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Shorter than a novel, but longer than a magazine article -- a TED Book is a great way to feed your craving for ideas anytime.
TED Books are short original electronic books
produced every two weeks by TED Conferences. Like the best
TEDTalks, they're personal and provocative, and designed to
spread great ideas. TED Books are typically under 20,000
words — long enough to unleash a powerful narrative, but
short enough to be read in a single sitting.
Watch the TED Books video to learn more »
Our new TED Books App allows us to embed audio, video and social features into every book, broadening the depth and detail of each work. These additional multimedia features suit the wide-ranging creative palette of our authors to fully express their ideas.
Latest releases
Two ways to get TED Books
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE
With the TED Books App, you can subscribe to TED Books and get immediate free access to every single TED Books title! Subscriptions are just $4.99 a month. Every two weeks, a new TED Book is published and available to you to download.
BOOKS A LA CARTE
TED Books can be purchased individually for $2.99 each on the platform and device of your choice: The TED Books app, Kindle, iBook or Nook.
More ways to enjoy TED Books
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Kindle
Read your TED Books on your Amazon Kindle device or via the Kindle app.
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Nook
Read your TED Books on your Barnes & Noble Nook device.
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iBooks
Read your TED Books on your iOS device via the iBooks app.
TED Books for iOS »
The TED Books story
The success of TEDTalks has
demonstrated that millions of people around
the world are hungry to absorb new ideas. Many
of the talks create a desire to go deeper --
but not everyone has the time to read an entire
book on a subject. TED Books fill that gap.
With more demands than ever on people's time,
we think many will welcome the chance to absorb
a TED Book on a single short plane flight or
on a day's commute.
While a traditional book is at least
60,000 words, TED Books, at fewer than 20,000,
allow a writer to flesh out an idea in a
satisfying way -- without requiring a week of
reading time. We created this imprint because
new e-book technologies like Kindle and iPad
have changed the rules of the game. Just as
iTunes allowed people to build new listening
habits around individual music tracks instead of
albums, so the new reading technologies allow
instant distribution of books of any length --
facilitating new, more focused reading habits.