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  Amazon charging for Project Gutenberg books – It’s legal, but not ethical says PG’s Greg Newby

  766 readersThe Washington Post has a story on this today. Gutenberg contributor Linda M. Everhart complained in an e-mail in late October that Amazon was selling a title she’d contributed to Gutenberg, Arthur Robert Harding’s 1906 opus “Fox Trapping,” for $4. “They took the text version, stripped off the headers and footer containing the license, re-wrapped

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  Finding free (or cheap) Kindle books with Jungle Search

  3425 readersCNet has an article looking at how to use Jungle-Search.com to find free or inexpensive Kindle e-books. The piece notes that Amazon has almost 17,000 free Kindle titles, though all but 246 of them (as of the article’s writing) were the same public domain titles that can be found on Google Books, Project Gutenberg, or

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  Calibre starts drm-free ebook site

  4658 readersCalibre has just started a new site for drm-free ebooks.  Here’s what they say: calibre introduces Open Books, a site for easy browsing of DRM-free e-books (e-books without DRM) that are not in the public domain. calibre has a cornucopia of features including library management, e-book conversion, syncing with devices, news download, e-book viewing etc,

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  Amazon thinning out the public domain herds on Kindle store?

  1751 readersMorris Rosenthal, the man who posted a helpful list of free classics on the Kindle store last month to help readers bypass unnecessary fees, just announced that Amazon pulled his test version of a Dickens classic and told him that they were cracking down on duplicate public domain titles. Here’s part of Amazon’s email to Rosenthal: “Our

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  ManyBooks – free public domain ebooks in almost any format

  1180 readers Time to look again at ManyBooks, a fantastic resource for free, public domain works.  Here’s what they say about themselves: Many of the etexts are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD, which contains the entire Project Gutenberg archives except for the Human Genome Project and audio eBooks, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg

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  How to read DRM’d ePub books on the Kindle Fire. Amazon makes it doable.

  1334 readers Amazon makes it possible but doesn't make it ultra-easy The two most popular ePub readers for Android are not made available for the Kindle Fire, as Amazon concentrates on its own books but, as with about 3 million free books available these days for reading on the Kindle and which Amazon points us to on

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  How to read DRM’d ePub books on the Kindle Fire. Amazon makes it doable.

  1521 readers Amazon makes it possible but doesn't make it ultra-easy The two most popular ePub readers for Android are not made available for the Kindle Fire, as Amazon concentrates on its own books but, as with about 3 million free books available these days for reading on the Kindle and which Amazon points us to on

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  30,000 English ebooks from Project Gutenberg

  3921 readersFrom Project Gutenberg News, an article by Michael Hart: Today, just six weeks after Project Gutenberg posted its 40,000th internally created book, the 30,000th English ebook has now been placed online: The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, by Archibald Henry Sayce. Thanks go out to Delphine Lettau, David King and the Online Distributed Proofreaders

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  Open Access ebooks, part 4 – Libraries, by Eric Hellman

  2034 readersThe fourth section my book chapter on Open Access eBooks looks at theier relationship with libraries.  I previously posted the Introduction,  What does Open Access mean for eBooks andBusiness Models for Creation of Open Access E-Books. I’ll be posting one more section, a conclusion. Thank you for all of your comments; the completed chapter (and OA eBook) will

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  Open Access ebooks, part 4 – Libraries, by Eric Hellman

  2531 readersThe fourth section my book chapter on Open Access eBooks looks at theier relationship with libraries.  I previously posted the Introduction,  What does Open Access mean for eBooks andBusiness Models for Creation of Open Access E-Books. I’ll be posting one more section, a conclusion. Thank you for all of your comments; the completed chapter (and OA eBook) will