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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
If someone wishes to cross-post this to another relevant thread, such as a Fiction one of some kind, please be my guest.
I ran across a website that claims (I didn't count them. ha) to offer 1000 free ebooks. It is the website for Sainsbury's Entertainment in the U.K. I don't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere on the MobileRead website before.
I feel fairly certain that all of these ebooks are going to be out of copyright. However, I didn't recognize many of the titles and/or authors, so there may be some in this collection that you can't get at the usual suspects like Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, Google Books, et al.
With this being a non-U.S. (it's in the U.K.) website, however, there may be--and probably are--books that are out of copyright there, but not here in the U.S. I do not have the knowledge about such matters to say positively, but it is my understanding that you cannot legally download them in the U.S. if the U.S. does not recognize the works as being out-of-copyright. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to read the ebooks, without downloading them (FYI--the one ebook that I tested was available only in ePub).
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I don't know UK vs US copyright law, but I did see one book, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Door Through Space, which is out of copyright in the US because it didn't get renewed, but the author died less than 70 years ago, so I would have expected it to be in copyright in the UK unless they have some sort of clause that says that if it's public domain in the author's country, it's PD in the UK as well.