Sentences with phrase «about public domain books»

About public domain books being free instead of $ 7?

Not exact matches

I used the cover creator for my little public domain book, since I don't care much about the print version.

As for another large group of people who have not paid to read eBooks, there is probably a large percentage of them who have downloaded legally «free» copies... like ones you have written about in some of your 4456 posts — not only from independent current authors, but from the huge quantity of public domain books offered on large sites like ProjectGutenberg.org — many of which come pre-loaded on some eBook reading devices.

That's about 1 million more than the Kindle offers, but that same figure can be attributed to public - domain books from Google Bbooks from Google BooksBooks.

At this point, Studio Tendra has done eleven covers: the six books of the Knights and Necromancers series, four books in a series of annotated public domain books (which I'll tell you all about in a few weeks» time), and one in an aborted project you probably will never hear anything more about.

Despite its partnership with Google Books almost two years ago, giving On Demand access to two million of Google's public domain titles, there are currently only about 75 EBMs at work in locations around the country, with another 75 or so expected to be in use by the end of the year.

Between Manybooks and Feedbooks.com, I downloaded about 80 public - domain works, ranging from literary classics by Austen, Thoreau, Twain and others to childhood favorites like the «Anne of Green Gables» books **, The Wizard of Oz, and Pollyanna.

I've posted about DRM before, and it is a strike against some e-books — those e-books released by publishers who use DRM (many smaller publishers, independent authors, and public domain books don't use DRM).

In addition to criticisms of the quality of e-books being self published, meanwhile, there have also been complaints about an increase in e-book «spam» in the Amazon Kindle store, including books that are clearly just cobbled together from bits and pieces of public domain titles or even copyrighted works (Reuters reported recently that there are DVD instruction manuals that tell users how to write and publish dozens of e-books a day without having to write anything).

Open Library claims to have 6 million authors and 20 million books (not works), and about one million public domain books available as digitized books.

About the Curators Arts writer Michelle Aldredge and visual artist Corwin Levi met at an artist residency in Wyoming and together decided to reimagine classic, public domain books into a contemporary visual format.