Books: Difference between revisions

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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.

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Nonfiction

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Fiction

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Featured Content Directories for Books

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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.
-==Nonfiction==
+== Add a book ==
- Title: Cause commune : l'information entre bien commun et propriété (Common Cause: Information Between Commons and Property)
+{{#forminput:Book|35|Book Name|}}
- 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
+=== 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
+{{#ask:
- Author: Dan Gillmor
+  [[genre::NonFiction]]
+|mainlabel=Title
+|?author=Author
+|?Publisher
+|?License
+|limit=200
+|sort=author
+|order=ascending
+}}
- Title: Free Culture
+=== Fiction ===
- Author: Lawrence Lessig
-==Fiction==
+{{#ask:
+[[genre::Fiction]]
+|mainlabel=Title
+|?author=Author
+|?publisher=Publisher
+|?license=License
+|limit=200
+|sort=author
+|order=ascending
+}}
- Title: The Escapist
+== 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
+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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- Author: Cory Doctorow
+[[format::Text]]
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/ (also http://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/2.0/)
+[[size::+]]
- Website: http://craphound.com/someone/download.php
+|mainlabel=Title
+|?mainurl=url
+|?size=Size
+|sort=size
+|order=descending
+|limit=25
+}}
- Title: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
+== 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
+You might also be interested in these resources:
- Author: Cory Doctorow
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
- Website: http://craphound.com/est/download.php
- Title: Maelstrom
+* [[Text]] — list of Creative Commons licensed text-based media
- Author: Peter Watts
+* [http://bookpub.org/ Bookpub.org]
- Liense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
- Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
- Title: Starfish
+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
+* [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg]
- Author: Kelly Link
+* 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
+{{Translations
- Author: David R. Perry
+| articles = Pt:Livros
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
+}}
- Website: http://www.davidrperry.com/
- Title: Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors
+[[Category:Text]]
- Author: Jonathan DiMarco
+[[Category:List]]
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
+[[Category:Media]]
- Website: http://zaltyspress.com/
+[[Category:Licensed]]