Thousands
of public domain works are available for free, and blogs afford us a staggering array of high - quality writing.
Physicist David Keith, who has been working on technologies to block sunlight to slow global warming, argues that such efforts need to remain in the public domain
These are available as
public domain works from Project Gutenberg; providing these editions in a library collection might seem to be superfluous.
Consider this: Project Gutenberg and its affiliates make over 100,000
public domain works available digitally, and Google has scanned over 30 million books through its library project.
Distribution of
public domain works through our partner organization SAGANet provides an effective means for reaching a global audience.
If you live outside the United States, please check the copyright laws
concerning public domain works in your home country before downloading and distributing the ebook texts.
There is one area of theft and wrongdoing that is frustrating: People who create and sell e-books on Amazon by duplicating or repurposing other people's content, or
using public domain work.
This will
return public domain works (again, be sure to double check each piece of content to make sure that it does indeed fall under public domain).
Uploading PDFs and EPUBs to your Google Play account could be a good way to get things
like public domain works found on Project Gutenberg from your desktop to your iPad.
I fail to see how that's a manifestation of self - entitlement; the same could be said about people who compile libraries of
public domain works so people know that it's alright to use the content (I'm just making an analogy - I know these games are anything but public domain!).
But Gutenberg and fanfic have been around for a long time and new books have still been traditionally published (and I still pay for print editions
of public domain works).
NBC's turning «Oliver Twist» into a female - driven procedural drama, so we figured we'd try our hand at TV Development Mad Libs, using works in the public domain
The $ 20 software application turns your Nintendo DS into an eBook reader and includes 100
public domain works from authors such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Mark Twain.
Select «This is not
a public domain work and I hold the necessary publishing rights.»
Immediately after the law came into force, a digital publisher of
public domain works, Eric Eldred, filed a lawsuit challenging the act.
Every new year since the first copyrights expired, back around 1724, the world has looked forward to the expiration of copyrights and the availability of
public domain works, which have been kept under publishing monopolies.
It is quite debated how many of these titles are
public domain works, but Kobo once told me that it is around 1/4.
Thing is,
any public domain work you've probably ever heard of has probably already been scanned and is available, though without, perhaps, being formatted specifically for the Readers.
Image Credit: Public reproduction of «The Muses Garden» by Lionel Noel Roye (
Public Domain work of art)
Project Gutenberg is a web - based electronic re-publisher of (primarily)
public domain works.
Verification of your publishing rights: You have to confirm that you own the copyright in what you're publishing, or otherwise indicate you're uploading
a public domain work.
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If you're including in your e-book
any public domain works, ensure that these works are in fact in the public domain.
Go to the original public domain source, as any adaptation of
a public domain work may have a new copyright in it and may still be protected by copyright.
If you choose
a public domain work, do thorough research and make sure that the artwork is actually in the public domain.
-LSB-...] How Romeo and Juliet Can Help You Write Your Next Book by Helen Sedwick explains how copyright works when writers base their stories on
public domain works.
Even more compelling, though, is the fact that the terms of service don't allow any author to charge for
a public domain work, even one that was sloppily translated.
But after much litigation over the ownership of
public domain works, Google decided to the other route, and deal with publishers, and authors directly to sell copyrighted work and get a take.
Also, sales — and therefore your royalty payments — may not be very high for
a public domain work where multiple audio editions exist.
Amazon is currently not accepting how - to manuals,
public domain works, reference books, travel guides, or children's books.
Though you could try to take
public domain works and sell them under a different name as a part of an experiment, but I could see ways that that could backfire.
Just for the hell of it, I bought the free version of
the public domain work he is charging $ 30 for.
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.
Please download an EPUB3 sample of
this public domain work right here.
Amazon is far and away the # 1 e-book seller, and it's easy to see why: they have the largest selection (over 600,000 titles, plus millions of
public domain works), generally have the best prices, the # 1 e-book reader (the Kindle), and software that allows you to read their e-books on multiple devices including PCs, Macs, Kindles, iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, Blackberries, and Android cell phones (coming soon).
The non-traditional sector is comprised primarily of reprint houses specializing in
public domain works and by presses catering to self - publishers and» micro-niche» publications.