[FM Discuss] Creating Book Covers

[adam]

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:05 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> 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.

it is

> 
> 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.

great!

adam



> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> > Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:01:14 +0200
> > From: adam <adam at xs4all.nl>
> > To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Creating Book Covers
> > Message-ID: <1274695274.1522.55.camel at esetera>
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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 ;)
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