How does the book cost

Your Book Price For Print And Retail

Book pricing is a critical part of your self-publishing process. Understanding your book price can be complex; there’s a print price, a wholesale price, and a retail price! Factors like shipping costs, printing quality, page count, trim sizes, and retail channels can all impact how to price your book.

I know a lot of authors and I know the topic they are least interested in discussing is money. But you need to understand the cost to publish and print, as well as the optimal price point to sell your book at. Considering costs is one of the first steps when looking for the right book price. If you don’t have a realistic budget, you might struggle to publish profitably.

How Much Does It Cost To Print A Book?

Your cost will vary based on a variety of print options. Paper, binding, ink, and page count all impact pricing. Listing out every ‌variation would be impractical, but you can use Lulu’s book pricing calculator to try different options for your book.

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retail pricing, and shipping

You need to consider how much it costs to ship a book (or multiple books), which our calculator also provides estimates for. While you will sell books online on Lulu’s Bookstore and Amazon, you will also need to sell direct. That means planning for printing and shipping costs.

How Is A Book Price Determined?

Lulu’s paperback price is based on the print cost. This is true for all of our trim sizes—there are no fees or set-up costs. The retail price (also called the list price) is a composite of the print cost, shipping, and the revenue amount you set.

Print Book Pricing Formula

The print cost for your book is the cost to print. Lulu printing costs (plus shipping) are also the amount you’ll always pay to buy your own books.

You need a firm understanding of the print options you’ll select and the printing costs those options will incur in order to determine the print cost and develop your retail pricing strategy.

Retail Book Pricing Formula

If you’re a new or aspiring author, you’ve almost certainly wondered, how much do authors make when they sell their book? Book sales are always important, but since most of us won’t be hitting John Grisham’s levels of sales, the retail price we charge will be very important.

Retail channels (like Amazon or Barnes & Noble) are wholesale businesses and will charge a flat amount on top of your retail price. Be sure to pay careful attention to different pricing structures to ensure you earn royalties you deserve for each book sale.

How Much Should My Book Cost?

Good news, there are several strategies to determine your book’s price. If you’re aiming to maximize sales, you’d want to price it as low as you can to entice readers with a good price. If you are selling to a niche audience, you would likely price it higher to maximize earnings on a smaller number of sales.

But it will be up to you to determine exactly how much your book costs for readers to purchase. I recommend starting with this pricing list from the School Library Journal:

It’s slightly outdated now but gives you a good starting place to think about the average price readers expect to pay. Take advantage of this, either by undercutting the average to drive sales or going a little higher if you’ve got dedicated readers.

How Much Do Authors Make Per Book?

For most self-publishing platforms, you’ll earn 50-80% of the revenue (with the rest going to the publishing platform). For example, if you publish a book with Lulu and sell it on our Bookstore, you’ll keep 80% of the revenue from each sale. That leads to another question: how do I know how much to sell my book for?

The basic formula is this:

Print Cost + (Revenue – Retail Cut) = Net Revenue

It’s important to note other factors that can impact your earnings too. For example, if you use Global Distribution to make your book available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, you’ll have to use their wholesale pricing strategy, which includes an additional markup. And if you sell directly through your own website using Lulu Direct, you’ll avoid any retailer cut and keep 100% of the revenue.

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How Much Does It Cost To Publish A Book? [2022 Prices]

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That’s quite the range! You’re likely looking for a cost breakdown to assess exactly how much it will be to publish your book.

In this comprehensive post, I’ll break down the individual costs of every line item in publishing a book. I’ll also talk a bit about the cost of going through traditional publishers.

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Average Costs For Book Publishing

Do you have to pay to publish a book? No, you do not have to pay a publisher to publish a book. You do have to pay for editing, cover design, and marketing.

What is the difference between a self-published book and a traditionally published book?

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Publishing Costs By Book Genre

Steps In Publishing A Book

After you finish writing the first draft of your book, here are all the steps to publishing a book, as well as how much they cost:

Cost Of Book Editing

Yes, you have to pay a professional editor to edit your book (unless you can somehow get a legit editor to look at your book for free). Every little typo, grammatical error, and misplaced word increases the risk of a reader closing the book and leaving a bad review.

Your editing pricing will increase with each of these caveats:

I wrote a comprehensive guide on Choosing the Best Editor to make this part of the publishing process easier for you.

