Being a bookworm, I have searched for any places to find eBooks to read, both free and paid. The list below is not exhaustive, and it contains the places I suggest to start your eBook hunt.
Free eBooks
All the big eBook stores, such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, WHSmith, Kobo books etc have free eBooks for you to download and read. They either have a free ebook section or reduced-to-free offers from which you can benefit.
1. Get Unlimited Free Ebooks or Audiobooks From Playster for a Month
Playster is like Audible–but better! Playster has a monthly ebook or audiobook subscription that comes with unlimited ebooks or audiobooks every month. There are no limits or credits to mess with, which I love.
You can try it out for completely free for an entire month and if you don’t like it, you can cancel your subscription before having to pay…but you still have one full month of ebook reading under your belt for absolutely free. You will need an email address and PayPal or credit card information to sign up, but you are free to cancel anytime.
2. Get a Free eBook from Kobo
Just for creating an account, Kobo will give you $5 towards your first book (that costs greater than $5.01), including new releases and bestsellers. They have over 5 million books to choose from, including my all-time favourite book: Ready Player One. You can search by genre, or new release, or see what’s trending now to pick out your practically free book from Kobo.
This Kobo deal is a serious opportunity for you to make money too. If you join their referral program, like I did, you can earn a commission just by sharing this awesome deal with others. That’s what any smart authorpreneur would do, so enjoy!
3. Audible Free Audiobook Downloads 
The other big player in audiobooks is Audible, a great service through Amazon that allows you to download and listen to audiobooks. Like Playster, Audible also offers a completely free trial. And Audible has just about every audiobook you can imagine in their library.
Take advantage of this free offer so you can get 2 more audiobooks for free simply by signing up for Audible’s free 1-month trial. Then, after your trial is over, if you don’t want to pay for the audiobook service, you can simply cancel and you owe them nothing.
4. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online community organization that finds legitimate ebooks online and publishes them on their site.
You can choose from over 56,000 free ebooks to download or read online.
Most of their collection includes classics and ebooks that either have no copyright or those books that lost their copyright over the years. Pride and Prejudice, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The World’s Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents are among the Top 100 downloaded.
5. Permafree and Promotional Free Offers on Big Sites
Amazon Kindle Free Popular Classics
Big sites like Amazon, Google Play, and Kobo have sections in their store where they highlight both permanently free ebooks, known as permafree, and also those books that are currently at the price of zero for promotional purposes.
Using this method you can find a ton of non-fiction and fiction, including popular books looking to make that ‘push’ up in the sales metrics.
6. Free Ebook Trial Through Amazon Prime
If you already have an Amazon Prime membership, the service known for shipping over 100 million products directly to your doorstep in two days or less, you can read free books too.
Through Amazon Prime Reading, prime members have unlimited access to thousands of books, magazines, comics, and books with audible narration. Even if you don’t have a Kindle device, you can access Amazon’s free Kindle books with the Kindle apps for iOS and Android.
If you don’t have Amazon Prime, you can get a free trial for 30 days to enjoy all the benefits, including borrowing free Kindle books for a month.
7. Check Out Online Libraries
Believe it or not, public libraries are changing with the times.
Most libraries now feature an online electronic book section where you can check out an ebook with your library card, just like you would a paper version.
Just jump online, search for an available ebook, click and read. Then after a predetermined amount of time, the library will remove the book from your ebook device. It’s pretty simple and completely free. Just check out your local libraries and see which ebooks you can borrow for free.
Other places include:
- Open Culture – offers more than 800 free eBooks for you to download
- Free-eBooks.net
- Ebooks for All
These are great places to start your eBook journey.
Paid eBooks
Many stores have eBooks for sale. Kindle Store, Nook Books, and Apple Books Store are the most known. These stores have a very extensive collection of tens of thousands of books. The issue with some of these stores is that they use a proprietary format, which works only with their respective devices and/or apps. This may not be a problem though since all these apps and devices can host all the DRM-free eBooks you have.
There are many places where you can get an eBook, either buy it or for free.I would love to hear from you about sites that you know that have quality eBooks. Please send me an email and I will get back to you right away!