Free E-books and Audiobooks

Here are some helpful websites offering free e-content for your e-reader and audiodevice. Some sites require registration. Several different types of formats are available such as ePUB, PDF, HTML, etc. Please check your device to see what format it can read.

Check with your local library to see if they have access to OverDrive Digital Media Collections. OverDrive offers free access to hot, new titles with your library card. Click here for help in downloading content to your iPod, nook, Sony E-reader, iPad, Kindle or MP3 player.

Audible – http://www.audible.com

Audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, original programming, and TV and radio subscriptions

Barnes and Noble   http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Free-eBooks/379001668/

Free books for a variety of devices including iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, PC, Max, and nook e-reader.

Books Should Be Free – http//www.booksshouldbefree.com

Free audiobooks in the public domain

CK-12 Foundation  http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide.

Digital Book Index http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm

More than 140,000 books, texts, and documents are available free.

Free E-Books http://www.free-ebooks.net/

Free-e-books.net is the internet’s #1 online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors.”

Google Books – http://books.google.com

Ebooks in the public domain and some made available by publisher

Internet Archive  http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Free ebooks and texts contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.

Kindle  http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011

Free classics and out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books, as well as limited-time free promotional ebooks available for Kindle

Librivox – http://librivox.org

Free public domain audiobooks

Manybooks – http://www.manybooks.net

Free ebooks available in many formats for portable devices, includes Harvard Classics

Project Gutenberg – http://www.gutenberg.org

Free ebooks and audio books

Smashwords    http://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/0/free/any

E-books from indie authors and publishers

University of Pennsylvania – http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

Over 800,000 ebooks on the web

E-Reader Sources at ipl2 - The iSchool at Drexel University, College of Information Science and Technology http://ipl.org/div/ereader/