With less funding, environmental concerns and the wide range in reading levels, teachers should consider e-books as a way to address these concerns.  E-books offer a tremendous number of free, downloadable books that might just be perfect for the classroom and for professional development. Some sites even allow your student to publish their own work such has those listed here:  Get your Students’ Work Published

We’ve provided a list of some of the better sites; they come in several languages as well.

General interest

Bookboon.com
Free textbook downloads

DailyLit
This site offers daily e-mails about new additions and even an RSS feed.

Digital Book Index
You must register. Mainly college level listings, but with 140,000 you can probably find books here for your enrichment.

E-book Reader Matrix
This site has a nice grid to help you compare a variety of e-book Readers; no ads.

FreeBookSpot
Mainly for adults, this is a more technical-oriented site; see this listing of education books.

Free-books.org
Books and MP3 files for older students, adult readers

Free e-books
And audiobooks, from Australia

Free-eBooks.net
Access free e-book listings, and you can even publish and share your own.

Ibiblio
This link site has a nice collection, but the humor section is a plus.

ManyBooks.net
Over 25,000 titles -- many languages and subject areas

Project Gutenberg
Browse more than 30,000 titles from the pioneer of free, downloadable books.

Poetry and classics

Everypoet.com
Classic poetry, poetry forums and links 

FriedBeef’s Tech – Best Places to Get Free Books
Large link site -- lots of good links, but uneven quality

Planet PDF
Classic literature via PDF e-books

Planet eBook
Classic novels and literature

PoemHunter.com
Find poems and poets; includes a poetry search engine.

Kids

Children’s Storybooks Online Books for Older Children

Children’s Storybooks Online Books for Young Adults

Children’s Storybooks Online Books for Young Children

ebook88
On this site, there's a Christmas Bookshelf and plenty of other kids' e-book links.

Raz-Kids.com
This is an interactive kids' book site that helps kids learn to read.

Tumble Books