Kindle book deals

Player_86 · 02-04-2021 7:28am #1

Apologies if this has been done before. I follow quite closely the Kindle UK monthly book deals and always try to pick up a few good books for 99p each month, which involves a fair bit of trawling around the Amazon website. In case anyone is interested, this month, I will be buying the following books which are currently reduced to 99p:

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Sins of the Fathers by James Mack

The Testament by John Grisham

Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf by Ben Hogan

Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs by Kenneth Rosen

Born Fighter by Ruqsana Begum

The Russian Affair by David Walsh

Any other input very welcome. If contributing, might I suggest that people refrain from commenting on other people’s suggestions, we all have different tastes in books and each to their own. I also suggest that only books that are 99p are included - you often see books on the Kindle website reduced from, say, £17.99 to £8.99 but I don’t consider that a BA as you can usually pick up a paperback for less than that.

dirtyden · 02-04-2021 7:36am

Good idea for a bargain alert, some great deals to be had. Some really good books for 99p on occasion.

Richard Dawkins God Delusion on today for 99p. Not necessarily a recommendation but a very good price.

Mantis Toboggan · 02-04-2021 7:40am

Good idea, Google play books is another great app and usually has some great deals.

fjon · 02-04-2021 8:41am

3 methods I use to get kindle books for cheap:
If you haven't done so, I would suggest also signing up for the Kindle Daily Deal newsletter. Every day I get an email with 3 or more books for 99p.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-Daily-Deals/b?node=5400977031
I scan the email quickly every day and buy the book if it's one I want, then delete the email.
I track specific books I am interested in on https://www.ereaderiq.com/track/drops/
Here you can enter the book you want and the desired price (I put in £2), and you'll get an email when it reaches that price. You need to be quick on this one when you get the email as the price drop will most likely be temporary.
Lastly I also look through the monthly deals books as mentioned above. However there's an awful lot of crap to wade through and I haven't had that much success with finding good stuff.

RobertFoster · 02-04-2021 10:05am

Good idea for a thread! I checked my Amazon wishlist because of this thread, this book has been on it for a few years after it was recommended on a podcast:

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville - 99p

Are free books allowed? There's often free Kindle books posted to HUKD but they tend to be hit and miss in quality. Rather than clutter the thread with endless freebies, how about only ones you've read / can recommend?

1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell - Free

irelandrover · 02-04-2021 10:08am

I found this website recently.

https://www.thefussylibrarian.com/

I find it very good. get a daily email with a free kindle book. You get to tailor it to your preferences.

GBX · 02-04-2021 10:34am

Borrowbox is another for free books and audiobooks.
You need to be a library member. Those who aren't can sign up fairly handy online.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bolindadigital.BorrowBoxLibrary

Cameraman · 02-04-2021 11:12am

I found this the best overall for price deals. Has mainly £0.99 ones, but also a few other greatly reduced ones. I just check it most days :

https://uk.ereaderiq.com/

Yellow Dog · 02-04-2021 11:16am

Cameraman wrote: »

I found this the best overall for price deals. Has mainly £0.99 ones, but also a few other greatly reduced ones. I just check it most days :

https://uk.ereaderiq.com/

As mentioned by fjon #4

Cameraman · 02-04-2021 11:26am

Yellow Dog wrote: »

As mentioned by fjon #4

Oops - missed that - I don't use it for price drops - just for the daily list.

Sunny Dayz · 02-04-2021 12:28pm

I have a wish list saved on my Amazon account. I check it maybe once a week for price changes. Every couple of months Amazon email with a discount off certain books or one particular author on my wish list.

flower tattoo · 02-04-2021 12:52pm

I use this for daily Deals - you can tailor your preferences

bookbub.com

Player_86 · 02-04-2021 10:45pm

Thanks very much to everyone who responded - some really great suggestions here. If anyone comes across any more good 99p books on UK Kindle, please let us know.

My last one for the day - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, 99p. I liked the film so hopefully the book is good.

Happy Easter everyone.

Ball boy · 03-04-2021 11:00am

I’d often follow the monthly kindle deals too, although I noticed this month that the number of low priced deals seem to have dropped a lot, I don’t know why that is?

noplacehere · 09-04-2021 9:38am

Two chubby Cubs cookbook 99c on kindle today

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08GXBHTLC?storeType=ebooks

Cameraman · 09-04-2021 3:47pm

Ballymaloe Cookery Course: Revised Edition is £0.85 today.

Another bargain site I use is https://www.bookgorilla.com/
Has loads of preference options. Prices range from free to just reduced price.
Aimed at US - but most are also no the UK Amazon site

RobertFoster · 10-04-2021 10:56am

The Martian by Andy Weir, and the follow up Artemis are 99p each.

