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CreateSpace to Make Library of Congress Public Domain Books Available no comments
CreateSpace has struck a deal with the Library of Congress to make available at least 50,000 public domain books through Amazon.com in the US and tens of thousands of titles available in Europe and around the world.
In February, 2010 the British Library similarly announced that it would make 65,000 public domain titles available.
As part of their ongoing efforts to improve access to material through digitization, the libraries provide CreateSpace and Amazon Europe’s print on-demand business with digital copies of scanned public domain books in their collections to be manufactured on-demand. Creating digital files from physical books preserves the integrity of the original works, and the new paperback editions available through CreateSpace and Amazon Europe distribution channels increase accessibility of those works to readers.
"We are pleased to now give the public a way to enjoy print on-demand access to library collections around the world," said Dr. Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services, The Library of Congress.
With Createspace Print on-Demand, these national libraries will make a large selection of content available quickly and easily via CreateSpace’s host of U.S. distribution channels, including www.amazon.com, ensuring wide public access with little economic investment. Since titles are only manufactured in response to customer demand, no inventory is needed and the titles will never go out of stock, making print on-demand an economic, convenient, and environmentally responsible public access solution for libraries.
The Library of Congress and The British Library are the most recent organizations to work with CreateSpace Print on-Demand and Amazon Europe’s print on-demand business to give readers access to rare or out-of-print titles. Other noteworthy institutions- such as The University of Michigan Library-have already made tens of thousands of titles available on Amazon’s U.S. and European websites using CreateSpace Print on-Demand and Amazon Europe’s print on-demand business.
CreateSpace is an Amazon owned print on demand platform for authors, publishers, film studios and music labels.
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Free Kim Harrison eBook; British Library Classics Coming to Kindle Store no comments
Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1) by Kim Harrison (4 stars/288 reviews) is available free at the Kindle store and at the Barnes and Noble eBook Store. This is a fun series if you have not read it yet.
And speaking of free ebooks, the British Library recently announced that they will soon be making 65,000 classic titles available through the Kindle store as free
downloads. The collection includes many rare and hard to find titles. You will also be able to order POD copies if you so desire.
There is a new press release from the British Museum which I will quote a couple of paragraphs from below. You can also read the announcement in its entirety here.
Estimates suggest that roughly 35% to 40% of the British Library’s 19th century British printed collections are either unique, or at least inaccessible through other major libraries in the UK and abroad. This deal is a prime example of how the British Library is continuing to explore new technologies and innovative business models to improve access to its historic collections.
Covering the likes of Dickens, Austen, and Conan Doyle, the 65,000 titles also include a range of lesser know Victorian classics such as, A Strange Story by Edward Lytton, one of the period’s most popular novelists – now largely neglected, and The Story of a Modern Woman by Ella Hepworth Dixon, described as ‘the greatest unread novel of female struggle’. Through print on-demand with CreateSpace, part of the Amazon group of companies, readers will be able to have their very own copies of these previously rare and inaccessible titles now in the public domain, including some classic first editions, re-printed at an affordable price. Print-on-demand is both a convenient and economically viable way of making these collections available. In addition, Kindle owners will be able to download these titles for free.
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