They have built the collection on a title-by-title basis, using their expertise to add books readers will enjoy. Open Bookshelf titles are selected by DPLA’s Curation Corps, a team of librarians and information professionals representing communities across the US. “The Free Ebook Foundation is thrilled to be contributing feeds from to the project.” “With Open Bookshelf, free-licensed ebook content will no longer be a second class citizen in libraries,” said Eric Hellman, president of the Free Ebook Foundation. Readers will find: the classics they know and love, from Austen to Twain, updated for EPUB 3.0 format with beautiful covers the best Creative-Commons licensed works from innovative authors like Cory Doctorow freely available textbooks and academic titles representing the push for open scholarship and an exciting multicultural children’s collection. Open Bookshelf contains an exciting, diverse collection of titles spanning a myriad of genres. Open Bookshelf is designed both for libraries and for readers: it is currently available to libraries through the DPLA Exchange and to readers via the SimplyE mobile app. The collection currently has more than 1,000 books, with new titles added daily. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce the launch of Open Bookshelf, a digital library collection of popular books free to download and handpicked by librarians across the US.
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