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A list of Creative Commons-licensed books.
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This is a list of '''books''' available under a Creative Commons license.
  
 
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.
 
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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This is just a start and is woefully incomplete.  Please add missing titles and fill in missing information.
 
This is just a start and is woefully incomplete.  Please add missing titles and fill in missing information.
  
==Nonfiction==
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Title: The Wealth of Networks
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Author: Yochai Benkler
 
ISBN:0300110561
 
Publication Date: May 16, 2006
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website:http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Download_PDFs_of_the_book
 
Pages: 528
 
  
Title: Utkozben (In Transit)
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=== Nonfiction ===
Author: Ferenc Gyurcsany
 
Publication Date: February 2006
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/deed.hr
 
Website: http://www.napvilag.hu/ (see also: http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5794)
 
  
Title: Introduction to Economic Analysis
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Author: Preston McAfee
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ISBN : 160049000X
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Publication Date: 2006
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ (see http://www.introecon.com/blurb.html)
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Website: http://www.introecon.com
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Pages: 329
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Audiobook: http://www.archive.org/details/mcafee_econ
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Title: Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
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=== Fiction ===
Author: Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
 
ISBN: 0596009623
 
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ca/
 
Website:http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11
 
Pages: 380
 
  
Title: In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law
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Author: Michael Geist
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ISBN: 1552211134
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Publication Date: September 2005
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ca/
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Website: http://www.irwinlaw.com/books.aspx?bookid=120
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Pages: 608
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Title: Democratizing Innovation
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== Featured Content Directories for Books ==
Author: Eric von Hippel
 
ISBN: 0262002744
 
Publication Date: April 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ.htm
 
Pages: 208
 
  
Title: Free Culture
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See here: [[Text#Featured Text sites]].
Author: Lawrence Lessig
 
ISBN:0143034650
 
Publication Date: February 22, 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.free-culture.cc/
 
Pages:368
 
  
Title: Freedom of Expression
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Author: Kembrew McLeod
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ISBN: 0385513259
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Publication Date: Feb 15, 2005
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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Website: http://kembrew.com/books/
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Pages: 384
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Title: Cause commune : l'information entre bien commun et propriété (Common Cause: Information Between Commons and Property)
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== More sources of free books ==
Author: Philippe Aigrain
 
ISBN: 2213623058
 
Publication Date: 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/fr/
 
Website: http://www.causecommune.org
 
Pages: 285
 
  
Title: A Book of Five Strings
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Author: Patrick Costello
 
ISBN: 0974419028
 
Publication Date: November 2004
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.ezfolk.com/banjo/five/
 
Pages: 120
 
  
Title: We the Media
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* [[Text]] — list of Creative Commons licensed text-based media
Author: Dan Gillmor
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* [http://bookpub.org/ Bookpub.org]
ISBN: 0596102275
 
Publication Date: July 2004
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp
 
Pages: 334
 
  
Title: The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo
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Author: Patrick Costello
 
ISBN:0974419001
 
Publication Date: September 2003
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.ezfolk.com/banjo/howtao/
 
Pages:168
 
  
Title: Weapons of Mass Delusion: America’s Real National Emergency
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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg]
Author: Richard Forno
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* US government books?
ISBN:1589611055
 
Publication Date: August 2003
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.infowarrior.org/wmd/
 
Pages:200
 
  
Title: The Complete FreeBSD
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ISBN:0596005164
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Publication Date: 4th edition April 2003
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode
 
Website: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/
 
Pages:714
 
  
Title: Free For All
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Author: Peter Wayner
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ISBN: 0066620503
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Publication Date: July 2000
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
 
Website:http://www.wayner.org/books/ffa/
 
Pages: 340
 
 
 
Title: A Briefer History of Time
 
Author: Eric Schulman
 
ISBN:0716733897
 
Publication Date: May 15, 1999
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
 
Website: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3fs8i/bhtes/
 
Pages:171
 
 
 
Title: Wall Street
 
Author: Doug Henwood
 
ISBN: 0860916707
 
Publication Date: May 1998
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/%20
 
Website: http://wallstreetthebook.com/
 
Pages: 372
 
 
 
==Fiction==
 
 
 
Title: Accelerando
 
Author: Charles Stross
 
ISBN:0441014151
 
Publication Date: June 27, 2006
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.accelerando.org/book/
 
Pages: 432
 
 
 
Title: Bound By Law? (Tales from the Public Domain)
 
Author: Keith Aoki; James Boyle; Jennifer Jenkins
 
ISBN:0974155314
 
Publication Date: March 15, 2006
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.html
 
Pages: 76
 
 
 
Title: Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors
 
Author: Jonathan DiMarco
 
ISBN: 097273161X
 
Publication Date: February 2006
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
 
