Where to get Free Electronic Books

There are hundreds of thousands of low-priced and free electronic books available for the Amazon Kindle and other eReaders. Sometimes you need to dig around a little bit, but if you are looking for free (or near to free) electronic books then read on to browse through our extensive list of sites.

Keep in mind that if you are using a Kindle then the main file format for a Kindle is AZW format. The Kindle is compatible with other file formats, such as, DOC, DOCX, PDF, HTML, TXT, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PRC and MOBI files.

ManyBooks.net

Manybooks.net offers 26,458 eBooks for free. Most of the eBooks have been taken from the 2003 Project Gutenberg archives, as well as non-copyrighted works from other sources. Ebooks are available in Amazon’s AZW format, so can be read on the Kindle. Books are searchable by author, title, genre, and language. There is a Reader Recommendation section for help in choosing titles, and you can also view what other users are reading by accessing the Public Bookshelf section. Other useful sections on the site include New Additions, Popular Titles, and Recent Downloads.

Book Lending Sites

With the possibility of lending books between Kindle users a number of sites are popping up connecting people who would like to lend and borrow their eBooks. These sites include, Lendle.me, eBookFling.com, and Booklending.com. Remember that you can only lend a book once and for a maximun of 14 days.

Fictionwise

Fictionwise, owned by Barnes & Noble, offers a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction eBooks. Books are available in the following formats: eReader, PDF, LIT, .PDB, RB, FUB, KML, LRF, PRC, MOBI, IMP. The Kindle, however, can only read MOBI and PDF formats. There is a special section for free books. Just locate the icon on in the meny bar with free electronic books. Also there is extensive section of eBooks available for Under $1. Fictionwise.com also manages other eBook websites, including eBookwise.com and Libwise.com.

WOWIO

WOWIO provides free copyrighted eBooks with permission from the publisher. The site offers a wide selection of books from various genres, including classic literature, comics, college textbooks, fiction, and non-fiction. WOWIO functions by getting a single sponsor to cover the cost of a book for a reader in exchange for the opportunity to deliver their marketing message. The revenues then go to the authors and artists who have made their work available through the site. All WOWIO books are in PDF format. Although all titles are free if viewed online, there is a charge for downloads.

World Public Library

The World Public Library offers over 750,000 PDF eBooks and eDocuments for download. You can search for eBooks by numerous criteria such as Author, Title, Subject, Publisher, Language, or File Type. Ebooks are available in over 100 languages. To gain access to the World Public Library collections, you must become a member. The Individual Annual Membership Price is currently $8.95 and the Institutional Annual Membership Price is $2 per student. There is a Give Away Page on the website where you can choose a free eBook from 200 of their titles without having membership to the site.

Mobipocket

Mobipocket sells eBooks for use on a number of devices. With the free Mobipocket software, you can read MOBI files on your PC, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian, or Kindle. Amazon bought Mobipocket in 2005 and the Kindle can read unencrypted Mobipocket books natively. The Mobipocket Reader software lets readers manage and organize their library, transfer books from a mobile device to a PC, highlight and annotate text, and look up words in a selection of online dictionaries.

Webscriptions

Webscriptions began in 1999 by selling ebooks solely published by Baen Books but has since expanded to include titles by many other authors and publishers. Most of the titles on offer are science fiction or fantasy. Over 1,000 titles are available for download in the following file formats: PRC, RB, RTF, LRF, LIT, HTML. The Kindle can read PRC files.

Ebooks on the site can be purchased individually or as a subscription for $15 a month. According to the Webscriptions website, “For each month purchased, you will receive internet access to a directory containing four books. Three months before publication subscribers receive the first half of all 4 books. Two months before publication subscribers receive the third quarter of all 4 books. One months before publication subscribers receive the last quarter, completing all 4 books. About two weeks after the last quarter is delivered, bookstores around the country will begin to stock these titles.”

Feedbooks

Feedbooks provides access to thousands of public domain titles as well as titles contributed to the site by authors. Authors can use the site to turn their work into an eBook and gain access to an audience. RSS feeds from a number of popular newspapers and magazine, including The Economist, the BBC, and The Wall Street Journal, are also available for download. Feedbook file formats include PDF, PRC, LRF, EPUB.

