Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, their autumn version of Prime Day, is drawing to a close. While these sales often serve as a prelude to Black Friday, the deals on Amazon’s own products and everyday essentials during Prime Day are frequently the best you’ll find all year. A particularly popular promotion that Amazon has brought back is its “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” offer, which stands out because you don’t even need to be a Prime member to take advantage of it.
For collectors of physical media, this sale presents an excellent opportunity to acquire items across various interests, especially newer releases that haven’t seen discounts yet. Like previous versions, this promotion allows you to mix and match 4K movies, music albums, and, a personal favorite, a fantastic selection of books.
Grab Your Next Reads: Amazon’s Buy 2 Get 1 Free Book Bonanza
To apply the “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” deal, simply add three eligible items to your cart, and the discount will be automatically applied to the cheapest product. You have the flexibility to choose from different categories—you could even snag a book, a vinyl record, and a Blu-ray all in one go. What’s more, the promotion is stackable, meaning for every three items you add, you get one for free!
One of the biggest highlights of this sale is the sheer number of brand-new releases included. We’re talking genuinely fresh titles. Two of our top recommended books for September are right here in this list.
Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets is the latest installment in the thrilling Robert Langdon series (think ‘The Da Vinci Code’). Meanwhile, Alchemised is the highly anticipated published edition of SenLinYu’s popular Harry Potter fanfiction, “Manacled.” Both of these books have rapidly climbed Amazon’s best-selling charts, and the fanfic-turned-novel, Alchemised, has already secured a significant seven-figure movie adaptation deal with Legendary Studios.
This sale is also a goldmine for fans of Young Adult literature and the “romantasy” genre. You’ll find titles like ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ the newest prequel in The Hunger Games series, which is already slated for a movie adaptation next year. ‘Fourth Wing,’ the first book in Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series, is also part of the deal and is being adapted into a TV series. And for the dedicated fans, the entire ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ series is included.
Another fantastic aspect is the inclusion of various box sets and deluxe editions. Beyond the popular Sarah J. Maas collection, you can discover numerous collections of The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit novels, including their beautifully illustrated editions.
Should You Hold Out for Black Friday Book Deals?
Next month brings Black Friday, a period generally considered one of the best times to buy almost anything, including books. Unlike Prime Day, nearly every retailer will be running some kind of sale. This means even more book-specific retailers, like local bookstores, will also offer discounts. However, it’s quite rare to see deals on new releases and best-sellers like Amazon’s current “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” offer during Black Friday.
My personal strategy is to snag some of these new releases from Amazon’s current sale and then plan to explore my local bookstores next month for more unique discounts and recommendations. After all, I believe there’s never a bad time to stock up on books. At worst, they’ll simply wait patiently on your shelf until you’re ready to dive in.
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