This was a daily deal, but as of 6/6/16 PM the sale continues for one of the two e-books, the Humans Of New York [continues as of 6/6/16 PM] by photographer Brandon Stanton.

The sale on the “Stories” version ended: Humans Of New York: Stories [corrected link]

The nature of the lightning deals, the one time I didn’t post them ahead of time, they featured an item that sold out quickly… The book offers previously mentioned in this post ended…

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This lightning deal expired…

I did not get around to posting the Lightning Deals schedule last night, but I “caught” one shortly after going live, the Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 Classroom in a Book by Evans and Straub is on sale for $22.58 in paperback format at Amazon. Free shipping for Prime members or with a $25+ order (of books) or $49+ of general purpose items. Non-Prime members can start buying it at 1:30pm ET. It is 19% claimed as of 1:24pm ET.

The National Geographic store has a special promotion for skywatchers. If you spend $100+ on more on items that are part of their Skywatching Collection, you will receive the “National Geographic Guide to the Night Sky Special Issue” magazine for FREE.

There is no coupon code, but you have to manually add the magazine to the shopping cart (it’s at the top of the aforelinked page). The promotion explains: “For the free promotion, please add the National Geographic Guide to the Night Sky Special Issue Magazine to your cart. Once your cart has the qualifying $100 or more from the Skywatching Collection and the National Geographic Guide to the Night Sky Special Issue Magazine, the promotion will be applied.”

Offer ends 4/13/16 at 11:59 pacific time.

This lightning deal ended… For future action, check the Amazon Gold Box…

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If you like to read a lot of ebooks, for a limited time during the Valentine shopping season, Amazon has a 25% off discount on Prepaid Kindle Unlimited (KU) subscriptions. With this prepaid promotion, you get 6 months for $45, or 12 months for $90, or 24 months for $180. The price will be discounted automatically in the shopping cart when you reach the Checkout page (top right corner will have the 25% off discount factored in). You can delete it from the shopping cart if you just want to check the price. With the discount, it comes out to $7.50 per month with the prepaid options.

There are a handful of Camera and Photo ebooks that are part of KU. This list was created in October 2014 (at the main blog) so you can get a feel for it. Please keep in mind that new books have been added since then, and some may have been removed since that list was posted. Many of the camera and photo books have pictures and diagrams and menus, so bigger screens (PCs, laptops, tablets, big smartphones) are better suited than black and white e-ink readers. In addition to photo-related ebooks, if you like to read a lot of fiction and non-fiction, especially from non-major publishers, this is a good way to go through a lot of books – whether you do the prepaid or month to month subscription.

Kindle Unlimited is typically a $10/mo month-to-month no-contract service (like Netflix but for ebooks). Just like Netflix, only a percentage of all available ebooks are participating, mostly non-major publishers and self-published authors. You can checkout up to ten ebooks at any time. You can borrow each book for as little or as long as you like while a paying subscriber. You do not own any of these ebooks. You can switch books as many times as you like during a month, but you can only have ten ebooks out at any given time (think of it like a brick and mortar library system). Some audiobooks are also included in Kindle Unlimited (through seamless transition to Audible) .

In parallel, Amazon has a sale of their own Fire Tablets and eBook Readers.

These daily deals expired…

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