E-Book Resources

Directories and E-Book/E-Book Reader Sellers

EPIC Publishers—e-book publishers who are members of EPIC

Fictionwise—wide selection of e-books in various formats

Kindle Wireless Reading Device—device and books available from Amazon.com

Mind Like Water—e-book directory

Mobipocket—e-books to read on your PDA

Smashwords—e-books from independent publishers in a variety of formats for different e-book readers

Free E-Books

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 148,000 online books, texts, and documents (120,000 free)

eBook Directory—”the biggest directory of free downloadable ebooks online”

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

Project Gutenberg—The oldest producer of free e-texts on the Internet

E-Book/E-Publishing Resources and Information

EPIC—the Electronically Published Internet Connection, “the voice of e-publishing”

 Electronic Books – What Are They?—explanation of e-books from Reader’s Eden

KnowBetter—news, reviews, and information about e-books

Teleread—information and news about digital publishing