ePub is an eBook file format for both consumers and publishers that offers interoperability between software and hardware for reflowable digital books - you can think of epub as the book equivalent of mp3. By owning your eBooks in the .epub format you will be able to read them using a wide range of software and eletronic book readers.
calibre is a one stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.
the best source for information on eBook reading -- software, hardware, you-name-it -- is MobileRead. Don't miss the forums, in particular the user-contributed eBooks with formatting, and make sure to bookmark the Wiki Knowledgebase (it's a great resource you can contribute to!).
Includes the Gutenberg Project; NetLibrary; New York Public Library; New Zealand Electronic Text Centre; the Bibliotheque Nationale; the National Libraries of the Netherlands, Scotland, and Canada; Digital Library of India; Ques-tia, and an impressive list of American, British, Irish, Australian, German, and Japanese universities. In addition, two hundred university presses and several hundred commercial publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan are represented.
The current discovery catalog is temporary, pending the release of a permanent catalog that is being developed by OCLC in conjunction with the HathiTrust partners.
Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
openpub - Project Hosting on Google Code. an application of the Atom Syndication Format intended to enable content creators and distributors to distribute digital books via a simple catalog format. The mechanism through which compatible Reading Systems access the distributed catalog has three components: eBook content, XML catalog metadata, and an HTTP transport for the catalog. OPDS-compatible Reading Systems must support IDPF EPUB, and may optionally support additional formats.