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  Unglue.it to Relaunch on October 15

  1060 readersJust yesterday we ran a profile of Unglue.it founder Eric Hellman; it was written by one of our colleagues, Book Business magazine editor-in-chief Brian Howard. It turns out, though, that we probably should have waited at least one more day before running the story, because Unglue.it released a bit of important news earlier today, at around

• Crowd-Funding Site Unglue.it Focused on Books Launches

  543 readers As the press release below states, Unglue.it is a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their already-published books free to the world under a Creative Commons license. PRESS RELEASE: May 17, 2012 — Unglue.it (http://unglue.it) is launching on May 17, 2012, at noon EDT, with campaigns for books from five initial

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  “Beyond the Book” Podcast Features Interview with GlueJar’s Eric Hellman

  850 readersGlueJar Founder and CEO Eric Hellman and is interviewed by Chris Kenneally in the latest ‘Beyond the Book’ podcast from the Copyright Clearance Center. From the Blurb Posted on the Beyond the Book web page: We want to offer rightsholders the opportunity to get a one-time payment in exchange for making their books into Creative

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  Web site hopes to ‘unglue’ e-book versions of copyrighted books through crowdfunding

  1786 readersFound on PaidContent: A company called Gluejar has launched a new website called Unglue.it with the goal of “freeing” e-book versions of copyrighted books that do not have any yet. The site hopes to contract with the owners of particular books to determine how much money they want to allow free e-book versions of the

• One Ebook to Prove Them All

  475 readers At the recent ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, we talked about the idea of a national ebook club. Eric Hellman, President of Gluejar and a member of ALA’s Digital Content & Libraries Working Group, summarizes the idea in a post on the ALA E-Content blog. Thought you might be interested and, of course, any comments

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  Unglue.it teams up with academic publisher De Gruyter

  1343 readersIt’s been a little while since we’ve had any interesting news to share about Unglue.it, the online service provider that uses a crowdfunding method to obtain the copyrights of certain e-books, which are then made freely available to anyone—or any institution, for that matter, including libraries—interested in downloading a copy. (Unglue.it users participate by donating

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  Will Unglue.it’s Unorthodox Pitch Appeal to Publishers?

  1233 readersRights are publishers’ primary assets and relinquishing them up for fixed fee may not be immediately appealing. By Edward Nawotka Eric Hellman at Books and Browsers 2011. Click to watch the video. Today’s feature story discusses an exciting and innovative new business, Unglue.it, which asks an author or publisher to accept a fixed sum of money from the

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  Unglue.it goes live

  734 readersHere is the press release: May 17, 2012 — Unglue.it (http://unglue.it) is launching on May 17, 2012, at noon EDT, with campaigns for books from five initial authors and publishers: Michael Laser, 6-321 Joseph Nassise, Riverwatch Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo Budding Reader, Cat and Rat Open Book Publishers, Oral Literature in Africa, byRuth Finnegan.

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  Unglue.it launches with five book-freeing campaigns

  1605 readersI found a press release in my mailbox this morning about the launch of Eric Hellman’s crowd-funded Creative Commons republishing initiative for copyrighted works, Unglue.it (which we’ve mentioned a few times already here). The site has officially launched just now, with campaigns for the following five books: Michael Laser, 6-321 Joseph Nassise, Riverwatch Nancy Rawles,

• What do readers really want from ebook frontmatter and endmatter?

  585 readersA while ago I stumbled on this post from Eric Hellman exploring the question of what sort of front- and endmatter makes sense for ebooks, given that many of the pages that we see in the front of paper books have a purpose related to the printing process. Hellman gives the example of the bastard