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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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.