This weekend sale ended but another one will come next weekend…
20% off one item at B&N Website with coupon
Amazon is not everything to everyone (not for lack of trying), if you prefer to buy books from other retailers, the Barnes and Noble website has a new 20% off coupon for one item, coupon code BNFRIEND until 10/10/16. This is good for everything except e-books, Nook devices and the usual exclusions (gift cards, brands that do not allow couponizing of their products, law prohibits couponization of product, etc). Strategically of interest for photography and camera-n-photo books that rarely get discounted OR have the same prices at all retailers. Free shipping with orders of $25+ or if you are a paying member ~ B&N had a Prime-like annual membership before it was cool 🙂
New Prime Benefit: borrow latest Shutterbug, Consumer Reports Magazine Issues and more, plus borrow 1000+ ebooks for FREE
A few days after adding free Audible content to Prime memberships, Amazon is back with a new feature for Prime members, Prime Reading. This feature has two components:
- you can read over 1000 e-books for FREE. You do not own the books, but you can read them for free and take as long as you like to finish them
- monthly selection of Magazine Issues you can borrow and read for FREE, the current selection includes the latest issues from Shutterbug and Consumer Reports, N-Geo Traveler, Pop Mechanics, among others
This is essentially a “Kindle Unlimited Lite” membership, it contains a subset of the ebooks available through that for-pay membership.
You can read as many of them as you like but there is a checkout limit of ten at a time. This of this as your local library, you can only have ten items out at any time, but you can return them and borrow new ones as many times as you like. The magazines count towards the ten item limit.
The magazine selections will change monthly, so there’s no guarantee the same magazine will be available next month. Magazines can only be read using the iOS and Android Kindle apps. You cannot read them with the Cloud Reader, nor the Windows Kindle app, nor using e-readers. eBooks can be read with all options including Cloud Reader and e-readers.
Of the 1000+ books, only one is photography-related (as far as my searches can tell), “How to Archive Family Photos: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organize and Share Your Photos Digitally” by Denise May Levenick.
As usual with the Netflix-style membership, you don’t get to keep any of them, but you can keep reading them as long as you are a paying member.
UPDATE: indeed this is single issues, which you can download to your Kindle app for later reading (eg if without internet connection). Here’s a screenshot of the app with Shutterbug, the October 2016 issue:
Co-Promotion: KINDLE E-BOOK READERS Get DISCOUNTED
To celebrate (okay, sale-a-brate) this new Prime benefit, Amazon is also discounting some of their Kindle e-book readers for Prime members (so they can read all these 1000+ e-books) as follows:
+ Kindle Voyage e-reader for $150
+ Kindle Paperwhite e-reader for $90
+ Entry-Level Kindle e-reader for $50
+ for all the Kindles, you see the discount after you add it to the shopping cart and proceed to the Checkout page
(ENDED) $5 per year Photo Magazines (Print OR Digital) includes Digital Photo PRO
This weekend sale ended…
(ENDED) Sat only: 3-Month Subscription of Texture (Netflix-style magazine service includes Shutterbug, Pop, Outdoor) for $10 total [NEW SUBSCRIBERS ONLY!]
This daily deal expired…
B&N Coupon: $15 off $75+ order (think rarely discounted Photo Books & Camera Guides)
If you are looking to buy photography or camera guides (or any other books), especially ones that rarely get discount, there is a new coupon code for the Barnes and Noble website, coupon BNFALL16 gets you $15 off a purchase of $75+. The coupon excludes e-books and book rentals. Free shipping if your order total is $25+, so if you use this coupon, mathematically you also get free shipping. Coupon expires 9/29/16 at 3am ET.
