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Old 12-29-2012, 02:02 PM   #38
jennontheisland
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Originally Posted by llcj View Post
You can get previews but you can't read them on line as you can with Amazon. You have to download them and read them in desktop or on your device. You can find the preview button just below the buy button on the page with additional information (click on the title you are interested in and you are taken to a page withe a summary and reviews, etc.) Should exist for the self-published stuff too but I have no experience with self-published stuff.
Ah, so the free "books" I've been finding are really just previews for books I can buy.

The claim of 1.8 M free books is really quite misleading since it seems that a good majority are either public domain or samples.
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