More Summer Reading: 20 Free eBooks About Social Media

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Hey intrepid reader. I’m sure you’ve read plenty of great material this summer. Well today I’m going to give you just a bit more. The good news is, it’s all free.
Here’s a list of 20 free eBooks about social media on an array of topics you’ll find extremely useful as savvy bloggers, marketers, business owners and web professionals. Special thanks to Chris Brogan for compiling this:
- The New Rules of Viral Marketing – David Meerman Scott
- Marketing Apple – MarketingApple.com
- Masters of Marketing – Startup Internet Marketing
- Podcast Marketing eBook – Christopher S. Penn
- Google Adwords Secrets – SEOBook
- Get Viral Get Visitors – Stacie Mahoe
- Marketing With Case Studies – Dynamic Copywriting
- How to Write a Marketing Plan – Geisheker Group
- SEO for WordPress blogs – Blizzard Internet
- Social Web Analytics – Social Web Analytics
- Geeks Guide to Promoting Yourself With Twitter – Geekpreneur
- The Zen of Blogging – Hunter Nutall
- What is Social Media – iCrossing
- A Primer in Social Media – SmashLab
- Effective Internet Presence – Effective Internet Presence
- Introduction to Good Usability – Peter Pixel
- Increasing the Response to Your Email Marketing Program – CRM Transformation
- We Have a Website. Now What? – Craig Rentmeester
- Blogs & Social Media – PRSA
- The Podcast Customer Revealed – Edison Media Research
Some great stuff here – I recommend printing out the ones you find useful and sharing them around your office and with friends.









good parenting replied | Aug 18, 2008 (1 comment)
hi,
where i will find ebooks for kids?
Adam Singer replied | Aug 18, 2008 (563 comments)
@good parenting – Google ebooks for kids, you’ll find plenty!
Zeshan Usman replied | Aug 18, 2008 (4 comments)
Great post. I hope people save paper and avoid printing though.
Adam Singer replied | Aug 18, 2008 (563 comments)
@Zeshan – If I do print an eBook, I pass them around between several people. Then I either archive for future reference (I add sticky notes to the useful pages) or recycle by printing on the blank side.
Sometimes printing stuff out is the only way to get people to read things, unfortunately. If you you reuse or archive them it’s not as wasteful
Danielle replied | Aug 21, 2008 (15 comments)
Thanks for the list Adam! I see a few that look extremely useful!
You can also save them to disc and share that way, print on recycled paper if you have to print, – or make your own notes of importance from an ebook and email it to your friends and colleagues (or expound upon it in a blog post) to eliminate waste :-)
Ricardo Bueno replied | Aug 26, 2008 (3 comments)
[Note: I'm not sure how I made my way here but I"m here now so I hope you don't mind...]
There are some good reads in that list and I say that mainly because I’ve read a few of them. Chris Brogan has some excellent reads on his site as well (of course you already knew that)… But really, I review some of the e-books he has listed on his site fairly often. It’s good to skim through the material everyone now and again ya know?
I’m working my way to reading Liz Strauss’ new e-book but that one isn’t free. I suppose I’ll avoid discussing that here since the topic is “free” e-books, hehe…
Adam Singer replied | Aug 26, 2008 (563 comments)
@ricardo – feel free to write anything here – go as offtopic as you like, i never censor commenters =)
cheers,
adam
Free Ebooks replied | Aug 31, 2008 (1 comment)
Hey there, great post.. I have another resource to recommend, you can download free ebooks, software at http://www.downloadfreeproducts.com
Lots of good stuff, check it out..
DM Patten replied | Mar 20, 2009 (1 comment)
Great Post!
many of these I have seen before – but almost as many are brand new for me. A resource I’ve found with some hidden gems is SlideShare. Visual items for social media inspiration.
Wonderful finds – thanks again!
Derek Showerman replied | May 1, 2009 (1 comment)
http://www.authoritydomains.com/social-media-consulting/social-media-ebook/
We just finished our Social Media Strategy eBook. Feel free to download for free and share as you like. Would love to hear from you with feedback. :)