Links to Amazon Canada? Which links (on the previous page) go to Amazon Canada?

I have noticed that the following is being added somehow to the web links when I view the page: I know for a fact that code was not on the book link I posted yesterday.

Pretty sure Amazon adds a ref code to links you send. You've got to go in and scrub when you repost the addy. They use it to track purchases. A single ref code counts as a single sale for ratings purposes, regardless of how many books are purchased through that code.

Generally I do scrub the addy so it is just the link to the book not the extra stuff. For example the book I posted yesterday:

It's got the extra code added to it by the board code:

Edit to add: The extra code being added by the ARFCOM website appears to be happening to other poster's code too as evidenced by the top post one page back:
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_153/1329142_Free-Kindle-Books.html&page=37#i63488279

In case one misses the GD thread

Glory Boy

Caleb Mitchell gave up everything to protect his home. Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist beliefs of their religion, abandoned by the love of his life, he left his homeworld of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Military Academy on Earth and train to fight in the looming war against the implacable alien threat of the Tahni Imperium. When a training mission with a crew of cadets winds up caught in the middle of one of the worst battles of the war, Cal and his fellow students are officially declared dead.
That's when their war really begins. Recruited for a top-secret special operations unit, Cal and his friends undergo experimental and dangerous physical augmentation that turns them into supersoldiers, designed to take the fight behind enemy lines and put the fear of God into an alien society who thinks their Emperor is God personified.
Now Caleb is asked to sacrifice his very humanity to protect his people. But when Canaan itself is threatened by the Tahni, will he throw away his career and risk everything to save the people who turned their backs on him?

4.6 out of 5 stars (71 reviews)
5 star 70%
4 star 24%
3 star 3%
2 star 3%
1 star 0%

This link leads to Amazon.ca for me

Something wacky is definitely happening. If I mouse over the link in my post it shows amazon.com, yet in your quoted post it shows amazon.ca.

Here is the link in my post (indicated by red arrow) when I mouse over, note how it is amazon.com:



Here is the link in your post (indicated by red arrow) when I mouse over, note how it is amazon.ca:



Here is what my post (above) looks like in the ARFCOM editor, note how it is amazon.com, sans the extra ?tag=vglnk-c102-20 being added somehow:



Another way to test is to click on the GD link in my post (or the link in the quoted portion in your post) and see if RikWriter post link to his book also goes to the Canadian version of Amazon.

Here is the link to that book done a few different ways to see if it changes anything:

With a "/" added (h t t p s://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6DXM8C/): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6DXM8C?tag=vglnk-c102-20
(Looks like the ARFCOM board code is changing the URL by dropping the "/" and adding the "?tag=vglnk-c102-20" to the amazon.com URL.)

Using the Amazon Share URL: http://a.co/4AFaAEF
(Looks like the ARFCOM board code doesn't change that link.)

And a link to the Amazon Echo (h t t p s://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DFKC2SO/): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DFKC2SO?tag=vglnk-c102-20
(Where once again the board code is dropping the "/" and adding the "?tag=vglnk-c102-20" code.)

Edit to add: I'm using the Firefox on a Win 10 PC.

I use an iPad 99% of the time, and was using it yesterday.

And I greatly appreciate the free book info.

Couple from today's Amazon Top 100 Free that may be of interest to some.

#91 Bug Hunt (Argonauts Book 1)

Starting an interstellar security consulting company was supposed to be easy.

Rade got his ex-military teammates together and they pooled their savings to buy a ship and six mechs. The Argonauts were born.

But it wasn't easy.

Ruthless bankers breathing down their necks, vengeful warlords promising to pursue them across the galaxy, and now a mysterious new client who wants Rade and his Argonauts to escort her to a frontier planet.

Problem is, the new client won't reveal her cargo. It's probably something illegal.

Well, Rade needs the money, so a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

They arrive to find the frontier colony strangely deserted. When the shit hits the fan and the Argonauts face a possible alien infestation, it's time to pull out the big guns. Because if there's one thing Rade and his Argonauts really love, it's a good bug hunt.

And this one looks to be the hunt of a lifetime.

4.4 out of 5 stars (452 reivews)
5 star 60%
4 star 31%
3 star 5%
2 star 2%
1 star 2%

#93 Space Team

The galaxy just called for help. Unfortunately, it dialed the wrong number.

Small-time conman, Cal Carver, is having a bad day. Imprisoned and forced to share a cell with a cannibalistic serial killer, Cal thinks things can't possibly get any worse.

He is wrong.

It’s not until two-thirds of the human race is wiped out and Cal is mistakenly abducted by aliens that his day really starts to go downhill.

Whisked across the galaxy, Cal is thrown into a team of some of the sector's most notorious villains and scumbags. Their mission should be simple enough, but as one screw-up leads to another, they find themselves in a frantic battle to save an entire alien civilization - and its god - from total annihilation.

Featuring epic space battles, alien gangsters, and several thousand flying Tobey Maguires, Space Team is the first book in the internationally bestselling series by award-winning author, Barry J. Hutchison, and is perfect for fans of Hitchhiker's Guide and Guardians of the Galaxy.

