Free Kindle Books (8/18) + Newly Discounted Ones Found by Forumners + Amzn specials (32 total, evening)

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS

ABC Studios is offering a free Kindle edition of the Pilot Episode Script of their tv series Revenge, which they've been featuring pretty heavily in early ads.  I don't know anything about it except that I recognized, from the series Brothers and Sisters, the actress who plays the key character.  Disney is the publisher and will release it on Sept. 1.

The Original Avatar script was made available for download in PDF format by the FoxScreenings website during the release of the film.  At the time, I decided it'd be good to have it in Kindle format.  Some who saw the movie after its initial run might be interested in it, so I'll include it here with the 'Revenge' first-episode script just made available by ABC for free (but it's a pre-order).

  The Avatar script is said to include deleted scenes.  The PDF ABC Studios made available to the world is not really readable in vertical/Portrait orientation on a 6" screen but quite readable in the rotated-to-Landscape mode (possible with Kindle 2's June 2010 and on all Kindle 3's and DX's.

  For those who'd prefer to have a Kindle-format copy so that they can use the inline dictionary and also be able to do Kindle searches of the book, increase/decrease the fonts, make notes, or have it read to them semi-robotically, etc., click here to get the Kindle-compatible file.
  Subscribers to the Kindle-edition of the blog can also click on the link to download the file directly to the Kindle.

  Here's the original PDF file also, for those who want to check the converted copy against it (there are formatting differences), for download to a computer (the Kindle doesn't accept PDF downloads) and then a USB cable transfer to the kindle OR send it to your Kindle via Amazon servers.
  If you have a Kindle that doesn't have WiFi, you'd use 3G; the cost of sending this PDF via 3G to your Kindle is 15 cents but you need a [you]@kindle.com address on the Amazon Manage Your Kindle page.  Here's a How-to for that.

  If you do have WiFi also, you can send it to your Kindle for free by sending it to [you]@free.kindle.com once you've made your Kindle direct-send address "[you]@kindle.com" ...  Sorry that is so confusing.

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Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
  Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
  I've added a separate sorting by Low-to-High pricing.

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Unusual Publisher Sale for August - 8/3
Publisher Harper Perennial: sale of 20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through the month of August

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Sourcebook celebrates Georgette Heyer's 109th birthday by discounting her 46 books for one week (Aug 15-21), to $1.99, including the campanion book "...Regency World."  Emily Bronte highlighted the Sunflwr38 pointer at the "Discounted..." forum thread.
  Here's a discussion of her books

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Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
  . What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . In the Kindle Kitchen with Annie and Joyce (popular recipes thread)

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NEWLY and TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED books forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution for authors:
  ' This thread is NOT a book promotion thread for authors, or for people to post about indies.  (And it's not for posting freebies either.)  This thread is to post discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers." '
  8/17-18

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NEWLY and TEMPORARILY Free Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via "Happy Reader" Joyce

NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are definitely *not* recommendations by me -- this is just a daily report.   They will become no longer free within days, usually.  A very well-written Algebra guide was available for only a couple of days this week.

Aug 18; 15 books, Aug 18 - evening, 17 more (32 total)

If on the Home Page,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *

' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

There are 15 books so far today. There will be 2 posts in this same thread. If more books are offered today, I will continue to post in this same thread.

*** WARNING: Many of the books are EROTICA and ADULT ROMANCE ***

Haunting the Night
Author: Mara Purnhagen
Genre: Young Adult - Ghost Story

DESCRIPTION: Charlotte Silver has been through hell. Her mom' s in a coma. She may have caused the death of a young man. And now her friend Avery wants her to tackle going to Prom? Not going to happen, even if she is dying to spend some alone time with her boyfriend, Noah. Instead, Charlotte needs to find some answers to a few nagging questions-why was her family attacked? Will her mother survive? And is there a creature from the Other Side coming for her? Soon enough, Charlotte's search for the truth becomes a race against time. But she may just find the sign she's been looking for all along.

