Literature
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Subcategories Audiobook, Comics, Novel, Picturebooks, Poetry, Short Stories
Wikidata Code Q8242
Free, libre and open licensed or public domain
Authors Alliance
The Authors Alliance embraces the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good.
Ficly
A site of microfiction where you can add sequels and prequels to the writing of others.
Kim Diaz Holm
'Working to promote free art and abolish copyright through making quality comics and images distributed through open-licenses.'
Librivox
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Moby-Dick
Classic novel of a sea captain on the hunt for a great white whale.
Project Gutenberg
A website that preserves out-of-copyright books.
Stick's Masterpiece
A whimsical children's picturebook.
Taming Fire
The first book in an epic fantasy series.
unglue.it
A website to fund the release of Creative Commons-licensed books through a number of methods.
A Vessel For Offering
Hard boiled pseudo-Lovecraftian space noir with squishy (and doomed, of course) romantic bits.
Abulafia
A collection of random concept and word generators for story gamers.
Ada & Zangemann
'A book that arouses children's interest in tinkering and encourages shaping technology.'
Aelius Blythe
A fiction author.
African Storybook
The African Storybook initiative aims to address the shortage of contextually appropriate books for early reading in the languages of Africa. Our vision is for all young African children to have enough enjoyable books to read in a familiar language to practise their reading skills and learn to love reading.
African Storybook Project
Our vision is for all African children to have enough stories in a language familiar to them to practise reading and learn to love reading.
Ampersand
My name is Barry Deutsch, and I write and draw Ampersand, a political comic with a generally progressive sensibility.
Big Buck Bunny Board Book
A book for children introducing them to words and concepts.
Biodigital
Biodigital is a novel, first published as an Ebook via Unglue.it, about a Silicon Valley tech genius/messiah and the quasi-religious cult of transhumanist computer designers and brain hackers who follow him.
Book Dash
Children's books, focused on Africa.
Bounty Hunters: Metaphors for Fair Intellectual Property Laws
Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
Comic Book Plus
Gratis public domain comics.
Digital Comic Museum
Gratis public domain comics.
Dscript
A new Roman script.
Emily C O'Leary
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Entropy Of Imagination
''The inhabitants of this future Web reside in a closed system, where all possible experiences will soon be exhausted. The Web is winding down, falling into stasis. Here, Flatline is a brief infusion of novelty, bringing chaos to the system.''
Faded Page
"Faded Page is an archive of eBooks that are provided completely free to everyone."
Fantastique Unfettered
A magazine of short stories.
Ficlatte
Microfiction
Floraverse
Web comic/open world project
Fodongo: A Free-Culture Comics Zine
Folger Shakespeare Library
This database offers access to tens of thousands of high resolution images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art.
Future of Copyright 2.0 Anthology
Fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
Future of Copyright Anthology
Short fiction and non-fiction on the future of copyright.
Glider Ink
Glider Ink is a project aiming to create the first graphic novel about hackerspaces, introducing communities and their values to the wider audience.
Gracas Dream
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Green Comet
A sci-fi novel.
Headshot
Disturbed teen meets impassible therapist meets faceless killer meets white trash drama. A compact, rapid-fire psychological thriller.
Hoborg
A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized America at the beginning of the XX century. - that anyone can edit, fork and contribute to.
House Of Refuge
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Jagannath Mohanty
John Colagioia
John Colagioia's blog - including the Free Culture Book Club.
Leebre
A book publishing site.
Lunduke
Mimi & Eunice
A webcomic which often covers copyright-related issues.
Munchkund and His Sweet Tooth
A picturebook about a bear.
Norte
A Portuguese-language novella about a private detective searching for his missing uncle.
Octobriana
A public doman, communist-era superhero.
Open Access Explained
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Pepper & Carrot Motion Comic
A motion comic of episode 6 of Pepper & Carrot.
Pepper&Carrot
A whimsical webcomic about a witch and her cat.
Pepper&Carrot Mini
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Poetics For Cosmonauts
A book.
Population Of Loss
Anthology of science fiction short stories.
Public Domain Review
Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
Public Domain Super Heroes
Pwning Tomorrow
"Donate and download Pwning Tomorrow, a free, Creative Commons-licensed anthology of short fiction curated by EFF! The anthology commemorates EFF's quarter-century of fighting for digital rights, and features superstar writers speculating on the upcoming 25 years and beyond."
R. Donald James Gauvreau
Author, some of whose works are CC licensed
Road-Sign Hank and the Aliens
Lunduke is a game designer and comic creator.
Roadkill
A short story by Leonard Kirke.
SCP Foundation
Wiki describing X-Files-like phenomena.
Seeking Refuge
A modern take on the Scarlet Pimpernel with a mild superhero flair.
Shady's Shorts
Lately, most of my writing has been on long-form projects. Because of this, I sometimes write a short (most times comedic, other times not so much) to break up the monotony of those longer projects.