4.4 out of 5 stars (156 reviews)
5 star 64%
4 star 22%
3 star 7%
2 star 3%
1 star 4%

U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific

U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific is the famous first-hand account of the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Seawolf a.k.a. the Wolf which patrolled the Pacific during World War 2 and had over a dozen confirmed enemy sinkings. Shoving off the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, Chief Radioman J. (Joseph) M. (Melvin) Eckberg takes the reader on a tense and dramatic journey during his initial 24-month stint aboard the Seawolf and beyond.

4.5 out of 5 stars (459 reviews)
5 star 65%
4 star 25%
3 star 8%
2 star 1%
1 star 1%

Couple of scifi books today on Amazon's top 100 free that may be of interest to some.

#5 The Enemy of an Enemy (Lost Tales of Power Book 1)

Vydor is riding a wave of success, but now his ship, the Dragon Claw, is being sent to investigate a mysterious event deep within the Empire’s space. A secret research colony has fallen silent and the forces sent to investigate were never heard from again.

A new enemy has come to the Empire bringing with it dark powers that were abandoned long before the Empire was born. Powers that were thought to be legends and myths.

It's up to Vydor to keep this force at bay and protect the Empire, but it may come at the cost of his faith and shake the foundations of the Empire itself.

The Lost Tales of Power is an open-ended series of Sci-Fi/Fantasy books set in a vast multiverse featuring a mixture of traditional fantasy and science fiction elements.

4.0 out of 5 stars (166 reviews)
5 star 47%
4 star 25%
3 star 12%
2 star 8%
1 star 8%

#64 Cygnus Rising: Humanity Returns to Space (Cygnus Space Opera Book 1)

The people of the Cygnus system were determined to find other life, maybe even return to earth.

With the company of the intelligent species humans created centuries past, who evolved and became equals, partners in the journey to a better place.They were all the people of Cygnus VII.

From the ashes of their past, Cygnus was rising.

4.8 out of 5 stars (24 reviews)
5 star 79%
4 star 21%
3 star 0%
2 star 0%
1 star 0%

Edit to add: #69 Project Nemesis (A Kaiju Thriller) (Nemesis Saga Book 1)

Jon Hudson, lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center-P, thinks his job is a joke. While other Fusion Centers focus on thwarting terrorist activity, Hudson’s division is tasked with handling paranormal threats to national security, of which there have been zero during his years at the DHS. When yet another Sasquatch sighting leads to a research facility disguised as an abandoned Nike missile site in the back woods of Maine, Hudson’s job becomes deadly serious.

Hudson and the local Sheriff, Ashley Collins, suddenly find themselves on the run from a ruthless ex-Special Forces security team, but the human threat is short-lived as something very much not-human destroys the facility and heads for civilization, leaving only a single clue behind—a name scrawled in blood: Nemesis. Working with his team at Fusion Center-P, Sheriff Collins and a surly helicopter pilot named Woodstock, Hudson pursues the creature known as Nemesis, attempts to uncover the corporate secrets behind its creation and accidental release and tries to comprehend why several clues lead to a murdered little girl named Maigo.

But as the body-count explodes, along with the monster’s size, it quickly becomes clear that nothing short of a full military response can slow Nemesis’s progress. Coordinating with every branch of the U.S. military, Hudson simultaneously searches for clues about Nemesis’s origins and motivations, and leads the counterattack that will hopefully stop the monster before it reaches Boston and its one million residents.

4.5 out of 5 stars (429 reviews)
5 star 69%
4 star 21%
3 star 8%
2 star 2%
1 star 0%

Just turned on my Oaisis for the first time a couple minutes ago.    Loaded up:

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.   A perennial favorite!

Thats Not Free.

A zombie book for those interested on today's Amazon Top 100 Free.

Hell on Earth (Life of the Dead Book 1)

Everyone you ever knew is dead.
The government has fallen.
No one is coming to save you.
How will you survive the zombie apocalypse?

Read "Hell on Earth", book 1 in the epic zombie series about everyday men and women struggling to survive in a world overrun with the dead.

When civilization ends - When hundreds of millions of the dead return to eat the living - How will the remaining humans survive? One week ago there were over 300 million people living in America. Today there are less than 5000.

For Wim Wagner, the end begins when his livestock dies off. The 30-year-old farmer had purposely kept himself cut off from the world, but when he loses everything he ever loved and the undead arrive on his farm, intent on eating him, he’s forced to venture out into the land around him and fight to save a world on which he long ago turned his back.

Survivors from all walks of life - criminals and fry cooks, teenagers and soldiers - battle to survive zombies and each other as mankind races toward extinction.

4.2 out of 5 stars (64 reviews)
5 star 59%
4 star 24%
3 star 8%
2 star 6%
1 star 3%

Couple of SciFi books on today's Amazon Top 100 Free that may be of interest to some.

#42 Iron Dragoons (Terran Armor Corps Book 1)

I am Armor. I am Fury. I Will not Fail.

