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

  541 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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  Can Unglue.it succeed? Lackluster response to most campaigns casts doubt

  871 readersSeen on BoingBoing the other day: an update on crowdfunding site Unglue.it, which has launched five campaigns to crowdfund the free Creative Commons release of specific books. The site has successfully released one book, receiving $7,578 from 259 supporters to “unglue” Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan for a CC-BY release—meaning that people can

• E-Book Rights Crowd-Funding Platform Unglue.it Makes It’s First ‘Unglued’ E-Book Available

  482 readers Related: Start-up Unglue.it ‘Unglues’ First Book After Raising $7,500 [Press Release] We are pleased to announce the first free ebook release supported by a successful campaign on the Unglue.it crowdfunding platform, which launched in May 2012.  It may be downloaded from Unglue.it at https://unglue.it/work/81834/ .  Soon you will also be able to download it from your favorite

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  Eric Hellman of Unglue.it on e-books, the creative commons, passionate authors and life after Amazon

  1180 readersBy Brian Howard A few weeks ago, crowdfunding platform Unglue.it announced the release of its first e-book, Oral Literature in Africa, via Cambridge’s Open Book Publishers. While the scholarly tome by Ruth H. Finnegan likely didn’t set the publishing world ablaze upon its initial publication in 1970, and its e-book release in 2012 didn’t unseat any bestsellers, its

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  Unglue.it launches with five book-freeing campaigns

  1575 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,

• Unglue.it Relaunches Two Months After Being Shut Down by Amazon

  191 readers [Press Release] Unglue.it relaunches with Stripe, five ungluing campaigns Two months after being forced to shut down by Amazon Payments, Unglue.it is relaunching today with a new payments provider, Stripe, and ungluing campaigns for five books. Unglue.it is a crowdfunding platform that supports authors and publishers in releasing free editions of their books. After successfully raising $7500 to

• Unglue.it Relaunches Two Months After Being Shut Down by Amazon

  401 readers [Press Release] Unglue.it relaunches with Stripe, five ungluing campaigns Two months after being forced to shut down by Amazon Payments, Unglue.it is relaunching today with a new payments provider, Stripe, and ungluing campaigns for five books. Unglue.it is a crowdfunding platform that supports authors and publishers in releasing free editions of their books. After successfully raising $7500 to

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  Unglue.it “unglues” its first book

  470 readersFrom the press release: Two hundred and fifty-nine supporters pledged a total of $7,578 to a campaign to “unglue” Ruth Finnegan’s 1970 classic, “Oral Literature in Africa”. The campaign, which lasted 33 days, topped the campaign’s target at 12:30AM EDT on June 20 with a little under two days to spare. As a result the

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  Unglue.it “unglues” its first book

  253 readersFrom the press release: Two hundred and fifty-nine supporters pledged a total of $7,578 to a campaign to “unglue” Ruth Finnegan’s 1970 classic, “Oral Literature in Africa”. The campaign, which lasted 33 days, topped the campaign’s target at 12:30AM EDT on June 20 with a little under two days to spare. As a result the

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  Unglue.it “unglues” its first book

  254 readersFrom the press release: Two hundred and fifty-nine supporters pledged a total of $7,578 to a campaign to “unglue” Ruth Finnegan’s 1970 classic, “Oral Literature in Africa”. The campaign, which lasted 33 days, topped the campaign’s target at 12:30AM EDT on June 20 with a little under two days to spare. As a result the