(ENDED) Photo Magazine Sale: $5 per magazine per year
This weekend special ended, but they typically have new offers every weekend…
Weekend Magazine Sale: Multi-Year Discounts, 3-YRS Pop Photo or Outdoor Pho for $13 per Magazine
The weekend is here and so is a new Weekend Sale at Discount Mags. Their weekend sales now end on Monday night instead of Sunday night. The theme of this sale is multi-year discounts, the more years you sign-up, the bigger the discount. For example, 3-years of Pop Photo are $13, 2-years are $9, 1-year is $5. So you get the better price per year if you sign up for three years. Digital Photo and Outdoor Photographer have similar prices, while Digital Photo PRO is 3-years for $25. These are printed magazines delivered to your front door. You can sign-up as a new subscriber, or renew an existing subscription or buy it as a gift for someone else. These options are individually adjustable per magazine.
If you prefer digital magazines, the Zinio coupon promotion of 40% off with coupon FRESH40 expires Monday night as well. They have a lot more Photography Magazines including many international titles [see earlier post for more on this]
40% off Digital Magazines with coupon (many photography options)
Digital magazine seller Zinio has a new coupon promotion, coupon code FRESH40 gets you 40% off almost all the magazines they carry. The sale is good until 9/19/16. Use the search bar to look for magazines of interest, the ones shown on the aforelinked page are just a subset of what’s eligible. This is a link the Photography Category.
These are digital magazines that you can read using the Zinio website (eg desktops/laptops) along with their iOS and Android and Windows Metro app. This type of a sale is great for international photography magazines whose shipping fees make them too expensive for a physical subscription. The mainstream US photo magazines (Pop, Outdoor, etc) are more expensive at Zinio (even with the coupon) than the weekend DicsountMags physical magazine sales.
To test the coupons, you need a Zinio account and a credit card on file. Here’s an example of 1-Year Amateur Photographer UK subscription (51 digital issues), the price drops from $88~ to $53~ after you enter the coupon (screenshot below):
If there are any magazines you want me to “coupon test”, please leave a comment or use the online contact form.
O’Reilly: 50% off on eBooks and Videos w/coupon
If you are a fan of DRM-free e-books, coupon code B2S6 gets you 50% off eBooks and Videos at the O’Reilly website. They feature some photography-related items and some camera-related guides, search for topics of interest there (eg Nikon, Photoshop, GIMP, etc) to see what they offer. The e-books are DRM-free and are typically available in multiple e-book formats and some updates/correction are included in the price. Coupon expires September 14, 2016 at 8am ET.
NOTE: the coupon is only good for e-books, it does not work with printed books or the “print + ebook” bundles.
(ENDED) Magazine Sale: $5 per magazine per year, Etc
This sale ended but another is coming every weekend…
(ENDED) Five Magazines for $20 total per year (four Photo options) {ends Tuesday Night}
This sale ended but there are new sales every weekend…
(ENDED) Ends Mon PM: $15 off $100+ at BN with coupon
This limited time coupon expired…
(ENDED) Ends Mon PM: Photo Magazines for $4.80 per magazine per year (Pop, Outdoor, Digi, Vid)
This weekend sale expired but there will be another next weekend…
$5 per printed magazine per year: Pop Photo, Outdoor Photographer
The weekend magazine sale at DiscountMags.com is a $5 per magazine per year sale on select titles, including Popular Photography and Outdoor Photographer. These are the only photography magazines participating this time around. These are printed magazines delivered to your doorstep for USA addresses. The usual terms apply, no autorenewals, up to three years per magazine, good for new-subscribers or renewals or gifts for other people. This sale ends Monday night.
Magazine Sale, under $5/year per magazine
The DiscountMags Weekend Sale is good until Monday night, and features the usual three printed photography magazines to be delivered by mail for under $5 per magazine per year: Pop Photo or Outdoor Photographer or Digital Photo. The Digital Photo PRO is $8.54 per year. The usual terms apply, up to three years per magazine, renewals or new subscriptions or gifts. No auto-renewals. These are printed magazines delivered by mail to USA addresses.
