Nook store has over 2 million of paid books and about the same number of free public domain books.
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There are several online sources for free, public domain books of all kinds.
For travellers, one of the most relevant uses of public domain books is to find historical perspectives on the destination they're visiting.
For Rap Genius, doing the same for the internet will mean pulling in large swaths of text from outside the music world, as the site has already started to do, hosting annotated versions of public domain books like The Great Gatsby and court cases like Plessy v.
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Hundreds of thousands of Sony Readers have sold and you can now read five hundred thousand public-domain Google Books on it in ePub format but, oddly, people ignore it.
Worldreader gets e-books from the public domain or donations from publishers, or by digitally publishing work by local authors.
Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford have prohibited Google from scanning copyrighted works in their collections, limiting the company to books that are in the public domain.
Google, an internet giant that has been scanning and digitising books for inclusion in its search engine, now offers thousands of books that are in the public domain free on mobile phones.
Can I just remind you that both the Prince of Wales and the Princess of Wales, before the boys were very old, both went on national television and admitted in documentaries and have made contributions to books which are in the public domain, about their private lives which also were very hurtful to the young princes.
Mr Hart tried to keep out of trouble, posting works that were safely in the public domain, but chafed at being unable to give away books that were new, and fought all copyright extensions like a tiger.
Using a few websites or apps, you can quickly load up on books that are completely free because they are in the "public domain", meaning they slipped out of copyright (usually many decades after the work has been published).
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