There's a new bookstore in town and it combines the social networking features of Goodreads or LibaryThing with the ability to buy books. Copia's books are in EPUB format (ADE-DRM'd), but you must install their reader in order to download books (when you install it, skip the third step, where you authorize your Adobe login if you PC already has Adobe Digital Editions installed). To bribe you into creating an account (which is free) and installing their reader (required to download the books), Copia is giving every new account holder seven free books, all published by Rosetta Books:
You can also add fifteen free Harlequin books (that are free in pretty much all the ebookstores), if you wish to do so. I did discover one in the list that hasn't been free on Kindle (although you can get the PDF from Harlequin's website):
When you create an account, you'll have to give them an email address, but other than your name, no other personal information and no credit card info (until you start purchasing non-free books). Click
HERE to get started. For each book, click on Get This Book, then on Download Later (since it won't download automatically, anyway). After you've added all the books to your library, start the Copia reader (the links to download it are on their site). First, log in (remember, skip the Adobe activation if you already have ADE installed) and then Sync; once your booklist is showing, double click on each one to download (you can open then, then, but I skipped this part as well).
After they are all downloaded, exit the Copia reader and open Adobe Digital Editions. Click on the down arrow next to Library, then Add item to Library (or just press Ctrl-O). Find the books (under My Documents\Copia Library), click the first one and shift-click the last, to highlight them all, then click on OK. Now the books will all be in Adobe ADE and you can sideload them to the EPUB reader of your choice.