Speaking of magazines, if you are a fan of international photography magazines but don’t want to pay high prices for them (cross-border shipping costs more and takes longer) and if you like to read magazines digitally, digital magazine service Zinio has a sale on select Art and Photography magazines. Their US-based magazine prices are not as competitive as DiscountMags above, but their international subscriptions beat the prices of physical subscriptions. These can be read in the Zinio apps or the Zinio website with a browser.
Digital Subscriptions of International Photo magazines for around $10 per year
If you like to read digital editions of international magazines (which are typically a lot more expansive as a printed subscription), digital magazine seller Zinio has an Art & Photography Magazine Sale for around $10 per magazine per year.
Their big publisher US-based magazines (Pop Photo, Outdoor, Digital Pho) prices are not competitive with the weekly printed offers from DiscountMags (eg this weekend’s sale), but they offer Australia’s “Photo Review” for $10.62 for 1-year (four issues), Professional Photography for $10 for 1-year (three issues), Digital Camera World for $10 for 1-year (three issues). You may recognize many of them from back when there were bookstores will fully stocked newsstands on almost every street corner 🙂
PS: there are magazines with very similar names that are published in different countries, so do pay attention to the detailed listings.
PS2: Zinio magazines can be read with a web browser on a computer or using their mobile apps (iTunes, Google Play, Windows).
Weekend Magazine Sale – $5/year/magazine as usual
UPDATE: the sale continues on Monday 8/8/16…
Another weekend, another Weekend Sale at DiscountMags which recently added digital subscriptions, so now you have to pay attention to the listings. The digital subscriptions say (Digital) after the magazine’s name and have a “Powered by Zinio” tagline. This weekend sale is the standard weekend sale:
Printed Magazines
+ $5 per magazine per year for Pop Photo or Digital Photo or Outdoor Photographer
+ $9 per year for Digital Photo Pro
+ the usual terms, up to three years, new/renewal/gifts, magazines delivered by mail to USA addresses
Digital Subscriptions
+ $6.75 for 1-year of Smart Photography
+ $7.60 for 1-year of HD Video Pro
+ digital subscriptions through Zinio
+ only 1-year available, either New or Renewal
Some Printed Magazines include Digital Downloads
Some of the printed magazines delivered by mail also include a digital download, sometimes it’s the magazine itself, sometimes it’s bonus items. Items with this option have a “Digital Download Included”, eg look at the listing for Wired or ESPN or Vanity Fair
(ENDED) Three Magazines for $12 Total for 1-Year (ends Wedn PM)
Oops, I did the time-math wrong, this expired Tuesday night, not Wednesday night…
20% off one item at Barnes & Noble website
Barnes and Noble is still live and kicking and until 7/31/16, coupon code BNWILD gets you 20% off a single item at the Barnes and Noble website. This is a good idea if you want to get a photography book or camera guide that is rarely discounted or has the same prices everywhere. Excluded are e-books, Nook devices, Legos and a few more items.
1-Year Digital Photo for $5 (Digital Subscription)
The DiscountMags Weekend Sale post got me looking for magazines, and sure enough, for a limited time, you can get 1-Year Digital Photo digital subscription through the Zinio service and apps for $5 for 1-year. This is part of their Limited Time Sale (no expiration date is mentioned). Zinio subscriptions can be read in a Web Browser along with their apps for iOS, Google Play, Windows Metro (Kindle Fire can sideload the Android apk).
