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A list of Creative Commons-licensed books. As a filter these should be available in hardcopy and have an ISBN.
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This is a list of '''books''' available under a Creative Commons license.
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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.
  
 
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: Cause commune : l'information entre bien commun et propriété (Common Cause: Information Between Commons and Property)
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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: Democratizing Innovation
 
Author: Eric von Hippel
 
Publication Date: April 2005
 
  
Title: Freedom of Expression
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=== Nonfiction ===
Author: Kembrew McLeod
 
ISBN: 0385513259
 
Publication Date: Feb 15, 2005
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
 
Website: http://kembrew.com/books/
 
Pages: 384
 
  
Title: We the Media
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{{#ask:
Author: Dan Gillmor
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Title: Free Culture
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=== Fiction ===
Author: Lawrence Lessig
 
  
==Fiction==
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Title: The Escapist
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== Featured Content Directories for Books ==
Author: James Morris
 
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
 
  
Title: Accelerando
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See here: [[Text#Featured Text sites]].
Author: Charles Stross
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
 
Website: http://www.accelerando.org/book/
 
  
Title: Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
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{{#ask:
Author: Cory Doctorow
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[[format::Text]]
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/ (also http://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/2.0/)
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Website: http://craphound.com/someone/download.php
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Title: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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== More sources of free books ==
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: Eastern Standard Tribe
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Author: Cory Doctorow
 
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
 
Website: http://craphound.com/est/download.php
 
  
Title: Maelstrom
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* [[Text]] — list of Creative Commons licensed text-based media
Author: Peter Watts
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* [http://bookpub.org/ Bookpub.org]
Liense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
 
  
Title: Starfish
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public domain:
Author: Peter Watts
 
Liense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
 
  
Title: Stranger Things Happen
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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg]
Author: Kelly Link
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* US government books?
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
 
Website: http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/
 
  
Title: Dr. Lewis B. Turndevelt's Big Book of Forewords
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{{Translations
Author: David R. Perry
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| articles = Pt:Livros
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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Website: http://www.davidrperry.com/
 
  
Title: Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors
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[[Category:Text]]
Author: Jonathan DiMarco
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[[Category:List]]
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
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[[Category:Media]]
Website: http://zaltyspress.com/
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[[Category:Licensed]]

Latest revision as of 23:34, 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: