Free eBook Each Day of July From eReader.com

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.ereader.com/">http://www.ereader.com/</a><br /><br />I just got my newsletter from eReader this morning and noticed that during July, they will be giving away a different free ebook each day. I suspect like most of their free promotions they are books out of copyright, like something by Dickens. However, they tend to throw in two or three recent releases during the month. You will likely need to open an account with them, which includes giving them a valid credit card number. You won't be charged for the free ebooks, but they will use the credit card number to create a one way hash that will lock the ebook for your use only. If you want to be kept up to date on the books, subscribe to this thread. I will try to post the daily release if someone else doesn't beat me to it. :way to go:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2005/20050630-ereader.gif" />

[Kevin Jackson]

I can't wait!

Keep me "posted"

[Phillip Dyson]

So far I only have one eBook. "Getting Things Done" by David Allen.
I still haven't finished it. :oops:

This may be the perfect oppurtunity to expand my library.

[SteveHoward999]

I have about 150 - 200 MSReader books ... will be interesting to see if any eReader books that interest me appear for free this month.

[Rob Borek]

I've bought a number of eReader books, along with eReader Pro (their eBook reader), and have a number of their free eBooks. Can't wait to see what they throw up in July for free download!

[Quteqqy]

And nothing yet.

Am I too anxious??

[Quteqqy]

Wish their servers were located in Japan. :-)

[ctmagnus]

Heh... I sprang for eReader Pro a few days ago.

I just hope they don't offer Getting Things Done as a free title. as I bought it at the same time.

I just have to start reading it now. That, and the stack of magazines that have been piling up over the last three months.

[Ed Hansberry]

I suspect the books will be at http://www.ereader.com/promo

[DaleReeck]

http://www.ereader.com/

I suspect like most of their free promotions they are books out of copyright, like something by Dickens.

I don't know if that will be the case. What's the point of giving away free books that are already free to begin with, as is the case with out-of-copyright books? Not much of a promotion ;)

I think they will be commercial, but lesser known titles, with a few "top ten's" thrown in to make it look good.

But I like eReader. Very simple. Just install the app and enter your credit card number when opening up a new book for the first time on that device. No device activation or any crap like that.

[Ed Hansberry]

http://www.ereader.com/

I suspect like most of their free promotions they are books out of copyright, like something by Dickens.

I don't know if that will be the case. What's the point of giving away free books that are already free to begin with, as is the case with out-of-copyright books? Not much of a promotion ;)
Then it would be unlike any of their previous "Free-ebook-a-day" promotions.

[Phillip Dyson]

Nothing yet.

[asims]

I hope they post it soon. I'm going on a trip and it's hard to navigate the web and traffic at the same time! :D

[Darius Wey]

I hope they post it soon. I'm going on a trip and it's hard to navigate the web and traffic at the same time! :D

It's up! :mrgreen:

Tears of the Hawk
by Barbara Clark
July 1st

[Ed Hansberry]

I hope they post it soon. I'm going on a trip and it's hard to navigate the web and traffic at the same time! :D

It's up! :mrgreen:

Tears of the Hawk
by Barbara Clark
July 1st

"Security specialist Hawk Adams will brave any danger to protect a woman, but he'll never trust one. Years in the shadows of covert operations taught him to suppress his softer emotions. So when he rescues Charity Starr from kidnappers, he's stunned by the tenderness and passion she ignites in him."

Romance novels? What is up with that?!?!?!!? :pukeface: I am going to have to find a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie on TBS this weekend just to purge my brain. :snipersmile: :takethat:

[Darius Wey]

Romance novels? What is up with that?!?!?!!? :pukeface: I am going to have to find a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie on TBS this weekend just to purge my brain. :snipersmile: :takethat:

Bwahahahahahaha! :rotfl:

[Kevin Jackson]

:roll:

This isn't going to be a very successful campaign if that's the kind of stuff they throw at us.

[Ed Hansberry]

:roll:

This isn't going to be a very successful campaign if that's the kind of stuff they throw at us.
Not with me, but in fairness, if they only throw out geek SciFi stuff, they aren't going to broaden their market. I hope it is a broad range of selections over the next 31 days.

[Phillip Dyson]

I hope they post it soon. I'm going on a trip and it's hard to navigate the web and traffic at the same time! :D

It's up! :mrgreen:

Tears of the Hawk
by Barbara Clark
July 1st

"Security specialist Hawk Adams will brave any danger to protect a woman, but he'll never trust one. Years in the shadows of covert operations taught him to suppress his softer emotions. So when he rescues Charity Starr from kidnappers, he's stunned by the tenderness and passion she ignites in him."

