Random House releases 100+ classics
In a move that may scare traditional booksellers around the globe, Random House has announced the release of more than 100 classics from its Modern Library (see list), which are being sold through a number of online ebook stores.
The ebooks, to be published in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Glassbook Reader and Microsoft Reader formats, include important works such as Joyce's Ulysses, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Emily Brone's Wuthering Heights and Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Many of the titles (being sold by Random House for $4.95) are available online though, many of them do not come in formats suitable for Acrobat, Glassbook and Microsoft Reader viewers.
The online stores selling some or all of the ebook titles include:
Free classics and public domain works
If you dig around some of these sites you may well pick up a copy free.
- Gutenberg Project
Thousands of e-texts - Online Texts Collection
Search for more than 13,000+ - CyberRead
Many texts in .TXT format - University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
1,000+ Microsoft Reader format books - PSU's Electronic Classics Site
100+ ebooks in PDF - The Electric Book Company
Hundreds of PDF classics which include an index for complex searching - AportisDoc viewing software
3,000+ ebooks for use the AportisDoc software on Palm devices - netLibrary
Thousands that can be read online or downloaded and viewed using a netLibrary-developed ebook viewer - The On-line Books Page
- Bibliomania
Read (html formatted) ebooks online
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