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Google Books CC republication options (and 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google)

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, August 13, 2009
14 years ago2,241 views

Google now offers "55 Ways to Have Fun With Google" available to be fully read online, it was Creative Commons licensed already, plus I had to nod off an agreement to allow them the full republication:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-XDkb3htVikC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false

(The book was already fully available at http://www.55fun.com)

Here's Google's post:
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/08/bringing-power-of-creative-commons-to.html

<<Today, we're launching an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to download, use, and share their work via Google Books.>>

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Do you have any interesting stats to share regarding how many copies you sold of this book, and what proportion of them were through Lulu's shop?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Published in 2006
Units sold to date: 311
Units sold since 2009-07-14: 0

:)

(Not exactly sure where to find the stats on where the book was bought...)

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Thanks Philipp. Sorry to hear that it didn't sell many more!

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

311? :(

I might put some leaflets for it in my local shopping centre, they distribute them for free...

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