Free E-Books for Read an E-Book Week
March 9, 2009 by Lillie
Read an E-Book Week is here … and with it the chance for you to learn more about e-books and to download free e-books. Let’s start with free e-books—everybody likes free—then we’ll get to resources to learn more about e-books.
During this week, I am offering a free e-book to each of my visitors.
Some of my clients are providing limited numbers of copies of their e-books:
- As Shadows Fall by Grace Anne Schaefer (5 copies)
- The New Day Dawns by Grace Anne Schaefer (5 copies)
- On the Wings of the Wind by Patricia Eytcheson Taylor and the Reverend Doctor James Taylor (2 copies)
- Some Monument to Last by James Doughty (2 copies)
- Spring House by David Bowles (5 copies)
I am offering an unlimited number of my own e-books:
Just leave a comment indicating your first, second, and third choices for your free e-book. I will e-mail you the e-book (typically a zip file containing several different e-book formats) within one business day. You must request your free e-book during Read an E-Book Week 2009, no later than Saturday, March 14th. Though I will give you your first choice if possible, the e-books in limited supply will be distributed in the order the request is received in comments.
Visit the Read an E-Book Partners page to find more free e-books from publishers and authors.
The following sites give away free e-books all the time:
- All Books Free—fiction, children’s literature, and poetry
- Bibliomania—over 2000 free classic texts
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library—classic Christian books in electronic format
- Classic Short Stories—read short stories online
- Digital Book Index—catalog of more than 100,000 online books, texts, and documents
- Electronic Text Center—University of Virginia’s E-Book Library for the MS READER and PALM Devices
- Feedbooks—Free public domain books in popular formats
- Free-ebooks.net—E-books delivered by RSS feed or downloadable PDF
- ibiblio—one of the largest “collection of collections” from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- The Internet Public LIbrary—extensive online text collections from the University of Michigan
- MemoWare—free e-books for PDAs
- National Academies Press—more than 4,000 free e-books in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine
- The Online Books Page—listing over 30,000 free books on the Web from the University of Pennsylvania
- Phoenix-Library.org—worldwide multiformat e-Library
- Project Gutenberg—The oldest producer of free e-texts on the Internet
You can find even more free e-books by going to your favorite search engine and typing in “free e-books.”
If you’d like to know more about e-books, check out the following articles.
On the Read an E-Book site, you will find:
- History of E-Books
- Future of E-Books
- Information on E-Book Reading Devices
- Environmental Impact of E-Books
- Sources of E-Books
- Read an E-Book Partners
You will find a number of articles on my blog about e-books, including the following.
General E-Book Information:
- E-Book Resources
- E-Books, Part 1: I read throughout a four-hour power outage
- E-Books, Part 2: Short Nonfiction (How-To) E-Books
- E-Books, Part 3: Books from Electronic or Traditional Publishers
- Blog Action Day: Publishing and the Environment
- Read an E-Book Week
- Read an E-Book Week 2
- Read an E-Book Week Next Week
Electronic Reading Devices:
- Dream or Destiny and the Kindle
- E-Books, Part 4: Electronic Reading Devices
- What Will the Kindle Do for the E-Publishing Industry?
Publishing E-Books:
- Answers to a Writer’s Questions, Part 2: Children’s Book on CD
- Answers to a Writer’s Questions, Part 3: Marketing a Children’s E-Book
- Self-Publishing Primer: Part 13 - Do I need a Web site and should I make my book available as an e-book?
In closing, let me share a few of the things I like best about reading e-books:
- Reading electronically is easier on my aging, stroke-damaged eyes because I can adjust the font to a size large enough for me to read easily; eInk in Kindle and other e-book reading devices creates an excellent reading experience.
- Holding my Kindle or eBookWise reader is more comfortable than trying to holding a print book (especially a hard cover book) open with arthritic hands.
- I can carry dozens or hundreds of books in the palm of my hand, which is especially beneficial when traveling.
- E-books are more environmentally friendly than print books, especially considering that a third of all books printed end up in land fills without ever being read.
- I find innovative, entertaining, and informative books from small, electronic publishers that often don’t follow the mold of books from traditional publishers.
- Many e-books, especially classics, are available for free, and e-books from independent publishers usually cost much less than print books, allowing me to buy more books on my budget.
I read e-books almost exclusively, but many people prefer print. Do any of the benefits listed above attract your interest? Many readers find that reading e-books—once a week, once a month, or once a year—adds to their reading enjoyment and saves them money while preserving trees. Hope you Read an E-book this week!
Don’t forget to leave your comment with your first, second, and third choices of e-books. If you request one of my books, Dream or Destiny or Stroke of Luck, you don’t need to include any other choices, as there are no limits on how many of these I will give away.
Books We Love Readers Scavenger Hunt
March 6, 2009 by Lillie
Note added 11/21/11: Books We Love is no longer a promotional group of authors.
Note added March 23, 2009: The scavenger hunt has been extended through the end of April. There will also be prizes for bringing new members to the yahoo group.
To celebrate the grand opening of the new Books We Love Reader’s Group, BWL_Readers@yahoogroups.com, participating authors invite you to get acquainted with us by joining in a fun scavenger hunt. Sign up for the group and join the fun Saturday, March 20th and Sunday, March 21st.
Whether you come to play or not, we hope you will celebrate with us the beginning of what we hope will be a stimulating and pleasant group experience.
Join us in welcoming Spring! Have some fun and maybe win an autographed copy of Dream or Destiny or another great book from a Books We Love author.
Read an E-Book Week Next Week
March 4, 2009 by Lillie
Next week is Read an E-Book Week.
Come back on and comment on the post of Monday, March 9 for a chance to win a free e-book.
Visit my previous post about Read an E-Book Week for a list of titles. Include your first, second, and third choices in your comment.
Why am I excited about Read an E-Book Week? Because I’ve been a fan of e-books since my first novel, Stroke of Luck, was published in 1999.
I’ve described before how editors from traditional publishing houses told me “no one wants to read about a cripple” when I submitted Stroke of Luck. The heroine of this romance novel has had a stroke and is in a wheelchair. Then a friend of mine e-mailed me that she’d heard about a new e-publisher who was seeking manuscripts with disabled characters. I submitted my manuscript, and the publisher accepted my story right away. Until that time, I had never read an e-book. I decided if my book was going to be available only as an e-book, I should read a few e-books so I wouldn’t be completely ignorant.
Today, I read e-books almost exclusively. Not that I have anything against print books. I think there is room for both e-books and print e-books in the marketplace. The primary reason I don’t read many print books is because reading on my Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device
Another reason I read e-books is that I find many great, innovative books available only from small, independent electronic publishers. I can find cross-genre books more easily from e-publishers than from traditional print publishers. I can find books that are just a little—or a whole lot—different.
I’m not suggesting you give up reading print books if you enjoy them. I am suggesting that you try something different if you’ve never anything but print books. Read an E-Book!
Words Matter
March 2, 2009 by Lillie
“Actions speak louder than words.”
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.”
Do words matter?
If you believe the above quotes … not much.
If you’ve ever been called crazy, weirdo, bizarre … you know words matter, a lot.
credit: kimberlyfaye
If you’ve ever been told, “I love you” … you know words matter, a lot.
If you’ve ever been inspired or touched or educated by something you read … you know words matter, a lot.
Words matter so much, John described Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as The Word.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. ~ John 1:1-3 NIV
Oh, yes, Words Matter!
March 2-6, 2009 is Words Matter Week, sponsored by the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE).
NAIWE has invited writers and bloggers to answer the question Do words matter? If you want to participate, write your post and add your link on the NAIWE Newswire.
Do you believe words matter?
