Posted 24 August 2022
Freebies - Hide Ebooks / kindle etc or give them their own section
Hi everyone, i was wondering if anyone knows how you can hide kindle or ebooks on the freebies page. I get technically they are free, but there is so many of them its hard to find non e book related freebies.
I just want my free teabags......
Thanks!
I just want my free teabags......
Thanks!
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sorted bybooks are clogging everything up - can they have their own section please ?
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'.
Please add a filter to the filters menu that can deal with this problem.
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?
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!
Include a toggle to show one or both sections.
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.
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…
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
We had indeed several similar feedbacks ! Hope we can do something for that, I will pass it on again (edited)
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.
the books are really clogging up the sections, can you please please give them their own section asap
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.
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.