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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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| ==Nonfiction== | | == Add a book == |
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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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| 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: 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: Free Culture
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| 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: Feb 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)
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| Author: Philippe Aigrain
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| 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
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| 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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| ==Fiction== | | === Fiction === |
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| Title: The Escapist
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| Author: James Morris
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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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| Title: Accelerando
| | == Featured Content Directories for Books == |
| Author: Charles Stross
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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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| Title: Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town
| | See here: [[Text#Featured Text sites]]. |
| Author: Cory Doctorow
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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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| 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: Eastern Standard Tribe
| | == More sources of free books == |
| Author: Cory Doctorow
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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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| Title: Maelstrom
| | You might also be interested in these resources: |
| Author: Peter Watts
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| Liense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
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| Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
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| 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/
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| Website: http://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
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| Title: Stranger Things Happen
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| Author: Kelly Link
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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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| 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/
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| Website: http://www.davidrperry.com/
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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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| License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
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| Website: http://zaltyspress.com/bullets.html
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| 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
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| ISBN: 076534677X
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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
{{#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
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