[FM Discuss] Author names and Booki/OBJAVI

James Simmons nicestep at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 10:52:40 PST 2010


OK, I did.

James Simmons


On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> yep good point...can u file this in the issue tracker?
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> adam
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> On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 19:20 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
>> When I proudly showed off my book "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!"
>> hot off the presses from Lulu everyone but everyone had the same
>> question: "Where is your name?"  Well, my name is on the book, and I
>> have a short bio that goes with it, but the author name is not on the
>> title page where most people will look for it.
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>> I understand that FLOSS Manuals are in general written by teams and in
>> such cases nobody "owns" the book.  Fine for them, and fine for me
>> when I'm doing a FLOSS Manual.  However, we're looking to make Booki
>> do much more than just FLOSS Manuals.  We're going to have corrected
>> EPUBs from the Internet Archive, new translations of books, novels,
>> poems, plays, etc.  All those things need to have author names on the
>> title page.
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>> Just some food for thought.
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>> James Simmons
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