Borders.com has finally managed to get their ebookstore up and running. So far, it wins my award for worst ebook design by a major company, but they do have up a page where you can download a number of free books. It appears that the list changes from time to time (it's changed just since yesterday, for me) and there is no particular order to the list. You do need to create an account at Borders.com and be logged in before you try to "buy" the book and most of these are in DRM'd epub format, while a few are DRM'd PDF's (none are Kindle compatible). When you click on the button to get the book, if you are successful, you'll see a message to that effect and an offer to be taken to your ebook library. If unsuccessful for any reason, you see a message that there were technical difficulties. This may mean that the book is only available to download via the Border's Kobo app (which is free) or that you already have the book in your library or that gremlins interfered and you should just try again (which actually worked on a couple of these, for me). If you must use the Border's app, you have to search for these by name and you may or may not even be able to find the book there (did I mention that they have the worst design ever?). If you do, just check to make sure that the app shows that the book is free (if it is not, the price will be clearly displayed on the purchase button). Books purchased in this way must be read in the Kobo app, but I have had most of them eventually appear as epubs in my library, which means that you can then download them for any epub compatible reader.
Here is the current list:
- Colters’ Woman
- A Safe Harbor
- Crazed Hearts
- Collision Course, by K. A. Mitchell
- Distracting The Duchess, by Emily Bryan
- Fade The Heat, by Colleen Thompson
- Double Enchantment, by Kathryne Kennedy
- Hara’s Legacy
- Fiance At Her Fingertips, by Kathleen Bacus
- Long Hard Ride
- Rapture’s Tempest, by Bobbi Smith
- Lord Of Devil Isle, by Connie Mason
- Shadow Bound, by Erin Kellison
- Marked, by Elisabeth Naughton
- Sin’s Daughter, by Eve Silver
- The River Nymph, by Shirl Henke
- Sunrise In A Garden Of Love & Evil, by Barbara Monajem
- Standoff, by Lauren Dane
- The Magic Knot, by Helen Scott Taylor
- The Ghost Exterminator
- Trey
- Weddings Can Be Murder, by Christie Craig
- The Strangely Beautiful Tale Of Miss Percy Parker, by Leanna Renee Hieber
- To Tempt A Knight, by Gerri Russell
- The Wicked House Of Rohan, by Anne Stuart
- Wolf Signs, by Vivian Arend
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HERE to get the books from Borders.
