Part of today’s Kindle ebook deal of the day over at Amazon is Winter is Coming: Symbols and Hidden Meanings in A Game of Thrones, a companion to the HBO series Game Of Thrones by Valerie Estelle Frankel, for only $.99 (that’s 80% off the regular price of $$4.99).

Note – this deal is valid only for today, Thursday, October 10, 2013, until 11:59pm PST.

For other ebook deals for today, visit the main sale page.

Also, be sure to check out this month’s Kindle deals: 100 Kindle Books For $3.99 or Less, which includes Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (an awesome book, highly recommended!) for $2.99; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for $3.99; former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler’s autobiography My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses for $1.99; and Kevin J. Anderson’s The Last Days of Krypton for $2.99.

— You can gift Kindle books and set your gift to be delivered whenever you want to anyone with an email address. On the Product Page (on the top right side), click the button that reads “Give as a Gift.” From there you enter the recipient’s email address and note the date you’d like your gift to be delivered via email, and also include a personalized message. There’s also the option to have the gift emailed right to you that you can forward the gift email to the recipient yourself or print it out and personally deliver it to the recipient.

— You don’t actually need a Kindle device to read these ebooks. Books can be read on a Kindle or one of Amazon’s free reading apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7.

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