They are recent books, so they are under copyright protection. Unless Mr. Brown puts them online somewhere for free, or your local library has e-book versions available for download, you are probably out of luck.
If your local library does not have paper copies, see if you can get them from another library through inter-library loan.
I seriously doubt that you will find _any_ Dan Brown works in the "free" category. He is one of the hot fiction writers at the present moment, and the recession-wracked publishing industry is highly unlikely to miss the chance to make some desperately-needed profit from his popular book(s).
Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org.
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If you value the work enough to read it, pay for it.
SUPPORT A WRITE! BUY A BOOK!
February 9th, 2010 at 6:33 am
They are recent books, so they are under copyright protection. Unless Mr. Brown puts them online somewhere for free, or your local library has e-book versions available for download, you are probably out of luck.
If your local library does not have paper copies, see if you can get them from another library through inter-library loan.
February 9th, 2010 at 6:33 am
I seriously doubt that you will find _any_ Dan Brown works in the "free" category. He is one of the hot fiction writers at the present moment, and the recession-wracked publishing industry is highly unlikely to miss the chance to make some desperately-needed profit from his popular book(s).
February 9th, 2010 at 6:33 am
His books are protected by copyright laws. You are asking for access to pirated material. This is illegal.
If you really want to read it, borrow it from the library or buy it from a bookstore. There is no good reason to steal it.
February 9th, 2010 at 6:33 am
Why don’t you just come out and say "where can I steal it?"
Copyrighted, published books are no more available "for free" than cars, clothes or food are.
February 9th, 2010 at 6:33 am
Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org.
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If you value the work enough to read it, pay for it.
SUPPORT A WRITE! BUY A BOOK!