Here's the problem with CreateSpace... it is also the publishing arm for classic books that are not self - published, like Shakespeare and
other public domain books.
Not exact matches
Because the
books are in the
public domain, users may listen to them as many times as they want and share them with
others.
It only accesses
public domain books on Project Gutenberg, which Stanza can do in addition to opening
other files.
We do accept
public domain content, however we may choose to not sell a
public domain book if its content is undifferentiated or barely differentiated from one or more
other books.
If not, you might still find this an interesting selection of authors whose
books went into the
public domain in
other countries before they went into the
public domain in the US.
Currently, the device comes with direct links (via a Library icon) to sources such as Google
Books, Epub
Books, Gutenberg, Web
Books, Feed
Books and Smash Words; you can easily download
public domain and
other free literature.
From time to time we come across
public domain books we want to publish on this site, but the ebooks aren't available at Project Gutenberg or
other free sources.
Public domain books can be edited or changed without reason and then resold and distributed through
other self - publishing platforms.
Any
book it includes is in the
public domain, therefore all these can be downloaded free on the the
books apps I mentioned on my
other posts.
Other websites take the illustrations out of these
public domain books such as The Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then sell
public domain books such as The Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then sell
domain books such as The
Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then sell
Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then sell
Domain Treasure Hunter and then sell them.
In the world of too much copyright on one and too much copyright infringements on the
other side
public domain books provide really nice oasis.
Between Manybooks and Feedbooks.com, I downloaded about 80
public -
domain works, ranging from literary classics by Austen, Thoreau, Twain and
others to childhood favorites like the «Anne of Green Gables»
books **, The Wizard of Oz, and Pollyanna.
This includes both
books which are in the
public domain in
other countries but not yet in the U.S., and pirated copies of newer publications which are currently under U.S. copyright.
We really like it for converting
books downloaded from
other sources, like Project Gutenberg, which has tonnes of free reading material in the
public domain, or Humble Bundle.
«The agreement enables us to increase access to
public domain books and
other publications that have been digitized.»
There are many
other places to find legal, DRM - free e-
books (both free
public domain books and paid newer releases), these are just a few to get you started.
Other projects announced as part of today's initiatives include the New York
Public Library developing an e-reader app that will provide access to «a universe of digital books, including contributions from publishers and hundreds of classics already in the public domain, to create a book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families&r
Public Library developing an e-reader app that will provide access to «a universe of digital
books, including contributions from publishers and hundreds of classics already in the
public domain, to create a book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families&r
public domain, to create a
book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families».
Other services, such as Google
Books and ReadCentral, also include thousands of
public domain titles that you can read online or download for free.
Yes there are non DRMed
books, but as Charlie points out,
books are not fungible, and
books that come with DRM are (usually, I've seen a few DRMed
public domain books) not avialable any
other way.
Manybooks: http://manybooks.net Offers many Project Gutenberg
books as well as
public domain and creative commons works from many
other sources.
PP&Z was a fun romp but the originality quickly wore thin as SGS and
others took
public domain books and reframed them with one sort of monster or another.
For
books published in the U.S. before 1923 and
other books in the
public domain, there is Project Gutenberg.
Hugh McGuire is an author, professional speaker and publishing expert, the founder of PressBooks, an online
book publishing platform built on WordPress, and of LibriVox.org, the largest library of free,
public domain audiobooks in the world as well as lots of
other things!
The
others are out - of - print editions, millions of titles available in the
public domain like Google
Books, and digital formats licensed out through major publishers including Harper Collins.
Can authors and publishers easily dedicate their
books to the
public domain, or use Creative Commons or
other flexible licensing schemes?
You fundamentally want to ignore the law of copyright as applied to musical compositions and that simply isn't possible legally, although obviously, if the old «Real
Book» contains only songs that are out of copyright (usually pre-1923, but more complicated in the case of songs that were historically governed by state law than for
other copyrighted works that were historically governed by federal law), you wouldn't have a problem and many Jazz compositions are in the
public domain because they are sufficiently old.
They may be happy to use it as a traditional print casebook (those hard bound
books do look good on a young lawyer's bookshelf); they may prefer to make it available to their students electronically; they may wish to insert their own teaching notes into our content and then provide their students with either a print, electronic or hybrid version of the teaching material; or they may wish to supplement a principal resource (such as casebook) with
other proprietary material (such as text from a doctrinal work) or
public domain material (via links to cases, statutes and
other resources).