>> And finally there is the unexplored field of creative commons publishing. It might be unrelated to the OL, but I haven't found any website in the free culture community that caters for: - self-publishing: connecting writers, proofreaders/editors, and cover creators that want to collaborate publishing CC works - CC works storage: something like PG or WS, but for newly created works - on-demand printing - donations for the authors (indiegogo and kickstarter take care of crowdfunding only)
The solutions that exist right now are: Lulu (for-profit), Amazon CreateSpace (for-profit), unglue.it (crowfunding for releasing copyrighted works as CC) and BooksLLC (sells digital/printed PD works). While not in the original plan, maybe you can also give it some thought to this. --------------- One that may note be very well known, but which I have been marginally involved in for several years is Floss Manuals (http://flossmanuals.net/). Their stated purpose is documentation for free software, but they want to and are branching out into other areas and have made some innovative strides in crowd writing and on-demand publishing. If we define publishing as putting ink on dead trees, then we limit ourselves somewhat to the ones mentioned above, but in fact the entire www is publishing of "crowd content" and from that perspective OL should be, I think focusing on the organization, bibliographic, review aspect because IMHO this is the area that the library researcher and web searcher needs that is not being currently addressed. My focus is on American Civil War material and my survey of OL reveals 30,000 titles with virtually none of them having covers, reviews, indexes, TOC, a usable clean text - you all know the issues. I'm struggling with how do I take my catalog and website content of some 2,500 titles and 30,000 pagess and migrate it to OL, Worldcat, Library Thing, Ebay, Amazon, B&N, Lulu, CreateSpace - you name it. I'm appoaching 60 years old and even if I live another 30 years I can't begin to do this for more than a few of these given the current tools and the varying formats required to do more than a messy migration of basic bibliographic citations. My hope is that OL can define and document the standards for these items and provide a seamless way for the non-technical person to utilize these tools. John Rigdon www.researchonline.net _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