On the Reedsy Marketplace and other websites, you can look for freelancers which can decrease the total cost of professional editing. Beware — you usually get what you pay for.

Cost Of Indexing A Book

I recommend indexing your book if it is nonfiction. Fiction books typically do not contain an index.

Cost To Format A Book

Why you have to format your book: Formatting includes margins, headers, typesetting, page numbers, spacing, and so much more. If any of these elements doesn’t look professional, many readers will put your book down, leave a bad review, and badmouth your book to all their peers.

If you are a very technical person with a ton of spare time, invest in book formatting software like Atticus or Vellum. Learn how to use whatever software, and don’t stop formatting till every inch of your eBook (and print book, if applicable) looks perfect.

If you are not a detail-oriented person, or you are short on time, hire a professional book formatter. It’s more expensive, but it will probably take less time overall, and you’ll be sure that your book is as professionally formatted as possible.

FYI: book formatting is also called interior design on some websites.

Trying to land a book deal? You may need to hire a professional to format your manuscript when you send it off to literary agents. This isn’t necessary for self-publishers.

Cost of DIY book formatting software:

Bonus: I don’t recommend MS Word for book formatting, but if you’re going to use it, check out Amazon’s video tutorial on MS Word book formatting.

If you do your own formatting, there are tons of templates that you can download off of the Internet. IngramSpark, microsoft.com, and other websites offer free templates.

Cost of book formatting services:

Cost Of Cover Design

Your book cover design is your number one marketing tool. When people browse Amazon, all they’ll see is your book cover and title in the search results. If you have an unprofessional, messy book cover design, readers will think the rest of your book is amateurish and not worth their time.

Book cover design will be more expensive if you:

DIY cover design options:

Book cover design services:

It is normal to pay these services half upfront and half once you approve the final design.

Cost of Book Marketing

Here are some handy free marketing suggestions:

However, there are some common costs if you want to sell your book to a wide audience:

Read more about book marketing costs in my Book Marketing 101 article.

Other Costs In Publishing A Book

Other costs to publish a book include:

The Bottom Line

Feeling overwhelmed? You’re not alone. Check out Kindlepreneur’s Book Marketing Show podcast to learn from experts about selling your own book. The more your book sales soar, the more all these costs are justified. Cheers to your finished product!

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What the Heck Does a Book Cost?

When I began to study the implications of patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) a couple years ago, I concluded that PDA services would put upward pressure on book prices as publishers sought to recover some of the sales and margin they would lose to the new demand-driven systems. While it’s still too early to determine longer-term trends in pricing, an outline of how pricing will evolve is forcing itself into view. But that view is not entirely clear, as the number of players in the supply chain and the availability of many titles from multiple sources make it very hard to determine what an individual book costs.

Libraries purchase books in a number of ways. Some are purchased in what could be called the old-fashioned way — librarians reviewing individual offerings or responding to an inquiry by a faculty member; sometimes a librarian may simply happen upon a good review. In my experience, this is how most people, including career publishers, believe librarians work most or all of the time, but in fact most books are purchased through approval plans, where the library works with a vendor to determine the kinds of books that are appropriate for the institution. The vendor then sorts through its extensive inventory and presents only a subset of titles, which the library will either approve and purchase or decline. There are large administrative efficiencies in such plans (nothing is more expensive than title-by-title acquisitions), so libraries typically are rewarded for participation in approval plans with a small discount.

Books are also acquired in aggregations. These programs came into existence (inevitably, in my opinion) with the emergence of digital technology. The game here is to make books look more like the journals business, which is now mostly electronic. A digital aggregation of books can be sold like a digital aggregation of journals, aka a Big Deal. As I write this, several vendors are vying for the book-aggregation business, and some very large publishers (e.g., Springer and OUP) have aggregations of their own. The benefits to libraries of such aggregations are clear — the efficiency of making a large purchase, a discount for buying so many books at one time, the affordances of digital content including full-text search, etc. Publishers like aggregations because they make it possible to sell many books that might otherwise be passed over in approval plans. And that is why a discount is offered: what is sacrificed in margin per title is (one hopes) more than offset by volume.

It may or may not be the case that aggregations will add to publishers’ sales to libraries. Short-term, they almost certainly will, but longer term there is the inherent problem of eroding course adoption sales. Let’s say you have a book on the backlist that reliably sells 500 copies a year for upper-level course adoptions. Now a digital copy of that book can be found in the library collection, where any number of students can check it out simultaneously. How long before those 500 copies disappear into the aggregate library sale? I have seen figures that document this erosion in other segments of professional publishing, and if these figures were public, I doubt many publishers would participate in digital aggregations. Aggregations, in other words, are an administratively efficient way to sell weaker titles. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have value; the market is diverse. It simply means that the strongest editorial programs will be the least likely to be included in such bundles.

With PDA (increasingly called DDA for demand-driven acquisitions) records for books that a library does not yet own are placed into the library’s catalogue. If a patron seeks to check out such a book, then an order is placed. For e-books the order is filled immediately; for print PDA programs, there is a delay until the book can be shipped ot the library. PDA allows libraries to hedge their bets on books that may be of interest (they got through the approval plan), but for which there may in fact be no express demand from faculty or students or that demand may take years to assert itself. Since the economic relationship between a library and a publisher is a zero-sum gain (when one wins, the other loses), the benefits of PDA to the library are likely to result in publishers fighting back, most likely in the form of higher prices.

So let’s make up some numbers to illustrate these different ways to acquire books. I emphasize that these are indeed made-up numbers and do not reflect actual pricing in the current or evolving marketplace.

It is not clear at this time whether publishers will be able to implement systems to enforce differential pricing for PDA and sales of the traditional (one book at a time) method, but they will try. If they are not successful, the higher price will be the only one.

There are several other variables that play a role here:

The fact is that marketing books is now as complex as the marketing of any product, and it is much more complex than marketing journals. As an industry, book publishers have not caught up with this yet. Few publishers have the expertise to analyze all these variables.

Another way to look at this is to say that, broadly speaking, books and all other materials in the academic market really have two kinds of costs: the cost for access to the content and the administrative cost of acquiring it. What publishers, with the help of library vendors, have been able to do is to reduce the administrative cost to libraries and then turn around and increase the cost for content. In effect, when libraries come up with more efficient workflows with the aid of their many suppliers, publishers turn around and raise the prices for the materials that are put through that workflow. This is how the Big Deal works: a substantial collection from a single source, but at a whopping price. Publishers have effectively been hollowing out libraries, taking on more of the administrative tasks and leaving libraries with the hard-to-curate tasks that resist industrial engineering. Libraries get the overhead, publishers get the profit.

We should expect libraries to push back at this, and they are. The library-as-publisher is a popular meme for a good reason. Libraries will also seek ways to sort through the various and seemingly intentionally confusing offerings to get at just what, exactly, is the price of something. There is a real risk that publishers have pushed things too far. Librarians may decide to vote with their checkbooks and just say no.

How Much Does It Cost To Publish A Book? – The Numbers

How much does it cost to publish a book today? The cost of self-publishing a book is now very affordable for new authors.

The publishing industry has changed forever. Long gone are the days of writing a query letter and book proposal to a literary agent. And then wishing, waiting, and hoping to get published with traditional publishing houses.

After you write your book, there is no need at all to beg literary agents and publishing companies today.

You can also forget about paying thousands of dollars to a vanity publisher.

How much does it cost to self-publish a book?

Unlike being contracted to a traditional publisher, self-publishing gives authors and independent publishers the freedom to publish at any time.

But with this comes the responsibility of making sure that you write and produce a quality paperback or digital book.

How much will it cost you to publish your book on Amazon?

We all know that it is possible to self-publish an ebook for free on Amazon with KDP and KDP Select.

Because Amazon self-publishing costs nothing, many authors who have never published books before, take this route.

For a new fiction writer, publishing a Kindle book on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is free, quick, and very easy.

All you need is a Word document file and a cover image, and that’s it.

That is why there are millions of ebooks available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

But so many of these quick and rushed ebooks are of inferior quality. Very few find a steady stream of loyal book buyers, even though there are many free tools to help new authors.

Producing any quality product and bringing it to market costs money.

If you are planning to start writing and publish your book soon, quality should be your top priority.

How much will it cost you to self-publish your book? Let’s take a step-by-step look and try to answer your questions.

How much should I budget to publish my book?

Your budget will depend on several factors. You need to think about how much work you can do yourself. Then about how much professional help you are going to need to pay for.

Start by making a brief list of what you are confident you can do. On the other side of your list, add items you know you will need someone else to help you.

Here are some ideas to help get you thinking.

How accurate is your English grammar?