DiscountMags adds Digital-Only Subscriptions: Shutterbug for $9/yr, Smart Photography for $6.68/yr; also some Printed Mags get Digital Content
The weekend is upon us and with it we have another Weekend Magazine Sale at DiscountMags, now with a new addition. In addition to printed magazines, they are also offering digital subscriptions (redeemed through the Zinio service/app). Digital subscriptions mention this in the listings (Digital) and have a “Powered by Zinio” with a “?” explainer. Here’s a screenshot of a digital one:
Of camera and photo interest:
+ Popular Photographer for $5/year, up to 3 years, PRINTED
+ Shutterbug for $9/year, 1 year only, DIGITAL
+ Smart Photography for $6.68/year, 1 year only, DIGITAL
+ various $5/year magazines: Wired, Popular Science, ESPN, CNet, etc
+ see them all at the Weekend Magazine Sale
Some Printed Magazines now include Digital content
Another new feature at DiscountMags is that a subset of the Printed magazines now include Digital content to go with it. The eligible magazines mention this with the “Digital Download Included” in their section. You can use your browser’s in-page search feature to search for that phrase. Pop Photo is not eligible for this, but other non-photography magazines are, here’s a screenshot for Wired:
Digital content varies by magazine. For example, Wired offers this using their own Wired app (iPad, Nook, Kindle Fire [not sure why they don’t have a Google Play option]). ESPN offers ESPN Insider access, and such. Check each magazine of interest to see what and how they offer this.
PS: I haven’t tried any of the digital options yet, so I don’t know how they work. If you have any existing subscription, it may also be eligible if the offer is available through the publisher’s website. Simply follow the instructions as given by the magazine’s website.
2-Year Photography Magazine Subscription for $9 per magazine (Popular Pho, Outdoor Pho, Digi Pho)
The weekend is here, and so are the DiscountMags Weekend Magazine Specials, the theme this time around are discounted 2-year subscriptions, with three photography magazines going for $9 per magazine per 2-year subscription (Popular Photography, Digital Photo, Outdoor Photographer), while Digital Photo PRO goes for $15 for the 2-year period.
Other options include the ESPN Magazine or Popular Science for $5 each for a 2-year period, Wired for $9 for the 2-year period. The only subscription duration option is 2-years for this promotion. These are good for new subscribers or renewals or gifts. These are printed magazines delivered to USA addresses. Offer ends Sunday night.
PS: “Pho” in the blog-post title is for Photography/er. Actual Pho dishes or recipes are not included 🙂
(ENDED) 6-month Subscriptions for 99c Total (then becomes Auto-Renewal) ~ includes Pop Photo
This offer ended too…
(ENDED) $5 per magazine per year: Pop Photo or Outdoor Pho
This weekend ended but rumor has it another weekend is less than seven days away 🙂
$5 per magazine per year: Pop Photo OR Outdoor Photographer or Digital Photo
This weekend’s DiscountMags Magazine Sale ends on Tuesday night and it is the standard weekend sale, $5 per year per magazine for Pop Photo OR Outdoor Photographer OR Digital Photo and $9 per year on Digital Photo Pro. A variety of other non-photo magazines are participating. The usual terms apply, printed magazines delivered to USA addresses, no auto-renewals, up to three years, offer good for new customers or renewing subscriptions or gifts.
Thursday: 1-Year Pop Photo for $5 with coupon
The Thursday deal of the day at DiscountMags is the Popular Photography magazine going for $5 per year when you enter coupon code 99790 over there. The usual terms apply (up to three years, renewals or existing subscriptions, shipped to USA addresses, no autorenewal).
(ENDED) 3-Year Magazine Subscription for $13 total (Pop or DP or Outdoor) [Digital Photo PRO for $19]
This weekend sale ended…
(ENDED) Ends Mon PM: $5 per magazine per year: Pop Photo or Outdoor Photographer
This weekend offer ended…
Barnes & Noble Coupon: 20% off One Item and Free Shipping (think Camera/Photo Books)
If you are looking for photography or camera physical books (or any other printed books), especially ones that rarely get discounted, there is a new Father’s Day coupon promotion at the Barnes and Noble website. Coupon BNLOVEDAD gets you 20% off One Item AND free shipping (even if you are not a member or place a $25+ order). The coupon can be redeemed once per customer, and expires June 15, 2016 at 2:59am Eastern.
Free shipping is eligible for items with ” an availability of “Usually ships within 24 hours” on the product page” per the coupon restrictions. Also excluded are NOOK devices, NOOK Books, LEGO items (in Toys & Games Department) and Gift Cards.
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