World Book Day is April 23rd. To celebrate, Amazon is offering a selection of award-winning works from around the world, all of which have been translated to English, for free for Kindle. You can grab them between now and April 24th at https://www.amazon.com/article/read-the-world
(there may be geographical or other limits on who can get these books for free– apparently they are free to US-based customers, and discounted in other regions)
Among the books, I spotted The Light of the Fireflies, by Paul Pen and translated by ProZ.com member Simon Bruni.
Check out this and the other titles available for free on Kindle until the 24th >>
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United States
Local time: 03:24
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I downloaded all nine.
France
Local time: 12:24
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Thanks for the link, but it seems that Amazon's internationalism stops at the US borders! When I clicked the link it only offered standard prices and amazon.fr doesn't show any offers at all or any mention of World Book Day.
Local time: 12:24
German to French
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Thanks for the link, but it seems that Amazon's internationalism stops at the US borders! When I clicked the link it only offered standard prices and amazon.fr doesn't show any offers at all or any mention of World Book Day.
If you click the Term and Conditions button, you see that "Eligible US customers can download..."
We are not!
English to French
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World Book Day or World Book and *Copyright* Day is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.
What’s more fitting to promote books, publishing, AND copyright, than to use DRM protection even on ebook giveaways?
What’s more fitting to celebrate a supposedly “World” event than to limit the celebration to a specific c... See more
World Book Day or World Book and *Copyright* Day is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.
What’s more fitting to promote books, publishing, AND copyright, than to use DRM protection even on ebook giveaways?
What’s more fitting to celebrate a supposedly “World” event than to limit the celebration to a specific country, as an international company? So much for Amazon’s internationalism, as B D Finch well puts it.
But the offer says: “Read these nine Kindle books from around the world for FREE”. So this is what “World” in “World Book Day” means in this Amazon-specific twist. Next time, maybe try calling it what is: “[DRM] Books-From-Around-The-World-Day”.
And to think it all started with copyright-free Cervantes’s Don Quixote…
[Edited at 2018-04-22 14:03 GMT] ▲ Collapse
Colombia
Local time: 05:24
Member (2002)
German to Spanish
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That is how many I was able to download. And I am not located in the USA.
[Edited at 2018-04-23 15:38 GMT]
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