A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis, serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. © James Conner.
I write from experience. Bookbub crawls the internet, looking for deals on electronic books, Kindle ebooks in my case. It finds books offered for free, and books with startling low prices, then each days sends you an email steering you to the deals.
Sometimes, the free books, usually novels written a few years ago, are quite good. I’m reading one now. And so are many of the good deals. I bought for just two dollars Strangers on a Bridge, James Donovan’s account of his defense of Russian spy, Rudolf Abel, and the subsequent negotiations that led to Abel’s being exchanged for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, who was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. Tom Hanks plays Donovan in the movie Bridge of Spies, now showing.
I was pretty satisfied with myself for downloading the free book and snatching up the deal on Donovan’s book — until the next morning when I realized that snatching up just one two-dollar deal every day would cost me $730 a year.
That’s how Bookbub lightens your wallet. It seduces you by offering a free lunch, and cleans up when you take advantage of that great two dollar deal.
Be warned. And try to catch on faster than I did.