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The latest Unglue.it campaign looks truly promising

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:27:21 +0000

The Unglue.it gang is at it again, doing what they can to get the word out about the latest titles they’re attempting to “unglue.” One of the books, Sara Roncaglia’s Feeding the City, looks fantastic. Originally written in Italian and published by Open Book Publishers, it’s an ethnographic look at “the dabbawalas of Mumbai, [who] deliver [...]

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Unglue.it Releases Two More Free E-Books (Updated)

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:26:28 +0000

We’ve written about the Unglue.it project a few times in the past, but here’s a brief explanation for anyone who may not be familiar with the site: It’s essentially a crowdsource-funded campaign that attempts to purchase the copyrights to various books, which it then releases free-of-charge—and DRM-free—to literally anyone on earth who wants a copy. [...]

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Unglue.it relaunches with five campaigns

Chris Meadows — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:59:35 +0000

I got an email this morning indicating that Creative Commons book crowdsourcing site Unglue.it is relaunching with a new payment processor and several new ungluing campaigns. Unglue.it first launched a few months ago with the goal of collecting donations to put toward “ungluing” copyrighted books—that is, buying the right to release them as e-books with permissive CC [...]

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Eric Hellman of Unglue.it on e-books, the creative commons, passionate authors and life after Amazon

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:49:19 +0000

By Brian Howard A few weeks ago, crowdfunding platform Unglue.it announced the release of its first e-book, Oral Literature in Africa, via Cambridge’s Open Book Publishers. While the scholarly tome by Ruth H. Finnegan likely didn’t set the publishing world ablaze upon its initial publication in 1970, and its e-book release in 2012 didn’t unseat any bestsellers, its [...]

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