e-books

12 Reasons E-books Rule, as Told by Island Press Staff

By Jason Leppig / On October 3rd, 2022
Get ready! From 10/3-10/10, all Island Press e-books will be discounted at $4.99, exclusively through the Island Press website. This is the perfect opportunity to stock up your e-reader with all those Island Press titles you’ve been eyeing. We’re pretty pumped about it.

#ForewordFriday: Free Summer Read Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On June 30th, 2017
Looking for a summer read? Be "enlightened and inspired" with this "smart, quick read" by Andrew Revkin! Our free summer e-book offer ends July 5th 2017.  Click below to get the e-book from your preferred e-book retailer. 

#ForewordFriday: Nature's Allies Flash Sale Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On April 21st, 2017
Surprise! It's an Island Press flash sale! For three days only, from now until Sunday, April 23, you can get the e-book of Larry Nielsen's Nature's Allies for just $0.99, wherever e-books are sold. That's 272 pages of inspiration to stand up for nature for less than the cost of a vending machine snack. Still need convincing? Check out an excerpt from the book below.
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Authors (and Staff) Reveal Island Press 'Gems'

By Jason Leppig / On December 19th, 2014
If you're still looking for a holiday gift, consider getting one of these Island Press e-books (no shipping necessary!). We asked some of our authors (and Island Press staff) for their recommendations.
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Books are Maps of Nature, Screens are Maps of Nothing

By Rafe Sagarin / On January 28th, 2014
Aníbal Pauchard and I argued in Observation and Ecology that despite the great advances information technology has helped us make in complex fields like ecology, the increasing time both children and adults spend in front of screens instead of out in nature will erode our abilities to deal with complexity. Our argument was experiential—our years of working in the field with many students showed us that those with the best abilities to discern patterns were those who spent abundant time as children just wandering around observing natu