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By "book" we generally mean works over 35,000 words that are or have been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN. We've expanded the definition in two added sections below, however, to include the most popular books published through do-it-yourself press Lulu, and "books" published on websites of established organizations or notable blogs.

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Nonfiction

Author
Cooking Com Bigode Ankur Shah
Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Beitragen statt tauschen Christian Siefkes
From Exchange to Contributions Christian Siefkes
Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics Christoph Schiller
Wireless Networking in the Developing World Corinna Aichele, Rob Flickenger, Carlo Fonda, Jim Forster, Ian Howard, Tomas Kraq, Marco Zennaro
We the Media Dan Gillmor
Wall Street Doug Henwood
The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin Dr. Peter Salus
A Briefer History of Time Eric Schulman
Democratizing Innovation Eric von Hippel
Utkozben Ferenc Gyurcsany
Dances With Marmots George G. Spearing
PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
The Complete FreeBSD, 4th edition Greg Lehey
The Media in the Network Society Gustavo Cardoso
Global Secret and Intelligence Service - II Heinz Duthel
Woman, the relative being ...’ ‘Tota mulier in utero’- ‘woman is a womb’. Heinz Duthel
Das Ende der Demokratie Heinz Duthel
Rechtspopulismus - Die Herausforderung Heinz Duthel
- The Bilderberger Group - Saviors or Destroyers? I Heinz Duthel
The Illusion of a Grand Strategy - The White House Cabal Heinz Duthel
CRIME IM INTERNET! Die neue Droge Internet und der Verlust der Sozialen Kommunikation Heinz Duthel
Relativismus und Politische Philosophie Heinz Duthel
Global Secret and Intelligence Service - I Heinz Duthel
'Official’ ‘unofficial' Missions. The hell of Secrecy and Intelligence. Heinz Duthel
Wahrspruch der Geschworenen - Die verlorene Unschuld der Utopie Heinz Duthel
European Citizenship and Passport Report 2008 - Updated Version Heinz Duthel
Who Watch the Watchman? Heinz Duthel
- The Bilderberger Group - Saviors or Destroyers? II Heinz Duthel
‘The Insider’: Inside the Secret Teams Heinz Duthel
European Union: 'Cosa Nostra' Heinz Duthel
Irrweg Neokonservatismus Heinz Duthel
Negation der Dialektik in Revolution oder Reform. "Oh Herr vergebe ihnen, denn sie wissen nicht was sie tun!" Heinz Duthel
Global Secret and Intelligence Service - III Heinz Duthel
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. 'Yo, Blair'. The five Penny Populist.. Heinz Duthel
DAS ENDE DER POLITIK. VOM CHAOS ZUM CHAOS - POLITIKER ALS CHAOSVERWALTER Heinz Duthel
Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology J.M. Balkin
Etiomédecine, Tome 1 Jean-Louis Brinette
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science? John Holbo
Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates John Logie
Extreme Democracy Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe
Producing Open Source Software Karl Fogel
Bound By Law? Keith Aoki - James Boyle - Jennifer Jenkins
Freedom of Expression Kembrew McLeod
Mystic Microsoft: A Journey of Transformation in the Halls of High Technology Kraig Brockschmidt
Code Version 2 0 Lawrence Lessig
Free Culture Lawrence Lessig
Freie Netze Freies Wissen Leonhard Dobusch, Christian Forsterleitner (Eds.)
How Open is the Future? Economic, Social Marleen Wynants & Jan Cornelis
Humor and Moroccan Culture Matthew Helmke
Gamer Theory McKenzie Wark
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law Michael Geist
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt, Dragos Georgita
Forall x P.D. Magnus
The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo Patrick Costello
A Book of Five Strings Patrick Costello
The How and the Tao of Folk Guitar Patrick Costello
Free For All Peter Wayner
55 Ways to Have Fun With Google Philipp Lenssen
Cause commune : l'information entre bien commun et propriété Philippe Aigrain
Introduction to Economic Analysis Preston McAfee
Abracadabra Raymond Newman
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming Riccardo Poli, Bill Langdon, Nic McPhee
Weapons of Mass Delusion: America’s Real National Emergency Richard Forno
Innovation Happens Elsewhere Ron Goldman & Richard P. Gabriel
Unbounded Freedom: a guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organisations Rosemary Bechler
Vim Recipes Run Paint Run Run
Be the Media Various
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm
The Wealth of Networks Yochai Benkler


Fiction

Author
Stargazer Brandon Cole Phillips
Stargazer 2: Displacement Vector Brandon Cole Phillips / CreateSpace
It Came From Airport Security C. Glen Williams (ed.)
Accelerando Charles Stross
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow
Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow
Eastern Standard Tribe Cory Doctorow
Holger Dan Larsen
Viljen til magten Dan Larsen
Dr Lewis B Turndevelt's Big Book of Forewords David R. Perry
Holy Tango of Literature Francis Heaney
Boggle and Sneak Fritz Bogott
99 Erotic Notions: Erudite Erotic Story Collection Hapax Legomenon
Dominion JL Bryan
The Escapist James Morris
Mars Girl Jeff Garrity
The2080s Jeff Hannan
Everyone in Silico Jim Munroe
Acts of the Apostles John F.X. Sundman
The Banjo Players Must Die Josef Assad
Very Short Stories Josh Webb
Secondary Sound Justin sirois
Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link
Mortal Ghost L. Lee Lowe
Thicker Than Blood M.A.Newhall
Tokyo Zero Marc Horne
Apotheosis - La chiave dei desideri Massimo Civita
Nowhere Else to Turn Matthew Helmke
Star Dragon Mike Brotherton
Elemen Kekosongan Nein Arimasen
Move Under Ground Nick Mamatas
Der Brandenburger Tor. Ein Führer Olaf Trunschke
Die Geometrie der Träume Olaf Trunschke
Das Menschen-Museum Olaf Trunschke
Maelstrom Peter Watts
Starfish Peter Watts
Samandal Comics Magazine Various


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