This is a popular catalog
of public domain ebooks, sourced from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.
Right after Sony's announcement that its new collection of eReaders would support the ePub format, Google announced it would be distributing millions
of its public domain eBooks as ePub downloads.
From Google Books comes a nice selection
of public domain ebooks mostly in the classical literature genre, but you can also search Google Books or using the main Google search engine to find all manner
of public domain ebooks.
Amazon has just implemented a new feature that assigns new ASIN numbers to thousands
of public domain ebooks.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not - for - profit project that produces new editions
of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.
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Personally, I don't think it will take nearly 40 years to make
eBooks of all
of the
public domain books, newspapers and magazines, etc., that are easy to find, not to forget to add in music, artworks, etc..
Manybooks.net offers thousands
of drm free, and free,
ebooks, mostly in the
public domain but not all.
Well - known
ebook expert Liza Daly, developer
of the mobile reading application, Ibis Reader, says, «We've been impressed by how quickly OPDS Catalogs allow us to offer a collection
of thousands
of free and
public domain books.
There are plenty
of ebooks that are creative commons and in the
public domain.
Public Domain Ebooks Catch - up with the best books
of the past.
With JustFreeBooks you can find all sorts
of free
ebooks for your Kindle, Nook or tablet:
public domain texts, open books, free audiobooks and more.
The main format
of ebooks in the
public domain are EPUB, which is the format
of choice on 95 %
of all reading devices.
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.
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.
While most
of the Project Gutenberg
eBooks are in the
public domain there many that are copyrighted for a variety
of reasons.
Since Stanza was released there have been several other
eBook readers released for the iPod Touch allowing
eBooks in many different file formats (including the ePub
eBook standard) to be downloaded from any one
of the many sources that have both free (
public domain) and commercial
eBook titles.
As you may know, Project Gutenberg
of Europe just celebrated the completion
of their 400th
eBook, and I think you will be greatly surprised to find out how many
of these are included in the U.S.
public domain listings.
And while all
of the
ebooks we feature and the cover art we draw from are already believed to be in the public domain in the US, Standard Ebooks releases all of the work we put in to each ebook into the public domai
ebooks we feature and the cover art we draw from are already believed to be in the
public domain in the US, Standard
Ebooks releases all of the work we put in to each ebook into the public domai
Ebooks releases all
of the work we put in to each
ebook into the
public domain too.
Today we received an email from Hugh McGuire, the guy who started the fantastic LibriVox
public domain audiobook community (with many
of their source
eBooks coming from Project Gutenberg), announcing the launch
of his new audiobook company called Iambik Audio.
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.
After that, you get one
of the lowest
eBook prices and simply the widest selection
of about 400,000 titles apart from the millions
of free titles in the
public domain.
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.
There will be one particularly noticeable change, in that
eBooks from Project Gutenberg
of Europe that appear in both the listing
of PG
of Europe and the US
public domain listings will now be in a mode that subtracts out the duplications.
Copyright Our
public domain free
ebooks consist
of two parts: the
public domain text and the
ebook cover.
Dedicating the work Standard
Ebooks produces to the
public domain is our small way
of letting the world know how important it is to fight that.
The key point is that the availability
of a free, manipulable
public domain ebook library is what made LibriVox possible along with some other underlying technologies.
While some think we could, or even should, release our work with some kind
of copyright notice, instead Standard
Ebooks dedicates the entirety
of each
of our
ebook files, including markup, cover art, and everything in between, to the
public domain.
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.
All
of our
ebooks are texts that are thought to be in the
public domain in the United States.
While there are plenty
of places where you can download free and accurately - transcribed
public domain ebooks, we feel the quality
of those
ebooks can often be greatly improved.
With thousands
of public domain books getting knocked out
of the Top 100 Free Lists, it now opens up the field for new free or very cheap
ebooks.
Speaking
of ebooks it will come bundled with 150
public domain ebooks preloaded on the device.
They publish original
ebooks by new authors, and have a wide selection
of free
public domain ebooks and original titles.
Manuel Ortiz Braschi has published thousands
of ebooks on Amazon, often claiming as his own works in the
public domain, including Alice in Wonderland.
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.
A large percent
of the Kobo
ebook library is mainly open source or
public domain books which they give away for free or charge very low amounts.
Most
of my
eBooks are either
public domain or purchased from Kobo, the latter usually with DRM but not always, and I am not one who is prepared to strip ePubs
of their DRM.
Over 6 million fully accessible
public domain ebooks, including a special modern collection
of over 500,000
ebooks for users with print disabilities.
Public domain classics are the easiest books to find in
ebook format, largely thanks to the sterling and visionary work
of Project Gutenberg (and, more recently, the Open Library, which currently promises over a million free
ebook titles).
Barnes and Noble has twenty
of their classic
ebooks available for free that normally cost $ 3.99 each (these aren't run -
of - the - mill
public domain ebooks; these are nicely formatted and include introductions, endnotes, footnotes, notes about the author, etc).
Up until July 1st, Canada Day ironically (aka Dominion Day for all you anti-conformists out there), the Apple iBookstore was available for download in Canada, but the selection
of books was limited to free classic
ebooks in the
public domain.
The NeRD comes pre-loaded with 300
ebooks, and includes an eclectic selection
of newer bestsellers,
public -
domain classics, and titles from the Navy's own reading list, among other topics.
There's plenty
of introductory freebies on offer as well as host
of public domain novels to download and the big clear screen makes it a pleasure to use as a mini
ebook reader and certainly significantly better than a smaller smartphone size even if you do still end up turning pages a little too often.
The Kobo bookstore is a good one, offering over 2 million books (though more than a million
of those are free,
public domain books that every
ebook store has).
Australian copyright laws are, at the moment, similar to Canadian ones, and all the
eBooks from PG
of Australia should be
public domain in Canada.