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.
Not exact matches
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Public Domain Review is a not - for - profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out - of - copyright
works available online.
Thousands of
public domain works are
available for free, and blogs afford us a staggering array of high - quality writing.
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.
And many of them are free, since I'm a fan of old - school
work available under
public domain.
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.
Not only does Open Library have over one million
public domain books
available as digitized Adobe downloads, but they also now
work with libraries and publishers for a book borrowing program in BookReader, PDF, and ePub formats.
Several decades after the death of an author, a
work goes into the
public domain, which means it's
available for
public use.
If you're into reading classics, you'll find that many
works in the
public domain are
available as free ebooks.
Most of the popular classics in
public domain are also
available in both Kindle and Sony formats, including
works by authors Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. A. Henty, Jack London, L. M. Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and H. G. Wells.
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 is also a vast reservoir (1.5 million - plus) of free
public -
domain works (primarily books published before 1923 whose American copyrights have expired)
available from a variety of sources.
Of course there is also lots of great
public -
domain poetry
available for the Kindle, including
work by this rock star in his day.
The iBookstore launched internationally on May 28 of this year, but only select US and
public domain works were
available to Canadian consumers while the government examined the cultural impact of the iBookstore.
Open Library claims to have 6 million authors and 20 million books (not
works), and about one million
public domain books
available as digitized books.
The project helps to address the serious issue of the shrinking number of
works freely
available in the
public domain.
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Public Domain Review is a not - for - profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out - of - copyright
works available online.
The titles included in the Library of Classics are the greatest literary
works available in
public domain.
The ratios are
worked out by analysts and are freely
available in the
public domain.
This data is in the
public domain and
available for anyone to sort and analyze — answering questions such as how many exhiitions included
work by a particular artist, which exhibitions were organized by a particular curator, who was the youngest artist to have a solo show, or which artists are most frequently exhibited with another artist.
If this ever becomes the case, yes I hope the
work is thoroughly audited, and I believe Steve would also expect this — which is why he has made ALL of his
work available in the
public domain.
The
work is made
available under the Creative Commons CC0
public domain dedication
They may be happy to use it as a traditional print casebook (those hard bound books do look good on a young lawyer's bookshelf); they may prefer to make it
available to their students electronically; they may wish to insert their own teaching notes into our content and then provide their students with either a print, electronic or hybrid version of the teaching material; or they may wish to supplement a principal resource (such as casebook) with other proprietary material (such as text from a doctrinal
work) or
public domain material (via links to cases, statutes and other resources).
The process of determining whether a
work is in the
public domain in the U.S. is also
available in chart form on the Cornell University website in PDF.
About Blog The
Public Domain Review is a not - for - profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out - of - copyright
works available online.