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Awesome opportunity to snag one of the Coming Together charity anthologies for half price!  ARe has waived its commission on these titles, so 100% of the LIST price goes to charity.

As noted in ARe’s most recent Wildfire newsletter, Coming Together has two available titles which benefit recovery efforts in Haiti: 2010’s INTO THE LIGHT and 2005’s HURRICANE RELIEF EDITION

In addition, each purchase of AL FRESCO preserves half an acre of rainforest.

Take a sip of the erotic cocktail, and celebrate the diversity of desire.

(Yes, it’s shameless whoring—but it’s for a damned fine cause!)

So glad I caught this!  I was just taking down my Amazon links on my book pages. (Haven’t had any love for Amz since LONG before ebooks and the Kindle, so it’s no skin off my nose.)

This will be a GREAT replacement!

Thank you Lori and Omnilit!  And SBSarah too, as always!

LK

I think this is a terrific idea. In support of the effort I’ve asked Allromanceebooks to offer my M/M contemporary novel A BIT OF ROUGH as a free download for the weekend. No commission for anyone just a free read for romance lovers!

Laura Baumbach

Sarah, maybe I’m doing something wrong. But I’m at All Romance and I put the code into the discount box and pressed the “Calculate Discount” button. And I’m not getting any sort of discount at all, much less 50% off. Am I doing something wrong or could there be a glitch with the code? Thanks!

Super cool, Sarah! Let the mega-corporate types waste time tusslin’, I’m going to go buy some books!  I’ve been meaning to grab some Cassie Ryan titles and glad you mentioned Jasper Fforde, my all-time fave and haven’t read them all.
Meanwhile, would love to see this as a chance for readers to check out my books.  My genie romance The Third Wish is there and is the first in the Shadow of Esagil series, as well as Saturnalia, a short sizzling tale of desperation, desire, and wishes fulfilled (another genie tale without the rug burn) ; >
gotta go do some buyin’ & reading!!
Cheers!

I’m trying to buy Laura Kinsale’s Seize the Fire, but it only seems to be available in Microsoft eBook form?  I like my Adobe Digital Editions, which doesn’t seem to be available.  Am I missing something?

Thanks for the discount info.  However, that was painful.  I will not be ordering from them again.  I can’t figure out how to get the books on my iPod touch, so now I am stuck reading the Sandra Hill books (the Cajun Cowboy, Red-Hot Cajun, Viking in Love and Viking Heat) on my laptop.  Bummer.  This is what people don’t understand about Amazon.  They make it painless to order books.

More power to Amazon in their battle with the publishers.

Awesome! Thanks for the tip! I’m going shopping!

@lorenet - Never fear!  It’s not quite as complicated as it seems.  If you download the Stanza app for your iPod Touch you can follow the instructions on their site for transferring your files:

http://www.lexcycle.com/faq#3n619

Good luck!

Ouch. I had a list of 9 books I wanted to purchase and then I realized that they might not all be in the format I want (kindle-ready). Cue the painful process of going back to each book’s page to see the formats they’re available in. This site is SLOW. I had to cut back to just 3 books.

Does anyone know if there’s any way to filter it so you only see the books in the format you want?

Go forth and shop! I know I will. I’m very fond of ARe, and they’re very author-friendly.

Second Alessia’s push of the Coming Together titles. (Of course I hope you’ll check out mine too.)

@lorenet - if you contact us, we’ll be happy to help you. You can use the form at the bottom of our website to send in a support request or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

If you’re wanting to read on an iPhone or iPod touch, you can do so using the Stanza app, but the only secure format that’s compatible is the secure eReader. Rexe already posted some info on the app, but we’d be happy to walk you through it and discuss your options. We carry thousands and thousands of eBooks that would be compatible with your iPhone.

@misti - If the book is available on our site in non-secure Adobe, non-secure Mobipocket, or non-secure HTML, we can wirelessly send it to your Kindle. If you go to our FAQ and search the work “Amazon” you’ll find set-up instructions for the transfer process. Or you can contact customer service.

