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  1. Ferris's avatar
    They need their own category as they overwhelm the Freebies section. I've given up even checking it.
  2. Steeve42's avatar
    The daily HDUK email is getting more and more of these 'deals' ai generated kindle books, these are not deals and are taking over, if only there was a way to have deals from only certain categories on the email, and exclude this rubbish.
    Sigma's avatar
    hi thank you for sharing your feedback and this is something we will pass over to our Daily Newsletter team for you now
  3. CptSimon's avatar
    Hi,

    books are clogging everything up - can they have their own section please ?
  4. CharlesN's avatar
    This is a great website and a fantastic source for seeking out bargains. The feed is becoming filled with 'free' books, mostly by the same few contributors though.

    I'm not saying these don't have a place on HotUKDeals as some people appreciate them. There are too many though and most of them follow the same format:

    They're not published books, the authors of self-published novels give them away for free. By giving them away and getting a load of free downloads, they can bill themselves as a 'best-selling author'. They're having to give them away as they're not selling otherwise. These aren't quality publications.

    Because they're not published books they all use the same Photoshop-generated mockup effect to create the visual of a physical book. At no point have these been available in print format.

    They frequently use the same techniques - five stars on the cover (this is added by the author and there is rarely a mention of where this review came from), a subtitle saying 'Part of the Jane Smith Mysteries' or 'A Detective Smith Mystery' (nobody knows who these people are, it's another marketing technique to make you think it's from a well-established author).

    The "books" were originally available for a very low price - often just a few pence. Making them free is only a way to increase perceived sales.

    Maybe compiling these into a single feed would be a better option. Those who are interested and want to download free Kindle books en masse would be better served by having these collated in one place. This creates more space for genuine deals and a broader range of content.

    There are so many it's starting to feel like the stream is being spammed with these 'deals'.
  5. Jason1's avatar
    More than 80% of the freebies tab are digital books. It's completely out of balance and, as such, renders the whole tab low-value and spammy.

    Please add a filter to the filters menu that can deal with this problem.
  6. Yas_Min's avatar
    Every other deal is a kindle book or an app.
    How many of us have to complain about this before something is done?

    Can you just pin a kindle post so everyone that finds it useful can congregate in there? Or give them their own section that doesn't show up elsewhere?
  7. Alexanderlocks's avatar
    You're not the first to bring this up, I also agree it's just not something that's been implemented yet...
  8. deleted179836's avatar
    completelt agree not sure who bothers posting such a load of rubbish on the freebies thread every day
  9. Roger_Irrelevant's avatar
    I'm guessing someone's making money 💰 on the click through's but if people are not interested there's no harm in allowing people the option to hide this (or any) category.
  10. DannyB91's avatar
    Hey,

    It would be awesome if Freebies could become 2 different categories: Digital Freebies and Real-World/Physical Freebies

    This would make it much easier to weed out the few-and-far-between real-world freebies from the masses of e-books etc. that are posted.

    Thanks for your consideration!
    Sigma's avatar
    Hi thank you for sharing your feedback. We will make sure to pass along your suggestion to the product team for review as they consider the design and implementation of upcoming new features.
  11. IamOpica's avatar
    No offence to the people who post the free kindle books etc but maybe you could split the freebies in to two sections; Media (books, audiobooks, games, etc) and Non-media (Doughnuts, Very me, etc).

    Include a toggle to show one or both sections.
    Sigma's avatar
    Hi this is a request we have shared with the product team and they are looking at ways that our community can better view their preferred content
  12. JLB75's avatar
    It's getting beyond now, there's another one at it today. I'm just reporting every "deal" they put up now as Spam. Let's see what HUKD do about it.
    CharlesN's avatar
    Completely agree. These made up almost half the posts on my feed at one point this week.

    Hilariously, one of the serial spammers has the following as their profile strapline:
    "the never-ending battle against illiterates who vote cold"

    Reading AI-generated "books" and collecting thousands of worthless e-books from unpublished authors makes you some sort of genius and everyone else is "illiterate", apparently.

    I had a warning from HUKD for voting this incessant spam as cold. I'd imagine you'll get something similar for reporting them all as spam, even if they genuinely are spamming the boards with this rubbish.
  13. Moozlebee's avatar
    Yes please!

    Endless low quality free Kindle ‘deals’ from the usual suspects do nothing but reduce the quality of HUKD as a whole.

