy: A Novel” by Joy Jordan-Lake in the … “Book Club” genre
  • “The House by the River” by Lena Manta, Gail Holst-Warhaft in Family Dramas
  • “Mark of Fire (The Endarian Prophecy Book 1)” by Richard Phillips in Fantasy
  • “The Unremembered Girl: A Novel” by Eliza Maxwell in Suspense
  • “The Extraditionist (A Benn Bluestone Thriller Book 1)” by Todd Merer in Legal Thrillers

As usual, there is no rush to pick up one right away. Since they are pre-release books, they don’t have reviews out of the gate. So you can wait for a couple of weeks until they get useful review profile. You have until 10/31/17 at 11:59pm to pick from these!

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Limited Time TOR DRM-free eBook Giveaway: “Envy of Angels” by Mark Wallce

If you like FREE and also DRM-FREE, you are in luck! Good until Friday 9/29/17 at 12pm ET, TOR is giving away DRM-free ebook copies (ePUB, mobi) of Mark Wallace’s “Envy of Angels” fantasy/supernatural book as part of their e-newsletter subscriber promotions.

To get the free e-book, you have to give them your email address. Downloading the free e-book is easy, you just press the button in the link they direct you to. You can get both the ePUB and the MOBI or one of the two options.

If you are not familiar with this book, it is book #1 in a series of five and it has a 4.3 out of 5 rating based on 69 customer reviews at amazon.com.

The first books of long book series are frequently featured in giveaways for obvious reasons. The authors and publishers want us to get hooked in their world and keep reading and buying 🙂

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20% off CBS All Access Subscription for 3 months

If you are ready to jump on the all new “Star Trek Discovery” bandwagon, and you missed out previous opportunities for a 2-week or better free trial on the “with commercials” plan, we have some alternatives for you!

Currently most options, such as Web Browser sign-up, Roku and Android (Google Play) only offer a 1-week free trial on the Limited Commercials plan ($6/month), and no free trial on the $10/month plan which has fewer commercials than the Limited Commercials plan, but it’s not ad-free like Netflix. Yeah, live to the Old Media to find a way to twist “no ads” into meaning “fewer ads”. Bastards!

GOOGLE PLAY

One option for a discount is to sign up through Google Play using discounted Google Play gift cards. Pay for the subscription using your gift card balance, not a credit card. So the discount you find on the gift cards, is the effective discount you would get on the CBS All Access monthly subscription.

APPLE TV

If you have an Apple TV, some people are reporting that they are offered a 30-day free trial through that. I don’t have an Apple TV to verify that.

WEB BROWSER COUPON DISCOUNT

Another option if you are signing up with a web browser is to use coupon code FALLACCESS which is a 20% off discount during your first three months of service.

Sadly the coupon does not work on Google Play ~ which would have been an opportunity to stack the discounts.

PREPAID DISCOUNTED ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

If you are totally sold on the CBS All Access concept they also sell prepaid annual plans with a built-in discount. Keep in mind however that they only have three original shows:

  • Star Trek Discovery and its Talk Show
  • The Good Fight (Good Wife spin-off)
  • Big Brother extras
  • that’s it, nothing else exclusive

They have a lot of CBS content, and offer additional ways to watch that CBS content. So if you are a fan of CBS TV in general, or some of their older TV shows (they have a library of many things), along with a handful of movies (“Defiance” perhaps the most recognizable).

September 24, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Earthseed: The Complete Series for $2 (ebook)

The complete “Earthseed” series by acclaimed speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler is composed of the two “Parable” books in the series, a total of 880 pages, and you can get them all as one e-book, for the bargain price of just $2 for the Kindle. The book averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 29 customer reviews.

September 21, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Pre-order Season 2 of Shannara Chronicles for $10 in HD

For a limited time only, you can pre-order Season 2 of The Shannara Chronicles in HD and without ads, for just $10 at Amazon Instant Video. That’s the whole season. You will get the episodes as they become available. Season 2 has not began yet.

Season 2 of the TV series, based on the Terry Brooks long-standing book series, will begin October 11 in 2017 according to epguides.

One unusual thing about this TV show is that season 1 was running on MTV, but for season 2, the TV show is moving to Spike TV, which has been making some noise about moving towards more scifi and fantasy type of content.

This is a limited time promotion, but I do not know when it expires. It may be an introductory offer because of the potential confusion created with the transition from MTV to Spike.

September 18, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Free Cooking Class and Vudu Credit among T-Mobile 9/19/17 Tuesday Freebies

It’s all about media on the Tuesday 9/19/17 T-Mobile Tuesday. An all-time favorite is returning, the $5.50 Vudu store credit, which, during the promotional period, you can use to buy and rent any combination of movies and TV shows. You can use the promo credit on one or multiple (eg rent five 99c movies). This is different from the FandangoNOW offer which can only be used on one item even if that item is 99c.