Website: http://zaltyspress.com/bullets.html
 
Pages:400
 
 
 
Title: Stranger Things Happen
 
Author: Kelly Link
 
ISBN:1931520003
 
Publication Date: July 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website: http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/
 
Pages:266
 
 
 
Title: Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
 
Author: Cory Doctorow
 
ISBN:0765312786
 
Publication Date: June 16, 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/ (also http://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/2.0/)
 
Website: http://craphound.com/someone/download.php
 
Pages: 320
 
 
 
Title: The Escapist
 
Author: James Morris
 
ISBN: 1905290055
 
Publication Date: May 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/
 
Website: http://www.theescapist.co.uk/
 
Download: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4565
 
Pages: 168
 
 
 
Title: Eastern Standard Tribe
 
Author: Cory Doctorow
 
ISBN: 0765310457
 
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
 
Website: http://craphound.com/est/download.php
 
Pages: 224
 
 
 
Title: Holy Tango of Literature
 
Author: Francis Heaney
 
ISBN: 1578601592
 
Publication Date: November 2004
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/deed.en
 
Website: http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/Holy_Tango.htm
 
Pages:128
 
 
 
Title: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
 
Author: Cory Doctorow
 
ISBN: 0765304368
 
ISBN: 076530953X
 
Publication Date: 2003
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ (see  http://www.craphound.com/down/archives/2004_02.php#000117)
 
Website: http://craphound.com/down/
 
Pages: 208
 
 
 
Title: Star Dragon
 
Author: Mike Brotherton
 
ISBN: 076534677X
 
Publication Date: 2003
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/index.html
 
Pages:352
 
 
 
Title: Maelstrom
 
Author: Peter Watts
 
ISBN:0812566793
 
Publication Date: 2002
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
 
Pages:384
 
 
 
Title: Starfish
 
Author: Peter Watts
 
ISBN:0812575857
 
Publication Date: 2000
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
 
Pages: 384
 
 
 
Title: Acts of the Apostles (Mind Over Matter)
 
Author: John F.X. Sundman
 
ISBN: 192975213X
 
Publication date: November 1999
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
 
Website: http://wetmachine.com/acts/index.shtml
 
Pages: 360
 
 
 
Title: Dr. Lewis B. Turndevelt's Big Book of Forewords
 
Author: David R. Perry
 
ISBN:0975355406
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.davidrperry.com/
 
 
 
==Lulu Highlights==
 
Lulu offers a publishing service for “digital do-it-yourselfers” to publish all manner of media, including books. Lulu lets
 
creators set the license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, for their works as part of the publishing process. We've
 
chosen to list some popular CC-licensed works that have been published through Lulu, below.
 
 
 
You can also search for more CC-licensed books here:
 
http://www.lulu.com/browse/adv_search.php
 
 
 
Title: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
 
Author: Philipp Lenssen
 
ISBN:1411693418
 
Publication Date: May 2006
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.55fun.com/
 
Pages: 232
 
 
 
Title: Wireless Networking in the Developing World
 
Author: Corinna Aichele, Rob Flickenger, Carlo Fonda, Jim Forster, Ian Howard, Tomas Kraq, Marco Zennaro
 
ISBN: 1411678370
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en
 
Website: http://wndw.net/
 
Pages: 254
 
 
 
Title: Extreme Democracy
 
Author: Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe
 
ISBN: 1411631390
 
Publication Date: 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.lulu.com/content/125298
 
Pages: 371
 
 
 
=="Books" online==
 
These are "books" (ie works of 35,000 words or more) made available through established organizations and sites.  These are not to include vanity projects by your favorite uncle.
 
 
 
Title: GAM3R 7H30RY
 
Author: McKenzie Wark
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
 
Website: http://www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory/
 
 
 
Title: The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin
 
Author: Dr. Peter Salus
 
Publication Date: online on groklaw, ongoing
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0
 
Website:http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859
 
Pages: still in progress
 
 
 
Title: Abracadabra!
 
Author: Raymond Newman
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/
 
Website:http://www.revolverbook.co.uk/
 

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This is a list of books available under a Creative Commons license.

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.

This is just a start and is woefully incomplete. Please add missing titles and fill in missing information.

Add a book

{{#forminput:Book|35|Book Name|}}

Nonfiction

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 genre::NonFiction

|mainlabel=Title |?author=Author |?Publisher |?License |limit=200 |sort=author |order=ascending }}

Fiction

{{#ask: genre::Fiction |mainlabel=Title |?author=Author |?publisher=Publisher |?license=License |limit=200 |sort=author |order=ascending }}

Featured Content Directories for Books

See here: Text#Featured Text sites.

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More sources of free books

You might also be interested in these resources:

public domain: