Archive for the 'Books' Category
I’ve been usng Wowio.com for a while now as they had a nice service which provided free PDF downloads of ebooks and comics with embedded advertising and user information so you didn’t go spreading them around. It worked well and they have a decent selection of books and comics with quite a few very good [...]
August 5th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Comics, Fiction, Media | No Comments
Just one quick post whilst I have enough coal to keep the internet running here.
For those of you who didn’t sign up for the Tor ebook giveaway to promote the quite spangly new site, they have now made all the ebooks available to download until Sunday July 27th.
Go and grab them quickly before they disappear.
There [...]
July 24th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Books, Fiction, Media | No Comments
Being a huge fan of both pulp fiction (the writing kind not the movie) and audio drama, I really can’t resist the lure of a full cast audio drama of a Conan the Barbarian story.
You can find most of the Conan stories online as ebooks, along with the rest of Robert E. Howard’s writing as [...]
June 30th, 2008 | Posted in Audio, Books, Fiction, Media | No Comments
OK…nursing advice is probably not what you were expecting to read here but I just had to post something about these books.
I’m not sure what strange thread I was following which led me to the free ebook “emergency nursing unscrewed” over at impactednurse.com but I’m quite glad I ended up there as it’s an interesting [...]
June 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Books, Media, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Another very interesting looking book being provided for free download.
It’s nice to see more and more authors fighting obscurity rather than piracy.
How do you start a movement with a marker pen? What’s the connection between the nun who invented disco, and file sharing? How did a male model messing with disco records in New York [...]
June 14th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Media | No Comments
For anyone who reads much on the internet or has even stumbled across the wonderful boingboing.net, Cory Doctorow needs little introduction. He’s a great advocate of the Creative Commons movement and has made most if not all of his writing available for free.
He also has a great deal to say that is interesting on a [...]
June 8th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Media | 2 Comments
Someone kindly pointed me towards this free ebook knowing I am a fan of Star Wars (well at least the original non-suckfest films) and it’s an interesting read. Probably a bit too much information for me and well frankly anyone but if you really want some detailed history about the films then this is a [...]
May 31st, 2008 | Posted in Books, Media | No Comments
I’m a sucker for comedy science fiction so this free ebook is going straight onto my reading list.
It’s the first in a series of four books, and is being given away for free which is a price I like. Obviously this is now becoming a common method of promoting a series/author and one that I [...]
May 28th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fiction, Media | No Comments
This ebook was released not long ago by Small Beer Press, the same people who recently released Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh as a free ebook.
It’s a great science fiction short story collection, I’m part way through but enjoying it. I’ll come back and add a real review when I’m done but [...]
May 11th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fiction, Media | No Comments
To celebrate the release of the final part in the Legacy of the Force series, Del Rey books and Random House audio are giving the first book in the series away for free both as an ebook and an mp3 audiobook.
It’s a time limited offer until the 13th May 2008 so hurry over here and [...]
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Audio, Books, Media | No Comments