Lori James
All Romance eBooks, LLC

WOOT!  Or \/\/()()+!, or however that goes.  15 books for $25, including the new Laura Kinsale, and I am SET for the next couple of weeks.  Yay!  And thank you!

It was a pretty slow site, though.  Too many bitches on it?

Just in case anybody’s reading who has a stake in it, it would be very, very helpful to see the available formats of the books BEFORE I bought them.  And it would sure be nice if I could browse by author.

Awesome and thank you. Just bought Laura Kinsale’s not to mention bunches more. And no downloadng problems here.

I knew when I saw this post that it was going to be painful.  $105 *after* the discount.

My hulu.com watching buddy laughed at me.

@Suze

I’m sorry you experienced some slowness while you were on. We’ve had unprecedented traffic today and several of the publishers have anxiously been running sales reports. You can see the available file formats prior to purchase, they are listed on the book detail page. And you can browse by author. The search box has a drop down menu next to it. You can switch out the selection to browse by author, title, publisher or series. Additionally, once you find one book by an author you like, his/her other titles are just a click away. There’s a hot link on the detail page that will take you to the author page where you can view all titles. If you purchased 15 books, you probably earned a Buy-10-Get-1 Free code. It will be at the bottom of your library. Check for it, they expire after 10 days. Looks like you have 1 more book to buy, only that one will be on us.

Lori James
All Romance eBooks

The only problem I had today was one book I bought was just code- gobble dee gook, un-readable. I sent a support request, hopefully I her back soon.

Did anyone else buy Fortune Cookie Magic book one? Was it screwy for anyone else, or just my dumb luck?

The advantage of logging on in the middle of the night!  I had no problems with the site and managed to complete my collection of Julia Spencer-Fleming (I got hooked on the first two free books and read the remainder at my library).  Once I got my Adobe drm working with my Sony reader everything was fine.

Thanks Sarah and everyone at OmniLit!

Great offer, but I am being driven mad by the slow response of the website. It took almost 30 minutes of constantly retrying to get back to my cart to check out. While I did order a number of books (19), I have been trying for 40 minutes to download the books. I cannot get any pages on the site to load. Ack! Everyone must be trying the late night trick.

Took me a little while, but I managed to get in and get four Mandy M Roth books, a Shannon Stacey, Bianca D’Arc, Lauren Dane, a Shiloh Walker, some Maya Banks, and a bootload more.
My CC is slightly cranky, but I couldn’t resist the bargain!

“let72” if the site had been working slightly better I would have probably let my cart get to 72 books..

Amazing opportunity!  While I twiddle my thumbs waiting for Amazon to Kindlize my latest, [i]The Bride and the Buccaneer is available on sale at AllRomance!

Thank you, AllRomance and OmniLit and a huge thank you to the Smart Bitches!!!

Thanks for the offer, Sarah!

One of my chaptermates just shared a link to what I suspect is an excellent post by Tobias Buckell about the current poopstorm brewing between Amazon and Macmillan.

As an ebook author I feel duty-bound understand everything that goes down in the electronic publishing biblioverse, but I simply don’t. Stuff like this makes my jutting lip quiver until merciful folks like Buckell come along and cut it all up into chewable bites for me.

I have racked up a fair amount of Micropay dollars this weekend on Fictionwise - they have a sale on Romance books, too. So what did i buy?
I hac a look at the A and B graded reviews, and made a little list. Two, actually: one for this weekend and Fictionwise, and one with books I want that Fictionwise won’t sell me, yet that Books On Board might.
I bought books by Gail Dayton, Joanna Bourne, Jennifer Crusie, Christine Merrill, Edith Layton, Rachel Vincent and G A Aiken among others. (Thanks for the tip about the last two authors, Sarah, those books looked hot!)
I did not get to buy Bet Me by Crusie, that one was a not-available-outside-the-US title (and Books On Board had it only in audio, which is not of interest to me), so i suppose that if I want to read that one, I must look in the torrents. Drat.
Still, I am set for a while now. Maybe by the time Fictionwise has the next Romance sale they will want to sell it to me.

Going broke “saving” money

Lol, agreed! Wasn’t planning on spending any money this weekend, but I can’t pass up an opportunity like this - thanks!

