Kindle First Choices for September 2015: Pick One Out of Six Options

September is here already, and a new month, among many other things, means a new round of Kindle First selections. If you are a Prime member, you are allowed to select one of those pre-release e-books for FREE and start reading it immediately (they get released to the general public on October 1st).

If you are not a Prime member, you can buy one for $2. If more than one interest you, you have to wait until October 1st for the rest. Some may be part of Kindle Unlimited, so check that too before buying them.

For the September 1st until the 30th time period, we have SIX selections to pick from. IF you are not certain, wait a few days until they build up reviews – those can be helpful in figuring out which one might be the most interesting to you. Without further ado, the options are:

  • “The Capital of Latecomers” by Nina Nenova and Vladimir Poleganov in Modern Science Fiction
  • “Pale Queen Rising (Pale Queen Series Book 1)” by A. R. Kahler in Fantasy
  • “Still Waters (Sandhamn Murders Book 1)” by Viveca Sten, Marlaine Delargy in Mystery
  • “Hot Sur” by Laura Restrepo, Ernesto Mestre-Reed in Literary Suspense
  • “The Prettiest One” by James Hankins in Thrillers
  • “Kissing Mr. Right” by Michelle Major in Romance

You can see the September 2015 selections at the Kindle First page. Keep in mind, the selections change every month. The ones mentioned above in this post are only good for the full month of September 2015.

September 1, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

[DEAD] The Outlander Book Series for $2 total (over 7000 pages, ebooks)

This didn’t last long. The sale (or price error or price-match) ended… It is back to the regular price range now…
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August 3, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With:

Samsung Kindle eBook Freebie Choices for August 2015

If you have an eligible Samsung Galaxy device, and you install the Samsung Galaxy App store, and from there you install the Amazon Kindle app, you are eligible for a Samsung monthly e-gift. Every month, on the first, four new e-books are shown in the Samsung version of the Kindle app. You can get ONE of them for FREE. Make sure the price shown is $0 before you pick a book. If it’s not $0, you will be charged (you can always cancel the order quickly on your own via amazon.com/myk). If you just installed the app, give it a few minutes to settle in and sync and wait for the $0!

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August 1, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Kindle First for August 2015 has six choices

The Kindle First program has a new tweak for August 2015. You have six pre-release ebooks to pick from instead of the usual four. So if you are a Prime member, you can get one of those six for FREE and start reading it right now, a month before it gets released for the rest of the world. If you like more than one, the rest will become available September 1st in 2015. The six choices are:

  • “The Girl from Krakow” by Alex Rosenberg in Historical Fiction
  • “City of Echoes” by Robert Ellis in Mystery
  • “Young Babylon” by Lu Nei and Poppy Toland in Modern Fiction
  • “The Hundred Year Flood” by Matt Salesses in Lit. Fiction
  • “About that fling” by Tawna Fenske in Romance
  • “The Good Neighbor” by AJ Banner in Psychological Suspense

You can see all the choices and pick one between August 1-31 in 2015 at the Kindle First page. After August 31st, a new set of choices will replace them.

TIP: if you are not certain which one to pick yet, wait for a few days for more reviews to get posted on them. These could be helpful in deciding which one to get. You have until August 31st to pick one of these six but don’t wait until 11:58pm on that day 🙂 Happy reading!

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Kindle Samsung users, Free ebook selections for July 2015 are up

If you have a Samsung mobile device (smartphone, tablet), and you are willing to install the Samsung app store (the current name du jour is Galaxy Apps), and install the Samsung version of the Kindle app, then every month you can get a free e-book from a choice of four options. You login to the Kindle app with your regular Amazon account after you install it. The free choices are shown in the menu, under “Samsung Book Deals”. You can get your freebie at any time during each month, just don’t wait until 11:59pm on the last day of the month 🙂

The four choices for July 2015 are:

  • “The Shuddering” by Ania Ahlborn (373 reviews)
  • “The Laws of Gravity” by Liz Rosenberg (307 reviews)
  • “Flee” by JA Konrath and Ann Voss Patterson (226 reviews)
  • “Sleeping with Paris (Book #1) in Romance (258 reviews)

All four of these are in Kindle Unlimited, so if you find more than one of the above interesting, you can scoop them up via KU ($10/month Netflix-style subscription).

A trio of tips on how to make the most of this after the break…

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July 6, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Free Samsung Kindle eBook from four choices for June 2015

If you have a Samsung Galaxy device, and you are willing to install the Samsung App Store, and you have a Samsung account to connect it to, every month, you can get free e-book from a choice of four. You can see these by opening the Samsung Kindle app and logging in with your Amazon account. The Samsung version can be installed side by side with the normal Google Play Amazon app, and they each have their own downloaded books.

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June 1, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Kindle First June 2015 e-book selections are now ready (pick one of four)

Time flies fast, June 2015 has arrived, and Amazon has a new set of four pre-release e-books available through its Kindle First program. Prime members can get one of these four e-books for FREE and start reading it right now. All four are scheduled to be published a month later (July 1st in this case). So the Prime benefit here is double, 1) you can get a free e-book, 2) you read it one month ahead of everybody else.

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June 1, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Samsung Device Owners Get One Free Kindle e-book per month (from choice of four)

If you have a Samsung device, and a Samsung account and use the Samsung Galaxy Apps Android store, and you install the Kindle app from the Samsung app store (not Google Play), you can get one free e-book per month. This is not unconditional, you have a choice between four e-books. The Samsung Kindle app can co-exist with the Google Play Kindle app. I had the Google Play version pre-installed and installing the Samsung version did not interfere. They do not share the same local downloads but obviously share the same cloud library of the same Amazon account.

