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Dailylit


1) FREE Books delivered to your email.

dailylit.com, over 1,000 books, for many titles the entire book is FREE, others provide generous sample chapters.

DailyLit was created because the founders spent hours each day on email, but couldn’t find the time to read a book. Sound familiar? Now great books come by email and they are FREE. It’s simple.
1. Find a book you want to read
2. Enter your email address
3. Click subscribe

DailyLit has many other features. Some require creating a profile.
* Follow a group reading the same book together, on Twitter (and RSS).
* Take part in the discussion forums.
* Give ratings and reviews.
* Manage BookLists.
* Give DailyLit books as gifts.

DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail or RSS feed. They currently offer over 1,000 classic and contemporary books available entirely for free or on a Pay-Per-Read basis (with sample installments available for free). You can read your installments wherever you receive e-mail/RSS feeds, including on your Blackberry and iPhone. Installments arrive in your Inbox according to the schedule you set (e.g. 7:00am every weekday). You can read each installment in under 5 minutes (most folks finish in 2-3 minutes), and, if you have more time to read, you can receive additional installments immediately on demand.

Give a FREE book too.
They also have a gift service, where you can send books via DailyLit to friends, with installments starting on any date you choose (even that very day - perfect for last minute gifts), and each installment comes with a personalized message written by you.

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz review:
I ordered 100 Ways to Succeed and Make Money by Tom Peters. 100% FREE, the entire book. It took all of 15 seconds and I scheduled for my first installment of 100 pages at 8:00AM every morning. Their titles include bestselling and award winning titles, from literary fiction and romance to business and science fiction.
 

 Free for all books


2) Free Down-Loadable Business, Economics, Personal Finance, and Computer Books

www.freebooksforall.com
Free Books for All, is a website created by book consultant and speaker John Kremer. The site devoted to giving away free nonfiction books on business, how-to, cookbooks, self-help, spiritual, memoirs, biography, health, politics, social issues, sports, travel, and more. All books are provided courtesy of their authors and/or publishers. When you click on a link, you’ll be taken to the author’s or publisher’s website to download the book for free, generally as an Adobe PDF file that you can keep and read at your leisure.

If you like the books you read this way, please tell your friends about the books. The authors and publishers are providing the books for free download as a way to get the word out about their wonderful books. Most of the free ebooks featured on this site are also available as printed books via online booksellers such as Amazon.com or BN.com.

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz review:
I loved this site because it’s got lots of great marketing books, which are some of my favorite foods and it helps expose and promote great business experts. The list of authors is no B list. You’ll find change agent, Seth Godin, guerilla marketing expert, Jay Conrad Levinson and word of mouth master, Dave Balter just to name a few. In addition to downloading some worthy titles, I also submitted my book on creativity, too.


Swaptree.com


3) Give and you shall receive. Books, CDs, DVDs and video games. 100% FREE except shipping.
www.swaptree.com
Swaptree is an innovative way for people to easily trade the books, cds, dvds and video games they are finished with, for the ones they want, all for FREE. With swaptree, your collections stop gathering dust and can be used to acquire other items you want. By offering to trade a single item, you can choose from thousands of books, dvds, cds, and video games that you can receive in exchange. Best part: everything is free, you only pay shipping.

On Swaptree you can:
* Trade the books you have for the books you want, for FREE
* Swap your books for video games, CDs and DVDs
* Instantly see all the books you can receive in trade
* Print perfect postage right from your computer
* Discover new books and authors
* Recycle, reuse and reduce your carbon footprint

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz review:
This site is easy to get around, fast to enroll and post what you have and what you want. At the time of this writing I posted some of my good books that I had multiply copies of or had read. Now I wait and see if someone wants what I have.
 

Scribd
 

1)  Scribd - YouTube for Documents
www.scribd.com/ 
 
Scribd began with the observation – “that there's a writer in all of us.” Scribd is a social publishing site, the YouTube for document sharing.  It provides a central storage place for others to publish and discuss original writings and documents.  Scribd uses it own document reader, making it simple for anyone to access documents without downloads or compatibility issues.  Here you’ll find not only free eBooks, but much more as well—Scribd is a platform for many types of writings—from class syllabuses to sheet music to brochures to novel-length works of fiction. With Scribd groups, you can share documents within your circle of friends, your organization, or your online network.  Documents can be made private and secure, or shared with the world.  
 
Cost: FREE 
 
Oddpodz Review:  There are a lot of uses for Scribd—as it’s an innovative new platform for reading.  Maybe you have the first chapter of a novel you want to put out there to gauge a response; maybe there’s an old college essay on your hard drive that you want to share; it can help you run your business by liberating your hard drive and helping you organize your documents with tags and categories. 
  
Feedbooks

 
2) Feedbooks – Convert RSS feeds to portable files
www.feedbooks.com/
 
Feedbooks is a universal e-reading platform compatible with all your mobile devices—it can work with your Kindle, iPhone, iPod, or PDA.  Feedbooks’ name derives from RSS feeds, but also means a “hunger for books.”  For online and portable reading, Feedbooks is the place to start.  Another great feature Feedbooks offers is that you can convert any RSS feed into a PDF or Mobipocket file that you can transfer to your portable reading device, save on your hard drive, or print out to read later.  With Feedbooks huge library of free eBooks, you can download an entire library’s worth of writings, holding it in the palm of your hand.
 
Cost: FREE 
 
Oddpodz Review: Feedbooks boasts a huge library of free downloadable eBooks in a high quality format.   There are thousands of public domain and creative commons works, made easy to find by Feedbooks’ guide and search functions—or you can just browse my most popular, most recent, author or subject.  But the RSS to PDF tool is what’s really great here, as you can now take many of your favorite blogs with you or read them offline.
 

Read Green Initiative


3) Read Green Initiative - Free 1 Year eMagazine Subscription
goreadgreen.com/ 
  
The Read Green Initiative is asking you to make the switch from glossy magazines to eMagazines, and they’ll give a free 1 Year online subscription to a magazine of your choice.  Choose from hundreds of well-respected publications, including Reader’s Digest, US News, and Popular Science among them.

Cost: FREE
 
Oddpodz Review:  Going green saves you some green when you get your favorite publication for free.

 

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