[FM Discuss] FM PR about Bookstore

Sat Oct 18 15:59:15 PDT 2008

I would even replace 'of free manuals' with 'of our manuals.'  Using the
word free in first sentence of the second paragraph is soon enough.

david

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> another good point about 'high quality'...hows this:
>
>
> ====
> FLOSS Manuals Book Store Open
>
> FLOSS Manuals is proud to announce the opening of our new Book Store.
> The online bookstore sells print on demand versions of free manuals. The
> high quality manuals provide information for using Free and Open Source
> Software, and all of the material has been produced by a community of
> writers using the FLOSS Manuals wiki. The opening of the shop reflects
> some months of development by the small FLOSS Manuals team to tie
> collaborative wiki authoring to print on demand services. It's all in
> place now and the first titles available include two manuals about the
> One Laptop per Child laptop and software.
>
> All manuals produced are of a high quality and are available free
> online; however, many people prefer to read paper versions. 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. That's why we need free documentation and free documentation
> writers. With time this sector will flourish - it's just in its emergent
> stages now, but we hope that the tool set available at FLOSS Manuals
> will provide a boost to the development of manuals and books, and these
> in turn 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."
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
>
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 17:07 -0500, David Farning wrote:
> > Adam,
> >
> > Something I have been struggling with at sugar labs is the connotation
> people have between free and no-value. As a result, I am looking at free and
> open as our values.  On the public relations side I think emphasize the
> 'High Quality' of the work is more important.
> > After all, the Internet is full of free stuff. It is the useful stuff
> that is hard to find.
> > david
> >
> > On  10/18/2008, 16:37, adam hyde (adam at flossmanuals.net) wrote:On the
> issue of PR, on Monday I will send this out. Please fwd to anyone you think
> might be interested. Comments or edits also welcomed.
>  =========================  FLOSS Manuals Book Store Open   FLOSS Manuals is
> proud to announce the opening of our new Book Store. This is a viral shop,
> situated entirely online, and it sells print on demand versions of our free
> manuals.   The manuals provide instructions for using Free and Open Source
> Software, and all of the material has been produced by a community of
> writers using the FLOSS Manuals wiki. The opening of the shop reflects some
> months of development by the small FLOSS Manuals team to tie collaborative
> wiki authoring to print on demand services. It's all in place now and the
> first titles available include two manuals about the One Laptop per Child
> laptop and software.   All manuals produced in FLOSS Manuals are available
> free online; however, many people prefer to read
> > paper versions. 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. That's why we need free documentation and free documentation
> writers. With time this sector will flourish - it's just in its emergent
> stages now, but we hope that the tool set available at FLOSS Manuals will
> provide a boost to the development of manuals and books, and these in turn
> 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."   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.   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    --  Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS
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