Free Sources for E-books
The following sites (in no particular order) are sources for free e-books.
- NC LIVE Home Grown eBook Collection
- A collection of more than 3,400 fiction and nonfiction titles are part of NC LIVE's permanent collections (they are yours forever!), and can be read simultaneously by an unlimited number of readers.
- NC LIVE eBooks
- Links to HomeGrown eBooks Collection, eBook Central, EBSCOhost Collection, RBDigital, Gale Virtual Reference, Credo Reference, 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.
- DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
- A growing collection of academic books available in a variety of languages for download as a PDF.