Free Ebooks and downloads from Ebay

freebiesstuff

Hiya all

Found this site giving away loads of free ebooks that you normally pay for on Ebay.

http://www.alphaebooks.co.uk

:beer:

Browntoa

or go to www.floodle.net and get those shown as "premium" paid for downloads on this site for free as well

freebiesstuff

I hope floodle arent giving away the books in the premium books section as they are only available for sale and dont have resale or giveaway rights included with them!

Browntoa

your web site then is it ??

freebiesstuff

No not mine...I just know the ebook market as a used to sell them on Ebay.....Is floodle yours then??

Browntoa

no....just we often get new members posting their own web site....

Floodle not mine, don't see the point in buying any e-book anyway when a quick "Google" throws up the same information for free

apologies if it's not

freebiesstuff

I agree..

Information packaged up as an ebook shouldnt be sold for monetary gain. The people that put them together just get the info from the internet anyway.

hibees1875_2

bag o poo really ebooks.

discoteque

A word of caution to anyone reading this; like printed books, ebooks are subject to copyright protection and distributing them without first obtaining the right to do so (via payment or explicit permission) is most likely illegal.

Many ebooks are shoddilly put together and the value of them questionable. However, there are a growing group of people who specialise in creating quality ebooks on subjects they are passionate and knowledgable about, and depriving them of royalties through distributing without the right to do so is both legally and morally questionable.

Many authors will gather information from the internet, but many do not. They are experts in the field they are writing their book about and sharing a great deal of expertise.

Even if they are not experts and are mearly re-writing and re-packaging information freely available on the internet, a level of skill and work is required to do this well.

If you feel an ebook is likely to be valuable - either because it gives you information not available elsewhere, or because it saves you a great deal of time by presenting the information in a self-contained package - then buy the book and recompense the author for his or her work.

What I'm trying to say is that like 'real' books, you can get some trash and you can get some gems. Don't assume that all ebook authors cobble together Wikipedia articles and Google searches, but exercise your judgement as you would with any other purchase.

aqueoushumour01

i think this site buys up ebooks which come with re-sale rights probably because the authors earn revenues from affiliate links contained within the books but I agree that there is a danger that some ebooks could be reproduced and given away without the author's consent