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Creative Commons Staff Members Release New Free eBook (creativecommons.org)
ChristianVillum writes: Creative Commons staff-members Sarah Hinchliff Pearson and Paul Stacey have now published Made With Creative Commons, the awaited book they successfully funded on Kickstarter in 2015. "Made With Creative Commons is a book about sharing," explains the book's description. "It is about sharing textbooks, music, data, art, and more. People, organizations, and businesses all over the world are sharing their work using Creative Commons licenses because they want to encourage the public to reuse their works, to copy them, to modify them... But if they are giving their work away to the public for free, how do they make money?
"This is the question this book sets out to answer. There are 24 in-depth examples of different ways to sustain what you do when you share your work. And there are lessons, about how to make money but also about what sharing really looks like -- why we do it and what it can bring to the economy and the world. Full of practical advice and inspiring stories, Made with Creative Commons is a book that will show you what it really means to share."
There's free versions in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats for downloading from the Creative Commons site, and there's also an edit-able version on Google Docs. A small Danish non-profit publisher named Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books is also publishing print copies of the book under a Creative Commons license "to ensure easy sharing," and is making the book available on Amazon or through the publisher's own web site.
"This is the question this book sets out to answer. There are 24 in-depth examples of different ways to sustain what you do when you share your work. And there are lessons, about how to make money but also about what sharing really looks like -- why we do it and what it can bring to the economy and the world. Full of practical advice and inspiring stories, Made with Creative Commons is a book that will show you what it really means to share."
There's free versions in PDF, ePub, and MOBI formats for downloading from the Creative Commons site, and there's also an edit-able version on Google Docs. A small Danish non-profit publisher named Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books is also publishing print copies of the book under a Creative Commons license "to ensure easy sharing," and is making the book available on Amazon or through the publisher's own web site.
But I guess the content mafia will give it a subtitle.
"Piracy 101"
Thanks for sharing... probably has some very interesting cases.
I havent looked... are you saying they used an unsafe format like an adobe format ... pdf or something?
There will be people who defend such a move on odd rationality.. like they will say chrome or firefox is a safe pdf viewer or something.. as if either of those wasn't an even bigger attack surface
"His name was James Damore."
Propaganda is, by definition, political. Presenting creative ways to make money from content released under a creative commons license is not politics, it's business.
Who the hell wants to read a 176 page book in their web browser?
The epub format is a zip archive containing HTML and CSS style sheets. It's basically an archive of a web site that's been packaged up to make it easy to download and read offline with one of the many readers that are available on every significant OS.
You can also unzip the epub file and open it in your browser if you're really hung up on the idea that your browser is a good place to read a long document.
... "EditorDavid," either change your freakin' handle or learn how agreement in number works!!!
Check out my novel.
The book contains loads of case studies and examples of people and organisations putting CC licences on their work. Quite a diverse range too :)
There are lots of organisations that publish materials not as a profit-making enterprise but to support their other activities and/or core business interests. It makes sense for them to put CC licences on their work so that it can be disseminated more easily, redistributed and promoted for them at no extra cost, and have more people take interest in what they're doing.
Education is a big example of this. Ed publishing giants like Pearson, McGraw Hill, et al., have made themselves gatekeepers for educators work and are strangling educators with restrictive licences, extortionate fees, and dirty tricks like publishing new "editions" every couple of years that contain no new information, the books are simply reorganised so as to make using older editions too difficult and thereby kill off the second-hand textbook market. CC licensed works allow educators to get on with what they do best without being inhibited by belligerent, profiteering ed publishing corporations.