Getting College Textbooks: Open Source (Free) Textbooks
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
A consortium that seeks to develop and use open educational resources, open textbooks, and open courseware to expand access to higher education and improve teaching and learning.
- College Open Textbooks
A collection of twenty-nine educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges.
• Google Books
A collaborative effort with hundreds of libraries worldwide who help digitize "orphaned" works whose copyright holders could not be found, or works that are now public. Some of the older books and orphaned books can be accessed in their entirety but others are simply abstracts with a cover image and links to buy or borrow them from bookstores and libraries.
• Bookboon.com
Free e-books focused on Business, Economics, Finance, Math, and Science subject areas.
- Flat World Knowledge
Flat World provides high-quality, affordable college textbooks and an online platform that allows instructors and institutions to personalize content.
• Freetechbooks.com
They link to author's websites who host their own materials. however, the site is littered with advertisements.
• Feedbooks.com
A large number of primarily humanities and literature textbooks that are public domain and therefore free to the public.
- OpenStax College
•Textbook Revolution
A student-run organization dedicated to providing free access to course materials, including textbooks.
•Project Gutenberg
Over 38,000 free books to choose from in a variety of formats including EPUB and Kindle. Most are now in public domain from "orphaned works" or the authors have given permission for Project Gutenberg to provide worldwide access for free.
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