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Unglue.it Crowdfunds ebooks
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 4:46PM

Unglue.it, a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their alreadypublished books free to the world under a Creative Commons license, was launched today. “The ebook technology revolution creates new opportunities for innovative markets that support readers, authors, publishers, and libraries,” said Eric Hellman, President of Gluejar Inc., the company behind Unglue.it. “Our crowdfunding platform will help the books that we love join the public commons for all to enjoy and cherish, while still respecting copyright and creators’ livelihoods,” said Hellman, a Montclair resident. Here’s how it works: if supporters pledge an amount chosen by the books’ rights holders before a given deadline, those books will be released as “unglued” ebook editions. The deadlines vary from approximately two to six months, and funding goals from approximately $5,000 to $25,000. From the press release: As the popularity of ebooks skyrockets, readers have been discovering both their convenience and their disadvantages. Proprietary formats and digital rights management (DRM) technology lock ebooks to specific devices and make it hard for people to keep reading their books as technology changes. Many ebooks cannot even be lent by libraries. Unglued ebooks solve these problems. They have no DRM and can be copied and shared without infringing copyright due to the Creative Commons license. Instead of receiving royalties, rights holders are paid

one licensing fee of their choosing in advance. Book lovers pledge toward this fee using the Unglue.it platform. The first five campaigns launched are the following (and include a book by Montclair resident Michael Laser): Michael Laser, 6-321 Joseph Nassise, Riverwatch Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo Budding Reader, Cat and Rat Open Book Publishers, Oral Literature in Africa, by Ruth Finnegan.

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Unglue.it, a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their already-published books free to the world under a Creative Commons license, was launched today.

Description “The ebook technology revolution creates new opportunities for innovative markets that support readers, authors, publishers, and libraries,” said Eric Hellman, President of Gluejar Inc., the company behind Unglue.it. “Our crowdfunding platform will help the books that we love join the public commons for all to enjoy and cherish, while still respecting copyright and creators’ livelihoods,” said Hellman, a Montclair resident.

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