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More and more electronic version of books get imposed on students to follow a class. Many of such books comes with DRM, which also forces students to run nonfree software. Paper books has no such restrictions, however book publisher can decide not to publish new versions of them anymore.
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== Introduction ==
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More and more electronic version of books get imposed on students to follow a class. Many of such books comes with DRM, which also forces students to run nonfree software. Paper books has no such restrictions, however book publishers can decide not to publish new versions of them anymore.
  
 
This page attempt to list electronic books that have no DRM, along with their license.  
 
This page attempt to list electronic books that have no DRM, along with their license.  
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Free licenses for manuals are also essential for freedom as they enable to adapt the book, and redistribute it.
 
Free licenses for manuals are also essential for freedom as they enable to adapt the book, and redistribute it.
  
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We hope to eventually move this to a more central resource.
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The active repository of information on this page has been moved to [[Group:DRM-free_Textbooks]].
  
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Below is for historical reference:
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=== Books and repositories of books ===
 
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_High_School_Science_Texts Free_High_School_Science_Texts]
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| physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc
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| grades 10-12
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| South Africa, other?
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| CC-BY
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| [http://spot.pcc.edu/~caralee/Math_105.html Math 105 - Math In Society - Open Textbook]
 
| [http://spot.pcc.edu/~caralee/Math_105.html Math 105 - Math In Society - Open Textbook]
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| Portland, USA
 
| Portland, USA
 
| Seem to be made specifically for liberal arts majors in the Portland Community College
 
| Seem to be made specifically for liberal arts majors in the Portland Community College
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| Mix of creative commons, including:
 
| Mix of creative commons, including:
 
* cc-by-sa for most of the book
 
* cc-by-sa for most of the book
 
* cc-by-nc-nd for very few figures
 
* cc-by-nc-nd for very few figures
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| Has links to other books under cc-by-sa
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* Has links to other books under cc-by-sa
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* Adapted version of Maths in Society for the Portland Community College
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| [http://www.opentextbookstore.com/mathinsociety/index.html Math in Society]
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| Maths
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| liberal arts major
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| USA?
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| Washington State faculty, other
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* [https://www.myopenmath.com/ Washington State faculty]
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* [http://www.opentextbookstore.com/mathinsociety/index.html Other]
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| cc-by-sa
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| Send an email to the author
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| [http://www.opentextbookstore.com/catalog.php opentextbookstore]
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| Many topics
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| College, Other?
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| USA, Other? (the books are in English)
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* [https://www.myopenmath.com/ MyOpenMath]
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* Lumen OHM online (commercial)
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| cc-by-sa, other?
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| [https://classic.csunplugged.org/books/ Computer Science without a computer]
 
| [https://classic.csunplugged.org/books/ Computer Science without a computer]
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| /!\ Nonfree (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
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| probably impossible (nonfree)
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| The books looks really nice, it would be a good idea to try to convince them in a friendly way to free the book.
 
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=== List of repositories (also) containing books ===
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We keep an up-to-date [https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks| list of links on the DRM website]: If you missed a link on the page or list here on the wiki, share it with us.
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* [https://archive.org/details/texts| Archive.org] - Free eBooks, textbooks, etc;
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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/| Project Gutenberg] - A virtual library of over 60,000 free eBooks;
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* [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en| Europeana] - A lot free public domain books from Europe;
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* [https://dp.la/| Digital Public Library of America] - +35.000.000 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States;
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* [https://openlibrary.org/| Open Library] - +1000k libre books;
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* [http://www.loyalbooks.com/| Books Should Be Free] - +7000 of free public domain books, like audiobooks or text files;
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* [http://www.online-literature.com/| The Literature Network] - Offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. Currently have over +3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors;
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* [http://www.authorama.com/| Authorama] - Public Domain Books, featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline;
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* [https://librivox.org| LibriVox] - Founded in 2005, LibriVox is an extensive library of free public domain audiobooks;
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* [https://legamus.eu/blog/| Legamus] - Makes free audio books from texts that are in the Public Domain in Europe;
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* [http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks| Open Culture] - Download +800 free eBooks;
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* [https://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/community-list| Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Bahia] - Free Books, Audiobooks, etc;
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* https://creativecommons.org/tag/math/
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* https://www.lelivrescolaire.fr : they claim that their books are under creative commons licenses. TODO: Check which ones are and if they also require other books under other licenses along them (like teacher books).
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* https://linuxfr.org/news/le-frido-livre-collaboratif-de-mathematique-de-niveau-agregation-et-un-peu-plus
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* https://www.sesamath.net/ https://manuel.sesamath.net/ and https://manuel.sesamath.net/index.php?page=telechargement_1spe_2019
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* http://www.ralentirtravaux.com/
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* http://www.exobiologie.info/
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* Add repositories you know about here

Latest revision as of 10:37, 27 August 2022

Introduction

More and more electronic version of books get imposed on students to follow a class. Many of such books comes with DRM, which also forces students to run nonfree software. Paper books has no such restrictions, however book publishers can decide not to publish new versions of them anymore.

This page attempt to list electronic books that have no DRM, along with their license.

Free licenses for manuals are also essential for freedom as they enable to adapt the book, and redistribute it.

The active repository of information on this page has been moved to Group:DRM-free_Textbooks.

Below is for historical reference:

Books and repositories of books

Link Topic Class Country Schools using it Associated homework License How to contribute Comments
Free_High_School_Science_Texts physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc grades 10-12 South Africa, other? ? CC-BY ?
Math 105 - Math In Society - Open Textbook Maths liberal arts majors Portland, USA Seem to be made specifically for liberal arts majors in the Portland Community College ? Mix of creative commons, including:
  • cc-by-sa for most of the book
  • cc-by-nc-nd for very few figures
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  • Has links to other books under cc-by-sa
  • Adapted version of Maths in Society for the Portland Community College
Math in Society Maths liberal arts major USA? Washington State faculty, other cc-by-sa Send an email to the author
opentextbookstore Many topics College, Other? USA, Other? (the books are in English) cc-by-sa, other? ?
Computer Science without a computer CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. Free activities for classroom or home. /!\ Nonfree (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) probably impossible (nonfree) The books looks really nice, it would be a good idea to try to convince them in a friendly way to free the book.

List of repositories (also) containing books

We keep an up-to-date list of links on the DRM website: If you missed a link on the page or list here on the wiki, share it with us.

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