Soldiers of the Terran Armor Corps wage war across the stars. Wired into mechanized battle suits, they fight the terrifying battles which must be won, no matter the cost. Their deeds are legend, their reputation feared by the enemies of Earth and her allies, but how the Corps forges young men and women into mighty warriors is shrouded by mystery.

Roland Shaw lost his parents to war, he volunteers for the Armor Corps to honor their memory and discover just how far he can push himself. To succeed, he must find the iron in his heart and prove himself worthy to the Corps. For the Armor, there is no substitute for victory and to fail is to die.

Iron Dragoons is an action-packed military sci-fi novel, the first of a new series by the author of The Ember War Saga.

4.6 out of 5 stars (121 reviews)
5 star 74%
4 star 18%
3 star 6%
2 star 1%
1 star 1%

#63 Star Splinter (Fractured Space Book 1)

As civilized space is torn apart, an unlikely crew is brought together.

Lieutenant Callum Harper hadn’t intended on punching his commanding officer quite so hard. But maybe it wasn’t such a bad turn of events. Court-martialed and dumped on a reject raft bound for Earth, Cal feels optimistic about a life where getting blown up, shot, or even eaten is altogether less of a concern.

Unfortunately, fate doesn’t favor the mundane. Crash-landing on a lethal planet, and with technology failing all around him, Cal must take his fellow passengers under his wing in order to survive and unravel the reasons behind their plight.

But the cause is far worse than any of them could have imagined, for theirs is a small part of a much larger crisis. Colonized space is under attack. Humanity is on the verge of chaos. And those who enjoy such anarchy are already beginning to thrive.

Yet Cal and his new companions will discover that mankind isn’t the true threat, not by a long shot.

4.5 out of 5 stars (456 reviews)
5 star 64%
4 star 28%
3 star 5%
2 star 2%
1 star 1%

Jerry Pournelle's There Will Be War volumes 1 & 2 are free right now in his memoriam.

If you have read any of the excellent Westerly Gales series by E C Williams, his fourth book finally came out last week and is free right now. If you have not read this series, you can get all 4 books for $8.97

One from today's Amazon Top 100 Free that may be of interest to some.

#10 REDUX: A Black Flagged Thriller (The Black Flagged Series Book 2)

REDUX: A Black Flagged Thriller (Book Two of the Black Flagged Series)

Two years after shocking Washington D.C. with a brutal betrayal, General Terrence Sanderson waits in the shadows for the right moment to demonstrate the grim necessity of his resurrected Black Flag program. His opportunity may arrive sooner than expected.

At the CIA, Karl Berg makes a disturbing discovery. Russian Federation intelligence services are quietly scouring Europe to find Anatoly Reznikov, a rogue Russian scientist at the top of every nation's WMD watch list.

Obsessed with reviving a bio-weapons program long banned by the Russian government, Reznikov has found partners willing to fund the project--with unimaginable consequences.

Berg goes "off the books," sending one of Sanderson's Black Flag teams to track down Reznikov. Led by Daniel Petrovich, the team races to stay one step ahead of a twisted conspiracy aimed at crippling the West.

In the end, nothing is what it seems in this gritty world of covert operatives and back room Washington agendas.

4.4 out of 5 stars (280 reviews)
5 star 59%
4 star 28%
3 star 9%
2 star 3%
1 star 1%

Thanks!  They have book 1 reduced to 0.99 also.

The whole series is 4 bucks!

Caliphate by Krateman.
https://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman-ebook/dp/B00ARPJDLA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1510168731&sr=1-1&keywords=kratman+caliphate

Recommended reading from Matt Bracken.

This is an excellent read.

I have .pdfs of - PM me with an email address if you want the file(s) or hit this folder on my google drive - Notrega's Shared Documents

Lights Out
One Second After

I really enjoy Chris Dietzel's Great De-Evolution series.

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Astronaut-Great-evolution-ebook/dp/B078P4NH8Y

56 pages does not a book make IMHO.

Like everything else these days, definitions are evolving and bars lowering.  What used to barely qualify as a novella, these days counts as a full blown novel.

I've seen 'novel's clock out a 28K words. That's short story territory.

This came up as a free Kindle download the other day. Every once in awhile a good vampire story or a good time travel story trips my trigger. Can't say I've ever run across a book with both before.

I didn't really expect much but it turned out that I really enjoyed the first volume of this 3 volume set so I thought some of you guys might appreciate it. It has good plot and good character development and even manages to create a universe where time travel and vampires are both plausible.

A professor and his grad assistant travel back to 1929 New York City by accident and encounter a vampire who has become a Kingpin of the underworld. Turns out that the reason the underworld managed to take over New York City at the time is because at least some of the gangsters were vampires and couldn't be killed. The professor and his grad assistant fall in love and then run across the vampire who takes a shine to the grad assistant and doesn't really care for the professor all that much.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00F8KSVAS/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1514596804&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=out+of+time+series+monique+martin

It's still free right now. Don't know how long it'll stay free.

It was advertised as a "novelette" on the Amazon page.  At 56 pages, it's definitely not War And Peace, but it is free.