Books

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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.

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

How to add a book

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 form or create a new page using the Template:Books

Nonfiction

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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

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"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.


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Title: Cooking Com Bigode: vegetarian improvisational peasant fusion cuisine for the 22nd century
Author: Ankur Shah
Publisher: somethingconstructive.net
Publication Date: 2006
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
CC-licensed version: http://www.somethingconstructive.net/jamanta/online/bigode.pdf
Print version for purchase: http://www.somethingconstructive.net/jamanta/get.shtml
Pages: 120

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Title: Unbounded Freedom: a guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organisations
Author: Rosemary Bechler
Publisher: Counterpoint, the cultural relations think-tank of the British Council
Publisher website: http://www.counterpoint-online.org
Publication Date: September 29, 2006
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
CC-licensed version: http://www.counterpoint-online.org/download/335/Unboundedfreedom.pdf
Pages: 57 
Title: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publication Date: October 1996 to present
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/
Website: http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
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/