I enjoyed The Martian and can recommend if you like sci-fi / space. I've not read Artemis.

podgeandrodge · 10-04-2021 1:08pm

irelandrover wrote: »

I found this website recently.

https://www.thefussylibrarian.com/

I find it very good. get a daily email with a free kindle book. You get to tailor it to your preferences.

The first book on the free list today:

Marrying a Billionaire Guy Christian needed to get to Las Vegas on his jet and present his speech, find someone to marry him in a day to save his business and get back home, but instead, he found himself on a commercial flight, sitting next to a black woman who made flying commercial a living hell, however, it was something about her that made him want to make love to her one minute, and spank her the next.

Pistachios & cream · 10-04-2021 3:34pm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B085WVFHR3/ref=pe_385721_48721101_TE_M1DP
Faye kellermans latest is .99p

noplacehere · 10-04-2021 3:48pm

Cameraman wrote: »

Ballymaloe Cookery Course: Revised Edition is £0.85 today.

Another bargain site I use is https://www.bookgorilla.com/
Has loads of preference options. Prices range from free to just reduced price.
Aimed at US - but most are also no the UK Amazon site

Thank you! Picked up ballymaloe and used their basic soup recipe today. Excellent

VM Varga · 10-04-2021 9:45pm

noplacehere wrote: »

Thank you! Picked up ballymaloe and used their basic soup recipe today. Excellent

Same here. Great bargain.

bigron2109 · 11-04-2021 7:45am

Cameraman wrote: »

Ballymaloe Cookery Course: Revised Edition is £0.85 today.

Another bargain site I use is https://www.bookgorilla.com/
Has loads of preference options. Prices range from free to just reduced price.
Aimed at US - but most are also no the UK Amazon site

I’m trying to buy this, but it’s only showing the Hardcopy available. When I click into versions I can see the Kindle version for £0.99 and I’ve even got a sample sent to my kindle . Is it this happening to anyone else ?

noplacehere · 11-04-2021 8:00am

bigron2109 wrote: »

I’m trying to buy this, but it’s only showing the Hardcopy available. When I click into versions I can see the Kindle version for £0.99 and I’ve even got a sample sent to my kindle . Is it this happening to anyone else ?

You can’t buy books in the app. You have to be on the main website

bigron2109 · 11-04-2021 10:02am

noplacehere wrote: »

You can’t buy books in the app. You have to be on the main website

Thanks a lot. Would have wrecked my head trying to figure that one out.

galwayguy85 · 11-04-2021 11:03am

The best way to save money on Kindle books is to head over to the indian Amazon store and purchase them there. There are services online for creating a fictitious Indian address. The site works with non-Indian credit cards and MFA phone numbers.

Approx 90 rupees to a euro right now. What may be a significant sum of money to someone in that part of the world may only be a price of a cup of coffee to us.

Hey, it’s a global market!! If banks etc can take advantage of fluctuations in exchange rates and vastly different local prices, why can’t the consumer?

As for getting the book to play nice on your IE/UK reg’d Kindle, you’ll need to research that for yourself!!!

noplacehere · 11-04-2021 4:04pm

bigron2109 wrote: »

Thanks a lot. Would have wrecked my head trying to figure that one out.

I forget every time and it’s such a pain

PreCocious · 11-04-2021 4:27pm

noplacehere wrote: »

You can’t buy books in the app. You have to be on the main website

What app ?

I can buy books via the Kindle app and the Amazon app.

Just bought the Paul Bocuse book for 99p

celiam · 11-04-2021 8:07pm

flower tattoo wrote: »

I use this for daily Deals - you can tailor your preferences

bookbub.com

This is the one I use too, it searches the amazon site for free and reduced price books

loyatemu · 12-04-2021 12:35pm

Jon Ronson "Them: Adventures with Extremists" 99p

a deep dive into the world of conspiracy theorists. I've enjoyed some of Ronson's other books, he tackles weighty subjects in a very readable way.

ActingDanClark · 12-04-2021 1:55pm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CXQLRKK?smid=A1G3UP32AZJ14F

'Wake up' by Piers Morgan, his views on wokism

POBox19 · 16-04-2021 3:38pm

80 Kindle Books for £1 Each
The selection refreshes at 23:59 on the 14th of every month.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=5348874031

POBox19 · 17-04-2021 11:59am

Today only, selected Kindle books 'from' 0.99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/deal/d1748d9c?ref=deals_deals_deals-grid_slot-15_965a_dt_dcell_img_15_d1748d9c

Probably quiet a frequent offering TBH.

Zaph · 17-04-2021 12:08pm

POBox19 wrote: »

Today only, selected Kindle books 'from' 0.99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/deal/d1748d9c?ref=deals_deals_deals-grid_slot-15_965a_dt_dcell_img_15_d1748d9c

Probably quiet a frequent offering TBH.

