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

[adam]

the thing about free content is...you can take it and do what you like
with it...there is no reason why John cant take the material, add the
chapters he feels is necessary, change the name and 'publish' it...

we have the tools at FM (and our new platform) to facilitate this..

adam
 


On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 11:41 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> John,
> 
> I understand your point of view, and it's reasonable.  However, my
> goal in creating the book is to help the OLPC project, which has a
> good platform for reading but you need to know a lot to get the most
> out of it.  There is also a shortage of free books in languages other
> than English and a shortage of e-books for very young readers that we
> need to deal with.  I am less concerned about those who have iPads and
> Kindles, and the book will reflect that.  While much of the content
> would be re-mixable the focus would be on the needs of the OLPC
> project.
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:15:19 -0400
> > From: "John Rigdon" <jrigdon at researchonline.net>
> > To: <discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
> > Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Proposed book on Reading and Publishing for
> >        Sugar
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> > 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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