They are not just limited to sf/fantasy, but have the same range and variety as a regular bookstore, with books in every genre. You can get short stories and novels from people like Mike Resnick and Greg Bear in MultiFormat, which is the DRM-free version that you can download in any filetype you need. They also put up free short stories, novellas, and the occasional serial novel, and their members include respected award-winning authors such as Vonda McIntyre and Judith Tarr.įictionwise, though it's gone downhill since Barnes & Noble purchased it and began running the business into the ground, is still a great source of midlist authors' backlist books. There's also the BookViewCafé, which is a group of various authors selling their backlist works in ebook format themselves. New books that are the equivalent of fresh hardcover releases are only $6, and I've heard that if you buy a monthly Webscription bundle (5-6 books for $15), you can also arrange to have it sent to another person as a free promo, and then they can also send it to another person when they claim their freebie, and so forth. They don't just sell their own books, but also ones from other publishers and several authors' backlists to whom the rights have reverted to them. If you like science fiction and fantasy, Baen's Webscription service is excellent. I'd normally advise writing to him to tell him what a bad idea this is, but he obviously doesn't listen to anyone but himself and goes around calling everyone who disagrees with him "radical extremists" and then pretending he never said so.īut you can get a lot of legal, DRM-free ebooks in many formats that you can easily convert, if they don't already offer the Mobipocket format which works on the Kindle. James Moore, Minister of Heritage, is currently working to make this illegal, with his "digital locks" copyright bill. Many ebooks in the B&N store are still listed as "shipping to US addresses only", which means that you won't be able to order/download them from Canada unless you're willing to do a bit of hoop-jumping, setting up a US shipping address and purchasing while hiding your IP behind a US proxy.Ĥ) Yes, but if it comes in a "Secured" format, you will have to strip the DRM before conversion. For a long time, Nook wasn't supposed to be sold outside the US and a lot of people went through hoops to get one. I've heard that the 2.5 firmware update gives full web access, but I haven't installed it yet, so someone else will have to confirm/deny.ģ) Kindle. To avoid getting hit on the credit card with a lot of small charges/conversion fees over time, I advise purchasing a medium-large denomination US dollar gift certificate when the exchange rate is favourable and applying it to your account.īut you can have a look at the FREE (and very inexpensive) books for the Kindle stickied at the top of the forum to see the range and variety of free promo books that gets offered, and the Inkmesh Free Kindle Books page for a list of the current ones.Ī lot of the freebies are either Christian fiction, often with an evangelical tone, or romance, often on the erotic side, so if you don't care for either genre, this may not be as much of an added-value consideration as for another reader.Ģ) On a Kindle 2 with the 2.3 firmware, you can only do Wikipedia in Canada. All Kindle books are actually sold through, and you will pay in US dollars, though due to geographical restriction (publishers having local rights and so forth), there are separate Kindle "stores" for each country and some books will not be available to Canada (and other books may only be available in Canada and not the US).īe warned that for any non-free stuff (there are a lot of zero-cost limited-time promotional and public domain books), there is currently a $2 Whispernet surcharge fee outside the US, which is included in the selling price of the book.
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