Free Books February 2009--Post info about Free Books Here!

[koland]

Two more of the free Harlequins are now available directly from Amazon:

A Very Special Delivery - Linda Goodnight
His Lady Mistress - Elizabeth Rolls

The entire list of 16 is now available (listed here previously and on my blog, so I won't repeat the list).

[sebat]

By now I am sure everyone know about all the free public domain books available at Amazon.  I was bored today and decided to wade through some of them.  Just thought I would post the ones that I picked up, in case you are interested in them, too. 

The Jungle Book
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Three Musketeers
Treasure Island
Dracula
Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Frankenstein
Dracula's Guest
The Age of Fable
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat There are quite a few Bobbsey Twins available if you do a search.
Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens
Cleopatra

[bkworm8it]

By now I am sure everyone know about all the free public domain books available at Amazon.  I was bored today and decided to wade through some of them.  Just thought I would post the ones that I picked up, in case you are interested in them, too. 

Good choices!  Thanks

Very strange they have 'The Worlds Greatest Books' in several volumes but not vo 04   

Theresam

[lailamar]

amazon just added a bunch of new romance books from harlequin i believe... here are links to free books!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013TPYY4


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R4GNUE

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ANYDCM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CDA3EM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S1L8KM

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FA0R6Q

enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vegas_Asian]

Thanks Sebat! didn't know that they had poe's complete works for free. Now I can delete the individual short works from my k and clear all the clutter on my home page!

[Vegas_Asian]

can't forget a classic like: The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

[sebat]

can't forget a classic like: The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

Missed that one.

[CuriousLaura]

great selection..I had some of them but others I didn't, so cool

[Linda1915]

I think I found this on the Amazon site, takes you back to the "true" freebooks list...

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&node=133141011&redirect=true&sort=pmrank&field-price=0-0

[Kind]

amazon just added a bunch of new romance books from harlequin i believe... here are links to free books!

Thanks, I guess this is a good way for me to find out if I'll like Romance books.

[meljackson]

I'm seeing a couple of free ones I must have missed by Harlequin. Here is one with a vampire theme.



Melissa

[meljackson]

These may have been mentioned before, if so sorry for the repeat.





Melissa

[Lizzy]

Free for this month only

Dourado by David Wood

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/678

It shows a price of 1.99 but if you add it to your cart and check out just enter the coupon code LJ95G youll get it for free and wont have to enter any credit card info. Here's the description:

A sunken treasure. An ancient Biblical artifact. A mystery as old as humankind. On January 25, 1829, the Portuguese brig Dourado sank off the coast of Indonesia, losing its cargo of priceless treasures from the Holy Land. One of these lost relics holds the key to an ancient mystery. But someone does not want this treasure to come to light. When her father is mysteriously murdered while searching for the Dourado, Kaylin Maxwell hires treasure hunter and former Navy Seal Dane Maddock and his partner Uriah “Bones” Bonebrake, to locate the Dourado, and recover a lost Biblical artifact, the truth behind which could shake the foundations of the church, and call into question the fundamentally held truths of human existence. Join Dane and Bones on a perilous adventure that carries them from the depths of the Pacific to ancient cities of stone as they unravel the mystery of the Dourado.

    A fast-paced adventure with action to spare. Dane Maddock is a hero cut from the Dirk Pitt mold, and “Bones” Bonebrake is the best sidekick around. If you like your thrillers with a touch mystery and Biblical archaeology, Dourado is the book for you.

    – Megalith Book Reviews

[crebel]

Thanks Lizzy!  This sounds like just the kind of story I like.  It is available on Amazon, so I have downloaded the sample to check it out.  I seem to have a hard time downloading books from outside sources (apparently just haven't learned the proper procedures yet), but will try again if I like the sample.

[CS]

Thanks, Lizzy. I went ahead and got it. Sounds like something that's right up my alley.

[MarkCoker]

Wow, thanks Lizzy, for posting this link about this book at Smashwords.  Quite a few KindleBoarders have flocked to Smashwords today to get it.

As a reminder to everyone here, Smashwords offers lots of other free books as well, and most of our books that carry a price offer generous free samples so you can try before you buy.

To read a Smashwords book on the Kindle, just download it to your computer and use the Kindle's USB cable to move the file to your Kindle.

