While ebooks are generally low-cost items to begin with, Personville Press occasionally offers discounts and freebies on ebooks. Here are some tips about how to obtain Personville titles at the lowest possible price. .

  • subscribe to the Personville Press newsletter (you can do so here) to stay informed about upcoming deals.
  • Prices on unencrypted ebooks are somewhat cheaper than on stores like Amazon which sell cloud-based ebooks. In 2025 Smashwords sells unencrypted ebooks, and they have regular sales twice a year. (here’s the ebooks currently on Smashwords).
  • Check the freebies listed below. Some of these are permanently free .

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Obviously Amazon is the biggest cloud-based distributor and often the most convenient way to obtain ebooks. Here are some things to keep in mind when buying from Amazon:

  • Amazon pays authors a lower percentage than other distributors when the ebook price is below $2.99. (For ebooks below $2.99, Google Play Books and Smashwords pay substantially higher percentage).
  • Ebooks bought from the Kindle Store are on the cloud — and thus can be easily viewed on different devices. That’s good and convenient. But what if you want to view the ebook on another reading system or share it with a friend? Amazon does not provide a way to do these things. In contrast, if you buy the downloadable ebook from Smashwords, you can share the file with others and import it into most ebook reading systems. Amazon isn’t going away anytime soon, so worrying about reading the ebook on another reading system may seem unnecessary. But a lot can happen in the business world in 10 or 20 years.

Freebies

In addition to being free, the ebooks listed here have a Creative Commons license which permits sharing.

Three Times Time is a story sampler of Jack Matthews stories which you can generally find at most ebook stores for free.

My Heart for Hostage by Robert Hillyer is a lauded 1942 novel now in the public domain. Personville Press has prepared a special critical edition which is a free download and available on the web.

Existential Smut titles. Some of these titles from the Ripe Mango Take Two imprint are a free download with a Paypal donation requested.