MobileRead

MobileRead is an online forum where community members discuss developments in mobile technology and applications. In addition to the forum, there are free public domain eBooks available for download. eBooks are available in ePub, LRF, IMP, & MOBI format (that can be used with the Kindle).

Munseys

Munseys has over 20,000 rare and hard to find titles to choose from. The eBooks are available in ten different formats, of which PRC and PDF are supported by the Kindle. You can browse eBooks by category or search the New or Popular sections. Book reviews and comments are posted on the website. There is also a blog that discusses eBook and eReader topics.

zinepal.com

Zinepal.com allows anyone to create an eBook from their online content. The site turns content from blogs, RSS feeds, and websites into eBooks and printable PDFs, which can be read on the Kindle. As a reader, you can search the site for this custom-made content and download it to your Kindle. Formats include MOBI, PDF, and EPUB.

Retroread.com

The majority of books available through Google are in the EPUB format, which the Kindle does not support. Retroread.com allows you to convert the public domain books found on Google from the EPUB format to the MOBI format that can be read on the Kindle. To use the service, you first register your unique Kindle e-mail address with Retroread.com. You can then download the EPUB book you want from Google, upload the file to Retroread, and the file will then be sent directly to your Kindle. Although Retroread does not charge for their service, Amazon charges fees of $0.15 per megabyte.

Free-eBooks.net

Free-eBooks.net provides thousands of eBooks and magazines for free. You must be a member to use the site. Free membership entitles you to unlimited HTML downloads and five free PDF downloads per month. VIP membership costs $7 per month, $27 per year, or $39.95 for a lifetime and allows for greater downloading flexibility, in addition to other benefits.

jungle-search.com

Jungle-search does not provide eBooks, but instead offers a simple way to search Amazon’s site for the best deals in eBooks. Search criteria includes Percentage Off, Price Range, Average Rating, and Eligible for Prime Shipping.

BookYards

Bookyards‘s purpose is to provide content that you would find at any large public library in a digital format so that it is searchable online. This content includes educational material, books, reference material and other useful documents. Most files are available for download in PDF format. The site also includes an extensive list of links to other websites that provide digital content.

Planet eBook

Planet eBook offers free public domain eBooks for download. The books are available in PDF format. You can sign up to be notified when a new eBook becomes available. You can also follow Planet eBook’s blog, which includes posts on notable classic novels.

Open Library

Open Library offers a huge selection of eBooks, over 30 million. Although it is sometimes little difficult to find your way to a book that you want, it is worth having a look around.

Internet Sacred Text Archive

The Internet Sacred Text Archive states that it is the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web

Baen Free Library

The Baen Free Library specializes in fantasy and science fiction books. Worth digging around in the list of titles and authors.

FreeKindleBooks

FreeKindleBooks.org offers thousands of classic books to users at no cost. The books are available for download in Kindle-supported MOBI and PRC format. The books offered by this site are file-format conversions of books available through Project Gutenberg. Many of the books on Project Gutenberg are in the EPUB format, which the Kindle is unable to read. This site makes it easy to find titles that are directly compatible with the Kindle and don’t require any file conversions. Recently, Project Gutenberg has begun to support Kindle-compatible eBooks, available in the MOBI format. There is a useful catalog on FreeKindleBooks that lists which Project Gutenberg books are now available in the MOBI format.

pdfbooks

pdfbooks.co.za describes itself as a public library for the people. It provides an open library of over 7,000 Project Gutenberg titles in pdf format. Books are free of charge and no registration is required. In addition to Project Gutenberg titles, pdfbooks has an Unpublished Works section where unpublished authors can post their books or articles and get more exposure for their work. You can search the site for a title by keyword or can click on ‘Random Articles’ and ‘Highest Rated Content.’

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg has one of the largest collections of eBooks in the world with over 30,000 eBooks available for download. Michael Hart started the project in 1971 with the mission to “encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.” The project relies on volunteers to digitize books in print. The books available through Project Gutenberg are free because their copyright has expired in the U.S. Project Gutenberg publishes files in virtually all formats. You can search the site by author, title, language, or recently posted. There is also a Top 100 list, which is especially useful if you don’t have a specific title in mind. Although some books on Project Gutenberg will be incompatible with the Kindle, there are a huge number of titles formatted as TXT or MOBI, which can be downloaded on the Kindle.

Read Print

Read Print is an free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

What’s missing?

Let us know if you know of any others sites that are not in this list.

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