   MORE ...
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Free and low-cost items, 1/14/2010 - Update3

1.  AVATAR SCRIPT
The Orignal Avatar script has been made available for download in PDF format by the FoxScreenings website.
  Said to include deleted scenes, here's the direct link to the PDF (was at foxscreenings/com/media servers but removed after the theater run of the film), which is unreadable in vertical or Portrait orientation but quite readable in the rotated-to-Landscape mode.

  For those who'd prefer to (also) have a Kindle-formatted copy so that you can use the inline dictionary and also be able to do Kindle searches of the book, increase/decrease the fonts, have it read to you semi-robotically, etc., I had Amazon convert mine and if you want to save time and 15c :-) click here to get the converted copy.
  Seeing that it costs only 15c to do this small file you might want to send the PDF to [you]@kindle.com to have Amazon send it direct to your Kindle though (just make sure you have a Kindle address at Amazon and send the PDF file to it BUT type "Convert" in the Subject field of the email).

UPDATE3 - an EPUB version for SONY, NOOK and other readers
-- The next file has been confirmed to work on Sonys or Nooks, so here's an ePub version of the Avatar screenplay that I made from MobiPocket Creator.  The Nook may not rotate so may need it more though I think they can enlarge PDF fonts.

2.  FREE Blackberry ad's song MP3
Blackberry is offering the All You Need is Love as a free download to either your computer or your Blackberry.  The link doesn't always work with Firefox but does with Internet Explorer.  Here's the direct link to the song for download to a computer.  The piece is contained in a zip file.
  I don't know.  This ad version just made me miss the original.

3.  FREE BOOK OF IDEAS from several authors, for the coming year
(I first saw marketing guru Seth Godin's book, What Matters Now, recommended on Keener Living - Bruce Kenner's website.
  Godin gathered, for his project, seventy writers who agreed to each share an idea with readers "as we head into the new year."

"From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant tech thinker Kevin Kelly, from publisher Tim O'Reilly to radio host Dave Ramsey, there are some important people riffing about important ideas here. The ebook includes Tom Peters, Fred Wilson, Jackie Huba and Jason Fried, along with Gina Trapani, Bill Taylor and Alan Webber."

Interestingly, not mentioned there is Arianna Huffington, who contributed a piece on Sleep.  But she and her book are on his information page's list of contributing authors and their books.  It's a collection of good advice.

Here's the book, What Matters Now, which is in PDF format.

UPDATE2 - There's a transcript of an interview with Seth Godin by Nora Young at Spark.
 It's a lot more interesting, to me, than this collection of what struck me as rather glib and un-new thoughts by his group of authors.  The interview in audio is also available, of course, there.  Young is a good interviewer.

UPDATE1
  For those who'd prefer to (also) have a Kindle-formatted copy so that you can use the inline dictionary, do Kindle searches of the book, increase/decrease the fonts, have it read to you semi-robotically, etc., I had Amazon convert mine (I also used MobiPocket Creator to convert another copy and it turned out exactly the same -- one flaw:  blocks of strange characters around the image of a bird)
and if you want to save time and 15c :-) click here to get the converted copy.

4.  SHOESTRING PUBLISHING'S 'SHOESTRING VENTURE', a $0.99 Kindle book temporarily

Shoestring Publishing's Shoestring Venture: The Startup Guide (Kindle edition), is being offered for 99¢ for a limited time "to celebrate the first days of the new decade."
by Steve Monas and Richard Hooker
16 user reviews, 5 stars

The book is being sold on Amazon at the regular price of $7.99 (and curiously, another copy is listed, for $9.99), but Amazon customers can select the special 99¢ promotion.  I found the right listing and linked it above.

Description in a press release:

 ' Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible is a complete, up-to-date reference on all the major issues start-up and home-based business entrepreneurs face.  Its focus on outsourcing sets the book apart from the common run of how-to business books.  Shoestring Venture gives entrepreneurs and small business owners the tools they need to start a new business or take their current business several levels higher by exploiting the resources our interconnected world offers. '

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LINKS FOR SEARCHING FOR FREE OR LOW-COST E-BOOKS
  Here is the ongoing set of links for various Searches for free or low-cost Kindle-compatible books. Below are ways to Share this post if you'd like others to see it.
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