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Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Where to get FREE ebooks


Book lovers rejoice! The internet has made books so much 
more accessible, letting you find thousands of eBooks for 
absolutely no cost. Read on your eBook reader, your 
tablet, smartphone, laptop, or desktop computer. Here are 
3 of the best sites where you can download your free books.
Free eBooks
This site is a treasure trove for people who own a Kindle. The site
will refer you to thousands of free books straight from 
Amazon.com. If you don’t have a Kindle, don’t worry – You
can download a Kindle app for your iPhone & iPad, your Android 
device, for Windows Phone, and even for the PC or Mac.

Free eBooks
Project Guttenburg is a free organization that wants to spread knowledge in the world. They offer several thousand titles, mainly in English but also in Czech, Portuguese, German and French.

Another great source for free eBooks is the aptly-named site, 
Free-Ebooks.net. Offering their own collection of thousands of 
books, magazines, including many titles in Spanish and Portuguese.
Free eBooks

Sunday, March 11, 2012

E-books Open Up A Whole New Can of Worms


                                             by       Trina Boice
                                             www.trinaboice.com

Amazon now sells more e-books than regular books!  While publishers, authors, readers, and the electronic companies who put them all together scramble to figure it all out, one thing is clear...the publishing world has changed.
Apple didn’t get to bask in the glory of its new iPad for long. The Justice Department has warned the company—along with five of the biggest U.S. publishers—that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.

The case alleges that just before the release of the first iPad, Apple worked with publishers to adopt a retail model in which the publishers set a price and Apple took a 30 percent cut of sales. The move was a reaction against Amazon, which had frightened publishers by selling e-books at $9.99.
 

After Apple adopted the pricing model, the publishers were able to demand a similar one from Amazon.