On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:39 AM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right now the FLOSS Manual "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" is > available on the FM website, as a bound and printed book from Lulu, as > a free PDF download from Lulu, and in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats on > the Internet Archive. I'd like to add the Kindle Store to this list. > I would price it at 99 cents, and in the Introduction I would add some > text explaining where the book could be downloaded for free, so if > someone got a free preview from the Kindle store he would not be > required to pay the 99 cents unless he wished to. The profits from > these purchases, if there are any, would go to me. If Oprah chooses > the book as one of her Favorite Things I might be persuaded to share > the windfall with Sugar Labs and/or FLOSS Manuals. Don't count on > this happening. > > The Amazon Kindle uses the MOBI format, and it will be a fair amount > of work for me to convert the EPUB I can get from Booki to what Amazon > requires. Among other things I need to create a cover image and a > Table Of Contents with links, plus I need to clean up the page > formatting. I will not change the licensing of the book or use DRM, > but I WILL put my name on the cover image and other places as > appropriate. I will use a new cover image because the picture used on > the bound and printed book was given to me by the artist with the > understanding that I wouldn't be making any money on the book. > > Right now if you look "One Laptop Per Child" on the Kindle Store you > get three items returned. If what I propose to do works well it might > be a good idea to get other FLOSS Manuals, especially OLPC and > Sugar-related titles, on there as well. Great idea! And I definitely hope Oprah discovers and subsequently tells the world about it;-) Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com
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