Every author needs an editor or at least a competent proofreader.

If you write very well and can self-edit your manuscript, it will save you a lot of money.

Very few authors can afford a developmental editor. You might need a copy editor or some form of professional editing help. But this will cost you a lot less if you can self-edit reasonably well.

At the very least, you should use a premium grammar and spell checker. Grammarly is the most popular solution for many writers. But it is more suited to article and blog writing.

Prowritingaid is a much better choice for authors because of the in-depth analysis it offers to improve a long manuscript. It is also very reasonably priced.

It has over twenty analytical writing reports. These can help you dig down deep into your writing to find more ways to improve your manuscript.

Are you familiar with Photoshop?

Your book cover design must be both high-resolution and of a very high commercial standard. An author rarely has these skills. So a cover is almost always the first item in the expense column.

Many authors can write well, but very, very few can design a great book cover.

Remember that nothing will sell your book better than a fabulous cover, especially for fiction books.

Can you design a book interior and format an ebook?

Designing and formatting a book can be done in Microsoft Word, but it is not ideal.

If you want your book to shine, you might think about a book designer or an ebook formatter to help you.

Do you have an established author platform?

You will have to promote your book aggressively. Do you have a popular blog and add new blog posts regularly?

Do you have large, established social media accounts? Does your Facebook Page with a lot of Likes?

Do you have a big email mailing list?

Even if you have some of these, you should budget for some marketing and promotion. It will help boost your pre-launch and post-launch sales.

Are you tech-savvy?

Do you understand basic file management? Do you have the necessary skills to copy and convert files, upload, and download files?

Can you add URL links and create pdf files for sample chapters?

Are you confident with setting up and using online accounts?

The more you can do on the techie side of things will save you money. But you might have friends and family that can help you.

Preparing your budget for a print book and ebook.

The price estimates below are a guide only. You will certainly find professional services that are cheaper or more expensive.

Manuscript preparation.

The cost of editing depends on the word count of your manuscript. There are also different types of editing services.

Do you want development editing, which will assess your story? Or do you want copy editing? This will concentrate on accuracy and clarity in your manuscript.

If you want to save money here, you can do some of the editing and proofreading work yourself.

Cover design.

There are three choices for your book cover.

You can buy pre-made covers.

Pre-made covers are already designed and prepared by a book cover designer and are for sale online. After you make your choice, the designer will add your title and author name.

Pre-made covers usually are only suitable for ebooks. But some designers will modify a cover for print on demand books for a fee.

The second choice is a custom-designed cover.

You can discuss your precise needs with a designer, and they will design your cover to your exact requirements.

Yes, you can produce an ebook cover for free.

But note that these can only produce a low-resolution cover. These sites cannot create a cover that is suitable for a print book.

However, it is possible to use them for a quick ebook cover.

These book cover creation services use free stock images. So the drawback is that you will never be able to produce a unique design.

The best use for free book cover design sites is to work on ideas or mock-ups for your book cover.

Interior typography and ebook formatting.

Services can vary a lot. Look at the types of services that are on offer and the standard of the finished product.

Promotion and marketing.

It depends on your current author platform and social media footprint. You will need to decide on how much you want to invest in promotion.

There are hundreds of paid promotion services, so choose wisely. Look for affordable and long-term book promotions such as the one-year book promotion offered by Whizbuzz Books.

You can also improve your chances of success by selecting profitable categories and search keywords when you publish your book.

Publishing.

With Amazon KDP, Smashwords, and Draft2digital, there is no charge to publish an ebook. For a print-on-demand (POD) paperback, KDP is also free.

However, you will need to pay for proof copies of print books, plus shipping costs.

Blurb is another option you could consider for high-quality trade paperback books.

Assisted self-publishing.

If you are not confident in your computer and online skills, assisted self-publishing might be worth considering.

But be careful because there are some sharks in this field. Discuss your needs, and be sure to ask a lot of questions.

You will need someone who can set up your accounts and use your manuscript and cover to publish your book.

Once your accounts are set up, and your book is published, you should change the password on your accounts.

Do you want to produce an audiobook version?

There is an expensive way, and a very economical way to produce an audiobook.

If you choose to hire a narrator and then a producer, the costs can be daunting.

The best way is to use Amazon’s Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX). Or you can find a publisher who is willing to publish your audiobook.

Most publishers offer you a 50/50 split on royalties and free production. It is not a bad deal for new authors.

