LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
librivox.org/
Public domain books to read online. ... Welcome to Authorama.com, featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, ... All the classic literature featured on this site, as well as illustrations within the book pages, are in the public domain. Other texts are Creative Commons licensed by Authorama.com...
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Authorama; Public Domain Books ... The following books were downloaded from Google Book Search and are made available here as public domain. You can download, republish, mix and mash these books, for private or public, commercial or non-commercial use.
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From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks). ... We carry high quality items: Our books were previously published on paper by bona fide publishers and digitized by us with the help of thousands of volunteers.
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Free Books in the Public Domain ... Authorama--public domain books in easily readable HTML format ... Digital Library at The University of Pennsylvania Plenty of public domain books and links...
www.booksforabuck.com/general/pubsources.html www.booksforabuck.com/general/pubsources.html
In the US and many other countries, authors can put a work in the public domain by formally declaring that they are doing so. But most books enter the public domain either because they are not copyrightable (e.g. certain government documents), or because their copyrights expire.
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html
Classic Literature Library of Free Public Domain Books ... Free Recipes - Currently 35,000 recipes and over a dozen public domain classic cook books including Simple Italian Cookery.
www.classic-literature.co.uk/
You can also get 700 public domain books by email at www.arcamax.com ... It's silly to subscribe to a service for the public domain books, because books in the public domain are just that - belonging to the public. In other words, free.
mashable.com/2007/11/12/public-domain-ebook-sources/ mashable.com/2007/11/12/public-domain-ebook-sources/
p.s. If you're interested in other projects that make public domain books available, check out the Million Book Project's The Universal Library in the U.S. and in China ... , and their Digital Library of India as well as Project Gutenberg's public domain catalog of books.
googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/preserving-public-domai... googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/preserving-public-domain-books.html
Google Makes Public Domain Books Accessible To The World ... Google Print Unveils Collection of Public Domain Books from Libraries at University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and the New York Public Library...
www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_publicdomain.html www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_publicdomain.html