Free eBook & eAudiobook Resources
Access these sites that have free eBook and eAudiobook content. You will need to check to see if your device can read or play the particular format. To find more resources, just search on google.com for the terms "free ebooks" or "free audiobooks."
- Audiobooks.org - Offers their own professionally-read literary classics. Play them here, or download them to your mp3 player.
- Barnes & Noble Free eBooks - Use on your Nook, Nook software or Barnes & Noble eReader software or app.
- Free-ebooks.net - Says it's the Internet's #1 online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors.
- Google Books - While there is no way to restrict search results to downloadable books only, you can limit your results to books that are fully viewable by using the Advanced Search feature of Google Books. Just select the "Full view only" option, enter your search terms and click "Google Search."
- Internet Archive - Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
- LibriVox - LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening.
- ManyBooks.net - manybooks.net strives to provide eBooks in as many formats as possible.
- Online Books Page - "The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all."
- Open Culture - Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your mp3 player or computer.
- Open Library - Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive. The goal is one web page for every book ever published. Not every book listed has a free eBook version, but there are many available through Open Library and you can limit your search to eBooks.
- Project Gutenberg - One of the most comprehensive collections of electronic texts on the Internet. Many books can be downloaded for iPad, Kindle, Nook, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony Reader.
- Smashwords.com - Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device. NOTE: Sometimes only a portion of a book is free.