What's a great site for books, besides Palm Digital Media (Peanutpress.com)?

[AMR]

I'm a big fan of Peanutpress.com, but sometimes they don't have what I'm looking for, or the latest and greatest books. What are some other sites for a wide range of titles? Free is nice, but I don't mind competitive prices to protect intellectual property rights. Thanks for your help!

-AMR

[disconnected]

Unfortunately, most of the latest and greatest don't ever get released as ebooks.

Fictionwise.com has some, but not as many as Peanut Press.

If you don't mind DRM, Powells.com has a lot of Microsoft Reader books, as well as Palm. The only drawback of the site is that, although you can browse by category, you can't sort by date, so if you go through all the books once, the next time you go back you can't just look at what's new.

[Crystal Eitle]

Here's another vote for Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com).Their prices are very fair, especially if you factor in rebates.

For free eBooks, I like Blackmask Online (http://www.blackmask.com). That site is simply mind-boggling.

ESSPC eBooks (http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm) is also a good place to start for free eBooks. There are fewer books than Blackmask, but everything is good, and the layout is very conducive to browsing. There are even a couple newer titles (in the "computer" section).

I really wish that more new books were released in electronic format. I would buy them. I also don't mind paying for stuff - authors have to get paid, after all.

Oh, and check out the Baen Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library/) if you like science fiction. Some great stuff here, newer titles, and all for free. I just read a book called 1632, by Eric Flint, that I enjoyed very much. I'll probably buy the sequel when it comes out. (Hmmm... their little plan worked!)

Penguin UK and HarperCollins also have eBook sites. But watch out for the nasty DRM.

[davidspalding]

There are a number of sites which offer ebooks of public domain titles (like ESSPC, I think). Many don't tell you that their free books are free because ... they're free titles.

SimonSays.com seems to have some ebooks, but like Amazon.com, charge a bit more.

Ditto on Fictionwise, spacewaitress has got me hooked there. It rocks. Try MObipocket.com, too, they have a varied collection.

If you mind DRM on Reader titles, there is a utility out there which is technically illegal to use ... which can remove DRM restrictions from Reader .LIT titles. It requires some DOS proficiency and a license for the title anyway (that is, you can't crack someone else's registered ebook). I use it convert purchased books to Mobipocket format for my older PDA.

Oh, did someone mention Memoware (http://www.memoware.com/)?

[M@]

Well he's my two pence (pun intended). WHSmiths, a British Company which seems to sell anything that you can read, write on, write with, write about, watch, listen, play, err anything really have, on their website, an EBooks section.

http://ebooks.whsmith.co.uk/

And, all in £££.

[Crystal Eitle]

The WHSmith site looks neat - I always like finding new places to look for eBooks.

But beware - they're selling a lot of public domain titles. These are titles you can get for free elsewhere.

[Weyoun6]

Memoware is good for public domain books.

[disconnected]

I've gotten a few books from W H Smith, but my main problem with them, as well as Powells, is the inability to sort by date. I wrote to both sites about this, but got no response. Maybe if enough people email them, they'll add this function.

[dh]

The WHSmith site looks neat - I always like finding new places to look for eBooks. But beware - they're selling a lot of public domain titles. These are titles you can get for free elsewhere.

I was suckered into this before someone here pointed out that books out of copyright are free. WH Smith are selling War and Peace for 5.56UKL which is about $9.00. Since they don't have to pay royalties that's all profit.

Don't be ripped off, there are plenty of places to get the classics for free.

[davidspalding]

Speaking of free e-book sources.... In case I didn't post these earlier:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/

Note that the MSLIT.COM site lists some titles from other sites. The VIRGINIA.EDU site has a lot of Project Gutenberg converted texts, as well as some scanned books.

In fact, as you search sites, you will find some overlap. There can be several versions of the same public domain PG etext, converted by cottage converters (like me). Some charge for their ebook, which is legit (last time I reviewed the PG legal eagle text). But $9 for a book that's in the public domain? Sheesh, that cover page and table of contents sure costs a lot. :P But if you need someone to format it for Reader, and don't want to install uBook or Mobipocket to read the ASCII text version, and don't want to go FIND the free etext, then I guess < $10 is a fair price.

[Kaber]

OT: The cheat in the crisper drawer. Fresh and classic at the same time. Nice avatar spacewaitress.