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Unglue.it joins GITenberg
Unglue.it has been of two minds about public domain ebooks. On the one hand, we recognize that the public domain contains the greatest literary works ever produced, and ebooks of these works need to be on any serious reader’s ebook shelf. On the other hand, there are plenty of web sites already focused on the […]
Embedding “Thanks for Ungluing” Links in E-Books
One of the difficulties we’ve noticed with “Thanks for Ungluing” is that the “Ask” comes at the wrong time. When you click the “Read It Now” button on the Unglue.it website, we let rights holders request your support for their work. You can go ahead and download the book anyway, but even if you don’t […]
Non-profit “Champion of Openness” adds its first 2 CC books to Unglue.it
When Davis Erin Anderson, Community Engagement Manager at The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), contacted me about sponsoring two “Thanks for Ungluing” campaigns for their CC-licensed book titles, I was delighted to add them to our Unglue.it catalog. A non-profit organization located in Manhattan, METRO works to develop and maintain essential library services throughout […]
We’re working on Unglue.it 2.0
https://blog.unglue.it/2013/05/23/were-working-on-unglue-it-2-0/ (we distributed two different links- sorry!)
We’re working on Unglue.it 2.0
It’s been a year since we launched Unglue.it, so it’s appropriate to take a look at what we’ve done, and decide what to do next. With your help, we’ve unglued three books: Oral Literature in Africa, The Third Awakening, and So You Want to Be a Librarian. With your help, we might unglue two more. […]
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