Other websites take the illustrations out of
these public domain books such as The Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then sell them.
Shop the Kindle Store for over 1.2 million of the most popular books, or explore millions of free,
public domain books such as Pride and Prejudice.
Not exact matches
If your
book is not in the
public domain, there is no
such requirement.
The eBook Store from Sony, together with Google, today announced it is providing access to more than 1 million free
public domain books - from classics
such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to biographies, historical...
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.
The Internet Archive is an amazing resource for
public domain books, with sub-collections
such as American Libraries, Children's Library, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Other services,
such as Google
Books and ReadCentral, also include thousands of
public domain titles that you can read online or download for free.
Since the Neo isn't DRM - locked or even tied to a particular store, you can download ebooks directly to your device from stores
such as Borders and Dymocks, as well as downloading free
public domain books from sites
such as Project Gutenberg and ManyBooks.
More traditional eBook services,
such as Kindle and Nook also offer many
public domain books for free as well.
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.
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.
He assembled a set of 22 CD - ROM disks containing
public -
domain versions of various
books and educational materials
such as the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica, Robinson Crusoe and McGuffey's Readers, which the family now markets as a home - schooling kit.
Amazon has well over 600,000
books available through its Kindle store, and many of them (
such as literature or history in the
public domain) are free or at very reduced cost.
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).