The 2018 Boss Fight Bundle - Curated by Gabe Durham, founding editor of Boss Fight Books

As summer approaches, it's so important to keep your brain from melting in the heat or atrophying in the Netflix binges. That means its time to queue up your phones & tablets & laptops with some ice cold ebooks. Well, folks, we've got you covered with ebooks that are both fun and learny. Learny? Learny.

At Boss Fight Books, we offer short critical, historical, and personal nonfiction books about individual video games.

Since debuting our first book in December 2013, I've been heartened to see just how many people have been hungry for the same thing I was. In a GameSpot article about our press, Maxwell McGee wrote, "Great games, whether they're AAA blockbusters that reached millions of people or fan-made efforts that touched only one person, deserve this sort of recognition. They deserve not to be forgotten or overlooked in the endless stream of new releases."

We're not here to deliver the vast sweeping industry histories readers have already read, but to tell many smaller stories about the people who make games and the people who play them, about how we received games as kids and how they hold up as adults, about what happens when we take the critical tools that have for so long been applied to books, music, and film, and to apply those tools to a younger, hungrier art form.

And right now we're teaming up with StoryBundle for a massive bundle all-Boss Fight Books StoryBundle. We're offering TEN ebooks for just $15. That's 70% off our usual ebook price, and well under the cost of a single paperback. If you've been considering checking these books out or are finding out about us for the first time, now is the perfect time to jump aboard. This collection may never be this cheap again.

This collection is focusing on our seven most recent titles, none of which appeared in our first all-Boss Fight bundle: Spelunky by Derek Yu, World of Warcraft by Daniel Lisi, Super Mario Bros. 3 by Alyse Knorr, Mega Man 3 by Salvatore Pane, Soft & Cuddly by Jarett Kobek, Kingdom Hearts II by Alexa Ray Corriea, and Final Fantasy V by Chris Kohler. Additionally, the bundle contains three of our top-selling older books: Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams, Metal Gear Solid by Ashly and Anthony Burch, and Shadow of the Colossus by Nick Suttner.

As an added bonus, when you buy our StoryBundle, you'll receive an exclusive discount code to get 10% off anything from bossfightbooks.com while the StoryBundle is running. So if you want paperback versions of some or all of these books, you'll be saving some cash.

This bundle is only available through June 21, so the time to jump on this offer is right now. Thanks so much for picking up this bundle, sharing it with your friends, and supporting Boss Fight Books. With your help, we'd love to keep making great books about classic video games long into the future.

– Gabe Durham, founding editor of Boss Fight Books

The initial titles in the The 2018 Boss Fight Bundle (minimum $5 to purchase) are:

• Boss Fight Books: Mega Man 3 by Salvatore Pane
• Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy V by Chris Kohler
• Boss Fight Books: Metal Gear Solid by Ashly & Anthony Burch
• Boss Fight Books: Spelunky by Derek Yu

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $15, you get all four of the regular titles, plus SIX more!

• Boss Fight Books: Soft & Cuddly by Jarett Kobek
• Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 3 by Alyse Knorr
• Boss Fight Books: Kingdom Hearts II by Alexa Ray Corriea
• Boss Fight Books: Shadow of the Colossus by Nick Suttner
• Boss Fight Books: World of Warcraft by Daniel Lisi
• Boss Fight Books: Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams

This bundle is available only for a limited time via http://www.storybundle.com. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get multiple DRM-free formats (.epub and .mobi) for all books!

It's also super easy to give the gift of reading with StoryBundle, thanks to our gift cards – which allow you to send someone a code that they can redeem for any future StoryBundle bundle – and timed delivery, which allows you to control exactly when your recipient will get the gift of StoryBundle.

Why StoryBundle? Here are just a few benefits StoryBundle provides.

• Get quality reads: We've chosen works from excellent authors to bundle together in one convenient package.
• Pay what you want (minimum $5): You decide how much these fantastic books are worth. If you can only spare a little, that's fine! You'll still get access to a batch of exceptional titles.
• Support authors who support DRM-free books: StoryBundle is a platform for authors to get exposure for their works, both for the titles featured in the bundle and for the rest of their catalog. Supporting authors who let you read their books on any device you want—restriction free—will show everyone there's nothing wrong with ditching DRM.
• Give to worthy causes: Bundle buyers have a chance to donate a portion of their proceeds to the Prisoners Literature Project!
• Receive extra books: If you beat the bonus price, you'll get the bonus books!

StoryBundle was created to give a platform for independent authors to showcase their work, and a source of quality titles for thirsty readers. StoryBundle works with authors to create bundles of ebooks that can be purchased by readers at their desired price. Before starting StoryBundle, Founder Jason Chen covered technology and software as an editor for Gizmodo.com and Lifehacker.com.

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