Top 10 Online eBook Stores
July 02, 2025 | Editor: Maria Lin
Online eBook stores allow users to purchase and download e-books in different formats.
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The biggest online book store with multiple book reviews connected with a chain of retail bookstores owned by online retailer Amazon.
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eBooks.com is a popular ebook retailer with a reputation for innovation, integrity and independence. You can read our ebooks online, or download them to a vast array of devices, using our Ebook Reader apps.
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The Barnes and Noble ebook store is a digital platform that offers a wide variety of e-books and audiobooks to readers. It features an extensive collection of titles across multiple genres, including bestsellers, classics, and exclusive content. Users can purchase and download e-books directly to their Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader or access their digital library through the Nook app, which is available for iOS and Android devices.
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Smashwords is the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks. We make it fast, free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute ebooks to the major retailers. We provide free tools for marketing, distribution, metadata management and sales reporting. At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works.
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Bol.com is a webshop in the Netherlands and Germany that offers a large library of books and ebooks.
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BookBub is a free service that helps you discover books you'll love through unbeatable deals, handpicked recommendations, and updates from your favorite authors. BookBub doesn't actually sell books. We simply introduce you to books you'll love that are available on retailers like Amazon's Kindle store, Barnes & Noble's Nook store, Apple Books, and others.
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Bookshop.org works to connect readers with independent booksellers all over the world.
We believe local bookstores are essential community hubs that foster culture, curiosity, and a love of reading, and we're committed to helping them thrive.
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Harlequin is one of the leading publishers of books aimed at women in the United States. The site is a division of HarperCollins and publishes 100 new titles every month.
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Hive is a UK-based ebook store that also sells other forms of media such as CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, and physical books.
Latest news about Online eBook Stores
20.02.25. Google Play Books purchases on iOS now can be done without App Store’s commission
Google has managed to wrangle permission to sell its e-books and audiobooks directly through its Google Play Books app on iOS. This is, of course, a bit like being given permission to breathe, but only after filing the appropriate paperwork in triplicate. Historically, iOS apps have been allowed to display content you purchased elsewhere—like a book you heroically hunted down on the vast and treacherous plains of the internet—but actually directing users to a website to make a purchase has required a special dispensation from Apple, presumably written on parchment and delivered by a messenger on horseback. Now, thanks to an announcement that was likely drafted with a certain amount of quiet glee, Google has revealed that users will be able to click a handy little “Get book” button, which will whisk them away to the Google Play website, where they can finalize their purchase using their Google Account and saved payment details, all while carefully sidestepping Apple’s infamous 30% toll. This, naturally, is a development that Apple will watch with the enthusiasm of a cat observing a rival feline encroach upon its sunbeam.
2025. Bookshop.org launched e-book section of their website
Bookshop.org is an online bookstore that has invented an interesting scheme to compete with Amazon, Kobo and B&N. It's promote by thousands of local (indie) book stores in the US via QR codes. Why? Because when user comes to this store's page on Bookshop.org, it places a cookie in users' browser that identifies him/her as that store's customer and the local store will get the full profit from all this users' purchases (30% of the book's list price). Until now Bookshop.org was selling only paper books (that can be delivered by local stores) but recently it launched e-book section. Empowering local bookstores to sell digital products and earn 100% of the profits from those sales highlights Bookshop.org’s ongoing commitment to supporting local bookstores in the digital age.
