Not exact matches
As a
public domain title, you can probably find a cheaper edition out there, but
in quality and quantity, this disc surely bests the rest.
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.
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 Kindl
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 Kindl
in a separate location for later re-use — while reading
public domain titles on the Kindle.
Thousands of fiction and nonfiction
titles include new releases from popular authors, backlist favorites from top publishers, and literary classics
in the
public domain.
A: Around 500
public domain titles are included
in Kindle Unlimited, all of which we've synched with their free audiobook companions as a benefit to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
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.
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.
If you enjoy reading
public domain classics, sites like epubBooks have plenty of
titles, all available
in the EPUB and Kindle MOBI formats.
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.
After that, you get one of the lowest eBook prices and simply the widest selection of about 400,000
titles apart from the millions of free
titles in the
public domain.
Customers now have instant access to over 1 million books
in print from over 8,000 publishers and over 2 million
public domain titles from Google Books.
Despite its partnership with Google Books almost two years ago, giving On Demand access to two million of Google's
public domain titles, there are currently only about 75 EBMs at work
in locations around the country, with another 75 or so expected to be
in use by the end of the year.
Though some of the early
titles are
in the
public domain, most of the others weren't.
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.
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).
In order for us to accept your
public domain title, you must upload your version of the book on Amazon.
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).
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).
The good news is that this is really a mature market now (both Amazon and B&N offer «over one million»
titles in their libraries) and between library lending, friend - to - friend lending,
public domain books, and the sheer inevitability of e-books-as-the-future, you'll be well served by a number of products on the market — you'll just probably be best served by Amazon.
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).
Self - publishing is obviously taking off, but statistics on new
titles are almost impossible to come by because so many books counted as part of «nontraditional» publishing include reprints of old books now
in the
public domain.
She anticipates publishing two or three more
titles in 2012 and envisions a day when Burning Bush will expand its purview to include regional books that are now
in the
public domain.
Although there are fewer free books
in the Kindle Store than there were
in December, it is worth pointing out that the reduction
in free books has been among duplicate
public domain titles rather than among the free promotional contemporary
titles that populate Kindle Nation's daily Free Book Alert posts.
Barnes and Noble inflates its Nook count with over a million
public domain titles, and Apple just recently passed the 100,000 -
title mark
in its iBooks store, which is so embarrassingly lame that Apple dropped iBooks from its Apps listings just as it was about to fall out of the Top 20 listings.
A third - party publisher had uploaded the digital texts to the Kindle store falsely claiming the
titles were
in US
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.
The eBookstore, launched Monday, offers 700,000
titles according to Barnes & Noble's press release, but
in a conference call after the release went out, Barnes & Noble clarified that it includes Google's 500,000 free
public domain books as part of that number.
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.
The Library area displays thumbnails for covers of some preinstalled books (the Orizon comes with 150 preinstalled
public -
domain titles in several languages).
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
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
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
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).
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.
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.
The others are out - of - print editions, millions of
titles available
in the
public domain like Google Books, and digital formats licensed out through major publishers including Harper Collins.
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.»
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...
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.
The
titles included
in the Library of Classics are the greatest literary works available
in public domain.
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.
asks J. Craig Williams
in a post
titled, «Eminent
Domain Means Never Having To Say Your Sorry As Long As It's A *
Public * Benefit.»
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.
To find
public domain titles you can download
in PDF format, select the «Full view» radio button on Google Book Search, and click the new «Download» button on the right side of the
title's record page.
Public domain titles can now be downloaded, saved, and printed
in full.