{"id":871,"date":"2013-05-09T10:44:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www6b.wittenberg.edu\/lib\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=871"},"modified":"2013-05-09T10:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T14:44:30","slug":"unglue-it-free-ebooks-through-creative-commons-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Unglue.it: Free Ebooks through Creative Commons Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a fan of free ebooks?\u00a0 Unglue.it is a new program dedicated to using crowdfunding (just like Kickstarter) to provide free and legal access to ebooks its members want to read.\u00a0 Unglue.it works with rights holders to agree on fair compensation for releasing a free, legal edition of already published ebooks under Creative Commons licensing.\u00a0 Once a book is unglued you may read it, copy it in any format or share it with anyone and on any device, worldwide.\u00a0 Membership is free, and <em>if<\/em> you decide to give, you can choose any amount you like.\u00a0 Members choose the books they want to unglue and if a campaign is unsuccessful, no one is charged.\u00a0 The program is just getting started; about 20 books have been unglued so far.\u00a0 To find out more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/unglue.it\/landing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unglue.it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of free ebooks, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bartleby<\/a> for Harvard Classics or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> for over 42,000 classic and contemporary ebooks that are in the public domain (the copyright has expired).<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Creative Commons licensing, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\">CreativeCommons.org<\/a>. Follow this link to find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain\" target=\"_blank\">Public Domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a fan of free ebooks?\u00a0 Unglue.it is a new program dedicated to using crowdfunding (just like Kickstarter) to provide free and legal access to ebooks its members want to read.\u00a0 Unglue.it works with rights holders to agree on fair compensation for releasing a free, legal edition of already published ebooks under Creative Commons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-thomas-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}