Ace peer - to - peer audio book site
where public domain books are read by the public, for the public.
Not exact matches
If you live in one of the countries
where this
book is now in the
public domain, you can read it online.
This is
where you can specify if the
book is
public domain or not - generally I don't set my
books as
public domain as you are then giving the right for anyone to use your work.
As the author of The
Book Trailer Manual, I had some simple ideas on
where to find
public domain sounds and inexpensive audio tracks.
So, Google captured large numbers of out - of - copyright
public domain books, in - copyright
books where publishers explicitly gave permission, and a whole gray area of
books of indeterminate copyright status.
The Tsunami of Crap I see as potentially problematic in the short term is the new trend of
book spam,
where it goes beyond just not to your tastes and edited poorly but is in fact just content farmed from
public domain or just undefended sources.
And just in case you don't know
where to look for free
public -
domain books, there's a folder with a list of Web sites
where you can download content.
More recently, Brewster Kahle's great internet Bookmobile is a good model: it goes
where people might not be able to purchase
books and lets them print and bind texts that are in the
public domain.
The venture focuses on
public domain books where copyright has lapsed.