Well, I did have a nice, fat shopping cart - but apparently I’m not allowed to buy most of them because I’m not in the USA. Bah, humbug, etc.

Yesterday afternoon I bought the new Laura Kinsale and several of Janice Kay Johnson’s backlist (I was introduced to her via the free Harlequin ebook and her excellent writing has me looking at categories in a completely different light.) Also got The Rules of Gentility by Janet Mullany. I’ve wanted to try her out ever since I read a review of her second book—here? Or at Dear Author?

Then last night, I called a friend recovering from surgery and told her to go check out the sale.

This morning, I’ve discovered OmniLit has EVEN MORE BOOKS if you search their portal. (Can you tell I’m not the most sophisticated e-user? Now I’m off to buy Wen Spencer’s A Brother’s Price. Must do my part for Authors Named Spencer.

And

ALERT TO NEWBIES ABOUT YOUR FREEBIES

AllRomance.com and Omnilit.com have Buy-10-Get-1 Free Reader Loyalty Programs. When you buy 10 titles, you’ll receive a free download code at the bottom of your library. Please check your library and note the expiration dates. You might have more shopping to do - on us! Codes must be used prior to the expiration and there are a few restrictions.

1) The code will deduct the price of the least expensive book in your cart, so you don’t want free reads in there when using your code.
2) The codes are only good for single titles - not bundles or Harlequin One-Click Buys.
3) Books over $25.00 are excluded.
         
@diremommy

We received your help request and have already requested a replacement file from the publisher. It looks like that one is most definitely corrupt. I expect we’ll hear in short order and customer service will be in touch with you about options.

Lori James
All Romance eBooks

Woo hoo for the buy 10-get-1-free code!  This deal just keeps getting sweeter!

A question about formats: something was said above about AllRomance and OmniLit being able to send non-secure formats wirelessly to the Kindle.  But I can still download the secure formats to my computer and then transfer to the Kindle with my cable, right?  And the I want Mobipocket for the Kindle?

Sorry, these are probably dumb questions, but I’ve never bought ebooks from anywhere but Amazon, and I don’t want to screw it up!  And thanks for the amazing deal!  This book order is going to keep me in reading material for a very long time.

@Becky

Although there’s info out there on how to get DRM Mobipocket onto a Kindle, we don’t recommend you try it. It’s not supported and once you download a DRM version, it’s non-refundable. Amazon’s model allows customers to add non-secure titles to their Kindle, but DRM titles are (sadly) controlled by Amazon. We’d love it if they would open that up. Sony, Bookeen, Nook, Cool-ER, and many other devices allow readers to add DRM titles. If this has changed in the last minute (in this industry that’s certain possible) someone should set me straight. But my understanding is no outside DRM with the Kindle.

@Lena

I’m sorry you’ve bumped up against a territory/rights issue with some of the books. Most publishers contract for worldwide rights with ebooks these days, but there are exceptions. :(

Lori James
All Romance eBooks

Well, crud.  Of the 32 books I was planning to buy, only 3 of them are non-DRM titles.

Wow! great deal and a responsive customer service. My website access issues are resolved (I picked the server reset time to shop…bummer) and I am happily spending money I was not planning again. Lori, thanks for your help.

I use Calibre to convert formats to .mobi which is ok for Kindle.  Calibre is free (Yay!) and easy to use.  It recognizes when I plug in my KIndle and it is easy-peasy to transfer books to it.  I assume that it will do the same for other ereaders but I have not attempted anything other than my Kindle.

This 50% off code is AWESOME!  I am having MUCH fun shopping and have spent only $25 for 12 books!!!  Now I am going back for more….

Thanks for this generous sale Lori! Having shopped in your book store before, the experience is very quick & easy. I really appreciate that. And thanks for the coupon!

Smart shopping, I preordered (in addition to several current released other books) the the new Jill Shalvis & Madeline Hunter. Looking forward to those.

Thanks again Lori!

Thanks Lori (and Sarah)!  I’d never purchased anything from ARe or Omni before but have purchased 25 books in the past two days.  My Sony is very happy.

