Ebooks Galore!
I recently won a Twitter contest from Twitterer @ReadersWin and received several free ebooks. Through this contest and gathering my winnings, I learned of a new (to me) website, Smashwords. Smashwords is an ebook paradise. I’m not quite sure how many ebooks are available on the site, but it claims to have published over 1 billion words (if someone is really good at math – not me – I’m sure they can estimate how many words are typically in a book, etc. and figure it out).
A lot of the ebooks on the site seem pretty inexpensive (pretty comparable to what I see Kindle ebooks go for) and there are even free ones you can browse through. It seems like Smashwords is the place to be for indie or first-time authors. What a great way to find some new favorite authors! Bonus: you don’t have to just read these ebooks on your computer. You can download the ebook in multiple formats including Kindle, iPad, Nook, and many others. The ones that I received are going to be sent to my Kindle as soon as I remember to do it.
Are there any other sources to find good ebooks?
(Side note: the word “ebook” starts to look really strange when you type it as many times and I did in this post.)