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| − | A list of Creative Commons-licensed books.
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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. | | 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 == | + | == 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== | + | === Nonfiction === |
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| − | ==Lulu Highlights== | + | == Featured Content Directories for Books == |
| − | 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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| − | You can also search for more CC-licensed books here:
| + | See here: [[Text#Featured Text sites]]. |
| − | http://www.lulu.com/browse/adv_search.php
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| − | [[Image:Very Short Stories2.JPG |left|]]
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| − | Title: Very Short Stories
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| − | Author: Josh Webb
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| − | ISBN: N/A (e-book)
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| − | Publication: May 2007
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| − | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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| − | CC-licensed version, for free download: http://www.lulu.com/content/787925
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| − | [[Image:MysticMicrosoft.jpg |left|]]
| + | == More sources of free books == |
| − | Title: Mystic Microsoft: A Journey of Transformation in the Halls of High Technology
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| − | Author: Kraig Brockschmidt
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| − | ISBN: 978-0-6151-4379-8
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| − | Publication: April 2007
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| − | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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| − | CC-licensed version, for free download: http://www.mysticmicrosoft.com
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| − | Print version for purchase: http://www.mysticmicrosoft.com or http://www.lulu.com/content/732076
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| − | Pages: 272
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| − | [[Image:55_ways.jpg |left|]]
| + | You might also be interested in these resources: |
| − | Title: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
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| − | Author: Philipp Lenssen
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| − | ISBN: 1411693418
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| − | Publication Date: May 2006
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| − | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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| − | CC-licensed version: http://www.55fun.com/
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| − | Print version for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/content/296615
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| − | Pages: 232
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| + | * [[Text]] — list of Creative Commons licensed text-based media |
| − | Title: Wireless Networking in the Developing World
| + | * [http://bookpub.org/ Bookpub.org] |
| − | Author: Corinna Aichele, Rob Flickenger, Carlo Fonda, Jim Forster, Ian Howard, Tomas Kraq, Marco Zennaro
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| − | ISBN: 1411678370
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| − | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en
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| − | CC-licensed version: http://wndw.net/
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| − | Print version for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/content/223168
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| − | Pages: 254
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| − | Title: Extreme Democracy
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| − | Author: Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe
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| − | ISBN: 1411631390
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| − | Publication Date: 2005
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| − | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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| − | CC-licensed version, for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/content/125298
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| − | Pages: 371
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| + | * [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg] |
| − | Title: Introduction to Economic Analysis
| + | * US government books? |
| − | 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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| − | CC-licensed version: http://www.introecon.com
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| − | Print version for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/content/373835
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| − | Audiobook: http://www.archive.org/details/mcafee_econ
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| − | Pages: 329
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| − | =="Books" online== | + | {{Translations |
| − | 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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| − | 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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| − | 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: GAM3R 7H30RY
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| − | Author: McKenzie Wark
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| − | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
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| − | Website: http://www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory/
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| − | Title: The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin
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| − | Author: Dr. Peter Salus
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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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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:
