Sentences with phrase «titles are in the public domain»

Though some of the early titles are in the public domain, most of the others weren't.

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.

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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.

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 KindlIn 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 Kindlin a separate location for later re-use — while reading public domain titles on the Kindle.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 anythingIn 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 anythingin 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 anythingin 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.

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.»

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.

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.»

Public domain titles can now be downloaded, saved, and printed in full.