Okay, this may be considered pimping my article, but yesterday I wrote an article about the Amazon/Macmillan dispute. http://bit.ly/amazonpullsbooks 
I’m posting this only b/c I thought some of you might be interested in a comment about the “attack” by Macmillan and it’s “tyranny” and the “greed” of the publishers.
I can’t say what I really want to “eBook Resistance”, the commenter, since I wrote the article. :)

Thanks, Lori, for being so quick, I just downloaded the working version of the book!

(i will not buy more books i will not buy more books)

question for the kinda newbie- how do I know if it’s DRMed? I know I bought one book that Calibre wouldn’t convert, but I just opened my Kindle folder on my computer, and dragged the file into it, and it read it fine.

word line72- if I’m not careful, I’ll be in line with 72 books or spending 72 bucks on books.

Thanks for the heads-up, Lori. Will go back to get my buy 10-get 1 free code. I bought enough yesterday, I might have qualified twice…

I also sent in an email to customer service. ONly had one problem with downloads and that was with Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest. Listing showed Adobe ebook and epub formats, but once I went to click thru and download the file I received an error message that the item wasn’t available.

Pre-order???  I can pre-order???? Heading back to omnilit…

This is a great deal, but the sites (both of them) are AGONIZINGLY slow.  Like more than 5 minutes to load a page kind of slow.  Don’t have the time to sit in front of the computer, sadly, so I think I’m going to miss out on this one…..and I was really looking forward to the Kinsale!
Ironically, my spamword is “long82”

Ooh, high time for baby’s first Kinsale. Um, the baby being me, not an actual baby. Don’t worry. Plus I may buy The Viking’s Captive Princess, as my husband’s convinced he’s chock full of Norse lineage (when really he’s just got a powerful beard.)

Sites are slow, though—I feel like I’m on page 325 and still waiting for the bed scene. Fingers crossed it’ll be worth it.

@diremommy

How do you know if the file has DRM applied? If it says “secure” in front of it - Secure Adobe, Secure ePub, Secure Mobipocket, etc. Otherwise it should be open format.

A big you are welcome to all those sending thanks to me and ARe’s co-owner, Barbara Perfett. But this wouldn’t have happened without Sarah and all of the folks who have been working this weekend - John, Cat, Julie and Digimonkey. Poor Digi has had to reset our server more than once.

As you can imagine, the traffic has been HUGE this weekend. Hence the periods of slowness. In addition to the customers, we have a number of very happy publishers who can’t seem to resist checking their sales data (and I can’t blame them). We appreciate your patience and all of the kind words. This is a great lead in to our big 28 Days of Heart Campaign and series release.

@Ahlison

Yes you can pre-order and all of the 28 Days of Heart Novellas are available now. You can click on the banner at the top of the website and browse the series. Proceeds are going to the America Heart Association. The Foreword was written by the fabulous Charlaine Harris. The books themselves from best-selling and up-and-coming authors. And today the series is 50% off!

Jessica Bacon said on…
01.31.10 at 11:03 AM
Okay, this may be considered pimping my article, but yesterday I wrote an article about the Amazon/Macmillan dispute. http://bit.ly/amazonpullsbooks 
I’m posting this only b/c I thought some of you might be interested in a comment about the “attack” by Macmillan and it’s “tyranny” and the “greed” of the publishers.

I’m not interested in the comments but your article sucks.

“It seems Macmillan, along with many other publishers are unhappy with Amazon’s $9.99 e-book pricing and have asked the colossal online book seller to raise the prices.”

Asked to raise prices?  Are you kidding me?  They TOLD Amazon that they’ll sell Macmillan ebooks at the price they decide or they’ll punish them by not allowing their new releases on the Kindle.  Amazon rightly told them to go fuck themselves and the horse they rode in on. 

Macmillan can sell their products to Amazon for whatever price they want to and in turn Amazon can sell those products for whatever freaking price they want to—even taking a loss as they’ve been doing.  Macmillan screwed themselves by not realizing Amazon wasn’t just going to bend over and take whatever shitty deal Macmillan offered just to keep their books on the Kindle.  Their shop, their rules and they’ll do just fine without Macmillan—can Macmillan and their authors say the same?