That's their daily deal where they offer a number of books, usually around half a dozen, from 99p. Goes live sometime after midnight every day.

RobertFoster · 18-04-2021 6:04pm

Today's Big Deal: 5 Neil Gaiman Kindle Books on sale

99p each for the next 6 hours:

American Gods
Neverwhere
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Stardust
Anansi Boys

gmisk · 18-04-2021 9:09pm

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/world-book-day-10-free-kindle-books-from-around-the-world-a-single-swallow-the-broken-circle-the-son-and-heir-and-more-at-amazon-3708896

10 free kindle books for world book Day

Sunny Dayz · 22-04-2021 6:10pm

Got Graham Norton’s book A Keeper for £0.86 today on Amazon.

fjon · 22-04-2021 7:02pm

1st Happy Pear book is 86p as well.

ablelocks · 26-04-2021 11:47am

16 Kindle Books on sale to celebrate the Oscars

cee_jay · 26-04-2021 11:49am

The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell is on sale for 99p today only.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stranger-Times-C-K-McDonnell/dp/1787633357

He has written a series of books under Caimh McDonnell which are an excellent, funny read. Have high hopes for this one.

Cartman78 · 26-04-2021 12:15pm

cee_jay wrote: »

The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell is on sale for 99p today only.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stranger-Times-C-K-McDonnell/dp/1787633357

He has written a series of books under Caimh McDonnell which are an excellent, funny read. Have high hopes for this one.

Thanks for that...actually had dismissed it on the daily email today :-)

Didn't realise it was that guy, his other books are decent alright - have read all 4 books in the Dublin Trilogy ;-)

cee_jay · 26-04-2021 12:21pm

Cartman78 wrote: »

Thanks for that...actually had dismissed it on the daily email today :-)

Didn't realise it was that guy, his other books are decent alright - have read all 4 books in the Dublin Trilogy ;-)

There is a 2nd trilogy - the McGarry Stateside trilogy, and follows on from the Dublin trilogy. He has a new book tied into that trilogy due in June I think.

Cartman78 · 26-04-2021 12:26pm

I've read everything he's published I think at this stage.

Very similar to Bateman in style and humour....I'm guess you've already read a few of those as well

cee_jay · 26-04-2021 12:52pm

Cartman78 wrote: »

I've read everything he's published I think at this stage.

Very similar to Bateman in style and humour....I'm guess you've already read a few of those as well

No... tell me more!

Cartman78 · 26-04-2021 2:50pm

cee_jay wrote: »

No... tell me more!

Here you go....https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bateman/e/B000APET3O/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

He has a bunch of series (Mystery Man, Dan Starkey) but they pretty much work as standalone stories as well tbh.

The standard is very high and consistent imho...can't remember ever been disappointed by one of his books...enjoy!

ActingDanClark · 26-04-2021 5:11pm

Cartman78 wrote: »

Here you go....https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bateman/e/B000APET3O/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

He has a bunch of series (Mystery Man, Dan Starkey) but they pretty much work as standalone stories as well tbh.

The standard is very high and consistent imho...can't remember ever been disappointed by one of his books...enjoy!

I'm a Bateman fan myself but curiously he doesn't seem to have a book deal anymore

ActingDanClark · 26-04-2021 5:15pm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07M6ZYNZ4?smid=A1G3UP32AZJ14F
Spotted on hukd!

Zaph · 26-04-2021 6:08pm

For any Bateman fans, if you haven't done so already you should check out Chris Brookmyre, particularly his earlier books. Similar sort of style, crime thrillers with a humorous twist, all very well written and hugely enjoyable. Carl Hiaasen is probably their American equivalent, and is also excellent and worth a read. There are quite often deals on both.

ActingDanClark · 26-04-2021 6:24pm

Zaph wrote: »

For any Bateman fans, if you haven't done so already you should check out Chris Brookmyre, particularly his earlier books. Similar sort of style, crime thrillers with a humorous twist, all very well written and hugely enjoyable. Carl Hiaasen is probably their American equivalent, and is also excellent and worth a read. There are quite often deals on both.

Hiaasen books are insane, brookmyre is a new option thanks

megaten · 27-04-2021 9:57am

The first book in a decent Sci-Fi trilogy, Ancillary Justice is 99p today. Its about a battleships AI who gets trapped in a Human Body and vows revenge against the immortal ruler of the empire she was a part of.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancillary-Justice-NEBULA-ARTHUR-Imperial-ebook/dp/B00BU1DG1S/ref=lp_5400977031_1_4

ThunbergsAreGo · 27-04-2021 4:23pm

Ballymaloe Cookery Course is 89p at the moment.

An absolute bargain for 2000+ pages

ActingDanClark · 28-04-2021 11:30am

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078T893R2?smid=A1G3UP32AZJ14F
Bought this morning- has to be worth €1.14

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