Romance novels? What is up with that?!?!?!!? :pukeface: I am going to have to find a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie on TBS this weekend just to purge my brain. :snipersmile: :takethat:

I agree. I detected estrogen in the first sentence.

[disconnected]

I'm not sure why, but lately I've noticed that Romance novels have begun to outnumber Sci-Fi books on ereader. I don't read either myself (I'm female, but my preference is mysteries -- not the thriller type), but since the males definitely outnumber the females at this and probably every other techie site, I'm wondering what devices these romance novels are mostly read on, and how are they being marketed.

[Phillip Dyson]

I'm not sure why, but lately I've noticed that Romance novels have begun to outnumber Sci-Fi books on ereader. I don't read either myself (I'm female, but my preference is mysteries -- not the thriller type), but since the males definitely outnumber the females at this and probably every other techie site, I'm wondering what devices these romance novels are mostly read on, and how are they being marketed.

I think its simple numbers. From what I've heard in some of my writing workshops, Romance is nearly, if not over, 50% of the market. Atleast for paper bound.

[emuelle1]

I went to the page, and just looking at the cover of that book I'll have to spend all day at Home Depot, with a few stops at classic car lots to purge my brain. Maybe if I print it out and take it to my friend's house, he'll let me drive his Corvette around for a while.

Maybe I should go test drive a really big truck.

[Darius Wey]

Devil's Bride
by Stephanie Laurens
July 2

"When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire ton by offering his hand in marriage. No one dreamed this scandalous rake would ever take a bride. And as society mamas swooned at the loss of England's most eligible bachelor, Devil's infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date. But Honoria wasn't about to bend society's demands and marry a man just because they'd been found together virtually unchaperoned. No, she craved adventure, and while solving the murder of a young Cynster cousin fit he ill for a while, she decided that once the crime was solved she'd go off to see the world. But the scalding heat of her unsated desire for Devil soon had Honoria craving a very different sort of excitement. Could her passion for Devil cause her to embrace the enchanting peril of a lifelong adventure of the heart?"

:treadmill:

[cml]

Did I read that right?? Devil Cynster?? :pukeface: and double :pukeface:

[Kevin Jackson]

8O :roll:

Mmm hmm

[Paula]

I am totally appreciative of ereader's generosity. They are giving us a free book everyday and the books are not the standard olde fare that are now in public domain. Yesterday's selection was tolerable, but I even object to today's selction. Do people still read this stuff? Honestly!?!
Please bring on the Mystery/Thriller, Sci-fi /fantasy novels.

The - Lady Farthington swooned in Rex's arms as he held her tight - kind of novels are very disturbing, and not in a good way. 8O



:lol:

[Hx4700]

As a lady asked earlier, do many women use electronic readers??
And these two are just not to most men's taste -
So who is left as an audience for these???
Just how many downloads have there been for these two offerings??
I ask these questions hoping the folks at eReader don't get discourged if there is a low number of downloads so far.
Just offer a good Star Trek book (as they did last year) and I think they will see the number of downloads increase dramatically. :lol:
IMHO--
Ron...

[Glohamar]

July 3rd free ebook is Carrier 14: Typhoon Season


When an American yacht is attacked in international waters by a Chinese combat helicopter, tensions flare. China staunchly denies they had anything to do with the incident, and Carrier Battle Group Fourteen is put on full alert for what may become a full-blown shooting war between the superpowers... and that is when the real enemy strikes!



I gave my wife my 3950 to read ebooks on and she really likes it because now she never looses her spot. Her favorites are the Stephen King and Dean Koontz style books. And the reason I gave her my 3950 is because something happen to it where I can not load more that about two programs on it before it hard resets, so it is perfect for her. Anyway, it is my excuse to buy an new one. The hard part is trying to deceid if I want to wait for the new models in the fall or buy a X50v or 4700.

Dave

[Ed Hansberry]

July 3, 2005

Carrier 14: Typhoon Season
by Keith Douglass

Yes! Bombs, planes, explosions, guns, blood, testosterone!

[Kevin Jackson]

WooHoo!

Finally, something a guy can sink his teeth into.

I can feel the "Tim-the-Toolman" genes revving as I type!

:D

[Mona13]

Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Detective sound good to me.

Mona13

[Ed Hansberry]

July 4, 2005

Starfist: First to Fight
by David Sherman, Dan Cragg

I am impressed. This promo has been unlike any previous from eReader that I recall. So far, they are 100% modern ebooks. :way to go:

http://www.ereader.com/promo

[Paula]

I agree Ed, ereader is really going above and beyond this time.

