Public domain titles such as Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice and Moby Dick are all available for free online, but in the stores they range from $ 5 - $ 29 a pop.
Not exact matches
Millions of
titles in the
public domain,
such as A Tale of Two Cities, Les Misérables, Pride and Prejudice, and more are available for free.
Twelve Years a Slave is an example of the
public domain riches online, even though the clubs could also use
titles from services
such as OverDrive, which, by the way, can make arrangements for simultaneous checkouts of some
titles.
Other services,
such as Google Books and ReadCentral, also include thousands of
public domain titles that you can read online or download for free.
As long as you understand that the Nook's million
titles include lots of
public -
domain freebies — both classics and forgotten curiosities — the fact that the e-reader offers Google books in
such vast quantity is a pro, not a con.
There are also many services,
such as Project Gutenberg, that make e-books available for free downloads, usually because the
titles are in the
public domain.
To read about the
titles by authors
such as Issac Asimov, Ian Fleming, Rachael Carson, and Martin Luther King that could have been freely available, take a look at the Duke University Center for the Study of the
Public Domain website.