From the post:
Great books deserve to be read by all of us, and we ought to be supporting the people who create these books. “Thanks for Ungluing” gives readers, authors, libraries and publishers a new way to build, sustain, and nourish the books we love.
“Thanks for Ungluing” books are Creative Commons licensed and free to download. You don’t need to register or anything. But when you download, the creators can ask for your support. You can pay what you want. You can just scroll down and download the book. But when that book has become your friend, your advisor, your confidante, you’ll probably want to show your support and tell all your friends.
We have some amazing creators participating in this launch.
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An attempt to address the problem of open access to published materials while at the same time compensating authors for their efforts.
There is some recent material and old standbys like The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Which is good but having more recent works such as A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez would be better.
If you are thinking about writing a book on CS topics, please think about “Thanks for Ungluing” as an option.
I first saw this in a tweet by Tim O’Reilly.