NOOK Tests Free eBook Promotion in Australia

By Dianna Dilworth 

nookwindows8Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Media is running a limited-time free eBook and magazine promotion through the NOOK app for Windows 8.1 in Australia.

Customers that install the app as a new user and then sign in with a Microsoft account will get access to five free books and five free magazines. The free eBooks include: Catch the Zolt: The Debt Instalment One by Phillip Gwynne, Be Careful What You Wish For by Gemma Crisp, The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, Back to the Pilliga by Tony Parsons and The Fence-Painting Fortnight of Destiny: A Memoir by Meshel Laurie. The free magazines include: Australian Geographic, GQ, Good Health, Vogue and Taste.com.au Magazine.

This is the first free offer that the book retailer is trying in Australia. “We recently rolled out compelling free offers to customers in the UK and Spain and now we’re excited to offer free bestselling eBooks and top magazines to customers in Australia,” stated Doug Carlson, Executive Vice President of Digital Content and Marketing at NOOK Media.