E-books

[eigen]

I never seem to be able to find a good repsository of (legally ) free E-books, I would prefer they deal with sci/computing/tech. But any thing would be good.I was just want sonmthing to do with my pda other than make apointments and warwalk.

 

[ThaPerculator]

Been looking for the same... Hell, I wish they would actually start putting just about everything on ebook, as I'd actually buy books to read during lectures that I should probably be listening to. What I don't get is why publishing companies, who almost undoubtedly get the files from the author of the book, don't just release e-book versions as well, seeing as how if even marginal people purchase them they will still turn a decent profit and not have to worry about material/freight expenses. Is there really that much of a markup on paper books?

 

[DaveSimmons]

www.Baen.com for a bunch of SF & fantasy, including some quite good ones by David Drake.

Project Gutenberg for everything written before Der Mousenfuhrer got corporate copyright extended to 1,000 years. (Most everything by Mark Twain is worth reading)

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: ThaPerculator
Been looking for the same... Hell, I wish they would actually start putting just about everything on ebook, as I'd actually buy books to read during lectures that I should probably be listening to. What I don't get is why publishing companies, who almost undoubtedly get the files from the author of the book, don't just release e-book versions as well, seeing as how if even marginal people purchase them they will still turn a decent profit and not have to worry about material/freight expenses. Is there really that much of a markup on paper books?

Yes. Most would just download them illegaly. Just like MP3's. They sell actual paper books for like 100 bucks. Say the cost is 20 bucks, and they make 80 bucks off of the book, You think you'd shell out the same 80 bucks for a pdf file that you could just download from your friend?