The appearance of electronic books, also known as e-books, at the beginning of the XNUMXst century was a great revolution for publishers, since books went from paper to the screen. Because of this, authors gained the power to publish their own books without the need for an intermediary publisher to print them. Due to this, some authors, either for their own hobby or simply for offering their work without profit, began to publish free books on different portals or platforms.
Today, electronic books are more used than conventional books and that is why the great demand has led to the opening of various portals where you can download books for free and legally.
Many of these sites offer both free books and paid books, in 90% of the cases the author is the one who decides the sales price and as a result, authors who do not mind earning a little money with it offer free books. completely free to readers.
There are various websites or mobile applications where we can download books for free, here is a list of them:
- The book house: It is a well-known store in Spain as it has a wide catalog, from fantasy books like “Harry Potter or Game of Thrones” to cooking guides or recipes. Apart from this series of books, it has a completely free book catalog.
- PlanetaLibro.net: This platform offers a catalog of more than 9.000 free books that you can download legally. Although it does not stand out for its design, it fulfills its functions and you can download books like “The Little Prince” or “Alice in Wonderland” so that the little ones in the house can read these traditional stories.
- Lektu: This web portal offers both paid and free books. All the books are in Spanish and if you also like audiobooks, you will be able to access them very easily. To download the free books you will have to log in with either a Facebook, Twitter or Google account.
- Hundred Zeros: this website has a monitor which locates the books that are published for free on Amazon by their authors. Thanks to this monitor, the reader can be sure that the books are not a copy and can be downloaded free of charge directly from the author.
- Google Books: Google offers us its wonderful mobile application where we can find a large number of free books (there are also paid ones) and we can have them on our device and access them anywhere and anytime.
- Gutenberg: It is a project with a design very similar to Wikipedia where you can get a wide variety of free books in different languages so that you can read in German, English, French or Italian.
- Literanda: is a platform where authors who are not well known can publish their works or projects for free. Some of them offer their book completely free and you can download it in PDF format or file compatible with your e-reader.
So if you want to download free books legally you can access these websites and review their catalogues, although it may not seem like it there is a lot of variety so that all readers can read wonderful books by authors who are still at the beginning of their career.
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