Thread: Where did all the free books go?
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Old 02-22-2019, 10:07 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by franklekens View Post
That shiny future of free online literature for everybody that seemed to be dawning say 5 to 10 years ago seems to have gone up in smoke pretty rapidly. At least on the big commercial platforms.
That shiny future of free literature is already here. Amazon is under no obligation to take part in it. (In the US, at least) It is possible to buy a Kindle or Kobo (or any phone or tablet, really) and have immediate, on demand access to your public library where you can read non-PD bestsellers for free.

Gutenberg and Standardebooks (my two sources for free, classic literature) offer Kindle compatible formats. Standardebooks offers ePub, AZW3 and kepub.

If free stuff were easy to find, Matthew Lesko wouldn't have a career.
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