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Why the Radio Franglais campaign is fate
Not long ago I (Andromeda Yelton) and our rights director (Amanda Mecke) were talking to our newest author, Nancy Boulicault, about her campaign to unglue Radio Franglais. She was talking about schools and cultural groups she’s worked with, as an author and teacher (she runs workshops to promote bilingualism through creative writing). Several are in […]
The Unglue.it/LibraryThing glee club smackdown
It’s not all book rights, author profiles, payment processors, web development, and campaign stats around here. Even in a decentralized company with no face-to-face office, one has to have some hijinks and shenanigans. Here’s ours. The Library 2.0 Ideas twitter feed (@library2) randomly generates modern (trendy? insane?) ideas for library services every half hour. A […]
A Fool’s Hope for 2013
Wow, what a year! 59,932 unique visitors 2,678 registered users 12,462 dollars pledged 3 unglued books If you took part in unglue.it in 2012, by registering, by pledging, by helping to spread the word, by reporting bugs, or by offering your works for ungluing, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. It is […]
So You Want To Be a Librarian photo posting contest!
Would you post it in your house? Would you post it with your spouse? Would you post it with great shoes? Would you post it with tattoos? Would you post it with your cat? In Paris? Mountain View? North Platte? Would you post from kayak trips? Or while foodspottting? (Fish and chips!) Would you post […]
One unglued book on Kindle and iBooks; Let’s do a second!
We’ve had a grueling month. Eric has flown about 17,000 miles to tell people about Unglue.it, in the middle of which the Unglue.it team relaunched the site. Then, Eric’s house in New Jersey (which doubles as Gluejar galactic headquarters) lost power for 10 long days after Hurricane Sandy. Luckily, the rest of the team, in Connecticut, […]
Meet Lauren Pressley and Library Juice Press
As the Head of Instruction and an Associate Librarian at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, a member of the American Library Association Council and the Library Information Technology Association Board of Directors, and a Library Journal Mover & Shaker awardee, Lauren Pressley knows a lot about how libraries work today. She’s […]
We’ve relaunched!
Two months ago, Amazon Payments forced us to suspend campaigns. Since then we’ve been busy evaluating our other payment options (we settled on Stripe), implementing new features, signing new rights holders, and releasing our first unglued ebook. Now, campaigns are back, and once again you can give books to the world. The five books being […]
New Unglue.it feature: Add to Readmill
When you help to unglue a book, you also help to make it available in an open format: DRM-free EPUB. One reason that’s important is that openness makes the book more valuable to everybody. You can do the things that you expect to be able to do with real books- highlight and clip passages, read […]
Update on Unglue.it Relaunch
As we get over our excitement about the release of our first unglued ebook, Oral Literature in Africa, we’re beginning our planning for relaunch. The silver lining behind our Amazon Payments thunderstorm is that over the past year, some new payments alternatives have emerged. We got red-carpet treatment from three California payments startups, each of […]
Open thread: Amazon forces Unglue.it to Suspend Crowdfunding for Creative Commons eBooks
Amazon Payments has informed us that they will no longer process pledge payments for Unglue.it, forcing us to suspend all active ungluing campaigns. According to a Senior Account Manager at Amazon, Amazon has decided against “boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts at this time”. Amazon has been providing payment services for Unglue.it, as it does for the […]
