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

[Anne Gentle]

Hi James -

Great idea, and I believe in the need as well. This manual is all set up for
you at http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ReadingandSugar/WebHome.

Anne

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:55 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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