    If someone likes collecting tat that nobody would ever pay for, and wants to give attention to those posting who are clearly desperate for it, then great for you, but let the rest of us stick to *actual* deals, please.

    Although people have been requesting this feature for years now, so I doubt HUKD will do anything about it…

    The sheer number of poor-quality Kindle freebies artificially inflates the number of deals HUKD can claim they have…
  14. ThePaulGuy's avatar
    Seriously..... I will never vite cold on stuff thats free BUT.... Is there away to block these amazon book deals...
    6 out of the first 10 things listed here for me today are free kindle books...
    Enough please!

    I get it, they are free and everything but like.... "Learn Ukrainian" and "the uses of CBD oil" - are so seriously niche and I will guess that 99% have no interest...

    Don't get me wrong it's great that these deals are put up here... BUT its starting to become hotukbookdeals!!

    Is there any chance of someone starting a megatread just for these book deals? Or some way to have them in a section of their own?

    Thanks
  15. Val_ent_ine's avatar
    Hey,

    We had indeed several similar feedbacks ! Hope we can do something for that, I will pass it on again (edited)
  16. JLB75's avatar
    Can a separate section for free Amazon books be made to stop the spamming that is currently going on.  Some posters post the same book or section of books every other week!
  17. householdhorror's avatar
    This problem has only got worse since the discussion was started, and frankly since LLMs have become popular the quality of book also looks worse.

    I think the ideas about a digital section are a little unnecessary, it is very clearly and specifically kindle ebooks that are the problem. Games and apps and the like simply don't have the same volume of posts.
  18. KentonRedKites's avatar
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    Bump - please can this be sorted
  19. Steeve42's avatar
    The irony here is that a few are posting most of these 'deals' in order to become super posters and get vouchers from the site, but by doing so are actually making the site worse. So hotdeals are paying people to lower the quality of their own site, genius.
    AnotherLondoner's avatar
    The freebies section doesn't qualify for the daily voucher prizes.
  20. Simon_Lilly's avatar
    Hi,

    the books are really clogging up the sections, can you please please give them their own section asap
  21. KentonRedKites's avatar
    Author
    Bump
  22. deleted93440's avatar
    Bump from mods censoring my comments regarding the non value and over saturation of the site with free kindle marketing spam materials. If people want to 'follow' and 'collect' free kindle books they can go to Amazon and filter by free. Unfortunately such a reverse filter is not available on this site because of the above stated profit motive of diluting actual product deals with advertising.
  23. Proveright's avatar
    That's like saying there are too many soap channels on TV. How difficult is it to scroll on? (edited)
    Moozlebee's avatar
    That’s the thing with tv though… You don’t have to scroll through all the chaff to get to what you want, the tv company let you go directly to your interests using a program guide. There’s nothing stopping HUKD from implementing the same beneficial user experience, except HUKD themselves. (edited)
  24. JLB75's avatar
    I've sent HUD a message complaining about these serial spammers and their rubbish deals.  I've suggested that they ask the spammers to either put all their great deals in one post or make another section just for free crappy Kindle books.  I'd suggest you other guys do the same just so they know there is an issue out there!
    Moozlebee's avatar
    I tried that ages ago - the response was basically that everyone likes those spammy posts and that nothing would change. It’s telling that the spammy posts tend to be almost immediately liked and commented by the same people. It’s also true that just because some people are tricked into thinking that a free kindle book is good information (when they almost overwhelmingly are not), doesn’t mean that it’s a good thing to flood your Deals app with.
  25. KentonRedKites's avatar
    Author
    How do we raise this with the mods !?
    MrAlbert's avatar
    The correct process is to post something in feedback requesting it.

    However I should earn you this is an often requested feature that so far has not been picked up by the development team for implementation.
  26. JLB75's avatar
    Here's HUD's reply to my recent reports about this super duper deal...

    hotukdeals.com/dea…375

    "Hey JLB75,

    Thank you for reporting the following deal: "Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell - Kindle Edition".

    You reported for the following reason: Deal already exists "https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/george-orwell-1984-kindle-edition-4314106"

    We've reviewed your report and no action was required on our part this time. Here's what we decided - different edition

    This report will now be closed - if you think we overlooked anything, let us know. We appreciate your help."


    Different edition or different cover, what a joke HUD are.
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