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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 […]
Let’s talk about money.
Unglue.it is the main business activity of Gluejar Inc., which is incorporated as a for-profit entity in the state of New Jersey. The goal of the Unglue.it business is to bring book lovers together to fund Creative Commons licenses for ebooks, which can then be made free to everybody, everywhere. Unglue.it charges a 6% commission […]
Unglue.it adds language filtering
We’ve just added a new feature to Unglue.it: language filtering. For example, you can now see our most-wished books in French, Spanish, German, Greek, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and Czech. If you’re a registered ungluer, you can add more! Some notes: Unglue.it uses Google Books as its book search engine. This allows us to focus on […]
Open thread for Unglue.it Discussion
Use this thread to discuss unglue.it in general. If you have bugs to report, please us the “Feedback” button on the rights side of every unglue.it page- that captures some info that helps us reproduce any issues, and will generate a quicker response.
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