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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.

• 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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  Unglue.it relaunches with five campaigns

  666 readersI got an email this morning indicating that Creative Commons book crowdsourcing site Unglue.it is relaunching with a new payment processor and several new ungluing campaigns. Unglue.it first launched a few months ago with the goal of collecting donations to put toward “ungluing” copyrighted books—that is, buying the right to release them as e-books with permissive CC

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

  877 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

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  The Crowdfunding of eBooks: Unglue.it Formally Launches This Thursday

  929 readersA couple of days ago we posted a link to a new interview with the Founder and CEO of GlueJar (provider of Unglue.it), Eric Hellman. Now, a blog post from lets all of us know that the Unglue.it site/database will formally launch in two days (Thursday, May 17, 2012) at Noon EDT but you can

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

  194 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

  404 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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  Can unglue.it succeed? Quirky initial selections raise questions

  1064 readersI think unglue.it is a great idea, but after seeing their first selections I must admit that I’m a bit skeptical about their success.  The thing that will make unglue.it work is selecting books that readers want to read and that are unavailable in any form.  Let’s take a look at their initial selections: Riverwatch,

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  New Digital Book Review Site Launches

  1085 readersThere is a new website dedicated to reviewing digital books called Dailyebookreviews.com. The site will feature daily reviews of eBooks in the science fiction, fantasy, horror and thriller genres. In addition to the daily reviews, the editors on the si...

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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