Nine years on, Baen's still adding books to the list of freebies. As Baen's Eric Flint explained back in 2000, Baen is giving away books to fight piracy: "I'm quite confident that any 'losses' I sustain will be more than made up for by the expansion in the size of my audience," he wrote. We particularly like the banned books category.įew mainstream publishers offer free downloads of entire books, so science fiction and fantasy publisher Baen Books deserves enormous credit for its library of published novels. The emphasis is largely on older publications – you won't find the latest Dan Brown novel here – but the choice is enormous. One of the best places to start is Matthew McClintock's site, which collates ebooks from a wide range of sources and provides download links via the website and its associated RSS feeds.
If you'd rather lose yourself in a book, there's no shortage of content to choose from – and you're not limited to the ancient, out-of-copyright titles on Project Gutenberg either. Classic Cinema Online is the place to go for movies such as Dracula, House on Haunted Hill and, er, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla.The web is awash with things to read, but even the best pieces of writing online have usually been chopped into pieces and plastered with adverts. Veoh has a decent collection at that ranges from 1938's STI warning movie Sex Madness to the iconic – and unconnected – Things To Come, although annoyingly you need to install Veoh's player software to watch anything more than a preview. Some of cinema's earliest efforts are now in the public domain, which means they pop up everywhere. It's got an excellent collection of audio recordings too, including the 1938 broadcast of Orson Welles reading War of the Worlds.
With an archive including wartime propaganda, videogame footage, newsreels, Night of the Living Dead – the original one, that is – and masses of terrible public information films, it's a site you can end up spending lots of time on. It includes newsreels, public info films and movie classics
HISTORICAL INSIGHT: The Internet Archive is a great source of old film footage.
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