Venture outside the iBookstoreĪpple’s bookstore isn’t the only place to find great free books: My personal favorite is Project Gutenberg, which compiles (and sometimes creates) ebooks from out-of-print and copyright-free novels.
To avoid spending a few unnecessary bucks, browse on the Mac version of iBooks and click the “Only Show Free Titles” checkbox after searching.įiction isn’t the only thing you’ll find for free in the iBooks Store. That said, be careful: Some copyright-free books have multiple versions uploaded by different publishers, and though they may all contain the same content, certain ones may cost money while others are available for free. If you know the name of a public domain work you want to read ( Sherlock Holmes, for example), you can skip the Free Books section and just use iBooks’s search bar. After getting iBooks on your PC from an iOS device with any of the methods above, you can try Requiem (free, working with iTunes 9 or earlier) or TunesKit iBook Copy (with a free trial) to get over iBooks with DRM.
You can use iBooks’s search bar to find copyright-free books, but be wary-some publishers will attempt to charge for books you can also get for free. Now, opening iBooks on PC is possible as long as you remove DRM on the files. There are plenty of great copyright-free books available, including Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jane Austen’s works, Edgar Allen Poe’s poems, and more. Wells’ The Time Machine. You can browse individual titles by tapping (clicking if you’re on your Mac), or scrolling to the right if nothing you see suits your fancy. Diving into a sub-category ( Fiction & Literature, for instance) will display a list of free ebooks labeled inside that section, for example Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and H.G.