Sentences with phrase «public domain e-books»

Then I discovered public domain e-books.

The Internet Archive and Open Library offer more than six million fully accessible public domain e-books.

$ 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.

(This is in addition to the millions of free public domain e-books available at Project Gutenberg and other places that can be read on a Kindle or any other e-book reader.)

Not exact matches

Many retailers have had an influx of public domain titles over the years, as people sought to capitalize on the e-book gold rush.

Project Gutenberg is a great resource for finding classic e-books and audiobooks from the public domain.

The company's web site — ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader - formatted e-books, available for purchase and download, with a handful of public domain titles available for free.

Detail: I am grateful to the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks.net, Smashwords and some other sources of public domain and commercial e-books for supporting the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), which is a good way to help turn $ 20 phones into little libraries and also let people bypass oppressive centralization.

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.

Right now the greatest beneficiaries of the shift towards e-books are device sellers, public domain hawkers and self - publishing authors.

Most of the collections of multiple hundreds of Romance e-books and Science Fiction e-books and Horror e-books are copyright infringing (although EBay sellers falsely and recklessly claim that they have «GNU licenses» or that current bestsellers are «in the public domain», and EBay accepts these untruthful statements as «proof»).

(AP)-- Interead, a British company that sells the COOL - ER e-book reader, is adding more than 1 million free public - domain books to its online bookstore.

If you're including in your e-book any public domain works, ensure that these works are in fact in the public domain.

Filed Under: Content Owners and Creators, Digital Tagged With: authors, copyright notice, e-book, permissions, public domain, publishing

They have also promised to make available a mammoth 1,000,000 public domain books from Google at their e-book portal.

enTourage Systems» e-book store includes over 200,000 trade titles, e-textbooks, major magazines, newspapers and periodicals, as well as over one million free public domain books digitized by Google.

On July 17, 2009, Amazon withdrew from sale two e-books by George Orwell, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty - Four, refunding the purchase price to those who had bought them, and remotely deleted these titles from purchasers» devices without warning after discovering the publisher lacked rights to publish the titles in question; in the U.S. they were copyrighted while being part of the public domain in some other countries.

Jones said library patrons can now also borrow from a list of some 34,000 mostly classic e-books that have in the public domain for years.

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.

[citation needed] Many e-book publishers began distributing books that were in the public domain.

The ability to download and read purchased Google e-books (some public domain titles remain free) on various e-reader devices is the most interesting feature to me — I have no interest in reading novels off my computer screen (let alone a tiny smartphone screen).

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.

I've posted about DRM before, and it is a strike against some e-books — those e-books released by publishers who use DRM (many smaller publishers, independent authors, and public domain books don't use DRM).

Sony also has partnership with Google, which now made available 1 million public domain books (free) for the company's e-book readers.

But there are already over 900,000 e-books available in the Amazon Kindle store, plus literally millions of public - domain e-books available from multiple sources.

Some younger readers have been exploring the classics, thanks to the availability of older e-books that are in the public domain — and downloadable free.

[60] Amazon then revealed the reason behind its deletion: the e-books in question were unauthorized reproductions of Orwell's works, which were not within the public domain and to which the company that published and sold them on Amazon's service had no rights.

Ever since I heard that quote from Amazon, that e-book sales were greater than hardcover sales, I've been wondering if the e-book sales number included all the public domain and other free titles.

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.

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.

However, many public - domain e-books are available only in PDF or TXT formats, which not all e-readers can handle.

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.

My e-book library now numbers in the hundreds: lots of public domain, e-book versions (on sale) of real books I already own (because it is a lot easier to travel with a tablet than a library), and new purchases.

If you prefer to get e-books from other sources in addition to Amazon (for example, Project Gutenberg has thousands of free, public - domain classic e-books), and if you're the type of person who likes to organize and back up all your computer files, you may want to consider downloading the free program Calibre.

The Stanza reader, for instance, stocks thousands of e-books at varying prices, from free public domain books to self - published titles to 40,000 titles from Fictionwise, one of the leading digital book vendors.

However, BarnesandNoble.com LLC on July 20 announced that it had 700,000 e-book titles available, including more than half a million from Google in the public domain.

In addition to criticisms of the quality of e-books being self published, meanwhile, there have also been complaints about an increase in e-book «spam» in the Amazon Kindle store, including books that are clearly just cobbled together from bits and pieces of public domain titles or even copyrighted works (Reuters reported recently that there are DVD instruction manuals that tell users how to write and publish dozens of e-books a day without having to write anything).

But B&N's figure includes free public - domain e-books that have been scanned by Google and which aren't in the Kindle store.

There are also many services, such as Project Gutenberg, that make e-books available for free downloads, usually because the titles are in the public domain.

Sony also has a partnership with Google, which has released 1 million public domain books (free) for the company's e-book readers.

They can also be used to read e-books from a variety of Web sites, including 500,000 free public domain titles from Google, Sony said.

ereader.com maintains a wide selection of eReader - formatted e-books, available for purchase and download, with a handful of public domain titles available for free.

calibre recently introduced Open Books, a site for easy browsing of DRM - free e-books (e-books without DRM) that are not in the public domain.

As for the e-book store, I think B&N and Kobo both have very good e-book stores (ahead of Sony, Apple, and Google), but Amazon is still the undisputed leader, with the most titles available (ignore B&N's marketing talk of having the «largest» e-book store: they count public domain titles that Amazon doesn't, even though they are easily available for the Kindle as well).

Barnes & Noble.com, however, on July 20 announced it had 700,000 e-book titles available, including more than half a million from Google in the public domain.

A Barnes & Noble spokeswoman said today that the Google public domain books are not exclusively available to Sony, and that Barnes & Noble would also have access to Google's e-books.

My main issue is being «locked into» a particular manufacturer's proprietary software that forces you into buying e-books from their online library (I realize most e-book readers do allow for unlimited public domain readings and the ability to read PDF and Word files, etc.).