I wanted to let you know how Sourcebooks is celebrating Jane Austen’s birthday on Thursday!!
Thursday, December 16th is Jane Austen’s 235th birthday!
Sourcebooks, the world’s leading publisher of Jane Austen fiction, is offering a unique deal to readers who want to celebrate Jane by reading special editions of all six of Austen’s beloved novels in a 21st century format.
Special e-book editions of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Mansfield Park will be available for free for two days only. These celebratory editions include the full novels, plus the legendary color illustrations of the Brock brothers, originally created to accompany the books in 1898.
In addition to the Jane Austen classics, readers can also enjoy these bestselling Austen-inspired novels. The following bestselling e-books will be free on December 16th in honor of her birthday:
Eliza’s Daughter by Joan Aiken
The Darcys & the Bingleys by Marsha Altman
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown
The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins
The Other Mr. Darcy by Monica Fairview
Mr. Darcy’s Diary by Amanda Grange
Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One by Sharon Lathan
Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy by Abigail Reynolds
Available wherever eBooks are sold.
There was some confusion with some sellers, but it seems to be straightening out…
Barnes & Noble NOOKbooks – I double checked, all currently $0.00 for the Austen inspired novels! I’m not sure about the Classics, right now they appear to be $0.99. Wait! I found some of the Illustrated Classics for $0.00, but they have no cover images… but they’re free!
Let me tell you know that iBooks and Google books currently has everything correct.
Amazon and Sony are currently working to get their prices adjusted. They should be correct shortly. Sourcebooks.com will also have our books and the illustrated versions available for free within the next hour!
(As of 10:47 AM CST, Amazon Kindle has the Classics listed at $0.99 and the inspired novels at ~50%…) There are some public domain Kindle Jane Austen Classics listed for free, but I do not believe these are the illustrated additions which Sourcebooks indicated… stay tuned I guess!
Because of this confusion we want to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday an extra day! This offer will be good tomorrow as well.