I'm ready for the mystery/thriller ebook now. Are you with me on this Mona13? :D

[Ed Hansberry]

July 5, 2005

The Colonial Experience
by Daniel J. Boorstin

www.ereader.com/promo

[Phillip Dyson]

As a lady asked earlier, do many women use electronic readers??
And these two are just not to most men's taste -
So who is left as an audience for these???
Just how many downloads have there been for these two offerings??
I ask these questions hoping the folks at eReader don't get discourged if there is a low number of downloads so far.
Just offer a good Star Trek book (as they did last year) and I think they will see the number of downloads increase dramatically. :lol:
IMHO--
Ron...

I suspect that this promo probably has multiple purposes. Yes to get people interested in eReader, but also to get a feel for who is actually already out there.

If in-print numbers transfer one-to-one into the ebook world, we non-romance readers may find the future a little more frustrating.

[Ed Hansberry]

July 6, 2006

New York City DIRECTIONS
by Rough Guides

Sort of a travel guide to the city. Neat.

[Ed Hansberry]

July 7, 2005

Star Trek: Voyager: Dark Matters: Cloak and Dagger
by Christie Golden

[Darius Wey]

Haha, getting your years all mixed up, Ed. :P

[Ed Hansberry]

Haha, getting your years all mixed up, Ed. :P
:duh:

[Steven Cedrone]

July 8, 2005

Witch of Watergate
by Warren Adler

[Darius Wey]

July 9, 2005

Kiss of Deceit
by Patricia A. Rasey

[Mona13]

Awesome! Sometimes they go a whole promotion without my finding a book that I might be interested in.

It's good for them, because if I find a new author I like, I generally purchase all of the books for sale (e-book only) by that author. (I buy a lot of books!)

Mona13

[Ed Hansberry]

July 10, 2005

Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber
by John Gregory Betancourt, Roger Zelazny

www.ereader.com/promo

[Kevin Jackson]

They are really doing great this time around with their selections. Kudos to ereader for such a great promotion :way to go:

[juni]

They are a bit sneaky, they give you the first book of a series so you get hooked and then have to buy the rest. :D

[Ed Hansberry]

July 11, 2005

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine July 2005
by Dell Magazines

[Ed Hansberry]

July 12, 2005


The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie

www.ereader.com/promo

[Steven Cedrone]

July 13, 2005


Frontal Assault:
SEAL Team Seven #10
by Keith Douglass

www.ereader.com/promo

[Ed Hansberry]

July 14, 2005

Paris DIRECTIONS
by Rough Guides

[Ed Hansberry]

July 15, 2005

Rabbit, Run
by John Updike

[Ed Hansberry]

July 16, 2005

Wit'ch Fire
by James Clemens

www.ereader.com/promo

[Paula]

Mid Month Report Card for eReader

So far so GREAT

They only messed up once so far by offering a book in public domain.
I can forgive them that small faux pas because afterall it was Agatha Christie.

BTW their strategy is brilliant.

[Ed Hansberry]

July 17, 2005

The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction April 2005
by The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction

[Ed Hansberry]

July 18, 2005

The Princess Diaries
by Meggin Cabot

[Ed Hansberry]

July 19, 2005

Left Behind
by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

This is a huge series. If you are at all interested in the book of Revelations and end time prophesy, this is an interesting series. It is a work of fiction though and represents their eschatological views.

[Steve Jordan]

I like the eReader format, and I wouldn't mind selling some of my novels as eReader books. However, eReader's licensing deal demands that if you use eBook Studio and sell your own novels, you pay them 15% royalties of every eBook sold. Whether you are selling through their site or not.

If I printed books for sale, I wouldn't pay royalties to the guy who sold me the printing press. If I used their site to sell my books, I'd expect to pay for the use of their infrastructure, and 15% sounds more or less reasonable. But if they've got my money for their software, and I'm doing the rest on my own, the transaction should end there.

Am I wrong?

[Ed Hansberry]

I agree. That sounds sort of dumb. I had no idea that was the case. You could use TextPad or other text editor to create the markup then use DropBook to compile it. http://www.ereader.com/dropbook

[Zagleft1]

Are there any applications that can convert lit format books to ereader format?

[Steve Jordan]

Lit format, Palm markup format, eReader format... too many formats. The more I think about disseminating electronic books, the more I come back to Acrobat format: Use whatever text product you want, spit it out as PDF... done. Tagged PDFs can rewrap on handhelds. PDFs have built-in security for docs, specified by the creator. Disseminating PDFs is FREE. (Daig, I sound like an Adobe shil.)

[Darius Wey]

July 20, 2005

Steele: Book One
by J. D. Masters

Lt. Donovan Steele was a good cop until he was killed. Then, he got even better. Advanced technology resurrected him in a robot body -- computer-brained, atom-powered, and supremely strong. Now, this one-man SWAT team brings his own brand of justice to the savage world of tomorrow.

