Sentences with phrase «public domain books which»

A large percent of the Kobo ebook library is mainly open source or public domain books which they give away for free or charge very low amounts.
It is a public domain book which can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg for free.

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It only accesses public domain books on Project Gutenberg, which Stanza can do in addition to opening other files.
I've shed Libravox, which is a catalogue of books currently in public domain
The figures do not include free Kindle books, of which there are 1.8 million originally published before 1923 (they are in the public domain because their copyright has expired).
enTourage Systems has its own e-book store which includes over 200,000 trade titles and 21,000 e-textbooks, as well as over one million free public domain books digitized by Google.
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.
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.
My personal experience the last twelve years in digitizing several public domain books has helped me to see a number of problems which I've mentioned in various forums, including the PG forums, and The eBook Community.
At this point, Studio Tendra has done eleven covers: the six books of the Knights and Necromancers series, four books in a series of annotated public domain books (which I'll tell you all about in a few weeks» time), and one in an aborted project you probably will never hear anything more about.
All of their content is limited to classic books, in which the copyright has expired and are considered in the public domain.
The e-book reader works with ePub and PDF files; you can buy them from Entourage's own e-book store, which includes some New York Times bestsellers, plus $ 3 and $ 4 copies of public domain books that you're better off downloading from Project Gutenberg for free.
He is the founder of PressBooks (on which this book has been built), and LibriVox.org, a community of volunteers that has created the world's largest free library of public domain audiobooks.
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).
Len, I've found my previous link misses some books (due to the way the Amazon search engine works), but a new link that excludes the public domain books by looking at the Publisher field (which the Amazon search box and Jungle search miss) is both more accurate and lets you keep the categories on the side for further selection.
** Oddly, neither Anne of Windy Poplars nor Anne of Ingleside is in public domain in the U.S. I say «oddly,» since they are numbers 4 and 6 of an 8 - book series; logically, you would think it would be books 7 and 8 which were not in public domain.
From what I can see, virtually all of «your» books consist of public domain texts to which you have added some (unknown) amount of original commentary.
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.
There are photo sharing sites that allow you to use a photo free of charge because it's either a public domain work, or the owner wants free publicity, which means you got ta give them or their company credit somewhere in your book.
$ 79 is already a pretty attractive price for a Kindle, which gets you a 6 ″ Pearl e-Ink screen, Wi - Fi connectivity to download books wirelessly, adjustable text sizes, dictionary look - up, and access to Amazon's world - leading e-book store, plus thousands of free public domain e-books.
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.
Sony also has partnership with Google, which now made available 1 million public domain books (free) for the company's e-book readers.
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.
Many books in the public domain (which is anything written before 1923) can probably be found on the Project Gutenberg website.
A Kindle e-book priced at $ 2.99 which qualifies (public domain books, for example, do not) for the 70 % royalty and has a small delivery fee earn royalties of up to $ 2.09.
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
There are only four hundred books in the literature category, of which a significant number are public domain books.
For books that are not in the public domain, sites like Google Books and even Amazon.com include small samples from the books they sell, which is a great way to review the table of contents and even read a chapter orbooks that are not in the public domain, sites like Google Books and even Amazon.com include small samples from the books they sell, which is a great way to review the table of contents and even read a chapter orBooks and even Amazon.com include small samples from the books they sell, which is a great way to review the table of contents and even read a chapter orbooks they sell, which is a great way to review the table of contents and even read a chapter or two.
The books were added to the Kindle store by MobileReference, a company which focuses on the publication of works already existing in the public domain.
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.
Sony also has a partnership with Google, which has released 1 million public domain books (free) for the company's e-book readers.
The Nook offers more than a million titles, of which 500,000 are public domain books from Google Bbooks from Google BooksBooks.
There's no way to categorize books (which even the PC version of Kindle can do) and downloading non-Amazon books, even public domain books, is a major hassle.
This seems to contrast with Sony / Google strategy of piling in as much public domain content (which is mainly low quality or outdated) to impress customers with raw book numbers.
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.
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.
Friday marks the scheduled release of a beta version of Live Search Books, which, like Google Book Search, will index and make searchable the full text of books in the public domain or subject to licensing dBooks, which, like Google Book Search, will index and make searchable the full text of books in the public domain or subject to licensing dbooks in the public domain or subject to licensing deals.
You can also limit your search to those books that are available in full view, which includes books in the public domain and out of copyright.
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