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This is a list of '''books''' available under a Creative Commons license.
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A list of Creative Commons-licensed books.
 
  
 
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.
  
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== How to add a book ==
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== Add a book ==
  
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This table pulls information from other articles in the wiki which have been created with semantic annotations.  To easily add a book, fill in this [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Special:AddPage/Form:Book form] or create a new page using the [[Template:Books]]
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==Nonfiction==
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=== Nonfiction ===
  
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==Lulu Highlights==
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See here: [[Text#Featured Text sites]].
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Lulu offers a publishing service for “digital do-it-yourselfers” to publish all manner of media, including books. Lulu lets
 
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creators set the license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, for their works as part of the publishing process. We've
 
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chosen to list some popular CC-licensed works that have been published through Lulu, below.
 
  
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=="Books" online==
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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.
 
  
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* [[Text]] — list of Creative Commons licensed text-based media
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* [http://bookpub.org/ Bookpub.org]
  
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Title: Cooking Com Bigode: vegetarian improvisational peasant fusion cuisine for the 22nd century
 
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Author: Ankur Shah
 
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Publisher: somethingconstructive.net
 
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Publication Date: 2006
 
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
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CC-licensed version: http://www.somethingconstructive.net/jamanta/online/bigode.pdf
 
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Print version for purchase: http://www.somethingconstructive.net/jamanta/get.shtml
 
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Pages: 120
 
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Title: Unbounded Freedom: a guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organisations
 
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Author: Rosemary Bechler
 
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Publisher: Counterpoint, the cultural relations think-tank of the British Council
 
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Publisher website: http://www.counterpoint-online.org
 
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Publication Date: September 29, 2006
 
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
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CC-licensed version: http://www.counterpoint-online.org/download/335/Unboundedfreedom.pdf
 
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Pages: 57
 
  
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Title: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg]
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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
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Publication Date: October 1996 to present
 
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/
 
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Website: http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
 
  
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Title: The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin
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Publication Date: online on groklaw, ongoing
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0
 
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Website:http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859
 
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Pages: still in progress
 
  
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Title: Abracadabra!
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Author: Raymond Newman
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/
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Website:http://www.revolverbook.co.uk/
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Latest revision as of 22:34, 13 June 2020

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

{{#ask:

 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.

{{#ask: format::Text size::+ |mainlabel=Title |?mainurl=url |?size=Size |sort=size |order=descending |limit=25 }}

More sources of free books

You might also be interested in these resources:

public domain:

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