Information Science and LIS

Música, películas, series de TV, libros son cosas que hoy en día se pueden conseguir gratuitamente en Internet y no estoy hablando de piratear, estoy hablando de todo el contenido que podemos descargar gratuitamente y en forma legal.

Claro que muchas veces no encontramos lo que queremos y debemos de pagar por ello o conformarnos con las alternativas que tenemos y hoy en día hay muchas alternativas.

Ahora es el turno de los libros gratis y para ello les traigo una lista de 20 sitios web para descargar miles y miles de libros gratis. Los sitios son en inglés, pero muchos de los libros que poseen están escritos en español.

Rean:

"Have you grown tired asking Google to find eBooks for you? Then why not directly go to online libraries with thousands and millions of collections entirely focused for books?

That’s the reason why I gathered the 8 best online libraries that students, teachers, and researches can use freely. Millions of books, hundreds of categories, and definitely for free!"

1. Project Gutenberg

2. The Free Library

3. Planet eBook

4. LibriVox

5. Wikibooks

6. Scribd

7. Ibiblio

8. GetCited

"Bringing what has been called “revolutionary” book-publishing technology to SA, Self-Publish Press – together with Xerox – has launched the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) at the University of Johannesburg's main library.
The EBM is the creation of On Demand Books, in New York, and is capable of producing a bookstore-quality paperback with a colour cover, in minutes. The books can be printed in any standard trim size, and the machine eliminates the problem of minimum print runs.
The EBM looks like a large photocopier – not exactly an espresso machine, but the comparison lies more in the speed and ease of production than the aesthetics.
“The EBM technology offers libraries and bricks-and-mortar retailers the opportunity to become community self-publishing centres,” says Xerox, which is represented locally by Bytes Document Solutions. “In addition, the EBM provides a new sales channel for publishers and vastly increases the availability of titles for physical bookstores, thus significantly reducing loss of sales due to books being out of stock.”

Link here: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?view=article&id=57140