It's funny how sometimes when you don't search for a topic, 50 sources appear on that same topic and when you search for it, nothing appears. The same thing has happened to me recently, yesterday, looking through my sources I found eReader IQ and today I have run into BookBub, a web service that provides us with free ebooks and that works almost the same as eReaderIQ.
Well almost the same, there are quite significant differences that can make us choose one or the other service, although neither of the two is actually incompatible with the other so we can well receive the two services in our email account.
The main difference between BookBub and eReaderIQ is that the latter is geared towards Amazon catalog while the first one searches and searches through the catalog of Kobo, Amazon, Apple, Google Books and B&N. We are the main ebookstores that usually not only have ebooks on offer but also sometimes offer free ebooks.
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BookBub allows us to select the stores, titles or searches we want, store them and then BookBub will send us the results every day to our email. Now, a new tool has also been included that allows us to trace the author's public lifeThat is, if we want to know what he published after that work or simply what he is working on, the new BookBub tool is ideal.
Like the rest of the applications of this type, BookBub is free but offers a service for authors to publish their works. or offers on their works so that readers can access them or obtain them for free.
Other alternatives to BookBub
In addition to BookBub, you also have Other alternatives to search for free e-books on the net. Here are the best ones:
- Light me up: This search engine allows you to compare prices, formats and terms of use of different ebooks. It also tells you if the book has DRM (digital rights management) and regional restrictions.
- eBooks Search: a simple search engine that allows you to find ebooks in various formats (PDF, DOC, PPT, etc.).
- Freebook Sifters: specialized in free e-books, updates its database daily.
- Project Gutenberg: a digital library with more than 60.000 free books in the public domain, available in various formats.
- ManyBooks: offers a large collection of free and paid ebooks, with an easy-to-use interface.
- OpenLibrary: an Internet Archive project that seeks to digitize all published books.
- Internet Archive: In addition to books, this platform digitizes and archives a large amount of material, including films, music and software. Many of them are old, have been deleted from the Internet, and are preserved here as "historical" pieces.
Of course, you can also use the usual search engines to locate free books. For example, on Google, You can search for keywords and filter with the dork “filetype:pdf” without quotes, filtering out all PDFs. You can replace PDF with any other ebook format…
Will our email be able to hold the BookBub and eReaderIQ offers?
Perhaps the downside of BookBub compared to eReaderIQ is that it focuses on offers that usually expire within a day or a few hours, while eReaderIQ usually has offers that last several days, a week at most, but more than a day or a few hours. This can be an obstacle if we are not very skilled, although it can also be taken as a game.Do not you think?
Does Bookbub have Spanish books?
That's what I ask myself.