Not exact matches
With JustFreeBooks you can find all sorts of free
ebooks for your Kindle, Nook or tablet:
public domain texts, open books, free audiobooks and more.
For those who are reading pirated
eBooks not in the
public domain, I do agree that there should be some penalty, but instead of going after the downloaders, who in many cases never know if the title was originally a free one or not, I would suggest that it would be more expedient and easier to discover and punish the uploaders instead.
As
for another large group of people who have not paid to read
eBooks, there is probably a large percentage of them who have downloaded legally «free» copies... like ones you have written about in some of your 4456 posts — not only from independent current authors, but from the huge quantity of
public domain books offered on large sites like ProjectGutenberg.org — many of which come pre-loaded on some
eBook reading devices.
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While most of the Project Gutenberg
eBooks are in the
public domain there many that are copyrighted
for a variety of reasons.
Since Stanza was released there have been several other
eBook readers released
for the iPod Touch allowing
eBooks in many different file formats (including the ePub
eBook standard) to be downloaded from any one of the many sources that have both free (
public domain) and commercial
eBook titles.
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for ebook readers in the UK, Google announced yesterday that they've expanded their
ebook store to the United Kingdom, making available several hundred thousand
ebooks from major UK publishers like Random House, Hachette, and Penguin, not to mention Google's two million free
public domain ebooks.
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For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer of
public -
domain ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some of those
ebooks are automatically generated and can't take full advantage of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like cover images and title pages; and the quality of individual
ebook productions varies greatly.
With thousands of
public domain books getting knocked out of the Top 100 Free Lists, it now opens up the field
for new free or very cheap
ebooks.
Google
eBooks and the corresponding eBookstore launched Dec. 6 to let consumers search
for and access more than 2 million
public domain books
for free, or purchase any of hundreds of thousands of titles from 4,000 - plus publishers.
A large percent of the Kobo
ebook library is mainly open source or
public domain books which they give away
for free or charge very low amounts.
Over 6 million fully accessible
public domain ebooks, including a special modern collection of over 500,000
ebooks for users with print disabilities.
Barnes and Noble has twenty of their classic
ebooks available
for free that normally cost $ 3.99 each (these aren't run - of - the - mill
public domain ebooks; these are nicely formatted and include introductions, endnotes, footnotes, notes about the author, etc).
The only option is
public domain ebooks and
ebooks sold from websites that don't use DRM (like Smashwords,
for instance).
You could read same exact
public domain titles and get the same exact DRM - free
ebooks elsewhere that are available
for the jetBook Mini.
Up until July 1st, Canada Day ironically (aka Dominion Day
for all you anti-conformists out there), the Apple iBookstore was available
for download in Canada, but the selection of books was limited to free classic
ebooks in the
public domain.
For ebooks the Libre Color Touch comes with 100 free
public domain titles and supports Adobe DRM and PDF, EPUB, TXT, and FB2 formats.
In a surprising twist, Google opted to use Adobe DRM to encrypt their
ebooks when required (
public domain titles are unencrypted and authors can opt
for DRM - free).
They are the same
public domain titles that you can get elsewhere
for free, but B&N, like most
ebook stores, re-edit the classics so that they are well formatted and add additional info like introductions and footnotes and then sell them to those that are too lazy to download them elsewhere or just don't know that they can.
Here are 16 sources
for free books or
ebooks in the
public domain you can quickly and easily download to your PC to read right in your Web browser.
As you probably know,
public domain info is free so this is like getting free
ebooks for your Kindle.
The
eBook Reader The Next5 comes with an
eBook reader pre-loaded with 25 free
public domain books, but if you're looking at this tablet as a replacement
for your Kindle or your NOOK, my advice is to hang onto those dedicated eReaders.
More traditional
eBook services, such as Kindle and Nook also offer many
public domain books
for free as well.
It shows folders and files
for eBooks you've loaded from the Coolerbooks site, where there are over 300,000 titles available, plus another million free,
public domain, ones.
Removing DRM from iBooks only
for self - use, DO NOT share or spread the DRM free
ebooks to any one else or any
public domain.
However, Lulu won't accept
public domain works
for ebook distribution, and your book has to be in English.
It's already possible to download
public domain books from Google Book Search as PDF files and copy them onto a flash memory card
for use in e-readers such as Sony's, but this partnership will simplify the process
for users by integrating it into the
eBook Library Software
for PCs that ships with the Sony Reader.
Most people still expect to pay something
for an
eBook, unless the author is doing a promotion or the book is a classic in the
public domain.
EPUBed
public domain titles have arrived in Sony's
ebook store, courtesy of Google, earning their catalog a deserved — if slightly dubious — claim to the title of the «largest source
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Sony is partnering with Google to offer a half - million
public domain titles — already available to PC users on Google Book — to their library, making their collection the largest available
for any
eBook format, including the Kindle's.
When it comes to
ebooks,
for example, Google hasn't been able to compete with Amazon (s AMZN) or even Apple (s AAPL); its share of the
ebook market is likely in the single digits, and while 5 million
ebooks sounds high, a lot of those are free
public domain titles.