Following the thread about p-books versus e-books, where does one find all these free e-books? And what does the DRM refer to?
I've looked for free e-books but I find few of my favorite authors. WEB Griffith, James Patterson, Steve Martini, J A Jance, David Baldachi, Joe Buff, Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Lee Child, Barry Eisler, Harold Coyle, Robert Heinlein, etc.
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If you're looking for sources of e-books besides (or in addition to) the library:
Go to Amazon and in their search bar type in the name of one of your favorite authors and "kindle books free".
James Patterson has quite a few free books. The others . . . maybe not. It's up to the publisher when/if to offer free books, and most of them tend to do it when an author is getting ready to release a new book (on the theory that offering an older book for free will stir up interest in a new release by the same author).
Many people who get free Kindle books don't just look for particular authors. Instead, they browse the selection of free books frequently to find ones they're interested in. There are several sites that list free Kindle books. EReaderIQ is one of the better sites. Sometimes a free book is offered for a long time, sometimes for 24 hours or less. The site is updated hourly.
Edited to add: You can use the EReaderIQ site to do an advanced search of Amazon free books. Select the category of books you're interested in, and in the price field enter "0" to "0" and the free books in that genre will show up.
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The vast majority of free e-books are titles that are in the Public Domain, mostly books that were published before the 1920s. Some publishers will offer free versions of new titles for promotional purposes. Many new authors will do the same to get exposure.
Here are some links that can help you find freebies:
DRM is Digital Rights Management, a more insidious form of copy protection. In addition to often preventing one from making copies of an e-book, books with DRM often can be read only on a specific device. For example, Kindle books can be read only on a Kindle e-book reader or Kindle software on a computer. I personally will not buy DRM infested e-books. Technically, DRM cannot be legally stripped but, in the U.S, recent court decisions have been increasingly favorable to stipping DRM when DRM abrogates legal fair use (which includes media shift and archival). I prefer not to deal with it. Nor do I want publishers who use DRM in a futile attempt to prevent piracy or limit people to using only their devices to think I have accepted their use of DRM. I also am not a pirate and resent being treated like one.
E-books from libraries will have DRM but that is a necessity to keep people from just keeping books they checked out. I do not have a problem with that other than it usually limits readers to only certain devices to read the books on.
DRM is Digital Rights Management, This is a feature that prevents you from copying the E-Book or giving it away
For free E-books, if you have a facebook check otu e-readernews.
just go to ereadernews.com or www.ereadernews.com
They send me links to several free Kindle E-Books every day
Don't have a Kindle? Neither do I but I have Kindle for PC.
Read 'em on my laptop or netbook
Project Guentenburg (Google it) and Smashwords (likewise) also have free E-books, Or just google Free Kindle BOoks or go to the Kindle store and type in FREE.
The Project and Smashwords have other formats as well as Kindle.
Baen (Science fiction) has a free library.. Check out Fidler Fair by M. Lackey.
This is a colleciton of short stories.. Check out "Fine Print" It's a good one.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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What I do is go into amazon, click on kindle from the drop down menu on the upper left of the screen then select kindle books. The next screen will have a bar at the top; select discussions. There is a daily running topic called "free books and chat". I then scan the picks of others that have gone to multiple sites. I am sure I miss some but it saves me a lot of time.
tomimc wrote: What I do is go into amazon, click on kindle from the drop down menu on the upper left of the screen then select kindle books. The next screen will have a bar at the top; select discussions. There is a daily running topic called "free books and chat". I then scan the picks of others that have gone to multiple sites. I am sure I miss some but it saves me a lot of time.
You must like to work. The link I provided goes directly to Kindle Books. The list will already be sorted by price going from low to high with all the freebies at that time being listed first. Since some freebies are freebies only for a limited time, it would be a good idea to check the site frequently.
Rick Y wrote: Following the thread about p-books versus e-books, where does one find all these free e-books? And what does the DRM refer to?
I've looked for free e-books but I find few of my favorite authors. WEB Griffith, James Patterson, Steve Martini, J A Jance, David Baldachi, Joe Buff, Dale Brown, Tom Clancy, Lee Child, Barry Eisler, Harold Coyle, Robert Heinlein, etc.
My wife has a Kobo specificaly becasue you can get books for it from from the library. Apparently other makes are not so good for this. She takes them out and returns them as if they were real books. When she takes one out she has a certain amount of time to read it. If she does not finish it in time it gets disabled. Because there is high demand she cannot renew her ebooks.
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