Like a website or something? But one that has a wide variety of books to download.
There are a few LEGAL sites you can get free ebooks, or read books online.
1. For the "classics", and other older books, there are quite a few sites you can find them. Search for "public domain" ebooks. Some of the titles may surprise you, but they are all older books.
2. Some publishers, well one in particular that I can remember, offer some of their books online for free. (Link below) Often it will be the first book in a series, or part of a collection. It is a good free
way to explore new authors though.
*side note. I’ve also seen a few books at the library that come with a cd containing a number of books from that publisher in .txt format (not sure if it’s the same one as the site. It was awhile ago, before ebooks became popular)
3. Amazon.com. They have a lot of ebooks you can purchase. The "free" part comes from gift cards. There are a number of sites which offer free gift cards for Amazon for your time/interest. They are usually a) Survey’s b) PTC paid to click c) "shop and earn, and d) search engine.
(if you want more information about those, you can send me a message)
4. If you don’t care about the popular titles, famous authors, or perfect editing, there are sites that get amateur writers to join and submit their work. There are a lot of people writing and not getting published, so you can find some really good stories from those sites. (And some bad…)
I can’t remember any specific sites, but they shouldn’t be hard to find.
I hope I’ve helped.
February 17th, 2010 | free e books
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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.
Re: Intellectual Property
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.
References :
There are a few LEGAL sites you can get free ebooks, or read books online.
1. For the "classics", and other older books, there are quite a few sites you can find them. Search for "public domain" ebooks. Some of the titles may surprise you, but they are all older books.
2. Some publishers, well one in particular that I can remember, offer some of their books online for free. (Link below) Often it will be the first book in a series, or part of a collection. It is a good free
way to explore new authors though.
*side note. I’ve also seen a few books at the library that come with a cd containing a number of books from that publisher in .txt format (not sure if it’s the same one as the site. It was awhile ago, before ebooks became popular)
3. Amazon.com. They have a lot of ebooks you can purchase. The "free" part comes from gift cards. There are a number of sites which offer free gift cards for Amazon for your time/interest. They are usually a) Survey’s b) PTC paid to click c) "shop and earn, and d) search engine.
(if you want more information about those, you can send me a message)
4. If you don’t care about the popular titles, famous authors, or perfect editing, there are sites that get amateur writers to join and submit their work. There are a lot of people writing and not getting published, so you can find some really good stories from those sites. (And some bad…)
I can’t remember any specific sites, but they shouldn’t be hard to find.
I hope I’ve helped.
References :
Sci-Fi Publisher with books online:
http://www.baen.com/library/