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Crazy Good e-Book Bargains

Toliver

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This morning, I picked up a couple of Kindle version of books I've previously borrowed from the library and liked.  Both have been mentioned before in this thread, sometimes priced a little higher.

 

Cathy Barrow's Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet & Savory Slab Pies is priced @ 2.99.  All these recipes are designed to be made in a quarter sheet pan and the recipes are pretty much evenly split between sweet and savory pies. On Amazon, this is marked as a limited time deal.  Not sure what that means.  This one is also $2.99 on Amazon.ca.  Sadly, the others listed below are not.

 

Melissa Clark's Comfort in an Instant: 75 Comfort Food Recipes for Your Pressure Cooker, Multicooker, and InstantPot®: A Cookbook is currently $2.99.   A good Instant Pot cookbook.  

 

Some recent chatter here about donabe prompted me to pick up Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking by Naoko Takei Moore and Kyle Connaughton for $2.99. I know nothing about this book but I figured I'm bound to learn something as I know nothing about the subject either. 

 

The Kindle version of David Lebovitz's L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home is currently $4.99.  Not exactly crazy bargain territory but I've been wanting to read it so I may cave anyway.  Eat Your Books shows 27 recipes in this one. I'd buy it mostly to read. 

 

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5 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

This morning, I picked up a couple of Kindle version of books I've previously borrowed from the library and liked.  Both have been mentioned before in this thread, sometimes priced a little higher.

 

Cathy Barrow's Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet & Savory Slab Pies is priced @ 2.99.  All these recipes are designed to be made in a quarter sheet pan and the recipes are pretty much evenly split between sweet and savory pies. On Amazon, this is marked as a limited time deal.  Not sure what that means.  This one is also $2.99 on Amazon.ca.  Sadly, the others listed below are not.

 

Melissa Clark's Comfort in an Instant: 75 Comfort Food Recipes for Your Pressure Cooker, Multicooker, and InstantPot®: A Cookbook is currently $2.99.   A good Instant Pot cookbook.  

 

Some recent chatter here about donabe prompted me to pick up Donabe: Classic and Modern Japanese Clay Pot Cooking by Naoko Takei Moore and Kyle Connaughton for $2.99. I know nothing about this book but I figured I'm bound to learn something as I know nothing about the subject either. 

 

The Kindle version of David Lebovitz's L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home is currently $4.99.  Not exactly crazy bargain territory but I've been wanting to read it so I may cave anyway.  Eat Your Books shows 27 recipes in this one. I'd buy it mostly to read. 

 

 

I'm saved from the Moore and Connaughton book because amazon informs me I already own it.

 

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23 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

I bought the Kindle version of Payard Cookies by François Payard and E. McBride yesterday for $1.99.  I wanted the canele recipe.

 

Thanks!  I bought it today.

 

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30 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

Yes, I know I'm in Canada.  $16.84 is the price shown on Amazon.com.  it is $18.99 on Amazon.ca

 How strange! It's $3.99 for me. 

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34 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

Yes, I know I'm in Canada.  $16.84 is the price shown on Amazon.com.  it is $18.99 on Amazon.ca

 

I think Jeff knows you are in Canada and whether you've been naughty or nice.

 

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7 minutes ago, kayb said:

Well, when I bought it this morning, it was $3.99. I'm a Prime member, if that matters.

 

 

Still shows as $3.99 for me.

 

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1 hour ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Still shows as $3.99 for me.

 

 

I am a Canadian Prime member.  Maybe it was only offered to Prime members on Amazon.com and my Cdn. Prime membership doesn't count on .com?  Maybe a non-prime member could check Amazon.com and see what they get?

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31 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

 

I am a Canadian Prime member.  Maybe it was only offered to Prime members on Amazon.com and my Cdn. Prime membership doesn't count on .com?  Maybe a non-prime member could check Amazon.com and see what they get?

Like you I am a .ca prime member but not a .com prime member so I see what you see. 

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Just an FYI...

It's a new month/year and new cookbooks are on sale at Amazon. That being said, the overwhelming theme of the current cookbooks on sale are diet cookbooks, which is why I haven't posted anything from the current crop of sale-priced e-cookbooks.

Feel free to peruse the offerings on your own.

 

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41 minutes ago, Toliver said:

<snip>...the overwhelming theme of the current cookbooks on sale are diet cookbooks, which is why I haven't posted anything from the current crop of sale-priced e-cookbooks.

 

Capitalizing on New Year' resolutions, perhaps? xD

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On 1/6/2020 at 5:23 PM, ElsieD said:

 

I am a Canadian Prime member.  Maybe it was only offered to Prime members on Amazon.com and my Cdn. Prime membership doesn't count on .com?  Maybe a non-prime member could check Amazon.com and see what they get?

I am a Canadian Amazon (not Prime) member, in Canada, and I can see the $3.99 price.  JoNorvelleWalker is correct, Amazon ca/com knows where you are, and displays prices accordingly, no matter if you are on the .ca or the .com site.

Long story, but my particular account has a very weird state, that allows me to see the US Kindle prices, and purchase said items at those prices.  I'm not entirely sure of the reasons why that is, but I'm not going to complain....

We've discussed this before, and I believe the consensus is book licensing in each country is different, so physical location (or at least where Amazon thinks you are) is paramount.

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One that I found this afternoon:

 

Jane Grigson's "The Mushroom Feast" Kindle Edition $1.99US
Use the "Look Inside" feature and scroll down to see a few recipes.

 

I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

 

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This may or may not have been mentioned:  if you choose delayed delivery on most amazon purchases, you get a $1.00 credit on digital content.  My Kindle cookbook fix has been sated at no additional cost for some while now.

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