New, free epub book site goes live
By Paul Biba
This looks as if it could develop into a great service. Here is Michael Cook’s blurb about the site from his blog. You can find the actual site here. If you have an iPhone you can download books from the site through Stanza.
After several months of development the new epubBooks.com website is now live. The new site has been developed to give access to free ePub book downloads and has been designed with simplicity of use in mind – hopefully visually pleasing too.
All the current downloads have been produced from public domain titles using my own automation tools (with a little help from Liza Daly). These tools have been developed to give features which are often only found in commercial eBooks, and even then, many of the classics available don’t have such features.
All footnotes are fully linkable both to the note itself and also back to the page it was linked from. Illustrations are included in a number of books (for those where they are available). Many other advanced layout and formatting features have been included, which are often only available with handmade books.
At present the library of books is quite small, but from now I will be concentrating on converting new books and improving the speed at which they are converted.
Over the last year or so I’ve seen forums and blogs asking why there are not that many books which have illustrations, and so this was one area I wanted to concentrate on. Illustrated books are quite tricky to convert automatically so the numbers of new titles being added to the site will be limited, however, I will be working to improve in this area. …
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