New Bern-Craven County
Free Sources for E-books
The following sites (in no particular order) are sources for free e-books.
- NC LIVE eBooks
- Links to MyiLibrary Book Collection, EBSCOhost Collection, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and ABC-CLIO eBook Collection. Requires NC LIVE password and possible account set-up with each vendor.
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.
- Barnes and Noble
- Thousands of free e-books for use on iPad, iPhone, Android, Nook, and PC.
- ManyBooks
- More than 29,000 e-books available for Kindle, Nook, iPad, and other e-readers.
- Amazon.com
- Free classics and out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books plus limited-time free promotional e-books for Kindle.
- Free Kindle Books.org
- Thousands of free classic e-books.
- Smashwords
- E-books from Indie authors and publishers.
- Kobo Books
- Whether you’re on an iPhone or BlackBerry smartphone, Mac or PC, Sony Reader or a device we don’t even know about yet, Kobo is geared toward helping book lovers enjoy eReading anytime, anyplace, on any device.
- Internet Archive
- Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
- Baen Free Library
- A number of free e-books from Baen Books, publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- Online Books Page
- Over 1 million titles compiled by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
- Inkmesh
- Ebook search engine to find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader and more!
- Munseys
- Over 30,000 rare and hard to find titles in a variety of e-book formats.
- WebJunction
- Free e-books and e-reader apps (available as DOC or PDF file)
- Free E-book Pathfinder
- List of websites offering free e-books maintained by Joyce Valenza, school teacher-librarian, and blogger for School Library Journal.