reading in the web?

Question

were can i find a web sites that has novels and books that you can read free like the Da Vinci Code and other New York time best sellers books

Answer 1

You can't read modern books for free on the internet. That is against copyright law.

You can read books that are not copyrighted because it is more than 76 years after the death of the author.

Think about it. If people could read everything for free, why would an author want to write? Why would a publisher want to publish? Why should a publisher pay for an expensive web page to hand you a free book?

Answer 2

Google Books allows partial access to books that publishers decide to advertise by allowing this. But you probably won't get current best sellers, redunicorn is 100% right about that, as she is about Project Gutenberg (and she responded first). Kushner's "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" (which has been a longtime member of the New York Times best seller list) gives some pages and reveals this explanation on Google Books:

Why can't I read the entire book?

Many of the books in Google Book Search come from authors and publishers who participate in our Partner Program. For these books, our partners decide how much of the book is browsable -- anywhere from a few sample pages to the whole book.

For books that enter Book Search through the Library Project, what you see depends on the book's copyright status. We respect copyright law and the tremendous creative effort authors put into their work. If the book is in the public domain and therefore out of copyright, you can page through the entire book and even download it and read it offline. But if the book is under copyright, and the publisher or author is not part of the Partner Program, we only show basic information about the book, similar to a card catalog, and, in some cases, a few snippets -- sentences of your search terms in context. The aim of Google Book Search is to help you discover books and learn where to buy or borrow them, not read them online from start to finish. It's like going to a bookstore and browsing - with a Google twist.

P.S. I am an author who has pages on Google Books. I was not asked permission on this -- the publisher made the choice.