I am a touch annoyed with eHarlequin.com at the moment. My order is still not here. This makes me sad. But fictionwise wants to make it all better by giving me free Harlequin ebooks.
For a limited time you too can down load The Mistress’s Secret by Julia James and Wrapped and Ready by Julie Kenner for free. The best part is they are MultiFormat Harlequin Romance Novelets! Yes, no teddypig DRM is the devil rants! (which it is and the reason I don’t buy Harlequin in ebook and the reason WHY I am still waiting for my books to arrive)
I have never read one of Harlequin’s mini’s and regular price is about .99 cents at the eHarlequin ebook store so you aren’t saving a bundle here but free, is free. What can it hurt? Go check it out. And while you are there get Heidi Betts (50% micro pay) new Desire Christmas in His Royal Bed. Since I am still waiting for it to come in the mail, tell me if it is any good.
Or you could get The Sheik and the Christmas Bride by Susan Mallery. Wasn’t a favorite of mine but you might like it and right now it has a 50% micro pay too. Just look at all the Susan Mallery you can buy or rebuy for your collection. Winter Roses by Diana Palmer is there as well, I haven’t had a chance to read this yet, someone scared me about all HR having slamming doors. But the cover goes so well with the blog, sadly they don’t have as many Palmer titles. Seduced for the Inheritance by Jennifer Lewis is another book they have up for the nifty 50% micro pay. I liked it. Much better than Jennifer Lewis’s first book, which was a Desire as well. Will try to review them soon.
They have a whole bunch of Harlequin Historicals! The Horseman by Jillian Hart, The Rake and the Rebel by Mary Brendan, Bodine’s Bounty or A Western Winter Wonderland are all available and excellent reads. Oh they have A Trace of Memory, I have been thinking I need that one!
Or you could pick up two I am currently reading Bedded By Her Lord by Denise Lynn and have started Christmas Wedding Belles.
Sorry I could go on forever… and really all you need to spend is 5 buck, the fictionwise min. If you don’t you get charged a huge fee of .50 cents. Do keep in mind all Harlequin ebooks EXCEPT the two free ones do have DRM. So if you are against that or like me just can’t screw with it because it always gives you a hard time – pay the .50 or check out the romance section for DRMfree ebooks. Or you can do what I did and click on the link below and order them in print, if they are still available, and wait…
Can you buy these in LIT format? Then you can follow my easy peasy instructions for removing LIT DRMs.
pssst… what’s DRM?
Thanks Bev, I’m glad you asked that question! I need that answer too.
Oh, and the word “FREE” is like the bell and Pavlov’s dogs for me. “where?where?where?”
Thanks!!
teddy can best answer that… it is digital right managament… I think
LOL
Basically if you buy a book in print it is yours. You can pick it up and take it with you anywhere right? If you buy a book in e and it has the evol DRM you are pretty much stuck with it being where ever you download it. This would suck for you miss many computers in the house. If you were to download it to your office and want to put it on your ereader, or computer in x room or laptop to read it later you couldn’t. You could only read it in your office.
It is to help prevent privacy, sharing or the selling of ebooks. But really there are ways around (cougheddypigsblogcough) but it takes work and thinking about crap I don’t want to screw with. So the general answer for me is to avoid any ebooks with DRM.
And the people who would try and profit off ebooks and sell them when they shouldn’t will have no problems stripping it of the DRM. So *I* think it punishes the wrong people.
Tracy if you click on the titles of the two books that I said are FREE it will take you to fictionwise. They are Harlequin Mini’s and really only .99 AT eHarlequin. But hey any excuse right *g*. If you don’t spend 5bucks on top of that it will cost you .50 in a processing fee. Whatever the hell that is.
So really… get an ebook and get two free. If you like categories I put a couple of ideas in the post. If you have about ten bucks to spend, and again read categories or need to try them, pick some (really there are more books than JUST categories with the micro pay discount) with the MicroPay Discount thing.
So if you were to get the Betts, Mallery and two free minis you would spend about 10 now and get about 5 dollars in a rebate to use on any fictionwise ebook. I don’t know if fictionwise is the better deal all the way around (books on board seems to have grand prices but are all DRM) but this seems like a good deal.
All you HAVE to spend to avoid the fifty cent fee is five bucks. Hope that helps. Jane of Dear Author does a ton of ebook posts, one every sunday too help newbies. If you don’t already you should check her out.
Sybil, sorry, my joke fell flat. I followed the links and downloaded the stories. I was just saying that I’m genetically wired for a good deal. I’ll read anything that’s FREE! LOL
seems those two free offers are due as i couldn’t find any free dl after entering those links…sigh….