Weekly Roundup: FreeBooks, New Denim Case for Nook and Other eReaders

Big news from the big players in the eReader world (excluding the Nook, alas), including new Sony eReaders, lower prices for Borders eReaders and continued good press for Kindle 3. It does make you wonder what’s going on with Nook 2, although I will certainly concede that it’s better that BN take its time with N2 [...]

Weekly Roundup: Board Brouhaha, Free Chocolate, Other Readers, Free Chocolate!

There’s lots going on this week, so I’ve decided to update early. I will obviously have to update tomorrow with links to freebies.

The NY Times reports that the Barnes and Noble board just can’t get along and that settlement talks have collapsed. I can’t say I’m really up on the BN board and am not sure [...]

Friday FreeBooks

Looking for some additional freeBooks? Barnes and Noble presents two Free Friday books and refreshes the “Build Your Own Library” page.

Barnes and Noble has uploaded the next round of “free” public domain titles. Grab works by Austen, Dickens, Dumas, Wells and others this week.
One of the Free Friday books this week is Always Watching, a YA [...]

FreeBooks and More for July 4

Planning on traveling this July 4 weekend and looking to load up before you hit the road? FreeBooks and more in the July 4 news roundup edition.

Calibre has been bumped up to v0.7.6–with new and improved startup speeds.
The University of Chicago Press’ freeBook for July is (appropriately) Making Patriots by Walter Berns.

Individualism and self-interest are at [...]

Grassroots "Free Friday"

“Rav_Bunneh” goes grassroots on the official eBooks board at BN with a Free Friday recommendation, since this week’s “freebie” from Barnes and Noble was last week’s (and the week before. . .) freebie and yet another romance (YAR). (Today’s Free Friday is Nancy Warren’s Speed Dating, for those interested.)

The reception has been pretty icy on nook’s [...]

Read an E-Book Week Begins

Read an E-book Week is officially here. You can follow REBW on Twitter via the #ebookweek tag, as some participants are tweeting discounts and offers. Also check out the REBW website for more information and for direct links to freeBooks and other goodies [...]

FreeBooks: Graphic Novels at Funny Pages

Comics Worth Reading points out six graphic novels presented for free at the New York Times’ “Funny Pages” section.

Novels and authors are:

Mister Wonderful by Daniel Clowes
Low Moon by Jason
Watergate Sue by Megan Kelso
The Murder of the Terminal Patient by Rutu Modan
George Sprott (1894-1975) by Seth
Prime Baby by Gene Luen Yang

While I don’t think that reading [...]

Today's FreeBook: Piracy

Today only, University of Chicago press offers Adrian Johns’ Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates in ePub format. You’ll need to have Adobe Digital Editions installed in order to open the acsm file and to download the [...]

New FreeBooks

ManyBooks.net offers Will Shetterly’s Midnight Girl, A Christmas Greeting by Hans Christian Andersen and a rather eclectic mix of other recently [...]

FreeBooks at ManyBooks

New freeBooks at ManyBooks for your nook include science fiction author Charles Stross’ Toast, a collection of short stories, and Tom Green’s From Rome to Byzantium, an historical account of [...]

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