[FM Discuss] Proposed book on Reading and Publishing for Sugar

[John Rigdon]

Since this manual is about ebooks in general, why not name it as some such, 
with a chapter or chapters devoted to the Sugar Platform.

I am working on identifying titles in French and Creole primarily for a 
Haiti Digital Library, so much of what will be done with this will apply to 
my current project.  With the impending boom of PAD computers however, I 
think we will see a much broader platform in the next year or so beyond the 
Kindle, Sony, and IPAD devices.

Currently I am offering my Civil War books in PDF format, but I am studying 
all of these other platforms and formats.

John Rigdon
www.ngohaiti.com - Haiti Tools and Resources
www.researchonline.net - Civil War Research

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Subject: [FM Discuss] Proposed book on Reading and Publishing for Sugar

> I'm still polishing up "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" but I'm
> thinking about doing another book and I've lined up some possible
> collaborators.  The subject will be Reading and Sugar.  It won't just
> describe the use of the various reading Activities (but that will be
> included), it will be a complete as possible guide to getting the most
> out of Sugar as a platform for reading e-books.  Only a few of the
> chapters will be Sugar-specific, so it should be possible to remix it
> to make a book about finding and creating e-books in general.
>
> Topics will include e-book formats and the pros and cons of each,
> where to get free e-books, what Activities to use for reading,
> creating your own e-books with free tools, scanning public domain
> books so they may be donated to Project Gutenberg and the Internet
> Archive, copyright laws and licenses, etc.
>
> When you set up "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" you set up a bunch
> of empty chapters.  We're still working on the chapter outline so I'd
> prefer just an Introduction chapter and a Credits chapter to begin
> with.  The website only handles three word titles so maybe "Reading
> and Sugar" would do as a title for now.
>
> Please let me know what you think.
>
> James Simmons
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