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Free/Bargain Science Fiction/Fantasy in August 2013
A thread for August.
We point out free and bargain SF/Fantasy titles to each other. Please don't post any self-published books, and please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates. Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast. Enjoy! |
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The Red Knight by Miles Cameron [Orbit/Hachette] is $1.99 at Amazon, B&N and Sony. It's probably a daily special.
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Knight-Tra.../dp/B007ZFPUL2 https://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/mi...00000000911510 |
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Never Trust a Sorcerer (The Trust Series Book 1) by L R Barrett-Durham is free at Amazon right now.
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Am I missing something... to be free to non-Prime? |
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Same thing happened at Amazon UK. I grabbed it about 6am this morning, and it was free. Now at 1:25pm it's priced at £3.98. Just wait awhile and it'll probably have another free day at some point.
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Hopefully this wasn't posted last month (I didn't see it on a quick skim of that thread), but Tor.com is offering a free ebook download of an anthology containing 5 years worth of Tor science fiction and fantasy stories:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/08/fiv...nload-extended |
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Even if it was, it's still worth repeating. Thanks for posting it.
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It was. These are HUGE downloads. Calibre may not work on such a large file, if conversion is a necessity for you. Don |
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Angel Station by Walter Jon Williams is $0.99 at the usual places, including Smashwords.
I don't know if this passes the "no self published books" rule. I guess the ebook version is self published, but it was originally published in paper by Tor. |
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I got this earlier, and haven't tried the following yet, but.. some forum members on Tor.com say that loading in Calibre, and running a conversion to the same format, will seriously reduce the file size. (i.e., if you've got the mobi file, have calibre convert it from mobi to mobi.) No reported problems getting it to load in calibre on the Tor site (as opposed to Sigil locking up, etc.) Original mobi file around 153 mB, reported size after conversion around 25 mB. Original epub file around 68 mB, reported size after epub-to-epub calibre conversion, 48 mB. I still like the idea of using EpubSplit to break it down into more manageable chunks, but at least the same-format conversion seems like it'll get the file small enough for a lot of ereaders to accept it. KentE |
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Edit: epub-epub doesn't make much difference. Last edited by jgaiser; 08-04-2013 at 10:14 PM. |
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