1. Baen Free Library – free – here you can get 80+ free full length books. This is intended to get you hooked so you’ll start paying by the month (see number 4).
2. Cory Doctorow – free – Cory has released all his recent stories and novels under Creative Commons licenses so you can download away. However, Cory is probably even more useful because he finds out when other authors do similar and lets everyone know through his blogging at Boing Boing, so keep an eye there.
3. Strange Horizons – no cost – “a weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction”. Every week they have more fiction available, as well as articles, reviews, poetry and art. They don’t seem to have any syndication feeds, so I created one here.
4. Baen Webscriptions – $15 USD for 4+ full length books – If you’ve read all the books in the free library, every month Baen releases at least 4 full length books in copy-protection free goodness. There are usually a few new books, and a few re-released older books. They don’t have feeds either, so I created one for them too.
5. Fictionwise – cost varies – this online store has a large catalogue of ebooks available for download, with many reasonably priced. Just make sure you only get the multiformat books, as the secure formats are obviously DRM’d. I do like it that fictionwise at least allows you to easily select non-secure formats only.

One final option is to subscribe to my fiction del.icio.us feed, as I regularly bookmark any fiction I find so that I may come back and download it later.

Whatever you do, don’t buy DRM’d ebooks. You are just ripping yourself off in the long run.

Thanks to darahgna for the photo.

UPDATE: Boing Boing’s post brought in a lot of good comments and suggestions below. I don’t think I’m going to run out of fiction any time soon.

UPDATE II: I have written a post about how I read ebooks that might interest you.

In DRM you only have a sender and an attacker, who is also the recipient. DRM relies on the attacker/recipient only gaining access to the cleartext while their machine is in the grips of non-user-accessible code that restricts what they can do with the cleartext (in particular, DRM seeks to ensure that the cleartext can’t be saved back to the drive while still in the clear).

If you have an open source DRM “client” or “player,” then how can it keep users from modifying it to allow the saving and manipulation of the conditionally rendered cleartexts?

There has never, ever been a DRM implementation that was intended to be user-modifiable. There can’t be. It’s like trying to make “dry water” or “hot ice.” DRM is supposed to keep users from manipulating their players. Open source is supposed to encourage users to manipulate and modify their players. They are utterly incompatible.

But what I am going to ask is about the single reason he provided as to how DRM could be useful (outside of paranoid entertainment industry execs):

Having a content rights system that allows a doctor in ER to securely review your electronic health record is essential.

How can this not be just done with regular crypto? Why must DRM be involved? What is the doctor going to do with your records that DRM could prevent (you know, if it was possible).