Happy 235th Birthday Jane Austen!

On December 16, 1775, the beloved author Jane Austen was born.  To celebrate her birthday, Sourcebooks is offering free gifts to fans of Jane's work.  Below is information from Sourcebooks, detailing the promotion and all the goodies. All you need is an e-reader or compatible software for your computer.  I will post hyperlinks to each title as I have time today.

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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 21^st 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 Thursday & Friday 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 & 17th 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.

Having technical difficulties?  BREAKING NEWS FROM SOURCEBOOKS!

10:58am EST

A note from Beth at Sourcebooks:

Let me tell you now that iBooks and Google books currently has everything correct.

Amazon, Barnes & Noble 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!

Because of this confusion we want to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday an extra day! This offer will be good tomorrow (Dec 17th) as well.

Again I am sorry for the confusion and thank you for being patient!

Thank you!

Beth

****Thursday Evening Update from Sourcebooks Publisher and CEO Dominique Raccah****

**11:30pm EST Update**

Here's a link to Sourcebooks connecting to all the free books:

http://www.sourcebooks.com/component/content/article/63-marketing-and-publicity/1583-jane-austen.html