Sentences with phrase «of public domain titles»

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

ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader - formatted e-books, available for purchase and download, with a handful of public domain titles available for free.

In addition to criticisms of the quality of e-books being self published, meanwhile, there have also been complaints about an increase in e-book «spam» in the Amazon Kindle store, including books that are clearly just cobbled together from bits and pieces of public domain titles or even copyrighted works (Reuters reported recently that there are DVD instruction manuals that tell users how to write and publish dozens of e-books a day without having to write anything).

Other services, such as Google Books and ReadCentral, also include thousands of public domain titles that you can read online or download for free.

Now that Jewel Audiobooks is a dream come true, I'm already planning the publication of my next couple of public domain titles.

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.

The company's web site — ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader - formatted e-books, available for purchase and download, with a handful of public domain titles available for free.

Many retailers have had an influx of public domain titles over the years, as people sought to capitalize on the e-book gold rush.

Film Chest via Virgil Films has added several titles to its HD Cinema Classics line of public domain titles.

Not exact matches

Millions of titles in the public domain, such as A Tale of Two Cities, Les Misérables, Pride and Prejudice, and more are available for free.

It is quite debated how many of these titles are public domain works, but Kobo once told me that it is around 1/4.

Twelve Years a Slave is an example of the public domain riches online, even though the clubs could also use titles from services such as OverDrive, which, by the way, can make arrangements for simultaneous checkouts of some titles.

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.

Thousands of fiction and nonfiction titles include new releases from popular authors, backlist favorites from top publishers, and literary classics in the public domain.

A: Around 500 public domain titles are included in Kindle Unlimited, all of which we've synched with their free audiobook companions as a benefit to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.

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.

If you enjoy reading public domain classics, sites like epubBooks have plenty of titles, all available in the EPUB and Kindle MOBI formats.

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.

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.

This project works to bring public domain books into the digital age, and the best part is many of these titles are now available for the iPad for free.

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.

Despite its partnership with Google Books almost two years ago, giving On Demand access to two million of Google's public domain titles, there are currently only about 75 EBMs at work in locations around the country, with another 75 or so expected to be in use by the end of the year.

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

They publish original ebooks by new authors, and have a wide selection of free public domain ebooks and original titles.

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.

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.

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).

The first category is public domain, which accounts for 20 % of the total titles out there — these are the titles being scanned by IA.

In order for us to accept your public domain title, you must upload your version of the book on Amazon.

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).

Most of the Sherlock Holmes canon, some of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, two Agatha Christie titles, and one or two Dorothy Sayers rounded out my initial public - domain collection.

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.

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.

Self - publishing is obviously taking off, but statistics on new titles are almost impossible to come by because so many books counted as part of «nontraditional» publishing include reprints of old books now in the public domain.

Barnes and Noble inflates its Nook count with over a million public domain titles, and Apple just recently passed the 100,000 - title mark in its iBooks store, which is so embarrassingly lame that Apple dropped iBooks from its Apps listings just as it was about to fall out of the Top 20 listings.

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.»

More than 2 million - plus book titles will be free, public domain classics users may already see snippets of on the Google Books search platform.

Amazon has over 300,000 titles in their Kindle store, and Barnes & Nobles, which recently announced their own online bookstore, has over 700,000 titles, out of which more than 500,000 are public domain, also powered by the Google Books project.

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.

The Stanza reader, for instance, stocks thousands of e-books at varying prices, from free public domain books to self - published titles to 40,000 titles from Fictionwise, one of the leading digital book vendors.

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.

The Library area displays thumbnails for covers of some preinstalled books (the Orizon comes with 150 preinstalled public - domain titles in several languages).

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 type of books packed with is a collection of modern bestsellers, public - domain classics and titles from the Navy reading list.

The Nook offers more than a million titles, of which 500,000 are public domain books from Google Books.

They can also be used to read e-books from a variety of Web sites, including 500,000 free public domain titles from Google, Sony said.

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.

As of now, the only English - language books available are public domain titles.