Sentences with phrase «while public domain titles»
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In this article, I propose that the Kindle Popular Highlights database contains evidence that readers are re-appropriating commonplacing — the act of selecting important passages from a text and recording them in a separate location for later re-use — while reading public domain titles on the Kindle.
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On July 17, 2009, Amazon withdrew from sale two e-books by George Orwell, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty - Four, refunding the purchase price to those who had bought them, and remotely deleted these titles from purchasers» devices without warning after discovering the publisher lacked rights to publish the titles in question; in the U.S. they were copyrighted while being part of the public domain in some other countries.
Backed by Baker and Taylor, the world's largest book distributor, Blio plans to launch with over a million titles; a couple hundred thousand will be newer / paid titles, while the rest will be public domain material.
While those titles are all public domain, and thus freely available elsewhere, I think it's a great idea by Kobo: it makes the eReader seem like a better deal (that's like paying $ 1.49 per book and getting the eReader for free), and also makes it blindingly simple for a buyer to start reading right away.
While the total number of works available is only a fraction of the thousands of titles released by commercial publishers each year, the stated goal of LibriVox, which has more than eighteen hundred registered volunteers, is to eventually «make all public domain books available as free audio books.»
When it comes to ebooks, for example, Google hasn't been able to compete with Amazon (s AMZN) or even Apple (s AAPL); its share of the ebook market is likely in the single digits, and while 5 million ebooks sounds high, a lot of those are free public domain titles.
Some of these titles are very well known (Goldeneye XBLA), while others have been kept away from the public domain with very little information (Urchin, Arc Angel).