Sentences with phrase «not public domain titles»

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I didn't catch the title of that book, but it sounds like one of the above - mentioned, you know, free, out - of - copyright public domain books, many of which were, in fact, scanned by Google, which their — they have these huge processes underway now.

For those who are reading pirated eBooks not in the public domain, I do agree that there should be some penalty, but instead of going after the downloaders, who in many cases never know if the title was originally a free one or not, I would suggest that it would be more expedient and easier to discover and punish the uploaders instead.

Most of the titles available are all being sold by major publishers and do not include the normal public domain books that normally populate sales like this.

For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer of public - domain ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some of those ebooks are automatically generated and can't take full advantage of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like cover images and title pages; and the quality of individual ebook productions varies greatly.

Though some of the early titles are in the public domain, most of the others weren't.

Amazon won't release sales figures for Kindle titles, but Apple boasted that 1.5 million titles were downloaded from its iBook store in the first month of its existence, when it contained about 50,000 titles (including free public domain titles).

Even though Audible has countless public domain titles on its site, I didn't realize that Amazon / Audible / ACX had created procedures to discourage people from using public domain titles to create audiobooks.

Since these are public domain - only books, you won't find the latest titles here.

If you live outside the U.S., titles available at the sites I mentioned above may or may not be legal for you to download; check your own country's laws on public domain.

They are the same public domain titles that you can get elsewhere for free, but B&N, like most ebook stores, re-edit the classics so that they are well formatted and add additional info like introductions and footnotes and then sell them to those that are too lazy to download them elsewhere or just don't know that they can.

Confirm that the title is not public domain (assuming you are only putting up your own work).

The last bit of Kindle - related news from the press release is that the U.S. Kindle Store has grown to more than 810,000 ebooks, not counting the millions of free public domain titles.

As long as you understand that the Nook's million titles include lots of public - domain freebies — both classics and forgotten curiosities — the fact that the e-reader offers Google books in such vast quantity is a pro, not a con.

The Amazon ebook store has (at this writing) about twice as many fiction titles and about five times as many non-fiction titles as B&N's ebook store does, not counting free public - domain titles.

As for the e-book store, I think B&N and Kobo both have very good e-book stores (ahead of Sony, Apple, and Google), but Amazon is still the undisputed leader, with the most titles available (ignore B&N's marketing talk of having the «largest» e-book store: they count public domain titles that Amazon doesn't, even though they are easily available for the Kindle as well).

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.

Users are not only allowed to legally download the ebook edition of the title that entered the public domain.

If public domain land has valuable minerals which you exploit, you may be able to chop down trees and build a cabin, but until Congress lifts the moratorium on mining claims patents, you can not gain title to the land.