A Very Easy Way To Find Free E-Books on Amazon

While Smashwords bills itself as “the world’s largest distributor of indie ebooks”, there’s no doubt Amazon has lots of them :-)

Finding the free ones easily can be a bit tedious…

Wired-UK recently had an article called Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks and that article quotes one of the founders of that site:

“It’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to identify those books which are brand new or have recently become free, perhaps for a limited time,” Powell told Wired.co.uk. “Once we had the idea, the site came together really quickly. It’s a very simple layout, and the coding on the backend isn’t at all complicated. We have a script that runs once a day, and searches Amazon for any new books, or books which have updated rankings.”

The site is Freebook Sifter and here’s a glance at one way you can filter the books they help you find:

Added Today (841)
Fiction (16080)
Nonfiction (4419)
Advice & How-to (619)
Arts & Entertainment (1358)
Biographies & Memoirs (435)
Business & Investing (595)
Children’s eBooks (564)
Comics & Graphic Novels (254)
Computers & Internet (161)
Cooking, Food & Wine (236)
Fantasy (864)
History (3711)
Humor (42)
Lifestyle & Home (615)
Literary Fiction (227)
Mystery & Thrillers (871)
Parenting & Families (227)
Politics & Current Events (234)
Reference (7274)
Religion & Spirituality (1307)
Romance (1008)
Science (1262)
Science Fiction (642)
Sports (142)
Teens (269)
Travel (254)

You can also sign up with your e-mail address and get quick notice of the latest offerings—here’s a recent e-mail I received:

Check out the 25 most popular new free ebooks!

This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store by A.K. Turner – 133 ratings, 4.5 avg stars
The S.N. Killer by Shameek Speight – 100 ratings, 4.7 avg stars
The Influence (Supernatural Thriller) by Matthew John Slick – 95 ratings, 4.6 avg stars
Jackpot! by Jackie Pilossoph – 82 ratings, 4.4 avg stars
My Last Blind Date by Susan Hatler – 77 ratings, 3.4 avg stars
We’ll Have The Summer by Dutch Henry – 72 ratings, 4.9 avg stars
Rubies of the Viper by Martha Marks – 68 ratings, 4.4 avg stars
Firefly Beach by Meira Pentermann and Amy Feiman – 64 ratings, 4.2 avg stars
Nice Day to Die (I Am Alive Book 1 Episode 1) (A Young Adult Dystopian) (I Am Alive serial) by Cameron Jace – 52 ratings, 4.8 avg stars
Pam of Babylon by Suzanne Jenkins – 49 ratings, 4.3 avg stars
Bad Wolf (Bad Wolf Chronicles: Book 1) by Tim McGregor – 46 ratings, 4 avg stars
Birdsongs (Benny James Mystery) by Jason Deas and Mary Metcalfe – 45 ratings, 4.5 avg stars
Drinking with Dead Women Writers (Drinking with Dead Writers) by Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner – 45 ratings, 4 avg stars
Moonlight Falls (UNCUT Edition) (Dick Moonlight) by Vincent Zandri – 44 ratings, 4.5 avg stars
Telling Lies by Cathi Stoler – 42 ratings, 3.9 avg stars
Treasure of Saint-Lazare by John Pearce – 41 ratings, 4.3 avg stars
The Mortician’s Wife by Maralee Lowder – 40 ratings, 4.5 avg stars
Time Slice by Kerry Downing – 38 ratings, 4.1 avg stars
Bringing the Thunder: The Missions of a World War II B-29 Pilot in the Pacific (Stackpole Military History Series) by Gordon Bennett Robertson Jr. – 37 ratings, 4.4 avg stars
Tunisian Crochet: The Look of Knitting with the Ease of Crocheting by Sharon Hernes Silverman, David Bienkowski and Alan Wycheck – 36 ratings, 4.4 avg stars

One last explanation from the creators:

“We update our database daily, removing books which are no longer free and adding any which have just come in.”

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