Free Books May 2009--Post Here About Free Books

[hackeynut]

Looking at it (just downloaded), it appears it would qualify more as a short story as it is 702 locations long, but for free, who can complain?

[Anne]

Another free one from KB favorite Jack Kilborn.

Thanks I just downloaded it.

[Steph H]

Looking at it (just downloaded), it appears it would qualify more as a short story as it is 702 locations long, but for free, who can complain?

Yeah, Jack says in the review (which he put in there since the description isn't up yet) that it's a "7500 word novella".

[esper_d]

Thanks Hackey.  Looks scary but good.

[hackeynut]

Thanks Hackey.  Looks scary but good.

I actually already read it.  Pretty fun, totally sick but if you read Kilborn that is nothing new... 

[Kind]

We love Freebies!! 

[NessaBug]

Just saw this.

Description:

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

The rising importance of networks creates challenges and opportunities for business enterprises. On the one hand, networks lead to contagion and other risks, as seen in the spread of the 2008 global financial crisis. On the other hand, networks present opportunities for building community, as in the rapid rise of companies such as eBay, Google, Facebook, and other network-based enterprises. In this chapter, the authors point out that network-based models for business challenge the traditional view of capabilities and strategies that are the focus of most management thinking, making it clear that the opportunities and threats presented by networks cannot be ignored.

[Toby]

Thanks! 

[Morpheus Phreak]

Hadn't seen these posted this month, so I thought I'd share them again:

SciFi author Jeffery Carver has made several of his books available in mobi/Kindle format online.  While some of them can be found in Baen's Free Library, he's made downloads of all available on his own site, including for a short time his newest book, Sunborn.  His series, the Chaos Chronicles, is one of my favorites in DTB form--Sunborn is the fourth book of that set.  He's also made his novel, Eternity's End, available for free online through his site as well.  http://www.starrigger.net/Downloads.htm

I've downloaded Eternity's End but haven't yet read it, I believe it's a standalone set in his Starrigger universe; the Chaos Chronicles series is one I reread several times a year and was thrilled to find online! 

Thanks for posting this.

I grabbed them all...including his Battlestar Galactica book, which unfortunately doesn't convert well since he hardcoded the page numbers into the PDF.

I'll have to buy that one later on.

[CS]

According to the cover, you only get the Preface and Chapter 1. Let us know if that's accurate.

[marianneg]

According to the cover, you only get the Preface and Chapter 1. Let us know if that's accurate.

Argh!  I hate that, and I didn't see it on the cover before I 1-clicked.  I looked all over the title and description, but not at the cover image.  Guess that one's going straight to the archive.

[ginaf20697]

I hate when they do that. That's not a free book, it just a stupid SAMPLE!!!!

[NessaBug]

Argh! Sorry. I wasn't home with my Kindle when I one-clicked to check it out.

[Toby]

     Yeah, with this sample, I quickly glanced at a few pages, & then deleted. It didn't appeal to me, sample or not. I, too don't bother downloading books that says free & then you only get the sample. To me, it's like a scam. 

     As for the KB 1, I've never read this author before, so I am really grateful to get his book for free. Kudos to the author.

[mlewis78]

I saw the author of this on BookTV over the weekend.  There is a free pdf version of Viral Spiral:  How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own by David Bollier.  I will also post a photo link to Amazon where you can read a description of the book. 

http://www.viralspiral.cc/download-book

Marti

[ProfCrash]

I have not seen this one listed yet.

"He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind—and the unwitting humans existing alongside them—from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.

Here, in the arms of the Breed’s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . ."

[GreenThumb]

Looks like it went back up to $5.59.  I think it was only on sale until the next book in the series was released on Monday.  I'm glad I snagged it when it was still free!

[jpmorgan49]

Another free one from KB favorite Jack Kilborn.

I grabbed this one too, looks good.
jp

[esper_d]

I went to the library today and saw an advertisement to go to my local library's website and download FREE audio and ebooks!  You should look in your library.  But here is the link to mine, if you want to browse the audio and ebooks!  (I have NOT downloaded any yet so I can't give you any feedback, nor say if it really is 100% free. But I sure hope it is!)

Nice

http://cabq.lib.overdrive.com/9BC74B66-56D4-404C-BC80-6BF3207E6CB1/10/365/en/Default.htm

[Vegas_Asian]

My library has it, but the books on Overdrive don't go with the kindle because of DRMs. Still if you have a MP3 player, you can download audiobooks. A lot of the overdrive audiobooks are in WMA as the site just started ipod compatible formats in November.

[CS]

My library has it, but the books on Overdrive don't go with the kindle because of DRMs. Still if you have a MP3 player, you can download audiobooks. A lot of the overdrive audiobooks are in WMA as the site just started ipod compatible formats in November.

You can get them to work with Kindlefix.py. It's not illegal (despite whatever objections Amazon may have) because it doesn't actually strip away the DRM - it just makes the file compatible on Kindle. After 21 days (or however long your library designates), the file will stop working - similar to having a time limit when you check a paper book out of a physical library.

[CS]

From http://kindlereader.blogspot.com/

- Complete Presidential Inaugural Addresses

"A complete compilation of US Presidential inaugural addresses from George Washington to Barack Obama.
This comes from a Project Gutenberg compilation assembled by James Linden. It has been reformatted and given a linked TOC." - Donnageddon for MobileRead.

- Where No Man Has Gone Before

A history of the Apollo Space Program by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Government.

- The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English by Grant Barrett (PDF)

"...collects hundreds of undocumented and underdocumented words like the ones in his subtitle: A Crunk Omnibus for Thrillionaires and Bampots for the Ecozoic Age. Barrett's entries are not mere barroom fancies, but terms you can find in print and on the Internet, scrabbling for a foothold in the mainstream lexicon. Will Trashcanistan, any poor Middle Eastern country or Central Asian republic," hang around in the slang lexicon? Will ridonkulous follow humongous into general usage? Barrett, who also tracks such usage on his website..., will be among the first to know." - Boston Globe.

- The Time Axis by Henry Kuttner

"Called to the end of time by a being they knew only as The Face of Ea, four adventurers from the twentieth century faced a power that not even the super-science of that era could meet." - manybooks.net.

[Betsy the Quilter]

Hi, I'm going to do some pruning here, editing out the free book that was just a sample, and some of the non book recommendation comments!  And starting June 1st, we'll have a new Free Book thread, woohoo!

Betsy

[hackeynut]

You can get them to work with Kindlefix.py. It's not illegal (despite whatever objections Amazon may have) because it doesn't actually strip away the DRM - it just makes the file compatible on Kindle. After 21 days (or however long your library designates), the file will stop working - similar to having a time limit when you check a paper book out of a physical library.

Yes, I've just figured out how to do this and it is just fantastic.  I'm going through the Chronicles of Narnia now without paying for them.  Yay!

[BookishMom]

You can get them to work with Kindlefix.py. It's not illegal (despite whatever objections Amazon may have) because it doesn't actually strip away the DRM - it just makes the file compatible on Kindle. After 21 days (or however long your library designates), the file will stop working - similar to having a time limit when you check a paper book out of a physical library.

I just wanted to clarify that this only works with the MobiPocket formatted ebooks, not the Adobe ebooks. I've really enjoyed downloading audio and ebooks from the library, but have noticed that most of the ebooks (at most libraries) are in Adobe formats. Some books are in both formats, but more and more it seems that new titles are being offered in Adobe format only. I asked one library about this and they said that they get more demand for the Adobe format, and that's why the bulk of their funds go towards those.

I'm seriously considering getting a Sony 505 (in addition to my Kindle) so I can read all the formats.