Free E-Book Friday

This is the last day but if you like poetry head over to May's Machete and sign up for a free e-copy of her book of poetry.  http://maysmachete.blogspot.com/2010/04/free-e-book.html

Free e-book Friday

Until January 15th, you can download a free copy of Suze Orman’s new book from Oprah’s web site.

Free e-book Friday

From Leo Babauta at Zen Habits

Merry Christmas everyone! As a gift, I’d like to share with
you my companion to The Power of Less — a free ebook called “THRIVING
ON LESS: Simplifying in a Tough Economy“.

Go here to download the ebook for
free. (Please note: click on the link to go to the download page — don’t
click “save as” to save the ebook.)

Free e-books

From Dec 23 - Dec31st at www.eBooks.eHarlequin.com, there will be a free romance eBook a day given away.

Free E-Book Friday

Rare and acclaimed Doctor Who novels available to read for free!

All feature brand new artwork and extensive notes by the original authors.

Free e-book Friday

Download a free copy of the e-book Eight by Katherine Neville.

Copyright and Free Books

One of the programs I attended while at the ALA conference was on copyright and online piracy. During the program, writer and editor, Eric Flint, mentioned that the Baen publishing response to this is to offer selected titles for free download and the rest of their library at reasonable (lower than paperback) prices. You can read their whole position statement about this and I tend to agree with it but the part that excited me was that FREE books are available, which is the equivalent of librarian crack. Best of all, with no DRM attached to the downloads you can share with others who might like the books. Of course, supporting your favorite authors by buying the books or asking your local library buy copies is encouraged as well.

For all intents and purposes Eric Flint's portion of the panel discussion is on the Baen website. I do wish I had written down a couple of "quotables" from Vernor Vinge and Cory Doctorow as well but I was too busy listening.

Free e-Books

In celebration of the publication of I SHALL NOT WANT, St. Martin’s Minotaur is offering the first two ebooks of Julia Spencer-Fleming’s A Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne Mystery series:

IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER and A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD.
Click here to sign up to receive.
Promotion ends June 12, 2008, 11:59 p.m. ET.

Cory Doctorow update

Cory Doctorow has just released comic adaptations of his award-winning science fiction stories — Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now. Download here for free or pick up a copy at your local library. Also, his recent young adult fiction novel, Little Brother, is the talk of the young adult librarian world.

And for those of you who think you are too old of YA Fiction...I have met you....remember?

Favorite Author Alert

I am slowly finding "free" downloadable books for all my favorite authors to post about on here so that you can all be brainwashed into thinking they are great too. Today I want to introduce Kelly Link, one of my favorite new-to-me authors. Stranger Things Happen, a short story collection can be found here (and at the library) in the freebie edition. When you are done with that, don't miss my favorite, Magic for Beginners.