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Flat World pioneers 'freemium' textbooks
Flat World Knowledge, a three-year-old textbook publisher, has released 24 titles which are now in use by 140,000 students at over 800 universities in the United States and another 50 abroad. The co...
Project Gutenberg aims for a billion free ebooks
Project Gutenberg wants to eventually see a billionfree ebooks offered in its online library.
Smashwords Q&A
An interesting Q&A with Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, a digital services provider for small and self-publishers.
Amazon to drop free ebooks from Kindle 'bestsellers' list
Amazon will soon be splitting its Kindle bestseller list, creating one list for paid books and another for free titles.
British Library to offer 65,000 free ebooks on Kindle
The British Library will offer over 65,000 mainly 19th-century titles scanned from its collection as free ebooks on Amazon's Kindle ereader.
Free ebooks top 2.5 million titles
Public domain ebooks from sources including the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg now top 2.5 million available titles and the range is growing at around 50,000 per month.
'More reasons to worry about ebooks'
Guardian blogger Sam Jordiston ponders price, DRM and 'licensing vs buying', among other topics, in this interesting piece.
Anderson's 'Free' free on Scribd, or is it?
Chris Anderson's new book Free has been posted in its entirety on file-sharing website Scribd, but many commenters complained that it wasn't 'free' enough! (access to the Scribd version of the b...
Wikipedia plagiarism accusations dog Chris Anderson's 'Free'
The much-anticipated launch of Free by Chris 'Long-tail' Anderson has been soured by the discovery of 'almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources", with m...
'How I sold my book by giving it away'
Crime writer Seth Harwood explains how he secured a publishing contract by giving away a free audiobook of his unpublished book.
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