Also, since this is my first post on this forum, a short introduction:

My name is Mark Coker and I'm the founder of Smashwords.  You can learn about the story behind Smashwords either by visiting the site at http://www.smashwords.com or listening to this audio interview of me over at Teleread:  http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/teleread-audio-interview-smashwords-encouraging-self-pubbed-writers-to-go-pod-as-well-as-e/

If you know any independent, self-published authors, invite them to publish at Smashwords.  It's free.  They simply upload their finished manuscript as a Word .doc file and then we automatically convert it into 9 DRM-free ebook formats, ready for immediate sale online.  Our files can be read on any ebook reader.

Free for this month only

Dourado by David Wood

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/678

It shows a price of 1.99 but if you add it to your cart and check out just enter the coupon code LJ95G youll get it for free and wont have to enter any credit card info. Here's the description:

A sunken treasure. An ancient Biblical artifact. A mystery as old as humankind. On January 25, 1829, the Portuguese brig Dourado sank off the coast of Indonesia, losing its cargo of priceless treasures from the Holy Land. One of these lost relics holds the key to an ancient mystery. But someone does not want this treasure to come to light. When her father is mysteriously murdered while searching for the Dourado, Kaylin Maxwell hires treasure hunter and former Navy Seal Dane Maddock and his partner Uriah “Bones” Bonebrake, to locate the Dourado, and recover a lost Biblical artifact, the truth behind which could shake the foundations of the church, and call into question the fundamentally held truths of human existence. Join Dane and Bones on a perilous adventure that carries them from the depths of the Pacific to ancient cities of stone as they unravel the mystery of the Dourado.

    A fast-paced adventure with action to spare. Dane Maddock is a hero cut from the Dirk Pitt mold, and “Bones” Bonebrake is the best sidekick around. If you like your thrillers with a touch mystery and Biblical archaeology, Dourado is the book for you.

    – Megalith Book Reviews

[Suzanne]

Thank you. 

[David J. Guyton]

I need some reviews for my fantasy novel. If anyone is interested in writing one, contact me at d@davidjguyton.com and I will arrange to get you a FREE Kindle copy of Mighty Hammer Down. I can't afford to offer a million of these though so act fast. It's $.99 but I will PayPal you your dollar back to you.

Click the picture of my book below and read the synopsis first though....I would like to have reviews by people who are into these sorts of books.

Thanks!

David

[Seamonkey]

Thanks for the info about Dourado.. I got it and you can actually send it to your Kindle.. mine ended up in the ebooks folder and I had to move it to documents and then it shows up.

[wally]

I just started reading this book on the Great Depression.  No kindle edition but the pdf seems to convert well.

free pdf:   http://mises.org/rothbard/agd/contents.asp
dead tree:  http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Depression-Murray-Rothbard/dp/0945466056

[worktolive]

My name is Mark Coker and I'm the founder of Smashwords.  You can learn about the story behind Smashwords either by visiting the site at http://www.smashwords.com or listening to this audio interview of me over at Teleread:  http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/teleread-audio-interview-smashwords-encouraging-self-pubbed-writers-to-go-pod-as-well-as-e/

If you know any independent, self-published authors, invite them to publish at Smashwords.  It's free.  They simply upload their finished manuscript as a Word .doc file and then we automatically convert it into 9 DRM-free ebook formats, ready for immediate sale online.  Our files can be read on any ebook reader.

Thank you Mark for posting here. I'd never heard of your site but I've bookmarked it and am looking forward to going through the books there. I'm all for supporting independent authors and DRM free formats.

[Rivery]

My name is Mark Coker and I'm the founder of Smashwords.  You can learn about the story behind Smashwords either by visiting the site at http://www.smashwords.com or listening to this audio interview of me over at Teleread:  http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/teleread-audio-interview-smashwords-encouraging-self-pubbed-writers-to-go-pod-as-well-as-e/

Thanks Lizzy and Mark for posting.  I downloaded Dourado today.  Looks like an interesting book.  And I now have a new source for books, yippee!

[Angela]

I am loving Smashwords... Lots of free stuff and some great bargains. I am looking forward to reading what I have downloaded so far!

[Anju No. 469]

Thanks Lizzy, looks just like something I enjoy -

[Lizzy]

Your welcome!

Here's another free book that looks like it might be good

Surviving The Fog by Stan Morris

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/712

Have you ever been to camp? What would you do if the adults left “for a few hours” and they had not returned a week later? What if your parents never showed up to take you home? What would you do if you realized that the area below was surrounded by a mysterious brown fog that was dangerous? How would you survive the winter? What would you eat? Warning-sexual situations, cursing, violence