Decisions about professional services.

How much should you spend on publishing a book? Every book is different, but it can range from next to nothing up to a few thousand dollars.

Today’s indie-published authors are getting smarter and smarter.

They have been through the long learning curve of learning how to write a book. Then how to self-publish and promote a book.

They understand that a modest investment in improving their skills can save them a lot of money. I know some who have spent a lot of time learning how to design covers and how to use Photoshop proficiently.

Other authors have honed their grammar, lexical skills, and language knowledge. It can help you produce much cleaner manuscripts.

For a new indie author, rushing to publish can be very costly. Taking the time to learn new skills can save a lot in the long run.

It’s always worth remembering that a book is for the long term. Your book will be on sale for years and years to come.

It will have the potential to earn you an income for years and years too. Don’t jeopardize this by doing everything on the cheap or cutting corners.

Make good decisions about what you can do, can learn to do, and what you really must pay for.

Every copy of your book will be judged and assessed by readers, so make sure it’s a winner.

For most authors, paying for a professional editor and a cover designer will be the first two priorities.

It doesn’t necessarily mean expensive. The options of copy editing only and a pre-made book cover can be quite economical.

As for book marketing and promotion, don’t get carried away. An investment of two to three hundred dollars can go a long way.

What is the estimated cost to self-publish?

There is no short answer to how much a book will cost.

It will depend on so many factors, such as the word count, your skills, and what versions you want to publish.

Take your time to decide what you will need to pay for and what you can do yourself.

Also, you should think about friends who can help you. When it comes time to contact service providers, be very selective, and ask lots of questions before making a final decision.

Prices and charges can vary greatly, so make sure you know what you want and compare the offers you receive. It is not only a matter of cheap or expensive. It’s about getting good value for your money.

Publishing a book is easy today. But make sure you focus on producing a quality book at a fair list price that readers will appreciate.

An estimate for publishing your book.

The infographic below gives you a rough guide of the costs involved in self-publishing a book.

Your Publishing Cheat Sheet

Conclusion.

How much will it cost you to self-publish your book on Amazon and other publishing companies?

The cost on Amazon is zero for Kindle ebooks It is also free for print-on-demand paperbacks except for the printing costs and shipping for your proof copies.

It is also free to publish with Smashwords, Draft2Digital, and many other self-publishing services and platforms.

The costs you need to consider are all related to producing your book.

That means all the elements you need to do before you begin publishing. You should budget carefully. Only spend on areas that will help you improve the quality of your book.

The two most important areas are the quality of your manuscript and your book cover.

There are no cheap shortcuts with these two critical elements. Both must be perfect. Be sure you are up to the high standard expected by readers and book buyers.

But where you can use your skills, or barter to get some help, these will save you a lot of money.

Derek Haines

A Cambridge CELTA English teacher and author with a passion for writing and all forms of publishing. My days are spent writing and blogging, as well as testing and taming new technology.

How Much Do Kindle Books Cost? [With Data Proof!]

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So you’re considering purchasing a Kindle and wondering about the cost of the books, or perhaps you already own a Kindle and you think you’re overpaying! Either way, it is important to know how much Kindle books cost!

I’ve done some extensive number crunching to answer this question for myself. So, in this article, I’ll share with you exactly how I arrived at these figures. Plus, I’ll also share with you ways to get books for FREE for your Kindle!

So, without further adieu, let’s get started!

A Quick Note Before We Begin – if you plan to buy a Kindle for reading, I’d recommend purchasing the Kindle Paperwhite version as you get the best bang for your buck with this model! It is waterproof, has adjustable warm light, and has better screen resolution and front light than the basic Kindle. It also has most of the important features from the more expensive Kindle variants!

Do You Have to Pay for Books on Kindle?

Many people think that since you are paying to buy a Kindle, you don’t have to pay for the books separately. After all, that does make sense (at least, in a perfect world!).

I mean, if you think of it, why should people pay for a Kindle and also the books to read on a Kindle when they can simply purchase and read the books directly in the first place! Shouldn’t Amazon just provide you free books since you paid for a Kindle?

The reality is that Kindle has many advantages over physical books and you do have to pay for a Kindle (the device) and the Kindle books individually.

The good news is that the Kindle books are usually cheaper than the hardcover or the paperback versions of the same book! So, you do save money by reading books on a Kindle. Plus, there are ways you can read books for free on your Kindle (which I will discuss later in the article).

