Creative Commons Licensed Library Launches - Delivering Mobile Editions Of Books To Phones

November 12th, 2004

David Harper (creator of Winksite) just IM’d me this press release:

“The Creative Commons Library is the first in a series of works to be published on the WINKsite Mobile Publishing & Community Platform. WINKsite extends the power of publishing and distributing mobile books to the masses. The tools used are offered FREE of charge to individuals and non-profit organizations for non-commercial use.”

“Over the coming months the number of collections will grow to include thousands of titles available under Creative Commons license, in the public domain, and from leading publishers.”

I’ve been chatting with David for a few weeks now and will be meeting with him next week to chat some more about this project and how librarians and information professionals can help. This is very cool and hip. Oh, and for you RSS fiends out there, check out what’s in development.

“Generate custom RSS feeds (e.g. Subscribe to a book feed where a chapter a day is sent to your feed reader).”

There is a lot of other neat stuff going on at Winksite. Check it out (and subscribe to the blog).

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