From http://www.ereadingtrends.com/the-great-gatsby-ebook-is-free-dont-waste-money-buying-it/
The Great Gatsby eBook is Free – Don’t Waste Money Buying It!
Published May 12, 2013
It irritates me to no end when I see big companies trying to capitalize off of a book being turned into a movie so they can rake in every little cent that they can squeeze out of consumers.
Unfortunately that is the case with The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Ever since it has been turned into a movie, ebookstores everywhere are trying to make as much money as possible off of what is a public domain ebook that is freely available (in most countries except the U.S.) to anyone who knows where to get it.
At Amazon, The Great Gatsby is currently the #1 bestseller in the Kindle store. That shows just how popular the ebook is right now. Amazon is charging $4.99, which isn’t half as bad as B&N who is selling it for a ridiculous $10.93. Sony has it for $9.62 and Kobo has it for $7.99. In my opinion that is way too much to pay for an ebook, much less one that was published in 1925 and is now in the public domain.
None of those ebookstores want you to know that you can simply go to Feedbooks.com and download The Great Gatsby for free in ePub, Mobi (for Kindle), and PDF formats. What I like about Feedbooks is their ebooks are nicely formatted, so there’s no reason to go spend $5-$10 elsewhere.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that everyone is trying to cash in on the success of the movie, but I still don’t like it. The same thing happened to George Martin’s A Game of Thrones, which used to sell for $6.99 in ebook form until HBO started airing the Game of Thrones TV series. Then it shot up to $9.99 and has remained there ever since.
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May 16, 2013 @ 08:29:04
Thanks for the link!
May 16, 2013 @ 08:36:02
These books are free but somebody is always out to make a fast buck.
The greed 😦
May 16, 2013 @ 09:51:10
Thanks for the link melouisef. I love e-books! 🙂
May 16, 2013 @ 11:27:51
Only a pleasure
May 16, 2013 @ 11:53:48
😀
May 16, 2013 @ 12:33:29
I have lots of ebooks which I can share, let me know what you like. Just don’t please say ‘ anything’
🙂
You can also check fletchersharebooks.blogspot.com
May 16, 2013 @ 14:46:51
Why thank you meloisef and the same here hon. Thanks for the link. Will go and check it out. 🙂 *hugs*
May 16, 2013 @ 12:13:45
You are a star – straight from the email, and I was suddenly reading my own Kindle edition! *hornswoggled*
May 16, 2013 @ 12:23:16
Excellent, hope you enjoy it. I have not yet read it – I think, could have done at school and then I have anyway forgotten by now
May 16, 2013 @ 20:18:26
So btw if you subscribe to this you can get lots of free Kindle books
http://www.fkbooksandtips.com/author/mgagler/
May 16, 2013 @ 20:28:07
Thanks!
May 16, 2013 @ 12:21:54
I can’t understand the ridiculous prices of ebook in the first place. It’s being down loaded a gazillion times from a particular source, over and over, so why so much? They should all be $ 1.00 ( for shipping and handling) 😀
Then… There’s always the FREE public library.
May 16, 2013 @ 12:36:00
Often an ebook is more expensive than the hardcover in the bookshop. Think of trees
😦
And the library is super but you don’t get that option if you do not live in the USA. Oh yes and sometimes when you want to buy the ebook from Amazon it says ‘not available in your country’ Now I ask you…..
May 16, 2013 @ 20:47:44
Oy! What about the poor authors and illustrators? Though even as a writer I agree that normal new ebook prices are too high.
May 16, 2013 @ 13:04:44
not on a kindle yet, but read a lot on the laptop – not so comfortable and realise I have to take the leap 😛
May 16, 2013 @ 13:18:57
Time to get one then, gives me a great deal of pleasure to read
🙂
May 16, 2013 @ 14:27:40
THANKS! To Rosa, I just recently got a Nook and love reading from it; I thought I would have a hard time because I love the feel of books so much, but I adjusted really fast…go for it.
May 16, 2013 @ 14:52:35
Angeline, I can not resist a book Fletchie is trying her very best to convert me 😛
May 17, 2013 @ 09:40:08
thanks for the tip. Have you read it yet? I’ve never even glanced at it before!
May 17, 2013 @ 09:51:36
I probably read it at school but I cannot remember much except something about Zelda (which I now realize was Scott’s wife). It is not a very thick book and I would prefer the book to the movie so I have saved it to my Kindle
🙂