You can enjoy a good book on your e-reader without having to shell out any money. Here's how you can indulge in popular titles and classic literature for free.
You can enjoy a good book on your e-reader without having to shell out any money. Here's how you can indulge in popular titles and classic literature for free.
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I\'m a author an my e-books sell for a modest $2.99. I get about half of that in royalties. I worked very hard to write the books, and I need to make a living too. So support your favorite authors and buy their books. The e-reader makes them more cost effective, eliminates storage, paper, etc., so the author actually gets to keep more of the money--and the author\'s the one who really does the work.
February 12 2013 at 6:55 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyActually, forget Amazon free ebooks, there are few, and most of those are of questionable value.
Instead try: "Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
No fee or registration is required: www.gutenberg.org/"
Project Gutenberg links to affiliaties which offer another 60,000 or so free ebooks.
Also: check out two other sources in my email below:
Many more free ebooks -- classics and otherwise -- available from openlibrary.org or google books.
February 12 2013 at 5:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI have an E-reader that goe's with me to the Doctors office but I prefer books I usually read two or three at a time and I keep one of the current ones in the Bathroom. I Spread them around the house and read which ever one is handy where I come to light! When I wear one out I usually start a new one. I have a Mailer with 1200 pages in the Bathroom and since I only spend a half hour a day Mailer has resided in the potty room for quite a while now. Come to think of it thats a good place for Mailer!
February 12 2013 at 4:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThen annoying thing is, you can check out an eReader, but only with six or eight latest sellers on it. They won't download any of the classic (free) stuff, and won't let you download any to it, either.
February 12 2013 at 1:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLibraries are unable to purchase many new books by the most popular authors because it isn't allowed. An Ebook purchased by a library is limited to 26 uses. E books cost the library as much as $85. A new hardback runs around $25 and can be circulated 40 times or more. Children's books are less available so far but hardback ones can go out as many times as 150. E books are a wonderful addition to a library but are not the end all and be all at this point in time. Some libraries will not allow Ebook check outs to people outside their tax paying areas or if you currently owe fines or other fees. Just 2 cents from a librarian.
February 12 2013 at 1:24 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Replye readers are cheap. I paid $200 for a Kindle HD (love it). Bought a kindle reader for my neice on ebay for less than $30
February 14 2013 at 10:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyE-readers are life-savers for elderly people like me whose eyes get very tired. I can adjust the size of the print and also the brightness of the screen. They are great!
February 12 2013 at 12:53 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyNow , how to get them beyond the "e-reader" and available on PC.Laptop, etc.
February 12 2013 at 11:39 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyDownload an ereader onto your laptop. Mine came with one.
February 12 2013 at 11:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replydo you have to sit in front of the computer to read?
February 12 2013 at 2:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyE books are convenient, but I like to turn pages and the smell of the book and my book does not require batteries.
February 12 2013 at 10:18 AM Report abuse Permalink +4 rate up rate down ReplyYour books require trees, not batteries. I like them too, but I'd rather suffer the feel of the tablet and know I didn't require an oxygen making tree to enjoy the tale.
February 12 2013 at 10:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnd how about all the CO2 dumped into the atmosphere to make your precious tablet, which will probably need to be replaced within five years because some stupid little part broke and the manufactuer willfully made it unfixable because it meaans you've got to buy a new one? Most paper comes from pines, which grow relatively fast and clean the air while they're doing it.
February 12 2013 at 1:35 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate downI do both. I use my ereader for most books but for my favorite writers I buy the hardcover.
February 12 2013 at 12:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI don\'t understand why people don\'t want to pay for a book, either hardcover or electronic. It\'s a product. The author sells his/her product to make a living. Yes, I look for books on sale. I also download a lot of free ones. But if there\'s a book that just came out by one of my favorite authors and I want it, I pay for it. We don\'t expect movies to be free at the theater, why shoulld we expect books to be free?
February 12 2013 at 9:56 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyHow about: because popular-among-publisher details like die-cut covers and lots of whitespace on the pages adds unnecessarily to the price of the book?
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