Three Free Books from Crown Publishing
It seems that our fearless leader’s brother’s 21st birthday has left him out of commission a little longer than just two days… Just in case he doesn’t return by the end of the day today, I’d be sure to request all three of these free books from Crown Publishing, hope they come fast, and spend a loooooooong time reading the excerpts available online while refreshing this site…
Me? I’ve got a wool sweater to shave and more sleep to catch up on…
With the temps at 16/6 today a good book, snuggled under the covers with the fireplace blazing. Would be my cup of tea for sure!
Or a nice cup of hot chocolate loaded with marshmallows. Crumpets anyone?
Sure hope I get this book! I have never recived a book from any of the other times there has been an offer for free books.
Same here, Jean. Twice I got nothing when I signed up for the books.
Same thing happenned to me too. Maybe I’ll get lucky this time around!
I never got anything from the other book offers either. I signed up a very long time ago. Hopefully I actually get this book!
Hopefully the book will come, if not, off to the bookstore. Sounds like an interesting story!
hmmm. i hope it’s free books alrite…
the last time i get one… it was a messy business telling me to buy more…
but i’m ready with all the supplies … flannel blankie, hot choco, bla bla bla…
i never get the books either. but i wont stop trying. you never know. there are really too many offers i never get. i was wondering if it was my mailman or neighbors. my mail often gets left at the wrong addresses.
Like ya’ll, I’ve never gotten any of the free books, but here I go giving it another try.
I haven’t ever gotten any of the other books either but I’m going to keep trying because one can never have too many books!
When this company offered this free item before, they never followed through….. I’m very disappointed that people still promote this freebee when this is obviously a fake.
I have never gotten ONE book from these free book offers, but I HAVE gotten a lot of UNWANTED E-MAILS from the companies.
I’ve also never received a “free” book, as offered. Wonder why their website offers them, but doesn’t follow through? Maybe it is a very limited offer….has anyone out there received any?
Holly, I think these book freebies are fake too!
I ordered from these people & Random house when the “3 books” were offered a long time ago as freebies & STILL have not received them! It seems to me that these are just ways for them to collect our personal information without delivering the offered goods!
Happy Birthday Little brother!!! Get ready for the NEW YEAR!!!! You’re legal now!!!! :p
yes, I never did get any free books from the last time and that was over 6 months ago…
I have never recieved ANY free books!
Has anyone ever gotten one of these free books? I’ll add mine ‘never have received the free books offered’ to those already spoken.
But, hey, I’ll keep trying.
Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device.
http://www.gutenberg.org
I actually received the book on something to do with the history of golf. It was a really nice hardcover coffee table sized book. I gave it to my dad. (although it wasn’t from Crown Publishing)
Oh no! I wish I had read the comments before I signed up for a free book. I should have known not to get my hopes up for a freebie. Oh well I can go to the library and get all the free books I want!
I did recieve a book last time. So they do send them out. I hope you all get one and i will see if i get one this time.
Goob, have a Happy New Year and don’t drink to much!!!!
Well I guess I am not alone having never rec’d a book. Requested 3 the last time this was posted, but worth another try! Happy New Year!
wow, sure sounds like most of us never receive a book despite signing up for it. now i wonder if anyone does?! Oh well, worth a shot, i used an alias.
i needed something to read on the toilet besides my DIY mushroom cultivation catalog and Animal Farm….oh, well.
i guess i’ll read Animal Farm again?
*joy
I’ve gotten a total of I’d say 5 or 6 books in the mail from free offers. Hope I get this one too! I love this site!
I’m not an insider at Read it Forward, but am a book reviewer outside of it and had some observations after trying to request their books several times.
First, they have now changed this from being a freebie type offer to being a contest. For a while, you could enter for each book once, with a window of opportunity lasting for a month. This current month, the books were only offered for a week’s window within the month.
If you are one of the winners, you’ll receive an e-mail stating which book you won and that it was sent. I received one of these e-mails 36 days ago and have no book to show for it. Is it possible the post office is that slow? Well, yes, but I’m not holding my breath. The books do exist, though. They’re called ARCs (an acronym for advanced reader/review copy). They’re sent out to reviewers free of charge for advanced reading and review. Probably these are left over copies that weren’t given to reviewers–which would explain them having limited copies. I am a book reviewer, and these are some of the books I am offered (but have thus far never picked) for review. Most companies who offer this type of deal are hoping readers will review the books and provide free advertising for them on blogs and on online booksellers’ websites. Thomas Nelson is another publisher with such a free book program (theirs is called BookSneeze). This has become so widespread that the FTC has had to make a law relating to receiving books for free and then reviewing them, especially in the case of blogs.
I do believe this is real, but I think the publisher got in way over their heads and is now adjusting to the demand that the program has generated (moving from it being a freebie to a contest, moving from the offer lasting a month to a week, possibly not sending out books to those who win, etc.).