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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)
- 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
- 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: Introduction to Economic Analysis
+{{#forminput:Book|35|Book Name|}}
- 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: We the Media
+=== Nonfiction ===
- Author: Dan Gillmor
- Title: Free Culture
+{{#ask:
- Author: Lawrence Lessig
+  [[genre::NonFiction]]
+|mainlabel=Title
+|?author=Author
+|?Publisher
+|?License
+|limit=200
+|sort=author
+|order=ascending
+}}
-==Fiction==
+=== Fiction ===
- Title: The Escapist
+{{#ask:
- Author: James Morris
+[[genre::Fiction]]
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/
+|mainlabel=Title
- Website: http://www.theescapist.co.uk/
+|?author=Author
- Download: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4565
+|?publisher=Publisher
+|?license=License
+|limit=200
+|sort=author
+|order=ascending
+}}
- Title: Accelerando
+== Featured Content Directories for Books ==
- 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
+See here: [[Text#Featured Text sites]].
- Author: Cory Doctorow
- 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
- Title: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
+{{#ask:
- Author: Cory Doctorow
+[[format::Text]]
- ISBN: 0765304368
+[[size::+]]
- ISBN: 076530953X
+|mainlabel=Title
- Publication Date: 2003
+|?mainurl=url
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ (see  http://www.craphound.com/down/archives/2004_02.php#000117)
+|?size=Size
- Website: http://craphound.com/down/
+|sort=size
- Pages: 208
+|order=descending
+|limit=25
+}}
- Title: Eastern Standard Tribe
+== More sources of free books ==
- Author: Cory Doctorow
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
- Website: http://craphound.com/est/download.php
- Title: Maelstrom
+You might also be interested in these resources:
- Author: Peter Watts
- Liense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
- Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
- Title: Starfish
+* [[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: Stranger Things Happen
+public domain:
- Author: Kelly Link
- 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
+* [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg]
- Author: David R. Perry
+* US government books?
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
- Website: http://www.davidrperry.com/
- Title: Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors
+{{Translations
- Author: Jonathan DiMarco
+| articles = Pt:Livros
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
+}}
- Website: http://zaltyspress.com/
- Title: Star Dragon
+[[Category:Text]]
- Author: Mike Brotherton
+[[Category:List]]
- Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
+[[Category:Media]]
- Website: http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/index.html
+[[Category:Licensed]]
- Publication Date: 2003
- ISBN: 076534677X