Top 20 Sites for Free Ebooks

Well, with a heavy heart, I have decided to suspend Friday's Free eBooks. The reason being, it's very time consuming. Even with the help of my book loving friend, Ollie Moss, it still consumes the better part of my day to format, link all the books, double check to make sure they are still free the day of and to cross check and see if they are available on other formats aside from Kindle. Another reason is there are tons and tons of blogs and websites that are solely dedicated to informing readers about free books that I'm just a tiny drop in the bucket. So I've decided to list the several sites that list free ebooks for your enjoyment. This list is in no particular order. I've used many of the sites, some may require that you register for free first like Smashwords and Amazon. You can bookmark this page and use it as a reference.

Thank you for tuning in every Friday for past weekly lists. Hope you'll still check back throughout the week for other book related news, resources, updates and giveaways. Thanks again for staying with me on this journey! You can still keep up with Ollie on Twitter for her daily updates about free ebooks. If you know of some other great free ebook sites please leave a recommendation in the comments section. So here's your top 20 sites for free ebooks, plus a bonus one. Blessings!

Google Books
This Google mega ebookstore is loaded with books, most of them aren't free. However, there are a lot that are. Scroll down and look at the Best of the Free section.  



Amazon Free Ebook Section
A great listing of the most popular free Ebooks available on Kindle.

Project Gutenberg 
Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device and too in different formats. 

Smashwords 
Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers, agents and readers. They offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device. 

Scribd
Scribd is the site where the world comes to read, discover, and share reading. It's like Youtube for documents.

Free Ebooks.net
An online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook. We tried the search function and weren't really impressed. Instead, try clicking on the categories or headings and browsing. 

The Online Books Page 
A listing of over 1 million free ebooks. It is hosted by the Library of University of Pennsylvania.

ManyBooks.net
You can browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from the site visitors. There are more than 29,000 free eBooks available here. 

Neotake
Neotake is a new eBook search engine which has indexed several eBooks in various formats like ePUB, PDF, LRF, TXT, Mobipocket etc. It also has a mobile version of the site. More than 200,000 eBooks have been indexed currently. 

Free Nook Books (Barnes and Noble)
The creators of the nook ebook reader have a spot on their ebook store called Free nookbooks.

Get Free Ebooks
You can download free books totally free. The ebooks which you find within this site are collected from all over the net or either personally compiled by founder. 

PDFGeni
A search engine to help you find out the ebooks that interests you. 

Open Library
The world's classic literature at your fingertips. Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available. While the home page looks like it's filled with ancient texts, try out the search function and you'll be surprised at the newer ebooks you can find. 

Bibliostastic
This site is Connecting authors with open-minded readers, digitally. This site provides a great platform for new and evolving authors to reach a wide audience and for readers to give them direct feedback. 

Ebookee
Ebookee is a free eBooks download search engine where you can find relevent links for numerous e-books. 

ReadPrint
Website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast." Lots of free classic books and literature here.

Bookyards
Bookyards has a total of 17,008 books, 41,784 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 32,963 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks) for your reading pleasure. 

2020ok 
They have links to loads of specific ebooks sites for kids, so well worth a visit.  Their selection seems to be largely Out Of Copyright ebooks, so thus not the latest writings obviously, but some jewels none the less.


Globusz
Globusz provides a platform to new authors to get their writing skills test by the actual readers. And readers don’t have topay anything to read or download the content. 

Ebook Junkie
You can get number of free downloadable ebooks from this site. You also have the option of variuos categories to choose from. 

Bookboon
On this site you can download free ebooks for students and travelers in PDF format. All the books can be downloaded without registration. These ebooks are legal and written exclusively for Bookboon 

If I Had My Way by Lena Sledge

Today is the day! It's the day of the official release of my book, If I Had My Way, a collection of short stories. I'm elated and so excited to share it with you all. It is available on Kindle and Nook for $2.99. Or you can purchase each individual story separately for .99 cents. Go to my author's page (Lena Sledge) to find all ten titles. I want to thank everyone for their support and assistance. If you do purchase a copy, please leave a review for me on Amazon or Barnes and Noble. And if you do a review of my book or short story on any site or blog, please let me know so I can thank you personally. I also sent out the newsletter this morning containing the free short story, Tandrin Drive. So please be on the look out for it and check your email.

I hope you enjoy my book, and I pray each and every follower and reader continues to stay with me on my literary journey.

I also have a Youtube Channel with the book trailers for my short stories. Please stop by to subscribe or view any of my videos. You can leave a comment or share my Youtube videos on your Facebook page. The more exposure I can get, the better. So I graciously ask for your help in spreading the word. Please post a review on Goodreads, Shelfari, or any other virtual reading site if you can.

Here is my book trailer for If I Had My Way.

Have a blessed day! And thank you ALL!

Black History Month Blog Hop Giveaway

The Black History Month Giveaway Hop is hosted by Reflections of a Bookaholic and Mocha Girls Read.  It starts February 1st and ends February 7, 2012 at midnight.  It's a hop, so there are more than twenty other hops participating as well. So don't forget to hop on over to the other blogs and participate in their giveaways. You could win some great prizes.

What am I giving away? I'm giving away 1(one) ebook copy of my book, If I Had My Way to three (3) different participants. So that's a total of three (3) ebook copies. You will receive the copies through Kindle, Nook or PDF, whichever format you prefer. Also, each participant that wins will also receive a $5 Amazon Gift Card. So that means, each winner will receive a free copy of my book, If I Had My Way and 1(one) $5 Amazon Gift Card. 

How to enter?

You MUST be a follower of this blog. And you must leave a comment with your email or blog address and tell me what book by an African American author is your favorite?

To get a sense of what If I Had My Way is about visit my Youtube Channel and view all the book trailers.  

Here's my Available Now Trailer for your viewing pleasure.

To visit all the other participants in the hop, click Here.

Sweetheart Stroll Giveaway Hop

It's blog hop giveaway once again. This is the Sweetheart Stroll Giveaway, hosted by Freckleberry Finds. I love blog hops, I haven't participated in one in over a month. So I'm looking forward to hopping to all the other blogs participating as well. To enter, just follow the instruction on the Rafflecopter form. This giveaway ends, February 9, 2012 at midnight.

Here are the rules.

1. Sign up for my newsletter.
2. Follow this blog.

That's it.

All other options on the Rafflecopter are optional.

Now on to the best part. What am I giving away? I am giving away (1) one, twenty-five dollar gift card to Amazon.com and (1) Free Kindle or Nook copy of my book, If I Had My Way. Giveaway is open to U.S. and International participants. If the winner is international, the participant can opt to receive up to $25 in purchases from the Book Depository.

To sign up for my newsletter, enter info below. And then proceed to complete the Rafflecopter form.

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Good luck and don't forget to visit the other blogs participating in the hop.