Solitudes & Silence
Spectrum of Rights
A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licenses work
Stardrifter
A science-fiction audiobook series
Stick's Adventure
New Brothers Whim picturebook.
StoryWeaver
Browse StoryWeaver, where you can read, create, translate, or download an endless stream of stories.
Teleleli
A blog of stories, games and public domain art.
The Beggar's Opera
An 18th Century ballad opera.
The Collected Writings Of Jeremy Kellerman Volume One
'"The Jeremy Kellerman Blog!" was created in February of 2011 as an outlet for the writings of Michigan-based creative genius and self-help guru Jeremy Kellerman and his associates.'
The Comic Strip Library
The Comic Strip Library is a digital library containing a collection of public domain comic strips.
The Dragonswarm
The second in a trilogy of fantasy novels.
The Dryden Experiment
An unbounded Science Fiction Universe available under Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA for development by authors, artists, game designers, and other creatives.
The Golden Years
Public domain comics, gratis to view but difficult to download.
The Open Utopia
An open content take on Thomas More's Utopia.
Tings
A NaNoWriMo novel.
Toddler Timothy's Delicious Candy Apples
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Twine Games
Online choose your own adventure games.
Ulysses
A great modern novel.
Valentin Champer's COPYME Editions
A poet.
Vessel.cc
An art installation.
Wuffle Comics
Adventures of a kind-hearted wolf.
Zero Project
A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.
Non-free, libre and open licensed
These entries may not be free, libre and open.
A Wind at the Window
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Abstruse Goose
A webcomic.
Acts of the Apostles
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Audiobooks By Verkaro
Audiobooks.
Beowulf: A Translation
A modern translation.
Bound By Law
A comic book about intellectual property law.
Captive
A novel about an Al-Qaida agent under interrogation.
Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now
Six of Cory Doctorow's short stories in comic book form.
Diesel Sweeties
'Diesel Sweeties is a pixelated webcomic by Richard Stevens 3 that has been continuously updated since April 2000. Sometimes the people kiss the robots. Be warned.'
Dispatches from Wondermark Manor
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Eastern Standard Tribe
A book of the near future.
Emily Speaks
'My attempt at grappling with issues of feminist dialectic in a short, entertaining fashion. Or, if you prefer, a story about a piece of software that turns loneliness into cash.'
Google Chrome Comic
An introduction to Google's open source browser project.
Hyperbole and a Half
A comic.
Icke
A sad story about a miserable kid and the perils of fish telepathy. Despite this flippant description, I consider this one of my more successful horror stories.
In the Blindness of the Glare
Part of the deal with the Ardwin ransom was that I agreed to write a story for ten of the $50+ donors. Each one got to dictate one element for inclusion.
Internet Archive
An organisation devoted to permanent access to digital collections.
Jenny Everywhere
Little Brother
A hacker, wrongly imprisoned, tries to take down the police state.
Loudlit.org
Machine of Death
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Manybooks
A gratis ebook site.
My Own Kind of Freedom
Nerd3
A website for nerds with a Minecraft webcomic
Nose Ears
'Nose Ears is an absurd comic about the absurd things in life.'
Overclocked
'Stories of the future present'
Pirate Cinema
Pirate Cinema successfully follows the same pattern as his previous YA novels, mixing an adventurous, whip smart young main character with a relevant socio-political theme and wrapping all of it in a fast-paced, entertaining story.
Regret, with Math
'Winner of the 2008 Richard Eastman fiction prize, “Regret, With Math” is about a young man who studies the martial arts, or doesn’t, and who dates his former college buddy’'s ex- girlfriend, or doesn’t, and who gets in horrible, life altering trouble. Or possibly doesn’t. It’s also about parallel universe theory.'
Save Yourself Mammal
Hand selected comics from the gratis webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Shrimp
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Small Beer Press' Creative Commons page
Read to live. Live to read.
Strolen's Citadel
[A]n interactive, searchable role playing resource
The Enemy And How I Helped To Fight It
The Most Dangerous Game
The second SMBC compilation, featuring comics from the entire archive, but focused on 2011.
The New Death and Others
'44 stories. 19 poems. No sparkly vampires. There’s a thin line between genius and insanity, and James Hutchings has just crossed it – but from which direction?'
The Ware Tetralogy
Sci-fi about human-cyborg relations.
Theft: A History of Music
A new comic book covering 2000 years of musical borrowing, from Plato to rap.
These People Mean Nothing to Each Other
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They Say The Sirens Left The Seas
Poems.
Two Things She Does With Her Body
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Two-Fisted Tweets
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Ubunchu
The world's first Ubuntu manga.
Unamused Comics
A website that hosts three comics.
Wu Ming Foundation
Literature written by a collective.
Zach Weinersmith
A cartoonist whose books have been Creative Commons licensed.
Zero Sum Game
''Deadly. Mercenary. Superhuman. Not your ordinary math geek.''
xkcd
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.