[FM Discuss] EBook distributors

[Simon Worthington]

Hi Adam

On 20/12/2010 13:20, adam wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 13:03 +0000, Simon Worthington wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does Booki use ebook distributors, at Mute we're looking at how to
>> interact with the ebook distribution services, so that you can go into
>> all the different platforms, as free or paid.
>
> you mean 'links' ;)
Well they appear to hold your file, distribute a database of books and 
take the transactions. They then go out to all the seperate vendor 
networks iBookstore, Kindle, Nook etc etc
>
>>
>> We're doing this to see who offers the best coverage and price,
>> additionally we're looking at who offers good API integration so you can
>> pass over the files (eBook and metadata and get back sales or useage
>> reports).
>>
>> Here is what we have so far
>>
>> http://wiki.openmute.org/index.php/Publishing#Distributors
>>
>> Any pointers appreciated as otherwise its all a bit of a shot in the
>> dark as they all promise the earth :-)
>
> sounds interesting. the whole ebook thing to me is muddy. happy to put
> some energy into clearing the waters if you think we can help...i dont
> have anything to add to the list although you could try writing to
> Brewser Khale at Archive.org if you havent already. this seems to be
> where he has his targets set with their bookserver and associated
> projects:
> http://www.archive.org/bookserver
Thanks for the tip Ill drop them a line.

Our research only started last week, we'll get it resolved over the next 
couple of weeks and report back with findings and recomendations.

We've also been doing a bunch of research into OpenArching, like how the 
hell to use WikiMedia's wide suite of tools. If we can get the material 
into a sensible form we'll get a spint on and get it into Booki, 
'WikiMedia and OpenArchiving How To'.

http://wiki.openmute.org/index.php/OpenArchiving

ciao

S
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> adam
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>> All best
>>
>> Simon
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