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Projects take three forms:
- A ransom, where the work is released gratis and under a Creative Commons license once a funding threshold is met
- A thank you system, where a work is released gratis and under Creative Commons, then donations requested.
- A quasi-ransom method, where paying for the gratis ebook gets you a copy - and reduces the time until the ebook will be released under a Creative Commons license.
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“What if you could give a book to everyone on earth? Get an ebook and read it on any device, in any format, forever? Give an ebook to your library, for them to share? Own DRM-free ebooks, legally? Read free ebooks, and know their creators had been fairly paid?
At Unglue.it, you can reward creators that have set their books free, via Creative Commons licenses. You can buy books that WANT to be free, but need funding to get there. You can pledge toward creating free ebooks from print books.
Traditionally published books are stuck: legal restrictions keep you from being able to enjoy and share them. Unglue.it gets them unstuck. Authors and publishers decide what amount lets them freely share their books with the world while still making a living. We raise that fee here through crowdfunding: people like you chipping in. When campaigns succeed, authors and publishers get paid, and you get a free ebook.
What if you could give your favorite book to the world?
What if you could unglue it?” – unglue.it
Collection
Licensing Creative Commons Attribution (part), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (part), CC0 1.0 Universal (part)
Connections
- A Byte Of Python
- A Vessel For Offering
- Against Intellectual Property
- Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication
- Beginning Titan The Distributed Graph Database
- Biodigital
- Code Book
- Copyright for Librarians
- Deep Freeze
- Design Livre
- Entropy Of Imagination
- Feeding The City
- Forall X
- Green Comet
- Headshot
- Homotopy Type Theory
- host of House Of Refuge
- Immersion Into Noise
- Introduction To Basic Legal Citation
- Introduction To Economic Analysis
- Issues In Open Research Data
- Light And Matter
- Open Access Ebooks
- host of Oral Literature in Africa
- So You Want To Be A Librarian
- host The Case For Copyright Reform https://unglue.it/work/136684/
- The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory Of A Genre
- The Democracy Of Objects
- The Digital Public Domain
- The GNU C Programming Tutorial
- The Psychology Of Emotions Feelings And Thoughts
- Understanding Changes In Poverty
Grouping Information, Literature
Funding Website (ransom), Website (pay-what-you-want), Website (sales)