Donald Maass has written a bunch of books about writing and now he is offering one of them as a free download on his site.
“Packed full of fine analysis, solid advice, and thoughtful reflection on the state of contemporary publishing. [...]

Here’s a great Christmas present from the lovely people at Random House. For a limited time (until Feb 28th, 2009) they are giving away nine free ebooks in a variety of formats from a variety of ebook retailers.
New York, NY - December 8, 2008 — The Random House Publishing Group and Lexcycle, Inc., jointly [...]

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Just a quick reminder that this month we are reading and talking about The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.  Both fantastic books and both discussions have just started so there’s plenty of time to join in.
In December we can look forward to 1984 by George [...]

I got this in my email today and I was mighty happy to see it.
Free Ebooks from World Fantasy Award Finalists
Last week we announced the return of free ebooks from Tor.com. We’re kicking things off this week with backlist titles from two of the authors who are finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Award [...]

Award-nominated authors and podcasters Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine have teamed up across hemispheres for “Double Trouble”, a unique celebration and promotion for their summer releases of The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery and Digital Magic. Morris and Ballantine are asking their fans to make “Double Trouble” on Amazon.com by ordering [...]

The “free e-books every week” offer has finished now, but for a limited time you can download all of them via the Tor.com website.
Get ‘em while you can - click here
Twenty Four free books!
Here’s the complete list showing the available formats for each one:
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
PDF || HTMLnew! || HTML zipnew! || Mobinew!
Old Man’s [...]

Another National Year of Reading event!  The Guardian (newspaper) in the UK is running a 40 best audio books promotion. 160 books were suggested and now they have their 40 best which we can all vote on.
1. You can now vote for your favourite audio book from the list by clicking here and [...]

EOS Books ( a division of Harper-Collins) is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year.  They are a Science Fiction / Fantasy imprint and so they are giving away free ebooks in those genres.
Every two months in 2008, they will be offering up a free e-book for readers in the US.  The first one is [...]

Neil has some free short stories up on his site
short stories
Click on the above link if you want to read these:
“The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds” by Neil Gaiman
This is a story called “The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds”. It was first published in 1984, in KNAVE and was my third [...]