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Creative Commons Books that Want Promotion
Unglue.it is putting together a special promotion for Creative Commons licensed ebooks, to run between Christmas and New Year’s. If you’d like your book to be part of the promotion, please let us know at rights@gluejar.com. If you’d like to nominate a book, leave a comment.
A Bookstore for Books that Want to be Free
Soon, we’ll be launching a new phase of Unglue.it. How do we describe what we’re doing? When we did the first implementation of “Buy-To-Unglue” (as a test, not a launch) I told a lot of people about it, but it wasn’t so easy to explain. Unglue.it would be sort of a Crowdfunding site, sort of […]
Buy-to-Unglue Test Campaign: Flatland
After a lot of hard work, we’re now ready for some real-world testing of “Buy-to -Unglue“. We’re offering an epub of the public domain classic, Flatland. We want to make sure everything works well, fix any bugs, and show our publishing, author and library partners what the new world of ebooks can look like. Please […]
Stefan Müller and “Complex Predicates”
We asked author Stefan Müller to tell us a little about his book Complex Predicates and why he wants to unglue it. As of October 15th, the campaign is at 29% and is definitely worth supporting. Q: Could you tell us a bit about who you are? Müller: I am professor for German and General Linguistics at the […]
A New Kind of Ungluing Campaign
Back in May, I wrote that we’re working on a new version of unglue.it, designed to broaden the range of books we can unglue. The main concept we’re adding is “Buy-to-Unglue”. The basic idea behind “Buy To Unglue” is that the rights holder sets a sales revenue target, and when the target is met, the […]