The Tor.com Book Club selection for December is the first book in Ian McDonald's Luna series. In Ian McDonald’s Luna: New Moon, the scions of a falling house must navigate a world...
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Download Glen Cook’s “The Black Company” For Free Before 31 August
Glen Cook's The Chronicles of the Black Company is a grimdark fantasy series featuring a mercenary company. Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind...
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Download Sherrilyn Kenyon’s “Acheron” by 18 August
The next installment in the Tor.com eBook of the month club is from Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series. Here’s the description for the book: Eleven thousand years ago a god was...
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Free eBook: “A Darker Shade of Magic” by V E Schwab
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...
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Project Gutenberg Wants Your Input on Refreshing Its Site
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...
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How to Give Away an eBook From an Author Website
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...
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Standard eBooks Pick Up Where Project Gutenberg Leaves Off
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...
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Free eBook Downloads at Airports Are Not, And Never Will Be, a Thing
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...
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Does the World Need a Paid Alternative to Little Free Libraries?
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 communities through...
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Goodreads Launches Kindle eBook Giveaway Program
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....
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Amazon Now Lets You Give Away Kindle eBooks as Prizes
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...
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New Chrome Plugin Lets You Showroom Amazon, Download eBooks from Project Gutenberg
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...
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Daily eBook Deals Are Yesterday’s News, And Tomorrow’s Marketing Tool
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...
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Did You Just Get a New Tablet, eReader, or Smartphone? Download Thousands of Free Audiobooks, eBooks, and Comic Books
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,...
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Maryland to Mail Free Books Each Month to Baltimore’s Children – Why Not eBooks?
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...
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