Sentences with phrase «public domain titles for»

When we encountered this in Maryland, we used Mechanical Turk to pay volunteers to create new, free, public domain titles for the entire legal code.

They have included a few sample public domain titles for me.

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Millions of titles in the public domain, such as A Tale of Two Cities, Les Misérables, Pride and Prejudice, and more are available for free.

Public domain titles such as Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice and Moby Dick are all available for free online, but in the stores they range from $ 5 - $ 29 a pop.

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.

Twelve Years a Slave is an example of the public domain riches online, even though the clubs could also use titles from services such as OverDrive, which, by the way, can make arrangements for simultaneous checkouts of some titles.

In this article, I propose that the Kindle Popular Highlights database contains evidence that readers are re-appropriating commonplacing — the act of selecting important passages from a text and recording them in a separate location for later re-use — while reading public domain titles on the Kindle.

For those who are reading pirated eBooks not in the public domain, I do agree that there should be some penalty, but instead of going after the downloaders, who in many cases never know if the title was originally a free one or not, I would suggest that it would be more expedient and easier to discover and punish the uploaders instead.

Since Stanza was released there have been several other eBook readers released for the iPod Touch allowing eBooks in many different file formats (including the ePub eBook standard) to be downloaded from any one of the many sources that have both free (public domain) and commercial eBook titles.

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.

For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer of public - domain ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some of those ebooks are automatically generated and can't take full advantage of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like cover images and title pages; and the quality of individual ebook productions varies greatly.

Google eBooks and the corresponding eBookstore launched Dec. 6 to let consumers search for and access more than 2 million public domain books for free, or purchase any of hundreds of thousands of titles from 4,000 - plus publishers.

Amazon won't release sales figures for Kindle titles, but Apple boasted that 1.5 million titles were downloaded from its iBook store in the first month of its existence, when it contained about 50,000 titles (including free public domain titles).

The first category is public domain, which accounts for 20 % of the total titles out there — these are the titles being scanned by IA.

In order for us to accept your public domain title, you must upload your version of the book on Amazon.

You could read same exact public domain titles and get the same exact DRM - free ebooks elsewhere that are available for the jetBook Mini.

For ebooks the Libre Color Touch comes with 100 free public domain titles and supports Adobe DRM and PDF, EPUB, TXT, and FB2 formats.

In a surprising twist, Google opted to use Adobe DRM to encrypt their ebooks when required (public domain titles are unencrypted and authors can opt for DRM - free).

If you live outside the U.S., titles available at the sites I mentioned above may or may not be legal for you to download; check your own country's laws on public domain.

They are the same public domain titles that you can get elsewhere for free, but B&N, like most ebook stores, re-edit the classics so that they are well formatted and add additional info like introductions and footnotes and then sell them to those that are too lazy to download them elsewhere or just don't know that they can.

While those titles are all public domain, and thus freely available elsewhere, I think it's a great idea by Kobo: it makes the eReader seem like a better deal (that's like paying $ 1.49 per book and getting the eReader for free), and also makes it blindingly simple for a buyer to start reading right away.

Other services, such as Google Books and ReadCentral, also include thousands of public domain titles that you can read online or download for free.

Feedbooks supply public domain books and Creative Commons titles for E-Paper devices.

It shows folders and files for eBooks you've loaded from the Coolerbooks site, where there are over 300,000 titles available, plus another million free, public domain, ones.

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.

The Library area displays thumbnails for covers of some preinstalled books (the Orizon comes with 150 preinstalled public - domain titles in several languages).

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.

Public domain titles, spruced up with new art and typography, will be accessible for students from all backgrounds.

Save for the «Hunger Games» trilogy, most of the titles in the Literature & Fiction category are from little - known authors, or are public - domain works like «Les Miserables.»

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.

To read about the titles by authors such as Issac Asimov, Ian Fleming, Rachael Carson, and Martin Luther King that could have been freely available, take a look at the Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain website.

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).

My co-founder, Lisa, rescued the rights for one title back from a large publishing house, and for the other, we enhanced a public domain title first published in 1914.

EPUBed public domain titles have arrived in Sony's ebook store, courtesy of Google, earning their catalog a deserved — if slightly dubious — claim to the title of the «largest source for...

Sony is partnering with Google to offer a half - million public domain titles — already available to PC users on Google Book — to their library, making their collection the largest available for any eBook format, including the Kindle's.

Earlier, Sony announced the availability of more than one million free public domain books from Google, as well as new releases and New York Times bestseller titles available for USD$ 9.99.

When it comes to ebooks, for example, Google hasn't been able to compete with Amazon (s AMZN) or even Apple (s AAPL); its share of the ebook market is likely in the single digits, and while 5 million ebooks sounds high, a lot of those are free public domain titles.

Whatever the needs, make sure to keep in mind both the Kindle eText rental service and public domain titles available through the Kindle Store (or just Project Gutenberg) for free.

This would suggest that they are using a public domain name for a running line of flagship game titles for a (I assume) flagship genre franchise.

They were all public - domain titles, which he had downloaded from Google for free.