Manhattan is under attack. Godfathers and warlords amass hoodlum armies to take over the city. Killers run wild while the police and the public hide behind locked doors.

Suddenly, a new champion enters the war: a law enforcement machine that walks like a man. A robot commando armed with the firepower of a high-tech army. An armored juggernaut on a collision course with crime...

:rock on dude!:

[disconnected]

I didn't know PPCs could handle any Adobe files with DRM (either ebook or PDF format)? I did see something about the latest version being able to handle ebooks, but it seemed nobody could actually get it to work.

Anyway, the PPC reading experience is much more pleasant with ereader, Mobipocket, or MSReader.

[Steve Jordan]

I regularly read tagged PDFs on a Toshiba e330 running WinPPC 3.0. The tagged files allow you to size the fonts any way you'd like. The only problem I've ever had is an occasional scrolling problem (sometimes the scroll will bounce back to the top of a page, instead of on to the next one). But considering the ease of creating and reading them, the scroll issue is no big (although if Adobe would kindly fix it in their next PPC reader, I'd appreciate it).

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Yes, and VGA support please.

[Ed Hansberry]

July 21, 2005

Sackett's Land
by Louis L'Amour

[Steven Cedrone]

July 22, 2005

London DIRECTIONS
by Rough Guides

www.ereader.com/promo

[Paula]

Is it just me being overly sensitive or is offering this book on the insensitive inappropriate side for what is happening in London right now?

[Darius Wey]

July 23, 2005

Daily Drucker
by Peter F. Drucker

http://www.ereader.com/promo

[Darius Wey]

Is it just me being overly sensitive or is offering this book on the insensitive inappropriate side for what is happening in London right now?

Why would it be inappropriate? I'm not going to engage in politics and life issues here, but bottom line, after all that has happened in London, the most appropriate thing to do would be to stand up and go about one's daily life. No matter what happens, nothing will disrupt Londoners and its tourists.

[Ed Hansberry]

No matter what happens, nothing will disrupt Londoners and its tourists.
Besides, eReader.com has already offered the New York and Paris books. It was probably determined before July even began. Methinks some get too sensitive about this sort of thing.

[Mona13]

I keep trying to download it and it looks like it is, but it never starts???

Any suggestions?

Mona13

[Ed Hansberry]

I keep trying to download it and it looks like it is, but it never starts???
Worked for me. Try logging out, clearing your cache, closing your browser, logging back in and retrying the download.

[Paula]

No matter what happens, nothing will disrupt Londoners and its tourists.
Besides, eReader.com has already offered the New York and Paris books. It was probably determined before July even began. Methinks some get too sensitive about this sort of thing.

Yes, I may very well be quite the bleeding heart. :oops:

[Mona13]

Thanks, it finally worked.

Mona

[Darius Wey]

July 24, 2005

Bushwhackers: The Series
by B. J. Lanagan

www.ereader.com/promo

[Darius Wey]

July 25, 2005

Wishing Season
by Esther Friesner and Frank Kelly Freas

www.ereader.com/promo

[ctmagnus]

I always wondered what would happen in that case. Now I just need to catch up on my reading.

[Darius Wey]

July 26, 2005

The Invaders Plan
by L. Ron Hubbard

www.ereader.com/promo

[Steven Cedrone]

July 27, 2005

The Wages of Justice
Archons of Nublis
by Kate Saundby

www.ereader.com/promo

[Jon Westfall]

July 28, 2005

Skinwalkers
(Leaphorn &amp; Chee series)
by Tony Hillerman

www.ereader.com/promo

[Mona13]

I hope they have some more suspense/detective/thriller type books.

Mona13

[Ed Hansberry]

July 29, 2005

Well of Souls: Star Trek: The Lost Era 2336
by Ilsa J. Bick

[Darius Wey]

July 30, 2005

Pirate Hunter
by Richard Zacks

www.ereader.com/promo

[Ed Hansberry]

July 31, 2005

Final book:

Bride of a Stranger
by Jennifer Blake

www.ereader.com/promo

Kudos to ereader.com for a great variety all month. Did anyone here create a new account because of this promotion?

[Paula]

I agree Ed, ereader has really come through with the goods this time around.

I didn't create a new account (I have been buying their books for 2 years now), but I did buy more books this month than I had planned on buying.
I will also be buying additional books by a couple of authors I had never heard of before.

[Steve Jordan]

I didn't keep close enough track of the daily books to catch a single one I wanted (and only saw a few I was interested in besides)... I was waaay too busy this month, though.

I also still have issues with eReader and the other e-book formats(price, compatibility, DRM, royalties, etc, etc), so I can't get myself whipped into the desire to get more of their books right now.