OpenAccess Books by Hachette Book Group

OpenAccess Books by Hachette Book Group
by www.hachettebookgroup.com

An interesting thing about this site is its trademark term, OpenAccess, which will allow readers to view 100% of a book’s content on www.hachettebookgroup.com. In other words, they’re trying to simulate a way of allowing customers to ‘try’ a book before making a purchase. You can view their OpenAccess ebooks entirely online using their flash powered system, allowing you to turn pages like how you would in real life. You can search for certain keywords and even navigate yourself through chapters from their non-obtrusive table of contents.

If you can find more of the currently listed OpenAccess ebooks in the site, please do let me know by leaving your comment, but from my own searching, I’ve found at least 41 books that belong to this category. This should keep everyone busy for quite sometime.

Click on the link below to start downloading this free ebook:-
OpenAccess Books by Hachette Book Group – Online (OpenAccess)

2 Free Apps To Organize Your Ebooks

2 Free Apps To Organize Your Ebooks

Having countless ebooks drowning your computer is a messy thing (and we here at Getfreeebooks.com know exactly how it feels), and if this sounds familiar to you as well, then it’s probably time that you should start organizing all your ebooks into a nice systematic manner, or at least have them catalogued so that they can be found easily. But before we get into the introduction of these 2 applications that will help you in such organizing activities, here are a couple of tips on how you can get all your ebooks organized into a mini library in your computer.

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Free Interactive Ebooks, Magazines & Manuals

SpotBit uses its own internal ebook builder to build interactive and experience enhancing ebooks for free. It’s also a place where you can publish your own ebooks or sell them within the site itself. Some of the unique features of SpotBit ebooks are:-

• Thumbnail for easy user friendly navigation allows you to jump to pages that you want.
• Allow you to see image from 200% up to 1000% with mouse scroll
• No extra installation of software to operate the ebooks.
• Or linked directly to relevant locations on the World Wide Web, provided the same device is connected to the internet.
• Expect a good level of interactivity such as real page flipping instead of the normal page navigation interface.

And not to forget, this site is packed with free downloadable ebooks, magazines and manuals in Spotbit format (EXE). In order to download, you have to go through a quick registration and each file has an average size of 30MB or more. SpotBit covers topics from Arts, Photography, How to Guides, Health & Fitness and many more.

Check out SpotBit by clicking on the link below:-
Interactive Spotbit Ebooks

21 Web 2.0 Book Sites to Explore

http://www.bookjetty.com/
BookJetty is a social utility that connects you with your friends’ bookshelves and checks books’ availability in the libraries. It was started off as the creator’s pet project to solve the problems that were encountered, to log the books from the reading list in a spreadsheet and to frequently check books’ availability in the libraries. For a start, BookJetty links up with only Singapore National Library Board. Now, it connects with more than 300 libraries worldwide from 11 different countries, i.e. US, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hongkong, and more. The list still grows based on suggestions from librarians and BookJetty users.

http://www.wobook.com/
Free for personal use, Wobook allows you to easily create your ebooks (newspaper, albums, drawings, flyers,etc.) in a few clicks and share them by publishing their releases on the web through an interactive 3D book either on your blog, emails, myspace, facebook or any other platforms. Supported type of files for conversion include PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Open Office files and many more. Hosting and storage are also provided. Wobooks can also be formatted and printed on-the-fly in PDF format.

http://bigbooksearch.com
Big Book Search helps you to find items including books, CDs, DVDs, and more, by their high resolution cover images provided by Amazon. All products listed are from Amazon.

The full list after the jump (click on the link below) …

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Mammoth Free Ebooks

I feel that a post of this magnitude should be done once in a while to portray the greatness of ebooks in cyberspace. Not only ebooks are cheaper to produce, but most importantly, each ebook represents a few trees that you save from being cut down. This kind of post will come in once in a while, consisting of a long list of free ebooks from various categories. Instead of wrapping each ebook within a post, why not make a post to wrap around dozens of ebooks? Enough of mumbo jumbo, here you go with our first MAMMOTH FREE EBOOK updates…

1. Tones of SAP Ebooks
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
3. Free ebooks on Philippine history (History)
4. O’Reilly’s Open Ebooks (Computers & Internet)
5. The Underground Railroad: Narratives, Letters & Escapes (History)
6. Vulnerability Management for Dummies
7. Free ebooks on Creativity and Design
8. 4 Free and Great Programming Ebooks
9. Two Free eBooks From Lon Safko (Fiction & Non-Fiction)
10. Type in Berlin (Web 2.0 Typography)
11. Free eBooks, Excerpts, Stories!
12. Science fiction and fantasy books published by Dragon Moon Press
13. Free audiobooks from the public domain
14. The Burgomeister’s Books – Free ebook library
15. The Online Books Page
16. Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts
17. Cornell University Library (524,213 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics)
18. Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook reader (Various topics in various formats)
19. Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyberbooks
20. The Universal Digital Library (A lot of ebooks)
21. Page by Page Books (Hundreds of classic books)
22. Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu (Vampire based novella)
23. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
25. Information Overload (Information, advertising & communications)
26. The CoCreative Consumer (Consumers)
27. Short Stories & Flash Fiction
28. The Short Story (They even have competitions)
29. 17 Short Story Sites (In various formats)
30. Bookrags.com (Over 8.3 million pages of literature summaries, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias, and eBooks)
31. ReadPrint.com – Free Online Library, Poems & Short Stories
32. Tones of Short Stories
33. ABC Radio 2007 Short Story Project (In audio formats)
34. Short Inspiring Stories (Some are just in a paragraph or two)
35. eServer.org – e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge.
36. Free Mobipocket eBooks
37. 1.5 Million Ebooks for mobile

Tools

1. 5 Free Useful PDF Tools
2. Stanza – Popular e-book reader for the iPhone

News / Articles

1. 20 Reasons Why 2009 Will Be the Year of the eBook
2. 1000 novels everyone must read

This should keep you occupied for a long time. If you’ve found any broken links or wish to provide a review on any of the links above, do leave it in the comments section. I’ll leave this post as sticky for a couple of days and see how it goes. Enjoy!

Free Ebook Sites

Came across few sites which happen to have a good long list of free ebooks, ready to be downloaded right away. Check them out:-

1. http://www.webliterature.net/
2. http://www.free-ebooks-canada.com/
3. http://www.book-bot.com/
4. http://www.pdfoo.com/

Free Chess Ebooks

1. ChessManiac
2. ChessCentral
3. ChessVille