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Summer TV used to be leftovers and randomness, but these days, there is really no real end to new TV shows. For a limited time, a number of pilot episodes are available for FREE (commercial-free and in HD). Among the latest ones, we found:
+ True Detective Pilot (Season 1 Episode 1) on iTunes (none of the other services have it for free)
If you are a member of the Lucky’s Rewards program, check your emails or your rewards account or their app! There you may find an offer that gets you a FREE can of Lipton Sparkling Iced Tea. The choices are from the Lipton Sparkling Iced Tea Raspberry, Peach or Lemonade. You must add this offer to your Lucky’s rewards account before redeeming this in-store (and obviously use your rewards when you make the purchase). Offer ends through 6/16/15.
Also don’t forget that during June 2015, Lucky’s Rewards members can get a free Redbox movie rental per week. The promo code will print on your Lucky’s receipt, so you have to visit them at least once per week in order to get the codes for the free rental. The codes work on all Redbox machines, not just the ones available inside the Lucky Stores.
If you are part of the Lucky’s Rewards program, they sent an email today with a new promotion. When you make a purchase at a Lucky’s store using your Rewards card, your cash register receipt will have promotion codes that get you one free Redbox movie rental per week for the month of June 2015. Each free rental is only for one night. If you keep the movie for more than one night, you have to pay for nights #2 and later. As such, you have to provide a payment method when you rent the movie at the Redbox kiosks. Cannot be combined with other offers.
UPDATE: the promo codes work on all Redbox locations, not just the ones inside the Lucky store you got the promo code from.
Summer TV season is no longer just an afterthought for a variety of reasons, such as preventing good shows from getting lost in the chaos of the regular TV season, plus more possibilities for new audience joining in later with the various on-demand viewing options. Some of the latest new shows offer their pilot episode in HD for free and more importantly perhaps, commercial-free. These are typically free for a limited time only, but I don’t know when the free offers end:
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.
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…
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.
Not exciting about March Madness? Have Uverse service? You have an extra channel to watch during the March 26-29 (2015) weekend. There is a free preview of the EPIX and Starz movie channels. This happens automatically, there’s nothing you need to do – just locate the EPIX and Starz channels on your line-up. Starz includes various Encore movie channels as well. Just browse the on-screen Guide and see which channels have a live feed (versus the usual subscription blue-screen). If you have a DVR, you can fill it up with movies to watch later on 🙂
Starz is also celebrating the return of Outlander next week, the second half of the first season.
A brand new TV series, The Returned, that premiered on A&E on Monday 3/9/15 is offering, for a limited time only, the pilot episode for FREE, in HD, and without commercials at Amazon Instant Video. Please note this will be free only for a few days after it premieres. After that, it will sell just like any other online episode ($2 SD, $3 HD).
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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:
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.
If you like to explore and discover new music, Mexican Summer (aka Kernado Records) has a new 13-track sampler that is currently free to get at Amazon. This was also mentioned as free in the 7digital email newsletter, but as of the time of writing, it costs $5 at their website. This was released today (2/24/15).
At least on the Uverse service, on February 21 and 22 (Saturday and Sunday) in 2015, you get a free preview of the NBA League Pass pay package. This means that during those days, you will be able to watch any and all NBA games that are part of the League Pass. Check local listings or navigate your cable box’s channel line-up to find the League Pass group of channels.
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:
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.
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.
For a limited time only, Google Play is offering these two mp3-albums for FREE as long as you have a Google Play account. First up, it is the Greatest Hits by Motley Crue with 23 tracks and a total runtime of 99 minutes. Next up, for remix fans, it is Hardwell’s Revealed in a GPE remix.
Since Google is apparently abandoning GPE phones, mayhaps they are now focusing on GPE remixes 😉
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