The web is a great resource for accessible content. The following is a list of sites where books are available to download. Note: Some sites require a qualifying disability for membership.
Free Books
- Bookshare
Bookshare offers DAISY and BRF versions of over 60,000 books, periodicals, magazines, and textbooks. Hundreds of new books are added each month.
- NFB-Newsline
Newsline provides DAISY and BRF versions of several newspapers, updated daily.
- Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg has more than 30,000 public domain books to download in ePub, Mobipocket, HTML and simple text formats.
- LibriVox
LibriVox offers public domain audiobooks for download in MP3 and OGG format.
- Sample books
Sample DAISY books are available in the Downloads section of this site. DAISY books are best experienced with gh PLAYER™ for PC or ReadHear™ Mac for Macintosh.
Paid Services and Stores
- Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
RFB&D serves students of every grade level, including adults, by providing digitally-recorded textbooks and other instructional materials.
- FictionWise
FictionWise has a large catalog of e-books from best-selling authors. Some books are also available to download for free.
- Audible.com
Audible.com offers over 60,000 digital audiobooks, new releases, radio shows, audio newspapers and magazines.