Sentences with phrase «number of public domain»

I went into the Store where they also have a number of public domain titles and downloaded a copy of Jane Austen's Emma.

1,500,000: Number of public domain books digitized that can be read free on a mobile device's web browser via Google Book Search.

What's interesting: The Alex e-reader comes preloaded with a number of public domain classics, plus an Australian version of George Orwell's novel 1984.

In addition to its function as a reader for users» existing collections, ComicZeal also offers a huge number of public domain Golden Age comics for free, and they make for a handy way of demonstrating the application.

Amazon uses its own proprietary format, but a number of Public Domain sources have them available in MOBI, which is the version you want if you have any model of the Kindle.

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In 1999 Alan Moore created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which pulled characters from a number of classic (and public domain) novels and placed them together as a sort of super team (this innovative series was scrubbed into an abysmally average 2003 film).

These days a growing number of movies are in the public domain.

While some lawyers argue that certain shapes and phrases fall under public domain, given the specific combination of shapes, colors and phrases used by these independent designers and the sheer number of allegations, it seems as though Bassen and her cohort could make a compelling case.

We have observed these patterns of unconstructive responses to performance incentives across a number of domains — health, workforce training, public assistance programs and more — but the evidence of serious problems has piled up faster in public education than in any other policy arena.

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Despite an ever increasing number of books in the public domain, there haven't been considerable efforts by contemporary publishers to render this, fully compatible with today's technology and requirements.

Over the coming months we are likely to see a number of iPhone apps that will allow you to read those free, public domain eBooks from Project Gutenberg, and Stanza will certainly continue to be one of the top ones.

My personal experience the last twelve years in digitizing several public domain books has helped me to see a number of problems which I've mentioned in various forums, including the PG forums, and The eBook Community.

Amazon has just implemented a new feature that assigns new ASIN numbers to thousands of public domain ebooks.

There have been a lot of leaks about the upcoming tablet over the last few weeks, a number of parts and components have already been leaked out in the public domain.

** Oddly, neither Anne of Windy Poplars nor Anne of Ingleside is in public domain in the U.S. I say «oddly,» since they are numbers 4 and 6 of an 8 - book series; logically, you would think it would be books 7 and 8 which were not in public domain.

The good news is that this is really a mature market now (both Amazon and B&N offer «over one million» titles in their libraries) and between library lending, friend - to - friend lending, public domain books, and the sheer inevitability of e-books-as-the-future, you'll be well served by a number of products on the market — you'll just probably be best served by Amazon.

So, Google captured large numbers of out - of - copyright public domain books, in - copyright books where publishers explicitly gave permission, and a whole gray area of books of indeterminate copyright status.

We suspect this is due to the number of free, public - domain books available to Google.

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.»

There are only four hundred books in the literature category, of which a significant number are public domain books.

Honestly, the more reactions I see the more I think that those fanfic writers who want to make money by writing are already trying — by writing original fic alongside it, or sometimes by filing the serial numbers off their fanworks, or by writing fanfic of public domain works.

My e-book library now numbers in the hundreds: lots of public domain, e-book versions (on sale) of real books I already own (because it is a lot easier to travel with a tablet than a library), and new purchases.

B&N's official number is over a million, but half of those are works in the public domain.

The eBookstore, launched Monday, offers 700,000 titles according to Barnes & Noble's press release, but in a conference call after the release went out, Barnes & Noble clarified that it includes Google's 500,000 free public domain books as part of that number.

Freda comes with a number of classic public domain titles displayed on the homescreen and it includes links to several online sources, including, among others, Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks and Smashwords, where users go to select free ebooks to download them into their app collection.

Great little app — especially like the feature that lets you preset the speed and number of stops per line their highlighting tool will use and then pull up thousands of classics and public domain books up to use this with.

The project helps to address the serious issue of the shrinking number of works freely available in the public domain.

This seems to contrast with Sony / Google strategy of piling in as much public domain content (which is mainly low quality or outdated) to impress customers with raw book numbers.

A CHIC number is issued when test results areentered into the database satisfying each breed specific requirement, and when the owner of the dog has opted to release the results into the public domain.

A CHIC number is issued when test results are entered into the database satisfying each breed specific requirement, and when the owner of the dog has opted to release the results into the public domain.

The owner can obtain a CHIC number on a dog regardless of the test results; a dog with abnormal results can be given a CHIC number as long as all «Required» tests are performed, and the owner consents to inclusion of all of the results in the OFA CHIC public domain database.

The coding sequences (Genbank Accession number HQ110882) of both of these are in 100 % agreement with the public domain assembled canine genome on Chromosome 7: 22,632,147 — 22,638,970.

A number of events are programmed at Delfina Foundation as part of their season 2 of The Public Domain including a presentation by Paris - based Cameroonian curator Elise Atangana entitled «Before Seven Hills», dealing with the topic of mobilities: movement, representation and practice (9 Dec).

Rather, the value of having the forecast to 2020 out in the public domain is that, if the government chooses to update their forecast numbers based on a single new point of data, it will be transparent.

Subtitle D: Naval Petroleum Reserve -(Sec. 331) Transfers from the Secretary of Energy to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction and control over all but specified public domain lands included within Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 2 located in Kern County, California.

Given that this was in the public domain and has been discussed in the media and on various websites over a number of weeks, the ICO's view, as I indicated when we spoke yesterday, is that the University must have understood that the question whether an offence under section 77 had been committed would be looked at.

Lead Counsel in a large number of BIT / investor - State arbitrations, of which a few are in the public domain, including:

However, a number of factors negatively impact this access, including the complexity of the Canadian legal system, the small size of the Canadian legal publishing industry, Crown copyright, contradictory government information policies, and a shrinking public domain through the digitization of information and other roadblocks on the Internet.

In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.

In an age of increasing awareness around mental health, and an increasing number of campaigns bringing the discussion of mental health into the public domain, it is alarming that parental alienation is so mismanaged and underestimated by the various government agencies that are supposed to be working for the welfare and safeguarding of our nations children.

8) Posting of per agent numbers without the express written consent of the sales reps would fall under PIPEDIA and may disclose financial impressions about ALL the agents at any given office that some agents may not want in the public domain.