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Free eBook: “A Darker Shade of Magic” by V E Schwab

12 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

Tor.com's ebook of the month club is giving away one of Victoria Schwab's fantasy novels right now. I'm not a fantasy reader, but it sounds interesting. Kell is one of the last Antari?magicians with [Read More ...]

Project Gutenberg Wants Your Input on Refreshing Its Site

4 April, 2018 // 9 Comments

At long, long, long, long, long, long last, Project Gutenberg is updating its listing pages. They sent this message to one of their mailing lists this morning. We would like to invite design ideas [Read More ...]

How to Give Away an eBook From an Author Website

2 December, 2017 // 6 Comments

There are a hundred and one different sites on the web where authors can give away an ebook. They can use services like InstaFreebie, forums like MobileRead, or blogging platforms like BookLikes. I [Read More ...]

Standard eBooks Pick Up Where Project Gutenberg Leaves Off

20 June, 2017 // 9 Comments

eBook formatting is important. One of the reasons Feedbooks tops my list of free ebook sites is that the ebooks there are formatted to a higher standard than you can expect from even major [Read More ...]

Free eBook Downloads at Airports Are Not, And Never Will Be, a Thing

28 February, 2017 // 1 Comment

The New Straits Times reports that passengers traveling through the Kuala Lumpur International Airport downloaded an astonishing number of free ebooks during last year's pilot: From May last year to [Read More ...]

Does the World Need a Paid Alternative to Little Free Libraries?

9 June, 2016 // 1 Comment

Individually, Little Free Libraries are small containers in public spaces where the public can borrow, exchange, or leave used books. Collectively, they're a movement to build local reading [Read More ...]

Goodreads Launches Kindle eBook Giveaway Program

5 May, 2016 // 13 Comments

For the past couple months Amazon has enabled authors and publishers to give away ebooks as contest prizes via Amazon.com - so long as the ebooks were paid for. Now Amazon is offering authors a [Read More ...]

Amazon Now Lets You Give Away Kindle eBooks as Prizes

1 March, 2016 // 7 Comments

Around this time last year Amazon launched a service groups, companies, and creators could hold a contest and give away swag as prizes. Amazon Giveaway was easy to use, and with Amazon handling the [Read More ...]

New Chrome Plugin Lets You Showroom Amazon, Download eBooks from Project Gutenberg

1 March, 2016 // 2 Comments

Amazon made showrooming a dirty word, and it has come back to haunt them. Over the past few years we've seen Chrome plugins that let you browse Amazon and check books out of your local library, [Read More ...]

Daily eBook Deals Are Yesterday’s News, And Tomorrow’s Marketing Tool

29 December, 2015 // 2 Comments

The Wall Street Journal has just noticed what authors and publishers have known since at least 2012, that email marketing still works wonders. The WSJ published an article yesterday which focused on [Read More ...]

Did You Just Get a New Tablet, eReader, or Smartphone? Download Thousands of Free Audiobooks, eBooks, and Comic Books

25 December, 2015 // 2 Comments

Judging by the spike in traffic today, many people have gotten a new mobile device and are looking for content to fill it with. Whether you got a Kindle, Kobo, iPad, Samsung tablet, or iPhone, these [Read More ...]

Maryland to Mail Free Books Each Month to Baltimore’s Children – Why Not eBooks?

23 December, 2015 // 3 Comments

The Washington Post published a story on Monday about the state of Maryland's new literacy campaign, and I think it's a perfect example of a project that would only be improved if it went digital. [Read More ...]

Six Sites With Free Digital Comics

20 December, 2015 // 4 Comments

This morning's post about reading comics on the Fire tablet reminded me that my digital comic library was far more limited than my ebook collection, and so I set out to correct the problem. And since [Read More ...]

On Trying to Read the First Chapter of Harper Lee’s “Watchman” Offline

10 July, 2015 // 11 Comments

Much attention has been paid to the fact that the first chapter from Harper Lee's new novel would be available to read online. The excerpt was published on the WSJ and The Guardian this morning, [Read More ...]

Six Sites With Truly Free eBooks

16 March, 2014 // 18 Comments

Free ebook sites are so common now that they are not just a dime a dozen, they're a dime a gross. All of the major ebook stores have free ebooks, and you can find even more free (and legal) sites [Read More ...]

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