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A list of Creative Commons-licensed books. As a filter these should be available in hardcopy and have an ISBN.
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.
This is just a start and is woefully incomplete.  Please add missing titles and fill in missing information.


==Nonfiction==
== Add a book ==
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: The Wealth of Networks
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)
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
Author: Preston McAfee
ISBN : 160049000X
Publication Date: 2006
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ (see http://www.introecon.com/blurb.html)
Website: http://www.introecon.com
Pages: 329
Audiobook: http://www.archive.org/details/mcafee_econ
 
Title: Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
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
Author: Michael Geist
ISBN: 1552211134
Publication Date: September 2005
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ca/
Website: http://www.irwinlaw.com/books.aspx?bookid=120
Pages: 608
 
Title: Democratizing Innovation
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
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
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: Cause commune : l'information entre bien commun et propriété (Common Cause: Information Between Commons and Property)
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
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
Author: Dan Gillmor
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
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
Author: Richard Forno
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
Author: Greg Lehey
ISBN:0596005164
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
Author: Peter Wayner
ISBN: 0066620503
Publication Date: July 2000
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
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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
=== Nonfiction ===
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
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Author: Cory Doctorow
  [[genre::NonFiction]]
ISBN: 0765310457
|mainlabel=Title
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
|?author=Author
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
|?Publisher
Website: http://craphound.com/est/download.php
|?License
Pages: 224
|limit=200
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Title: Holy Tango of Literature
=== Fiction ===
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
{{#ask:
Author: Cory Doctorow
[[genre::Fiction]]
ISBN: 0765304368
|mainlabel=Title
ISBN: 076530953X
|?author=Author
Publication Date: 2003
|?publisher=Publisher
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ (see  http://www.craphound.com/down/archives/2004_02.php#000117)
|?license=License
Website: http://craphound.com/down/
|limit=200
Pages: 208
|sort=author
|order=ascending
}}


Title: Star Dragon
== Featured Content Directories for Books ==
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
See here: [[Text#Featured Text sites]].
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
{{#ask:
Author: Peter Watts
[[format::Text]]
ISBN:0812575857
[[size::+]]
Publication Date: 2000
|mainlabel=Title
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
|?mainurl=url
Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
|?size=Size
Pages: 384
|sort=size
|order=descending
|limit=25
}}


Title: Acts of the Apostles (Mind Over Matter)
== More sources of free books ==
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
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Author: David R. Perry
ISBN:0975355406
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
Website: http://www.davidrperry.com/


==Lulu Highlights==
* [[Text]] — list of Creative Commons licensed text-based media
Lulu offers a publishing service for “digital do-it-yourselfers” to publish all manner of media, including books. Lulu lets
* [http://bookpub.org/ Bookpub.org]
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 on Lulu, below.


You can also search for more CC-licensed books here:
public domain:
http://www.lulu.com/browse/adv_search.php


Title: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg]
Author: Philipp Lenssen
* US government books?
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
{{Translations
Author: Corinna Aichele, Rob Flickenger, Carlo Fonda, Jim Forster, Ian Howard, Tomas Kraq, Marco Zennaro
| articles = Pt:Livros
ISBN: 1411678370
}}
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en
Website: http://wndw.net/
Pages: 254


Title: Extreme Democracy
[[Category:Text]]
Author: Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe
[[Category:List]]
ISBN: 1411631390
[[Category:Media]]
Publication Date: 2005
[[Category:Licensed]]
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
Website: http://www.lulu.com/content/125298
Pages: 371

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: