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3 Responses to “How do you get free books for an E reader?”

1. redunicorn Says:
   
   February 23rd, 2010 at 5:05 pm

   If an author posts his book on his web page, then it is legal. You will have to see if your ereader will allow the download.

   Sometimes a publisher like Baen Books or Harlequin offers free ebooks. Again you need to see if your ereader will allow the download.

   Books on Scribd or 4shared or other peer to peer sharing sites are most likely STOLEN BOOKS. Do not download them.
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2. Herschel Says:
   
   February 23rd, 2010 at 5:44 pm

   Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org.
   However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts, distributes, or transmits the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
   Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
   If the work is valuable enough to read, it must be paid for.

   Aside from being sued, you can be arrested, jailed, and fined for violation of both U.S. and International copyright laws, as well as under all the new laws protecting "Intellectual Property".
   With ebooks, just as with hardcopies, you buy that single copy, not the work, data, property, or text within. Those remain the property of the “copyright holder”. The copyright includes the right to copy, produce, manufacturer, transmit, distribute, and sell the work itself.
   It’s like buying a mailing list. You can use the list to mail flyers to customers, but you cannot duplicate the list for re-sale or even give it away. The "property" belongs to someone else, and is considered theft of their work as much as if you design a new invention, patent it, and someone else steals your design, produces it, and sells it without you.
   It’s amazing how much this simple law escapes questioners here.
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3. Mike P Says:
   
   February 23rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm

   There are some websites like these two, where you can find more than ten thousand free books for an ebook reader:

   http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

   http://manybooks.net/

   BTW, I’ve given a detailed review on the Sony Reader and comparison with the Kindle here, guess you’ll be interested:

   http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091104124535AAM2VvR

   Hope this helps.
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