Thank youuuuuuuuuuu—or, y’know, not, given the final total in the shopping cart. *g* I ended up with a bunch of Heyers, and some Kleypas and Shalvis representing for the contemporaries, and Tere Michaels for the m/m angle.

Woo-hoo!  Just got all my choices for 20 buckeroos.  Wolf Hall, two volumes of 1001 Arabian Nights, and three books from the 28 Days of Heart promotion (so I’m getting entertained and helping the American Heart Association!)

If anyone is looking for a mystical romp with a genie and lots of heart, check out ANGELS & GENIES.

Thanks Smart Bitches & OmniLit/All Romance eBooks!!!

Just did a little Sunday shopping and spent $10.99 for four books. Also downloaded six free books.  Thanks SB!!

Tabetha,
I’m sorry you thought my article “sucked”. I personally thought it was very written. I won’t bother to argue w/you, especially via this forum. I will say that you seem to be missing the point that both readers and authors are getting hurt by this.

I know many are following this issue…
Amazon capitulates: http://tinyurl.com/yd3hezf

This sale coincided perfectly with a huge snowstorm in Nashville. I spent so much on books, but they’re all a great deal and helped to pass the time. Thanks!!

Thanks for this!  I bought a bunch of books - Sarah Mayberry’s backlist (wonderful contemporaries!) and Nalini Singh’s early books I haven’t read yet.  There was so much to choose from.  And now I’ve got a free book credit to use.  ARe rocks!

@ Lori James

Out of pure curiosity, are there any stats you can share with us about how it went this weekend?  I know things were still rockin’ at 10 o’clock last night, because I had a heck of a time getting on to buy a last couple of books.

I have a Kindle and I haven’t been able to buy from these dealers since there are so few non-DRM Mobi versions available.  I downloaded Calibre but haven’t been able to take DRM protected books, convert them and load them onto my Kindle. Sigh!  and I’m ususually pretty techie.  I HATE, HATE, HATE DRM!  Don’t these companies realize that they’ve lost sales—and not just of these books on sale.  Becky above had 32 books picked out but only 3 were non-DRM.  Me, I don’t even bother looking at these sites any more.  I’ll just take my money elsewhere or wait until I can crack the DRM FOR THE BOOKS I"M WILLING TO BUY!!!  Gosh they make it hard for those of us you have no intension of stealing books when thieves probably have it all figured out how to get around DRM.  [Hey the word is soviet72—that’s what it feels like with this DRM shit!]

I have a Kindle and I haven’t been able to buy from these dealers since there are so few non-DRM Mobi versions available.  I downloaded Calibre but haven’t been able to take DRM protected books, convert them and load them onto my Kindle. Sigh!  and I’m ususually pretty techie.  I HATE, HATE, HATE DRM!  Don’t these companies realize that they’ve lost sales—and not just of these books on sale.

@joykeen - I just want to make sure you know that DRM is a publisher requirement - not the ebook stores.  I also hate DRM but held my nose as I bought books this weekend in secure ePub.

Thanks for this! I got a couple Samhain novellas that I’d had on my wishlist for a while, Courtney Milan’s “Proof by Seduction.” Can’t wait for the commute reading.

Wow!  I just bought 13 books for under 15 bucks from All Romance and FictionWise.  That includes 6 free from FictionWise by using rewards credit.  I searched for mostly older titles that were not “secure”.  Those can be more of a hassle.

Thanks for the awesomesause Sarah and Lori. I’d been teetering on the brink of buying myself a reader, and the 50% off sale tipped the scales.  (Ew, mixed metaphor.)

I’m now the drooling owner of a dazzling red Sony Touch, which is happily loaded with books and short stories from All Romance. 

Among other things, I snagged all of Jill Shalvis’s stuff that’s still only available at trade paperback prices, :D No more waiting for that fix!

Thanks again! You ladies made my weekend!

Just read G.A Aiken’s “What a Dragon Should Know” - SOOO good. if you like dragons, wow, you’ll be happy.