She is reading a
lot of public domain books, and likes urban fantasy and light romance and is getting a lot of mileage out of the free offers.
That the world gets a free library of audiobooks has always been a kind of wonderful fringe benefit, a side benefit beyond what we really do (as I see it anyway), which is: to help people make audio
recordings of public domain books, and give them away for free.
When I asked ACX to associate the free Kindle
copy of my public domain book with my publisher account so I could upload the audiobook, ACX support responded::
Now I am no fan of Microsoft per se, and their eReader for the Pocket PC comes with DRM, but it is not that onerous and there are
plenty of public domain books available.
The e-book reader works with ePub and PDF files; you can buy them from Entourage's own e-book store, which includes some New York Times bestsellers, plus $ 3 and $ 4
copies of public domain books that you're better off downloading from Project Gutenberg for free.
It's adding customers that want
millions of public domain books and free library books and devices that can be rooted to run things that aren't supposed to be run on eReaders.
27,000 +:
Number of public domain books that can be downloaded free from Project Gutenberg that can be read using any eBook reader, computer and most smart phone and mobile devices.
Personally, I don't think it will take nearly 40 years to make eBooks of
all of the public domain books, newspapers and magazines, etc., that are easy to find, not to forget to add in music, artworks, etc..
Click on the link below to know more and support this effort: - Support the Digitization of Public Domain Books
Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization
of Public Domain books.