Whatever the needs, make sure to keep in mind both the Kindle eText rental service and
public domain titles available through the Kindle Store (or just Project Gutenberg) for free.
ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader - formatted e-books, available for purchase and download, with a handful of
public domain titles available for free.
From its inception, it made digital versions of
public domain titles available at minimal costs, as well as welcoming publishers» back list titles, books that may have otherwise never seen the digital light of day.
The company's web site — ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader - formatted e-books, available for purchase and download, with a handful of
public domain titles available for free.
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.
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.
Most of the
titles available are all being sold by major publishers and do not include the normal
public domain books that normally populate sales like this.
If you enjoy reading
public domain classics, sites like epubBooks have plenty of
titles, all
available in the EPUB and Kindle MOBI formats.
This project works to bring
public domain books into the digital age, and the best part is many of these
titles are now
available for the iPad for free.
Biography & Autobiography (
Public Domain & Original
Titles — 25 and 15 available titles respectively)
Titles — 25 and 15
available titles respectively)
titles respectively)(EPUB)
You could read same exact
public domain titles and get the same exact DRM - free ebooks elsewhere that are
available for the jetBook Mini.
If you live outside the U.S.,
titles available at the sites I mentioned above may or may not be legal for you to download; check your own country's laws on
public domain.
While those
titles are all
public domain, and thus freely
available elsewhere, I think it's a great idea by Kobo: it makes the eReader seem like a better deal (that's like paying $ 1.49 per book and getting the eReader for free), and also makes it blindingly simple for a buyer to start reading right away.
While the total number of works
available is only a fraction of the thousands of
titles released by commercial publishers each year, the stated goal of LibriVox, which has more than eighteen hundred registered volunteers, is to eventually «make all
public domain books
available as free audio books.»
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.
However, BarnesandNoble.com LLC on July 20 announced that it had 700,000 e-book
titles available, including more than half a million from Google in the
public domain.
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.
As of now, the only English - language books
available are
public domain titles.
The others are out - of - print editions, millions of
titles available in the
public domain like Google Books, and digital formats licensed out through major publishers including Harper Collins.
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.
As for the e-book store, I think B&N and Kobo both have very good e-book stores (ahead of Sony, Apple, and Google), but Amazon is still the undisputed leader, with the most
titles available (ignore B&N's marketing talk of having the «largest» e-book store: they count
public domain titles that Amazon doesn't, even though they are easily
available for the Kindle as well).
Barnes & Noble.com, however, on July 20 announced it had 700,000 e-book
titles available, including more than half a million from Google in the
public domain.
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.
Earlier, Sony announced the availability of more than one million free
public domain books from Google, as well as new releases and New York Times bestseller
titles available for USD$ 9.99.
The
titles included in the Library of Classics are the greatest literary works
available in
public domain.