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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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| Title: The Wealth of Networks
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| Author: Yochai Benkler
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| ISBN:0300110561
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| Publication Date: May 16, 2006
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
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| Website:http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php?title=Download_PDFs_of_the_book
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| Pages: 528
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| Title: Bound By Law? (Tales from the Public Domain)
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| Author: Keith Aoki; James Boyle; Jennifer Jenkins
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| ISBN:0974155314
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| Publication Date: March 15, 2006
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
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| Website: http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.html
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| Pages: 76
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| Title: Utkozben ("In Transit") (HUNGARY)
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| Author: Ferenc Gyurcsany
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| Publication Date: February 2006
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/deed.hr
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| Website: http://www.napvilag.hu/ (see also: http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5794)
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| Title: Introduction to Economic Analysis
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| 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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| Website: http://www.introecon.com
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| Pages: 329
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| Audiobook: http://www.archive.org/details/mcafee_econ
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| Title: Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
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| Author: Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
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| ISBN: 0596009623
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| Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ca/
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| Website:http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11
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| Pages: 380
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| Title: In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law
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| Author: Michael Geist
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| ISBN: 1552211134
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| Publication Date: September 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ca/
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| Website: http://www.irwinlaw.com/books.aspx?bookid=120
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| Pages: 608
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| Title: Democratizing Innovation
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| Author: Eric von Hippel
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| ISBN: 0262002744
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| Publication Date: April 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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| Website: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ.htm
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| Pages: 208
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| Title: Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals
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| Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
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| ISBN: 1-59407-670-7
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| Publication Date: March 2, 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm
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| Pages: 129
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| Title: Free Culture
| | == More sources of free books == |
| Author: Lawrence Lessig
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| ISBN:0143034650
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| Publication Date: February 22, 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.free-culture.cc/
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| Pages:368
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| Title: Freedom of Expression
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| Author: Kembrew McLeod
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| ISBN: 0385513259
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| Publication Date: February 15, 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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| Website: http://kembrew.com/books/
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| Pages: 384
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| Title: Cause commune : l'information entre bien commun et propriété ("Common Cause: Information Between Commons and Property") (FRANCE)
| | * [[Text]] — list of Creative Commons licensed text-based media |
| Author: Philippe Aigrain
| | * [http://bookpub.org/ Bookpub.org] |
| ISBN: 2213623058
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| Publication Date: 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/fr/
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| Website: http://www.causecommune.org
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| Pages: 285
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| Title: A Book of Five Strings
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| Author: Patrick Costello
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| ISBN: 0974419028
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| Publication Date: November 2004
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.ezfolk.com/banjo/five/
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| Pages: 120
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| Title: We the Media
| | * [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg] |
| Author: Dan Gillmor
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| ISBN: 0596102275
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| Publication Date: July 2004
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp
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| Pages: 334
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| Title: The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo
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| Author: Patrick Costello
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| ISBN:0974419001
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| Publication Date: September 2003
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.ezfolk.com/banjo/howtao/
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| Pages:168
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| Title: Weapons of Mass Delusion: America’s Real National Emergency
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| Author: Richard Forno
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| ISBN:1589611055
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| Publication Date: August 2003
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.infowarrior.org/wmd/
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| Pages:200
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| Title: The Complete FreeBSD
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| Author: Greg Lehey
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| ISBN:0596005164
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| Publication Date: 4th edition April 2003
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode
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| Website: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/
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| Pages:714
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| Title: Free For All
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| Author: Peter Wayner
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| ISBN: 0066620503
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| Publication Date: July 2000
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
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| Website:http://www.wayner.org/books/ffa/
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| Pages: 340
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| Title: A Briefer History of Time
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| Author: Eric Schulman
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| ISBN:0716733897
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| Publication Date: May 15, 1999
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
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| Website: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3fs8i/bhtes/
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| Pages:171
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| Title: Wall Street
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| Author: Doug Henwood
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| ISBN: 0860916707
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| Publication Date: May 1998
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/%20
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| Website: http://wallstreetthebook.com/
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| Pages: 372
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| Title: Accelerando
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| Author: Charles Stross
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| ISBN:0441014151
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| Publication Date: June 27, 2006
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.accelerando.org/book/
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| Pages: 432
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| Title: Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors
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| Author: Jonathan DiMarco
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| ISBN: 097273161X
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| Publication Date: February 2006
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
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| Website: http://zaltyspress.com/bullets.html
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| Pages:400
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| Title: Stranger Things Happen
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| Author: Kelly Link
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| ISBN:1931520003
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| Publication Date: July 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
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| Website: http://www.lcrw.net/kellylink/sth/
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| Pages:266
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| Title: Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
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| Author: Cory Doctorow
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| ISBN:0765312786
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| Publication Date: June 16, 2005
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| 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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| Pages: 320
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| Title: The Escapist
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| Author: James Morris
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| ISBN: 1905290055
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| Publication Date: May 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/
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| Website: http://www.theescapist.co.uk/
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| Download: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4565
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| Pages: 168
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| Title: Eastern Standard Tribe
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| Author: Cory Doctorow
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| ISBN: 0765310457
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| Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
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| Website: http://craphound.com/est/download.php
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| Pages: 224
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| Title: Holy Tango of Literature
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| Author: Francis Heaney
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| ISBN: 1578601592
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| Publication Date: November 2004
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/deed.en
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| Website: http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/Holy_Tango.htm
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| Pages:128
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| Title: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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| Author: Cory Doctorow
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| ISBN: 0765304368
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| ISBN: 076530953X
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| Publication Date: 2003
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ (see http://www.craphound.com/down/archives/2004_02.php#000117)
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| Website: http://craphound.com/down/
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| Pages: 208
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| Title: Star Dragon
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| Author: Mike Brotherton
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| ISBN: 076534677X
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| Publication Date: 2003
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/index.html
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| Pages:352
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| Title: Maelstrom
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| Author: Peter Watts
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| ISBN:0812566793
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| Publication Date: 2002
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
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| Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
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| Pages:384
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| Title: Starfish
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| Author: Peter Watts
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| ISBN:0812575857
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| Publication Date: 2000
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
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| Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
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| Pages: 384
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| Title: Acts of the Apostles (Mind Over Matter)
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| Author: John F.X. Sundman
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| ISBN: 192975213X
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| Publication date: November 1999
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
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| Website: http://wetmachine.com/acts/index.shtml
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| Pages: 360
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| Title: Dr. Lewis B. Turndevelt's Big Book of Forewords
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| Author: David R. Perry
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| ISBN:0975355406
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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
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| Website: http://www.davidrperry.com/
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| ==Lulu Highlights==
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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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| You can also search for more CC-licensed books here:
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| http://www.lulu.com/browse/adv_search.php
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| 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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| Website: http://www.55fun.com/
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| Pages: 232
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| Title: Wireless Networking in the Developing World
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| 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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| Website: http://wndw.net/
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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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| Website: http://www.lulu.com/content/125298
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| Pages: 371
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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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| 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
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Fiction
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|?license=License
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Featured Content Directories for Books
See here: Text#Featured Text sites.
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More sources of free books
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