James, thanks for the update and explanation.
I can't wait to see the finalized version becoming available! FYI: I had planned to buy two copies, one for my own shelf and another one to pass on to some students who are likely to be working on a Sugar activity as part of a university course this next semester:-) In any case, thanks a lot for all your hard work on this project, I can't even begin to thank you for how useful it is. Cheers, Christoph On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: > Christoph, > > Normally books on Lulu are proofed by the author before being sold. > For some reason the book was put on the store right away. When I got > my own copy I found that the type was too small to read, and the font > for the code samples was even worse. We therefore temporarily removed > it from the store until I could prepare a new PDF with larger fonts. > This is more work than you might think because I have to wrap the > lines of all the code samples to make them fit on the page with a 12 > point Courier font, and there were other issues too. > > I've been working steadily on fixing the code samples and fooling > around with stylesheet options to make the next version of the book > worth having. I have also gotten a talented artist to design a new > cover illustration. When the end result of all this is finished the > book will be available again. Just be happy you didn't get one like I > got! > > Thanks for your patience. > > James Simmons > > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Christoph Derndorfer > <christoph.derndor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:35 AM, James Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> My FLOSS Manual "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" made it to Lulu.com: > >> > >> > >> > http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/make-your-own-sugar-activities/12047878 > >> > >> FLOSS Manuals get the profits for book sales, not me, but I thought > >> you'd all like to know it's available. > > > > James, > > > > is it possible that the book isn't available via Lulu anymore? > > > > I just wanted to purchase it because shipping to the US is so much > cheaper > > than to Europe but I can't seem to find it on the store... > > > > Thanks, > > Christoph > > -- > > Christoph Derndorfer > > co-editor, olpcnews > > url: www.olpcnews.com > > e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com > > > -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com
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