A 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… Read More

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… Read More

Just 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… Read More

By 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… Read More

I 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,… Read More

A 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… Read More

GlueJar 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… Read More

Wall Street Journal's Thomas Catan writes, "Critics of E-Books Lawsuit Miss the Mark, Experts Say" The Passive Voice, a lawyer, summarizes the WSJ article and then links us to the FULL Wall Street Journal article, which few do, and that… Read More

I’m a huge fan of Amazon Web Services. I use them to host all of my sites and almost everybody I’ve worked with over the last few years uses them in some capacity. I also use the Kindle platform a… Read More

Found 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… Read More

Rights 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… Read More

“unglue (v.t.): For an author or publisher to accept a fixed amount of money from the public for its unlimited use of an e-book.” By Beth Kephart People, Eric Hellman is fond of saying, have a funny relationship to books.… Read More

When I was a sophomore in high school, I read Catcher in the Rye. To me, the amazing thing about this book was the language. It seemed like every other word was “bastard”, “goddam” or “sonofabitch”. What were my teachers… Read More

by Wahj (CC BY-NC-ND)Real worms don’t come in cans. The last time I saw worms offered for sale, they came in paper buckets, the kind that usually hold Chinese take-out. You open these up, and the worms don’t jump out… Read More