Vraibook is a small bookstore with a deliberately small shelf. We don't stock forty million titles; we stock 100 — the books people are still downloading, still arguing about, still handing to their kids. Melville, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, the Brontës, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dumas, Verne, Twain, Hemingway, Homer. Seventy-nine authors, none of them padding. Every title lives in the public domain, which means nobody owns the words any more — they belong to everyone. Our job isn't to sell you access to them. It's to make them cheap, clean, correctly typeset, and available in whatever form you'll actually finish.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple: to keep the greatest books ever written affordable, well-made, and in print — in every format.
Digital editions
Every book comes as an ebook you download the moment you pay — EPUB and Kindle/MOBI, no app, no account, no DRM, no expiry. Read it on a phone at 2am or a ten-year-old e-reader; it’s your file. Ebooks run $1.99 to $4.99.
Print editions
The same texts as paperbacks and hardcovers, for the books you want on a shelf rather than a screen. Paperbacks $8.99–$16.99, hardcovers $19.99–$31.99 — priced by the length of the book, not by the fame of the author.
Our Story
Jane Austen opens Pride and Prejudice with a sentence about a single man in possession of a good fortune. Two centuries later it’s still the most downloaded novel in our catalog.
Herman Melville sends the Pequod after a white whale. Moby-Dick sells badly, is forgotten, and comes back to outlast almost everything published alongside it.
Lewis Carroll sends a girl down a rabbit hole and proves a children’s book can be the strangest thing on the shelf.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula arrives as a stack of letters and diary entries, and quietly invents a century of horror.
Michael Hart types out the US Declaration of Independence and creates the first ebook, and with it Project Gutenberg — the public library our whole catalog is drawn from.
Vraibook opens. Their Top 100, faithfully reproduced, three formats deep, priced so nothing on the list is out of reach.