[FM Discuss] lets tell the world about free books

[adam]

On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 15:00 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Adam,
> 
> The RDC and myself are not using Booki yet.  I was under the
> impression that we'd be better off sticking with the old software for
> awhile.  I am of course interested in Booki and even wrote a chapter
> on it in my own FM.  The only things I've done with Booki are to
> download EPUBs of some of the titles I've donated to the Internet
> Archive.
> 

i was thinking of the epubs generated by booki and that you are looking
to use other styles for the book (as I understood it) for which you
would be using booki (objavi)

> I'm certainly willing to do some blog posts for you, as soon as I've
> done more with Booki.

sounds great

adam


> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> > Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:01:39 +0200
> > From: adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> > To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > Subject: [FM Discuss] lets tell the world about free books
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> >
> > hi,
> >
> > Booki now has a blog thanks for Micz :)
> > http://blog.booki.cc/
> >
> > It is linked from Booki.
> >
> > So I think we should really make this blog zing and get a roster of
> > regular posters.
> >
> > I think the first list of topics for the blog could include:
> > 1. projects using booki
> > 2. books published / epubs created using booki
> > 3. booki development
> > 4. cool booki tips and tricks
> >
> > Remember that Booki will be used for books outside of what we do now
> > with FM...so we dont want to focus too much on documentation since we
> > need to help people see they can write any kind of book with booki.  We
> > will keep the fm blog going for news specifically about fm.
> >
> > For the above topics we will invite people to make a post about their
> > project. Already I can see there are some projects that would be good to
> > have a post or two from:
> > 1. James and the Rural Design Collectives activities with Booki
> > (Objavi)...James/Anne/Webchick?
> > 2. Collaborative Futures...Mushon?
> >
> >
> > In addition to the above project based topics it would be very nice to
> > make the blog a place people would come to read about what is happening
> > in the world of free software and publishing in general. For example
> > topics like:
> > 1. What is happening with the epub 'psuedo standard'
> > 2. what is happening with open hardware ebook readers
> > 3. creating books using open source DTP
> > 4. free (libre) books
> >
> > and so forth...the blog then becomes a place for people to find out
> > about whats happening with free books, open standards for books, and
> > free software publishing in general...
> >
> > For these posts we need regular contributions. Please let me know if
> > this is an area of interest for you and if you would like to make
> > regular posts. I will be away from tomorrow as it happens (until August
> > 14)...but drop me a line if you would like to be a regular and I will
> > follow it up with you when I get back.
> >
> >
> >
> > I haven't talked about it with John yet but I am guessing he will be the
> > blog admin (is that ok john?)....
> >
> > Great...looking forward to getting this all on the road :)
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
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