Thursday, November 8, 2012

Free & reduced price e-books



Do you have an e-reader or other portable device in need of free or reduced price e-books?  The following websites might be able to help you out!

Pixel of Ink

Pixel of Ink Young Edition

Pixel of Ink alerts you to free and reduced e-books available for the Kindle.  If you subscribe to them via e-mail or follow them on Facebook or Twitter, you will be sure not to miss any bargains.  Many types of books appear on the lists—even popular authors.  Kind of like shopping at an outlet store—you just have to look!

Also check out their sister site, Pixel of Ink Young Edition, for free and reduced children’s and YA books.

eReaderIQ.com

Another site that alerts you to free and reduced priced Kindle books.  You can also enter books whose prices that you want to track and the website will send you a notification when the price drops.  This is a free service.  Books are categorized and they track children’s books, too.

Monthly free e-book from the University of Chicago Press
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

Every month the University of Chicago Press posts a free e-book.  Past selections have included: Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West by Erin Hogan and The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert Van Gulik.  Sometimes the book is nonfiction, sometimes fiction.  To get the free e-book you just need to submit your e-mail; you will then receive a link to download the book which you can view with Adobe’s Digital Editions software. 

Feedbooks Public Domain Books
Feedbooks has thousands of books that are in the public domain and available to download for free.  You read them on a PC or MAC with Adobe Digital Editions software or on many different mobile devices.  You can point your Kindle directly to http://m.feedbooks.com/ and use the links to download books.

See Feedbooks Main Help Page for assistance with downloading.



Project Gutenberg

Amazon’s free e-books





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