For all you B&N people out there, B&N is offering Alan Jacobson's The 7th Victim as a free download. You can find it here. They don't say how long this will last....

Kindle Nation Daily has a listing of free Kindle books up today. Here's the scoop from the front page: How to use this page: After a listing of the 25 or so newest free contemporary ebooks in the Kindle Store, we provide a list of over 100 other free titles sorted by category, followed by links to over a million other titles, including public domain classics, that you can download directly to your Kindle via the Whispernet (free if you have a wifi Kindle or 3G+wifi Kindle)....

From the Chamber Four site. They are offering it in Epub, PDF, and Mobi: This anthology contains 25 of the best short stories published on the web in 2009 and 2010 as chosen by the editors of ChamberFour.com, a website dedicated to making reading more enjoyable and more rewarding. In this collection, you’ll find traditional, Carver-esque stories alongside magical realist tales of teleportation, long pieces that slowly pull you in, and single-page punches to the solar plexus. Some of these authors you’ve heard of, others you’ll be discovering for the first time, and you can be sure you’ll see them all...

In addition to the convenient Magic Catalog for Project Gutenberg, which is available for use on the Kindle for searches, browsing, and direct downloading of its free books to the Kindle (see below), Project Gutenberg recently made a MOBILE-device-oriented version of its website, which will of course work more quickly than the main website, via wireless conection with all Kindles.  The 'go to' address is http://m.gutenberg.org - but with Kindles it's better not to enter the "http://" part. While updating this entry for that news, I decided that since the last update was 5 months ago, the many who are new...

Picked this up from a tweet. The Gleeson Library/Geschke Center has a large collection of free ebooks. Here is what they are offering: ebrary: nearly 25,000 full-text online books on a wide range of subjects Gale Virtual Reference Library: more than 80 encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for mulitdisciplinary research Oxford Reference Online: more than 100 dictionaries and reference books in all major subject areas Safari Books Online: more than 1,200 computer and technology books full-text online IGI Global - Information Science and Social Technologies: a collection of over 60 books published by IGI Global on social use of information, social median...

SaveDelete has a list of the 30 best websites to download free books. I’m not familiar with all of the sites it lists, so I’m not entirely sure that all of them are completely legit. But then, you find some unauthorized books even on otherwise completely legit sites like Scribd (which is one of the thirty). It’s nice to see that even with all the fuss going on about agency pricing and restrictive DRM, there are still so many free books available to anyone with an Internet connection. People from previous centuries would be amazed and thrilled at...

 Yesterday we received an email from the University of Chicago Press alerting us that their free e-book of the month was a replica of the first edition of the Chicago Manual of Style from 1906. TeleRead reported the news. TeleRead Writes: Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in...

Publishers Weekly is reporting that Kaplan is offering free downloads of 98 of its titles on Apple's iBookstore. The promotion is running from August 24 to 30 and the books can be downloaded using the iBooks app. The giveaway features titles for those in high school, college and the professional markets, such as Law School Labyrinth, Med School RX, and MBA Fundamental Accounting. Kaplan is also using the promotion to introduce a new series, 101 Practice Questions, which has been created specifically for digital delivery....

Galleycat has a tidbit from a forthcoming Mediabistro feature on marketing guru Seth Godin: Godin has pledged never again to publish books via traditional publishers. Godin said, in part: I like the people, but I can't abide the long wait, the filters, the big push at launch, the nudging to get people to go to a store they don't usually visit to buy something they don't usually buy, to get them to pay for an idea in a form that's hard to spread Godin is no stranger to direct-to-consumer e-publishing. In 2001, he...

Cnet's Crave gadget blog has an article about these free comics: One of the under-the-radar killer apps of Apple's iPad is the collection of comic book storefronts (which also double as comic readers). They're all free, and connect you to virtual comic shops that sell digital issues of comics for about $2 each--with transactions handily conducted through Apple's app store back end. There are official Marvel and DC Comics apps, along with indie apps such as Comics + app from iVerse, IDW Comics, and the Comics app from ComiXology, which sell titles from a variety of large and small publishers. All...

Received an email from Marc D'Hooghe about the fact that his Free Literature site has been updated. He's tried to make it more intuitive. For anyone interested in free ebooks this is a major place to go. He hopes to start structuring the linklist in the next couple of weeks though he says to me: I love browsing in a second-hand bookstore. Take a look, it's quite a resource....

Citizen428 has a listing of over 30 free, and legally available, programming ebooks. The languages include: Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, Javascript, Haskell, Erlang, Python, Smalltalk, and others. Here's a selection of the Javascript list: Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Eloquent Javascript jQuery Fundamentals...