Happy Birthday to Jane (a day early)!

I got an email from Sourcebooks about Jane Austen's birthday and, being a person who has no e-reader, I'm sharing the info about free e-books in honor of her birthday merely because I love you so. Also, I'm envious, but that's okay. You go right ahead and download your freebies and I'll just sit here looking all pretty in envy green.

Thursday, December 16th is Jane Austen’s 235th birthday!

Sourcebooks, the world’s leading publisher of Jane Austen fiction, is offering a unique deal to readers who want to celebrate Jane by reading special editions of all six of Austen’s beloved novels in a 21st century format.

Special e-book editions of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Mansfield Park will be available for free for one day only. These celebratory editions include the full novels, plus the legendary color illustrations of the Brock brothers, originally created to accompany the books in 1898.

In addition to the Jane Austen classics, readers can also enjoy these bestselling Austen-inspired novels. The following bestselling e-books will be free on December 16th in honor of her birthday:

Eliza’s Daughter by Joan Aiken

The Darcys & the Bingleys by Marsha Altman

Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife by Linda Berdoll

What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown

The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins

The Other Mr. Darcy by Monica Fairview

Mr. Darcy’s Diary by Amanda Grange

Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One by Sharon Lathan

Lydia Bennet’s Story by Jane Odiwe

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy by Abigail Reynolds

Available wherever eBooks are sold.

UPDATE: There were some snafus with several bookselling websites. I've been informed that iBooks and Google books currently have the prices labeled correctly but Amazon, B & N and Sony were working on changing their prices, this morning. Thanks to the confusion, the birthday freebies have been extended for an extra day! Cool! Now, go forth and download.