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

[James Simmons]

Clytie,

The book will cover creating and publishing e-books as well as finding
existing ones.  PG and IA would only be too happy to accept books in
Vietnamese, but someone needs to provide them.

I will be working with some people from the Rural Design Collective
who have been involved with the Internet Archive.  The book will cover
every kind of e-book creation from scanning in public domain books to
writing your own books under a Creative Commons license.

James Simmons


> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:38:15 +0930
> From: Clytie Siddall <clytie at riverland.net.au>
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>        Sugar
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> To: FLOSS Manuals, OLPC Localization
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> On 16/04/2010, at 2:11 AM, James Simmons wrote (in part):
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>> There is also a shortage of free books in languages other than English
>
> This is a key problem which came up recently in an OLPC project in Vietnam. The OLPC volunteer needed immediate information on how to use the ebook facility on the XO, so your book will definitely help with that.
>
> However, finding free non-English ebooks is a much larger issue.
>
> It comes down to the lack of translated or non-English texts in key sources like Project Gutenberg. For example, there are no Vietnamese texts in PG. However, there is a great deal of Vietnamese literature and popular fiction in print.
>
> The OLPC volunteer was unable to find free Vietnamese ebooks online. I did some digging around myself, to try and help her, and it was a messy task: