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Old 02-23-2011, 12:33 AM   #1
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calibre introduces open books
calibre introduces Open Books: a database of drm-free ebooks outside the public domain.
There is a link to open books on the calibre home page. Spread the word.

If you are an author or publisher of DRM-free e-books please contact me with your information on this thread or via a private message and I will add you to the database.

Open Books is a developing project. We will be adding books regularly and will introduce a search function and other features as our collection of books increases. We already have some authors on mobileread on our list.
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Old 02-23-2011, 04:30 AM   #2
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Thanks for all your work in producing this resource.

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A superb initiative, Krittika. Thanks to you and Kovid for all you do for the e-reading community worldwide. Proud to be associated with the new Open Books list of publishers and titles ... GUARANTEED DRM-FREE! Very best wishes and here's karma to ya. Neil
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The entire Baen library is available DRM free. In multiple formats. Not sure what the procedure would be to get all their books listed, but all are available from www.webscriptions.net.
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Old 02-23-2011, 09:32 PM   #6
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Um, only SOME of their books are free, and none of them, I believe, are outside the public domain. Baen is a fantastic publisher, precisely because of the way they handle their books.
Very true. The books included in the Open Books site are also all outside the public domain.

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Let's not repay their sanity by mass-distributing works that either 1. they fully -- and rightly -- expect payment for, or 2. -- are free, but NOT public domain.
Your points are valid but are so far out of context. How do your points have anything at all to do with this thread or topic? Have you even reviewed the Open Books site?

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Remember that they're giving the books free of charge (those that they DO give away free,) in order to either drive traffic to their site, so that curious reads will buy other works, or else to get them interested in some of their writers, with the hopes that they'll buy some of the paid books.

Keep in mind that DRM free does NOT mean 'free of financial obligation'.
I agree with everything you said but it has no place in this thread. Please check out the site before you jump to conclusions about its layout or goals.
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None of my commentary was directed at the Open Books project. They were, rather, directed at someone who seemed to be advocating the placing of the entire Baen Library onto the Open Books website.
I understood that. How is that a bad thing for Baen? Getting as many DRM free, non-public domain books into the Open Books project site is the goal of the site and benefits everyone involved.

Again have you looked at the site?

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Please spend a little more time READING what I wrote, before accusing someone ELSE of jumping to conclusions -- which is precisely what YOU did.
From my perspective you still don't understand what the Open Books project is about. Please review the site before digging yourself any deeper.
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You're seriously asking how making available books for free, that are being charged for by the publisher, is bad for said publisher?
The Open Books project does not make books available for free. That line alone dug you deeper. I won't discuss things with you further until you thoroughly check out the Open Books site.
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Thanks dwanthny for clarifying.
Let me make this clear. open Books does not sell books. open books does not pirate books or provide them free.

open books catalogues titles and authors and provides links to the websites where the books are already available. it's a website where people can surf for books from Baen, smashwords fictionwise amazon (DRM-free) etc all together and then once they find the book they are looking for they click on the link which takes them to the Baen, smashwords fictionwise, amazon etc. website to purchase it from them by paying them.

Open books does not take a cut. Our only aim is to make DRM-free options easily accessible so people see the obvious advantages of DRM-free e-books and know where to find them.

We thought it would be good to provide users of calibre with an immediate database of DRM-free e-books so they can use the full extent of calibres features.
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@Krittika - You're Welcome and I'm glad to see you back in the calibre forum.

Having one source for all DRM-free books is an excellent way of promoting DRM-free books. It also puts pressure on other publishers to do the same.
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@CRussel: thanks

I am adding their books. I am doing it manually and trying to maintain a balance between the different genre.
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