In fact, in my other article where I try to figure out if Kindle is still worth buying, I actually did some number crunching and figured you can easily recover the cost of your Kindle in just about 6 months of casual reading!

So, even though you have to pay for books when you read them on a Kindle, you will actually save money in the long run by reading the Kindle edition of the books!

How Much Do Kindle Books Cost?

I’ve already alluded to the indicative cost of Kindle books earlier in the article.

What’s interesting is that although you can see the cost of each Kindle book before you make a purchase, you can’t really know how much you typically pay when purchasing Kindle books on average.

So, I did some research, and some number crunching.

I analyzed about 54 books on Amazon for their price. The books that I chose for this research were almost all either labeled as “Editor’s Pick” or “Best Seller”.

I wanted to consider the highest-selling books so that we could arrive at a more realistic number and replicate the general user behavior as closely as possible (most people like to read books that do well).

Here’s the data collected for the research in a tabular format –

Based on this research, here’s what I found out about the price of Kindle books!!

Granted 54 books are perhaps too small a data set as per some standards. However, this does give an indication of what you can expect the price range of Kindle books to be.

Are Kindle Books Cheaper Than Normal Books?

The next thing that you may be wondering is whether Kindle books are cheaper than their hardcover or paperback counterparts!

Generally speaking, the Kindle editions of books are usually cheaper than the hardcover or paperback versions of the same book on Amazon. On average, the Kindle version of the book is 36.5% cheaper than the hardcover version, and 32% cheaper than the paperback version of the same book.

Again, this is a generalization based on data from multiple books. So, when you purchase a single book on Amazon, the difference may vary. However, you will see a similar trend for several books that you purchase over a period of time.

During the research that I mentioned earlier in the article, I also collected the prices of the hardcover and paperback versions of the same set of books.

Here are some conclusions that I was able to derive from the data –

Furthermore, some Kindle versions of the books are significantly lower in price than their hardcover or paperback versions.

Here’s an example of the book from Jennifer Armentrout “The War of Two Queens”. As you may notice, the Kindle edition of the book costs less than a third of the hardcover version, and less than half of the paperback versions!

There are multiple other similar cases that you will encounter when you purchase books over a period of time.

Fun Fact – you can save money on some books by changing the country of your Kindle Store. Be sure to read my other article on how to change the Kindle store country to potentially save money on buying books!

Another interesting observation was that there was only 1 instance out of the 54 books where a hardcover version of a book was cheaper than a Kindle edition.

If this makes you think, “should you buy a Kindle?”, my answer to that would definitely be yes!

Can You Get Free Books for Kindle?

Thankfully, there are a few different ways in which you can get free books for your Kindle. There are actually quite a few different sites where you can get free ebooks. However, not all the sites are legitimate.

That said, here are some of my favorite methods to get free books to read on Kindle!

1. Using Prime Reading

One way to read free books is through Prime Reading. You will need to be an Amazon Prime Member in order to access books with Prime Reading. You get access to thousands of books through a rotating catalog in Prime Reading.

However, you can only read about 10 books at a time for free. That said, you will be able to read more books as you return the previous books.

Check out my detailed article on Amazon Prime Reading and how to access prime reading regardless of whether you are an Amazon Prime member!

2. Free Books on Amazon

There is also a hidden way to find free books on Amazon! It is hidden since there is no direct link to access these books. (I too struggle to locate it from time to time.)

However, you can easily access the free books on Amazon using this link! Books available on this link keep changing as the prices changes.

One thing to note is that sometimes, not all the books displayed on the link are free. So, make sure you check the price of the book before you download it.

3. Using Kindle Unlimited

Another way to read free books is through Kindle Unlimited.

Kindle Unlimited offers access to millions of books. It allows you to read as many books as you like with no limitation or stipulation. So, in that sense, it really is free.

4. Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free books. It is one of the best free resources for getting books online.

It is an open-source project where you don’t need to pay for reading ebooks. However, their collection is a bit limited and not as huge as Amazon’s. However, you can access over 60,000 books to read.

5. LibriVox

LibriVox is another one of my favorite sites to get legitimate free ebooks to read.

Librivox is a non-commercial, non-profit, and ad-free project completely run by volunteers. What’s really cool is that you also get to access audiobooks for some of the classics! So, you can use the sites not just for ebooks but also for audiobooks.