The other good thing is a MasterChef online class and accompanying e-cookbook. This is the first time this offer has been with the Tuesdays, so I do not know any more details on what it is or how it works.

The other two offers are very meh coupons, some hotel thing, and even more meh, restaurant.com nonsense. We do not mince words here 🙂

September 13, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

[DEAD] 49c eBook: Ron L. Hubbard’s “Battlefield Earth”

This limited time sale expired… If you missed, know also that this book is part of “Kindle Unlimited”….

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T-Mobile Freebies for 9/12/17: FREE LEGO e-book, 3-month Pandora Premium, and coupons

Party-On T-Mobile-ites! Before we get to the September 12 (2017) freebies teaser, we should point that per the September 6 “Uncarrier” event, T-Mobile promised it will be giving 1-Year of Netflix (the standard 2-screen streaming plan) to customers participating in ONE plans with two or more lines. Check the interwebs for more details as there are always restrictions to these type of promotions.

So back to the 9/12/17 freebies we go, where we have a mix of actual media freebies and coupons. Two of each more specifically:

  • 90 day free trial to the Pandora Premium (their full streaming service, not the more famous radio ~ this converts to a $10/month if not cancelled)
  • one free LEGO e-book from BookShout (you can only read using their website or apps)
  • 40% off Legoland tickets
  • some Hotel Storm coupon

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Samsung Book Deals for September 2017 are up!

The start of a new month means a handful of free e-book deals. Prime members get a Kindle First freebie. Anyone who does not passionately hate Adobe DRM can get a free University of Chicago press e-book.

And the most flexible of all, everyone can get a DRM-free SFF (science fiction or fantasy) ebook from Tor, whose freebie promotions only last about a week, and don’t start at a specific date. So you have to pay attention to your emails or this blog 🙂

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The Official ASOIAF and GOT e-Cookbook on sale for $2

Cook with Game Of Thrones! The official cookbook, blessed by George R. R. Martin himself, is on sale for $2 at various ebook services! The book title is “A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook” by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer.

There are some other unofficial cookbooks. This one is the officially blessed one! This is the full version, over 200 pages. Not to be confused with the smaller “Dorne” supplement.

The $2 limited time sale is available at Google Play [not eligible for the $5 credit promotion since it’s priced under $5], along with the Amazon Kindle.

Happy reading and cooking. Please feel free to invite me over if you make any of these recipes 🙂

September 3, 2017 Filed Under: media Tagged With: ,

Google Play Books: $5 Credit on $5+ purchase [YMMV]

While surfing around the Books section of the Google PLAY store, with a browser or when using the Google PLAY actual app, you may see a promotion that gives you a $5 credit any book purchase of $5 or more!

You’ll see a banner like this:

There are two deadlines to pay attention to. First, you must activate the offer by 9/30/17. Once activated, the promotion runs until 10/12/17. If not used by that time, it will simply expire.

You can verify the offer is in your account, check under “Account”, and page down to the “Rewards” section. You should see the offer there, along with the terms and expiration date.

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FREE w/DRM: “The Secret Lives of Teachers” e-book

On the first of every month, in addition to the Kindle First freebie, there’s another promotion that gets you one free e-book per month, the University of Chicago (Press).

Every month, on their promotional page they have a new book. For September 2017, the free book is “The Secret Lives of Teachers” by Anonymous. It is 272 pages long.

This is however is a DRM e-book, so in order to read it, you need to use an app that is compatible with Adobe’s DRM. You need Adobe Editions on a PC and compatible apps on Android and iOS.

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Marvel BOGO offer at Comixology with coupon

If you are a fan of Marvel comic books, it is time to stock up! Coupon code MARVEL17 gets you a “Buy One Get One FREE” promotion at Comixology on Marvel titles. The promotion lasts longer than the Labor Day weekend, it ends on 9/7/17.

Titles released after 8/31/17 are not eligible. You can buy multiple titles, not just two. Pre-orders and bundles are not eligible.

AMAZON’S up to 50% off MARVEL COMICS as well

UPDATE: OR if you prefer to buy comic books individually, Amazon has its own MARVEL up to 50% off promotions. This promotion too expires 9/7/17 and excludes everything releases since 8/31/17.

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The September 2017 Kindle First e-book choices are UP

It’s that time of the month again! If you are a Prime member, a new selection of six pre-release e-books has been loaded to the Kindle First page. As before, during September 2017, you can select one of the six ebooks and read it right away for FREE!

You can do this at any point until September 30 (2017). Non-Prime members can buy one for $2. If you want more than one, you have to wait until October 1st (2017), when they will be released to the general population. Most of them end up in Kindle Unlimited, so that’s another way to read them.

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