Earlier, Sony announced the availability of more than one million free
public domain books from Google, as well as new releases and New York Times bestseller titles available for USD$ 9.99.
This story, «Sony E-readers Get Access to 1M Free
Public Domain Books From Google» was originally published by Computerworld.
The site's purpose is to bring
public domain books from sites like Project Gutenberg into a form easily readable in a web browser.
The Nook offers more than a million titles, of which 500,000 are
public domain books from Google Books.
It's already possible to download
public domain books from Google Book Search as PDF files and copy them onto a flash memory card for use in e-readers such as Sony's, but this partnership will simplify the process for users by integrating it into the eBook Library Software for PCs that ships with the Sony Reader.
Since the Neo isn't DRM - locked or even tied to a particular store, you can download ebooks directly to your device from stores such as Borders and Dymocks, as well as downloading free
public domain books from sites such as Project Gutenberg and ManyBooks.
Very hard to download
public domain books from non-Amazon site.
Through The eBook Store from Sony (ebookstore.sony.com), users can also access more than one million free
public domain books from Google.
They have also promised to make available a mammoth 1,000,000
public domain books from Google at their e-book portal.
A reciprocal link is also planned to allow BnH members to directly access
public domain books from the BnF, and to allow Gallica users to access books from the BnH.»
Starting this week you can access more than half a million free
public domain books from Google optimized for current models of the Reader *.
Not exact matches
The stories,
from an online repository of
books in the
public domain called Project Gutenberg, fell into one of six genres: mystery, humor, fantasy, horror, western, and science fiction.
The images in this
book come
from public domain resources - not fr...
The verb forms studied are: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Modal Verbs, Future Forms, and First Conditional • Students learn 400 + essential vocabulary words by heart • Students enjoy following a simple and effective method that produces results quickly This
book was originally a free
public domain book but I have spent a lot of time removing hyperlinks
from every page and making it into an editable
book.
All original images (
from book) are in the
public domain, as are the text extracts.
The images in this
book come
from public domain resources - not
from the original
book.
I took into account the need for simple text, clear font and I only have used self made resources and
public domain resources, I have not used images
from the
books.
Sony's eBook Store includes more than 100,000
books, as well as a million free public - domain books available from Google Inc. through its Google Books pro
books, as well as a million free
public -
domain books available from Google Inc. through its Google Books pro
books available
from Google Inc. through its Google
Books pro
Books project.
More importantly, free
books are available in Kindle format
from public libraries,
public domain sites and even Amazon itself.
As part of today's effort, the New York
Public Library is developing an e-reader app that will provide access to a universe of digital books, including contributions from publishers and hundreds of classics already in the public domain, to create a book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income fam
Public Library is developing an e-reader app that will provide access to a universe of digital
books, including contributions
from publishers and hundreds of classics already in the
public domain, to create a book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income fam
public domain, to create a
book collection for students aged 4 - 18
from low - income families.
They accept
public domain books but only
from select partners, and only if they don't create a duplicate in their database.
Bear in mind that some stores that accept
public domain books pay less royalty: it can range
from 35 % to 20 %.
The eBook Store
from Sony, together with Google, today announced it is providing access to more than 1 million free
public domain books -
from classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to biographies, historical...
-- To make it easier to download
books from public domain sites and elsewhere, I installed the Opera Mini browser via the Dropbox method, Amazo very possibily having blocked the Opera site (I'm not sure).
We do accept
public domain content, however we may choose to not sell a
public domain book if its content is undifferentiated or barely differentiated
from one or more other
books.
I picked up a Tweet
from Hardrien Gardeur of Feedbooks, the site that specializes in
public domain and original
books from new authors.
As you'll see, the
public domain availability of Project Gutenberg
books and the grand tradition of British children's literature means that most of the selections are 19th - century
books from the UK.
Kobo is also adding 1.8 million
public -
domain books from the Internet Archive.
From its inception, it made digital versions of
public domain titles available at minimal costs, as well as welcoming publishers» back list titles,
books that may have otherwise never seen the digital light of day.
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.
This massive content pool has inspired Kalev Leetaru, a Yahoo researcher at Georgetown to extract over 14 million images
from 2 million
public domain books and upload them to Flickr.
Marie Lebert has completely rewritten and brought up - to - date her excellent article on the history of Project Gutenberg — Ed Contents Overview A Bet Since 1971 The Method Shared Proofreading Becoming Multingual
Public Domain vs. Copyright
From the Past to the Future Chronology Stats Links OVERVIEW August 1997: 1,000
books April 2002: 5,000
books October 2003: -LSB-...]
That's about 1 million more than the Kindle offers, but that same figure can be attributed to
public -
domain books from Google B
books from Google
BooksBooks.
From time to time we come across
public domain books we want to publish on this site, but the ebooks aren't available at Project Gutenberg or other free sources.
Customers now have instant access to over 1 million
books in print from over 8,000 publishers and over 2 million public domain titles from Google B
books in print
from over 8,000 publishers and over 2 million
public domain titles
from Google
BooksBooks.
On Sept. 17, Google gave EBM customers access to 2 million
books no longer protected by copyright
from its digital library (a.k.a. «
public domain»
books).
Free audio
books from the
public domain — downloadablein MP3, iPod or iTunes format.
Google eBooks and the corresponding eBookstore launched Dec. 6 to let consumers search for and access more than 2 million
public domain books for free, or purchase any of hundreds of thousands of titles
from 4,000 - plus publishers.
• www.feedbooks.com, there are thousands of
public domain books and original
books from new authors that you can read on any mobile device.
this one is retarded...... freezes constantly...... refuses to syn with purchased
books from borders aust and when i load
public domain epub to sd card or main memory it refuses to list as
books or documents even though the memory is utilized......... have downloaded software update and reinstalled all components on both pc and my apple macbook.......
The e-book reader works with ePub and PDF files; you can buy them
from Entourage's own e-book store, which includes some New York Times bestsellers, plus $ 3 and $ 4 copies of
public domain books that you're better off downloading
from Project Gutenberg for free.
While that probably includes a lot
public domain filler
from Project Gutenberg and Google
Books, there are at least a few best - sellers (Twilight, In Defense of Food, John Adams, etc.) on the list as well.
Hi Karen, I am going to narrate a
book from the
public domain in 2018.
Rather than start with a
book from a contemporary author as I originally envisioned, I decided to start Jewel Audiobooks with what I thought would be a simpler project: a
book from the
public domain (PD).
This volunteer - driven site offers
public domain books in audio format read by people
from all over the world (and thus offers
books in many languages).
All those
public domain books they could print out, and make money
from — Gone.
It is a
public domain book which can be downloaded
from Project Gutenberg for free.
Prices vary
from free (for
public domain books and for free
book offers) to over $ 9.99.
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.
From what I can see, virtually all of «your»
books consist of
public domain texts to which you have added some (unknown) amount of original commentary.