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[adam hyde]

Host your own FLOSS Manuals Bookstore!

FLOSS Manuals is proud to announce the opening of our new Book Store.
Not only can you now buy our high quality manuals about Free and Open
Source Software as books, but you can also host the store on your own
website! The FLOSS Manuals Book Store can be nested in your website with
a few easy lines of code pasted into your webpages. The Book Store has
been designed to fit neatly into navigation bars and the sidebar of
blogs and it can be modified to fit the look and feel of any webpage. 

All manuals produced in FLOSS Manuals are written by a community, of a
high quality, and are available free online; however, many people prefer
to read paper versions, or they may wish to give books to friends to
promote Free and Open Source Software. Hence the launch of the FLOSS
Manuals Bookstore. "It's all about promoting free software" says Adam
Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals. "Documentation is a fantastic marketing
and educational tool. There are many many people that won't use or know
about free software unless they can read about it. We hope that our
bookstore will promote the adoption and use of free software." 

The FLOSS Manuals Book Store can be embedded in a website by cutting and
pasting a few lines of code, and we encourage anyone to add it to their
own blogs and homepages. This is truly Web 2.0 meeting the publishing
world, "We don't need a physical shop to sell the books when we have the
web." says Hyde. "If we can convince all those free software fans to
host a FLOSS Manuals Bookstore on their site then we have the biggest
shop window you can imagine. A viral book store like this is a fantastic
opportunity to put the software in front of people that would not
otherwise know of it." 

It's all in place now and the first titles available include three
manuals: One Laptop per Child, Sugar, and Inkscape. These will soon be
followed by books about Audacity, FLOSS Manuals, Wikimedia Commons, and
Pure Data.

Note on manual pricing : All manuals have a 2 euro ($2.50 US Dollar)
mark-up that goes back into the development of the documentation.
Manuals can always be downloaded for free from FLOSS Manuals. Currently
there is no commission available for sales generated from hosted web
shops.


For more information see:
http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore 

Contact : 
Adam Hyde 
Founder FLOSS Manuals 
adam at flossmanuals.net 

About FLOSS Manuals 
FLOSS Manuals is a non-profit foundation based in Amsterdam. The
foundation creates free, open source documentation for free, open source
software. FLOSS Manuals is also a community of free documentation
writers that publish free manuals about free software across multiple
languages. 
http://www.flossmanuals.net/about 

About Free Software 
Free software has developed outside and alongside of the more
restrictive licenses and copyrights of the proprietary software
environment. Free software can be used by anyone for any purpose: users
can study the source code, adapt it to their needs, and whether or not
they modify it, they can redistribute both the software and its source
code. 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Please distribute this announcement.


-- 
Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals
http://www.flossmanuals.net