Arts writer Michelle Aldredge and visual artist Corwin Levi met at an artist residency in Wyoming and together decided to reimagine classic,
public domain books into a contemporary visual format.
About the Curators Arts writer Michelle Aldredge and visual artist Corwin Levi met at an artist residency in Wyoming and together decided to reimagine classic,
public domain books into a contemporary visual format.
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.
Not exact matches
All 13
books, or codices, of the Nag Hammadi (NAHG Ha - MAH - dee) Library had been put
into the
public domain with the publication in December of the tenth...
The stories, from an online repository of
books in the
public domain called Project Gutenberg, fell
into one of six genres: mystery, humor, fantasy, horror, western, and science fiction.
The verb forms studied are: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Modal Verbs, Future Forms, and First Conditional • Students learn 400 + essential vocabulary words by heart • Students enjoy following a simple and effective method that produces results quickly This
book was originally a free
public domain book but I have spent a lot of time removing hyperlinks from every page and making it
into an editable
book.
I took
into account the need for simple text, clear font and I only have used self made resources and
public domain resources, I have not used images from the
books.
Nothing comes out of nothing: you have to put an effort
into reselling
public domain books if you would like to see a return.
But at that point the
book will drop
into the
public domain and not be worth anything to them.
Almost none of the older
books (post 1930's) is coming
into the
public domain.
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.
What the e-reader industry needs to do is develop an agnostic operating system that taps
into all of the free
public domain books and free educational resources.
One of the first sites that operates through user - interest dollars was Unglue.it, who as early as 2011 was working to solicit donations to take existing
books and basically «unglue» the copyright status; for enough donations, the rights» holder — either the publisher, the author, or the author's estate — would be compensated to release the
book into public domain.
Personally - my favorite of LM Montgomery's
books though is «Jane of Lantern Hill» and hope it will soon come
into public domain!
Would readers really pledge money in order to strip a
book of its DRM and copyright in order to thrust it
into the
public domain and make it available anywhere for library lending?
There are some
public domain books I wanted to make
into illustrated
books for my kids and I was considering publishing them as well.
As far as I'm concerned, I would love my
books to go
into the
public domain for anyone and everyone to read [once I'm gone of course].
Librivox is the definitive site for free audiobooks — It takes
books in the
public domain and turns them
into audio
books.
They only exception to this is that sometimes an author may write a
book and then release it
into the
public domain.
The problem was that this person didn't own the rights to Orwell's
book (which had fallen
into the
public domain in Australia but not here in the U.S.), so it would be like if I scanned in a copy of Harry Potter and tried to sell it on Amazon and make money off it.
The biggest problem for self - publishing is not self - published authors, but content farmers, who not only publish
public domain books, but thousands of dummy
books meant to trick readers
into buying them.
Private Label Rights
books were a big scam a few years ago that involved ripping content from existing information on the internet (both
public domain and under copyright), slapping a cheesy 3D cover on it, and making
into an eBook.
Google is looking to redress the balance somewhat by scanning a million
books for free
into the
public domain, but it still doesn't change the fact that currently it's only Amazon in the UK that allows users to access and download from a store over 3G direct to their reader.
All
books that have passed out of copyright and
into the
public domain ought to be available as a free kindle
book.
The great translator Constance Garnett introduced English - speakers to more than 70
books by the great Russian writers, and when much of her work fell
into the
public domain it was a great boon for publishers who were unable or disinclined to pay translators to work on 800 - page
books.
Kindle
books, ePub
books direct from publishers like Baen,
books in PDF format,
books that have passed
into the
public domain... Now that's a device for readers.
The data suggest that publishing business models make
books disappear fairly shortly after their publication and long before they are scheduled to fall
into the
public domain.
While the e-book cartridge itself isn't that big of news,
public domain books are a dime a dozen on the web, it's the fact that Nintendo is finally stepping
into the e-book market in the US that's exciting.
Sometimes I'll download a classic
book that's been put
into public domain from Project Gutenberg, but that's a rare case.
It's already possible to download
public domain books from Google
Book Search as PDF files and copy them onto a flash memory card for use in e-readers such as Sony's, but this partnership will simplify the process for users by integrating it
into the eBook Library Software for PCs that ships with the Sony Reader.
The site's purpose is to bring
public domain books from sites like Project Gutenberg
into a form easily readable in a web browser.
I'm pleased to share a new set of great
books that came
into public domain and are available for free from Project...
Every year, many more
books get brought
into the
public domain.
These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century
books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back
into the
Public Domain.
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).