Reading material for your e-book reader can include a variety of content, including electronic newspapers, magazines, fiction and non-fiction books, children's books, technical material and manuals. Sources for your reading content can include independent publishers, the major publishers, reseller websites, free content websites that specialize in classic writings, libraries and websites from independent authors.

Below is a small list of places to download material for your e-book reader. Also, please check our Partners page for free downloads during Read an E-Book Week.

Sony E-Book Store
Omnilit
BooksonBoard - also offers books in languages other than English
eBooks.com
Amazon.com
University of Virginia Library
Microsoft Reader Library
Project Gutenberg This free library has hundreds of classic e-books.
Reader's Eden
Smashwords
eReader.com
MobileRead
Feedbooks
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Foreign E-Book Libraries

Kurt Stueber.de In German
Project Madurai Tamil digital library. Project Runeberg Mostly in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish & Icelandic.
Japanese e-books
Free Apache E-Books
Balkan History e-books
Polish e-books
Free Brasilian e-books
Danish e-books
Hungarian e-books
Russian e-books

Science fiction fans will enjoy Hugo Award nominated author, Cory Doctorow's novels and short stories. He allows free downloads of his books in a number of formats. Just click on the cover of the book you want to download. As an example, here's the link to Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. You'll also find links on our partners page.

Then of course, authors can always produce their own content, either for their own reading pleasure or to sell to others. For the aspiring author, why not try Smashwords?

At Smashwords, authors have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works. Smashwords is ideal for personal memoirs, novels, short fiction, non-fiction, essays, screenplays, newsletters or poetry. And best of all--it's free to the author.