Update: I wrote this in 2015, and we now do have over 1000 books! Written by admin on October 10, 2015 — Leave a Comment So, where did it all start? Free Kids Books, that is. In 2004-5 I was a young pilot, I’d just started flying scheduled flights with the national airline. I came home from …

I get a fairly large number of emails from people asking about using FKB Files And Books on this site. I’d love to tell people they can use the books, especially for charities/non-profits, and wish I could, but unfortunately using FKB files and books it’s not that simple.  

Our Book Formats – The children’s books on Free Kids Books website are provided in pdf format since it’s the most transportable. However, I am slowly converting many books into ePub (great for word-wrap on chapter books) and mobi for kindle fans. Pdf books were originally designed for printing, however, they are also designed for transportability …

“The biggest threat to a writers livelihood is not piracy but obscurity!” This quote, attributed to Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media -an advocate of open source and free digital rights, has been echoed by a number of great authors, creators, and publishers, and summarises the main concept behind free, that is, it’s publicity you just …

Freekidsbooks Ha’ve reached just over 10,000 downloads! I wrote this post originally: “Published on: Dec 24, 2010 @ 09:50″ (You may be wondering why I was blogging on Christmas Eve at 10am, but, hey it was a quick post as I was really excited…)  

I’ve recently been uploading quite a few books from BookDash, a South African Non-Profit organisation that is as passionate about getting books to kids as we are. If you’ve wondered like me how they manage to create all the wonderful books, and make them fly free on the internet, as creative commons contributions, here below …

Free Kids Books / Red Sky Ventures is looking for an administrative assistant. Your job will involve the administrative duties of helping us run this website (https://www.freekidsbooks.org), which includes some content creation, marketing, writing and graphics, possibly assisting with our creation of creative commons children’s books, work with NGOs, assisting with some basic accounting duties …

Free Books for Kids Who Need Them – Please help share – We are embarking on our first of hopefully many print runs with BookDash. BookDash has an impressive model to get hardcopy books in children’s hands at incredibly affordable prices, and they have a wonderful range of early readers, perfect for promoting literacy in …

  Are you a children’s book author and you would like to promote a free children’s book? Have you thought to yourself, where can I put my free children’s ebook to get the maximum exposure for my gift to my readers? If you want to promote a free ebook for children or young adults, listen …

For this coming year, we are aiming to fund the development of 10 picture books and three collections of stories. Work will be a combination of paid commissions from professional artists and writers (please see below to apply, you need to attach a portfolio or links to samples of your work), manuscripts sent through our …