This promotion is available to everyone with a Samsung and Amazon accounts. You don’t have to be a Prime member. The promotion is independent of the Kindle First promotion and the Kindle Owners Prime Lending Library. You can take advantage of all promotions each month!

A detailed look on how to get the free e-books is after the break…

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May 25, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , ,

Free e-book: “The Book of Tea” by Kakuzo Okakura

We are big fans of tea here, so it shouldn’t come to you as a surprise that we have a deal on a tea book. Well, it’s free at the moment! So you don’t even have to use a slot from your Kindle Unlimited library. It is The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura, 44 pages long. If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can listen to the narration for free. This is a public domain book.

Speaking of free e-books, the “The Pattern Ship” (The Pattern Universe Book 1) is currently free for a limited time, a 183 pager by Tobias Roote. There are four books in the series so far, and three of them are part of Kindle Unlimited program with free narration even.

UPDATE: here comes another promising e-book that is free for a limited time, the “Shelve Under C: A Tale of Used Books and Cats (Turning Pages Book 1)” by Jenny Kalahar (178 pages). The book averages 4.6/5 based on 49 customer reviews.

May 7, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: , , ,

Kindle First May 2015 e-book selections are now ready (pick one of four)

May is here and this means, among many other things, a new four-pack of pre-release e-books is available at Amazon’s Kindle First program. If you are a Prime member, you can get one of those e-books for FREE, and you can start reading it right away, before the general public. If you like more than one, you have to wait until June 1st to buy them like everybody else.

If you are not a Prime member, you can purchase one of the four for $1.99. The general public will have access to all four ebooks on June 1st, so this is a plus if you like to be among the first to read and discover new books.

The four selections for May 2015 are:

  • “(R)evolution (Phoenix Horizon Book 1)”, start of a new book series, by PJ Manney in SciFi Thrillers
  • “Crow Hollow” by Michael Wallace in Historical Fiction
  • “Sugar” by Deirdre Riordan Hall in Contemporary Fiction
  • “Queen of the Trailer Park (Rosie Maldonne’s World Book 1)”, start of another new book series, by Alice Quinn, Alexandra Maldwyn-Davies

You can find and pick from the May 2015 selections, between May 1st-31st, at the Kindle First page. Happy e-reading!

May 1, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Outlander Book #1 (Kindle) for $2

The Kindle e-book of Diana Gabaldon’s popular Outlander TV series is currently on sale for just $2 at Amazon.com. This is the full book, 560 pages of it. The book series is the basis of the Starz hit show with the same name, helmed by non other than Ronald D. Moore of rebooted Battlestar fame. This is not a lightning deal, so the $2 price could last for a while or end shortly. Can’t go wrong for $2!

April 17, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Kindle First titles for April 2015 are up: Pick One

The last couple of months the Kindle First program spoiled us by offering two free ebooks instead of the usual one, but for the April 2015 offerings, we are back to picking one of the four available options. As usual, these are pre-release books that will be e-published the following month (May 1st), but Prime members can get one of the four for free, and start reading it immediately. The offers are running April 1-30 in 2015, and will be replaced on the first of every month.

Without further ado, this month’s Kindle First choices are:

  • “Boundary Crossed (Boundary Magic Book 1)” by Melissa F. Olson in Urban Fantasy
  • “Trail of Broken Wings” by Sejal Badani in Contemporary Fiction
  • “The Altar Girl” by Orest Stelmach in Mystery
  • “This Thing Called Love (A Mirror Lake Novel)” by Miranda Liasson in Romance

If more than one of them sounds appealing, wait until May 1st to purchase them or if they are part of Kindle Unlimited or Prime, borrow them for free.

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Kindle First March 2015 selections are up: up to two free for Prime members

It is March 1st, and this means, among many other things, a new selection of Kindle First ebooks. If you are a Prime member, you can select two of the four choices for free, and read them right now! Everybody else has to wait until April 1st before they can buy them. March brings us a diverse selection of genres, as follows:

  • “Helen of Sparta” by Amalia Carosella in Historical Fiction
  • “The Gemini Effect” by Chuck Grossart in Science-Fiction Thriller
  • “Younger” by Suzanne Munshower in Thriller
  • “It Had to Be Him” by Tamra Baumann in Romance

You can find the monthly choices with more details, reviews, and excerpts (where available) at the Kindle First page. Happy reading!

PS: if you are not a Prime member, you can purchase up to two of these for $2 per e-book.

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Kindle First choices for February 2015 are up: you get two free!

February is here, and a new month, among many other things, means a new free pre-release e-book for Amazon Prime members. Except this time, just like January 2015, you can pick two of the four choices for free!

The four options this month are:

  • “The Mermaid’s Sister” by Carrie Anne Noble under Fantasy
  • “The Dead Key” by DM Pulley under Mysteries
  • “Wreckage” by Emily Bleeker under Contemporary Fiction
  • “The One That Got Away” by Simon Wood under Thriller

You get to read two of these books right now. The rest of the world can read them on March 1st when they get released to the general population. So if you happen to be interested in more than two of the above, simply pick two now, and buy the others on March 1st. They all have the same list price of $5.

You can see the choices at the Kindle First page.

February 2, 2015 Filed Under: shopping Tagged With: ,

Free ebook by U of Chicago Press: on Ambergis

On the free e-book front, the University of Chicago Press freebie for February 2015 is a book by Christopher Kemp, “Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris”. It is 232 pages long, published in 2012. It is not a DRM-free e-book, it requires a reader app compatible with Adobe’s DRM abomination.

You need to give the publisher your email address at their website in order to get it. They will email you with a link to BiblioVault where you can download it. Once in their email list, they will send you a monthly reminder for the free e-book of the month.

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