About three years before Amazon released the Kindle E-Reader, author Rita Toews was a little frustrated that ebooks were slow to catch on. So she registered “Read an Ebook Week” for the first full week of March.

Authors and publishers still celebrate, offering thousands of ebooks for great discounts or even free. Indie ebook publisher Smashwords organizes the event and maintains a database of more than 80,000 titles you can download for free.