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From July 4 - August 4 2010, download eBooks for free at this site. There are over 3.5 million titles available, ranging from Peter Rabbit to William Shakespeare (and that's just on the home page!).

Free ebook (PDF on Google docs) on Google's inroads in education. They offer scholarships, programs for students, domestic and international, and professional development and institutes for educators.

By Joe Wikert, part of the TOC podcast series, on O'Reilly Radar, April 2 2012. Wikert interviews Hugh McGuire, founder of PressBooks, a newly developed publishing platform. PressBooks, which will be available both to commercial publishers and to the general public, uses WordPress as a CMS/platform on which to put a book together. The output can be a printed book, an e-book, or a podcast. This page provides an intro to the podcast, including the major themes of the approach (and the time-stamps for each).

An interesting idea, particularly for self-publishing.

By Richard A. Schwier and published June 2011. This page offers free download of the .epub. Schwier is at the University of Saskatchewan and studies virtual learning communities. For more, see the scheier tag.

Unbelievable!!!!

Posted by Seth Godin on Seth's Blog, October 16 2008. This page links to Godin's published (print) book, Tribes, as well as the e-book by and about his online "triiibe" group. For more, follow tags godin or tribes