The third eReader app I am trying out is called Free Books and it only
offers public domain material.
This volunteer - driven site
offers public domain books in audio format read by people from all over the world (and thus offers books in many languages).
It lists all the major sites that
offer public domain books, and also has instructions for each.
Not exact matches
GoDaddy priced its much - anticipated initial
public offering Tuesday evening at $ 20 a share, according to reports, giving the Internet
domain hosting company a valuation of nearly $ 4.5 billion.
The bulletproof way of making money out of
public domain books is to
offer content nobody else does.
Feedbooks and the Internet Archive are other
public domain sources, and Amazon
offers some classics at no charge.
This news countered Google's announcement that the 1.5 million
public domain books available on its Google Book Search
offering will soon be available (free, of course) via a new cell phone application.
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.
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.
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.
That's about 1 million more than the Kindle
offers, but that same figure can be attributed to
public -
domain books from Google Books.
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Public Domain Books: bigger
offer than blazer.
From the economically priced low - end Libre PRO, which doesn't sacrifice features like eye - friendly e-paper LCD technology, over 100 pre-loaded
public domain classics, and an installed music player, to their upper scale Libre Touch that boasts full color, wifi, and touch screen user interface, Aluratek has made a name for itself by
offering choices to its market base.
Some of the literary works
offered on the Service have been identified as being in the
public domain by certain content providers.
Project Gutenberg
offers a wellspring of
public domain and royalty free books.
I
offer this post as a road map for becoming an audiobook publisher on ACX with a
public domain book.
There are 5 free Kindle Apps, 43
offers on new books, and 52
public domain books in that list.
Given that there are over 20,000
public domain books in the Kindle Store, and over 200
offers on new books, it's safe to say that a lot of people are reading those — instead of buying new books.
Prices vary from free (for
public domain books and for free book
offers) to over $ 9.99.
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.
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.
She is reading a lot of
public domain books, and likes urban fantasy and light romance and is getting a lot of mileage out of the free
offers.
I wanted to mention Project Gutenbergwhich has its library of free,
public domain offerings Kindle ready.
The Internet Archive and Open Library
offer more than six million fully accessible
public domain e-books.
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).
It currently
offers more than 200,000 open source and
public domain books to readers, many of which are original and exclusive to the ebook site.
The number certainly seems impressive compared to Amazon.com's Kindle inventory, measured at 300,000 volumes — but Barnes & Noble's number includes 500,000 e-books which are free
public -
domain offerings from Google.
ManyBooks
offers more than 28,000 free
public domain books for download.
Feedbooks
offers free
public domain books, as well as original works from authors uploading their books to the site - great way to discover new reading from authors who aren't necessarily in the spotlight as yet.
Winning the war for the future of publishing is going to take a lot more than just
offering free
public domain books.
More traditional eBook services, such as Kindle and Nook also
offer many
public domain books for free as well.
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.
Google is also a great source of music sites
offering creative commons,
public domain, and royalty - free music.
Cool - er also
offers 1 million free
public domain ebooks through a partnership with Google.
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.
Even the most conservative math indicates that the
public -
domain offerings make up more than half of the Nook's content stockpile of reading material.
Sony also
offers 1,000,000 free
public domain books through Google.
The site
offers for free audiobook versions of books that have entered the
public domain.
The Nook
offers more than a million titles, of which 500,000 are
public domain books from Google Books.
The phone interface
offers access to more
public domain books than Sony's eBook Store: up to 1.5 million in the U.S. and 500,000 elsewhere, according to Google.
The site
offers thousands of free
public domain books, like audiobooks or text files.
Sony is partnering with Google to
offer a half - million
public domain titles — already available to PC users on Google Book — to their library, making their collection the largest available for any eBook format, including the Kindle's.
If you've bought the book in the third - party ebookstore or found the book in one of the sites that
offer free
public domain ebooks, make sure to download the file in mobi format.
As with Sony, Barnes & Noble has tried to bulk up its collection by partnering with Google, which
offers hundreds of thousands of
public -
domain books for free.
After our
public domain translation of Hand - in - killer7, we kept with it, got an
offer we couldn't refuse, and later registered as an LLC with the state of South Carolina.
Ms Rai's presentation
offered a great deal of survey information about the use of digital legal information resources in India, the commercial and
public domain resources that are available for Indian law and, significantly, an evaluation of the competing commercial and
public resources.
The announcement sets the stage: «For those occasions when a document is not available in any of the more than 17,000 Westlaw databases, West now
offers West Document Retrieval, a service that specializes in obtaining hard - to - locate federal, state and local government documents, as well as
public -
domain documents.»
Many bookstores publish entire books that are in the
public domain to help boost their
offerings.
Remember the days of the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, when it seemed that any company with a plain - language
domain name or a cute mascot — like pets.com or boo.com — could launch an initial
public offering?