From: Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:38:59 -0400

I sent this out to our list earlier today; I would be especially
interested in hearing from Liblicense members how we might make it
easier for libraries to participate in ungluing campaigns.

Eric

Eric Hellman
President, Gluejar.Inc.
Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
twitter: @gluejar



De Gruyter to Offer 100 titles for Open Access through Unglue.it

April 2, 2013

De Gruyter, the academic publisher based in Berlin, will be offering
100 titles from its e-dition series at the crowdfunding platform
Unglue.it. Each individual title that raises $2,100 at the site will
be made available worldwide as open-access content.

Unglue.it is making e-books free and universally accessible to
libraries and book lovers alike. It works by users contributing an
amount of their choosing to the book titles offered at the platform by
publishers. If the minimum funding amount is achieved, the publisher
will release the book under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND).

“The demand for open-access books at De Gruyter has been increasing
continuously,” said De Gruyter CEO Sven Fund. “This has motivated us
to offer select e-dition titles atUnglue.it and see if users are
willing to help increase the number of open access works available.”

De Gruyter will offer books from 1958 to 2003 that currently can no
longer be ordered. These books are in both English and German and
cover a wide range of subjects, including law, linguistics,
mathematics, and philosophy. Unglue.it users can help determine which
titles are offered first by putting De Gruyter titles on their
“wishlists”. The De Gruyter page on Unglue.it is at
https://unglue.it/pid/popular/4311 .

“We're really excited and honored to be working with De Gruyter. Their
broad commitment to both Open Access and to high quality publishing
really distinguishes them from their competitors,” says Eric Hellman,
President of Gluejar Inc., the company behind Unglue.it.

Contact
Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
Tel. +49 (0)30-260 05 153
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Eric Hellman
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twitter: @unglueit


De Gruyter: The academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back on
a history spanning over 260 years. The Berlin-based group of companies
releases over 1,250 new titles each year in the fields of medicine,
the humanities, natural sciences, and law, in addition to more than
650 journals and digital media publications. The De Gruyter Group
includes the publishing houses Versita, Birkhäuser, Oldenbourg
Wissenschaft, and Akademie. www.degruyter.com

Unglue.it is a crowdfunding platform which rewards rights holders for
making their ebooks available to the world under a Creative Commons
license (http://creativecommons.org). Unglue.it runs campaigns for
previously published books, allowing book lovers to pledge toward
giving them to the world.  When rights holders’ target prices are
reached, they receive funds in exchange for issuing an unglued ebook
edition which can be freely read, copied, and shared, worldwide.  For
more information, see https://unglue.it/press .