[FM Discuss] Creating Book Covers

[James Simmons]

Adam,

I guess my periodic nagging to get a cover made for "Make Your Own
Sugar Activities!" led to all this discussion, so I thought I would
weigh in here.

I don't have any interest in publishing MYOSA myself.  I had thought
that making a cover for Lulu (or Amazon) was a normal part of the
FLOSS Manuals process, and came after the link to the front page.

Strangely enough, it looks like my second FLOSS Manual, "Reading And
Leading With Sugar" (or possibly its remixed version "Everything You
Always Wanted To Know About E-Books (But Were Afraid To Ask)") will be
published as a bound and printed book.  The Rural Design Collective
will have some sort of E-Book related project involving students and
will use my work as a reference and/or will contribute material to it.
 In the end they will publish some copies of the book using their own
equipment.

James Simmons


> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:01:14 +0200
> From: adam <adam at xs4all.nl>
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> so...on self publishing...if you want to publish (a) book(s) yourself
> then go for it...the tools are there for anyone. But use Objavi (1 or 2)
> not the screen readable PDF...also, FM will continue to offer as many
> books (via lulu) as possible and so can anyone else (using the same
> content). that means there may be more than one book available with the
> same content but different titles and covers...so what...doesnt matter,
> if amazon gets wiggy about it then just dont bring it up...if its good
> enough for the worlds major religons (not to mention a zillion copyright
> expired classics) to publish one book under multiple publishers its good
> enough for us ;)...our aim is to get as much information about how to
> use free software out there as possible...not to claim a monopoly on the
> content...hence i encourage as many people as possible to publish as
> much fm content as possible through whatever channels you have available
> and with as much energy as you can dedicate to it..if you make some $
> then woohoo! (maybe one day when you are rich you will make a nice
> donation to the fm foundation ;)